I don't buy it. I'm sorry, but I just don't buy it. These new Apple commercials with people too stupid for their own good are driving me up the wall. Some of them are claiming that it's less difficult to navigate in OS X than it is in Windows. Pardon me, but they're PRETTY MUCH THE SAME in this respect! Unless they're talking about Windows 3.1, I have to conclude that these folks are on acid. I've been using the new iMac daily for the past couple of months. Yes, there are some things that it does well - but confusing the user less than any other GUI on the planet? No way. It's just not true. I'm far from a cross-platform guru, but I believe that they should be selling the finer points of the new OS if they intend on winning over the masses. Windows bashing from users who didn't know how to USE it in the first place doesn't do anything for me. I'm Chris Pirillo, and I'm a television show host.

I dig where you're going here Chris, my co-techs tell me I believe too much in the intelligence of people. But I should point out here that you are, somewhat, barking up The Wrong Tree here.

How? I'll use yer own words on ya "finer points". This is advertising, right? I mean, when was the last time you watched a commercial and said to yourself; "Wow, that was subtle." Commercials are as subtle as a 2x4.

Not to mention how do you make this big point? Show some guys using Regedit? Oh that'll sell machines. :)

You also have to take into account that Apple has to tiptoe around something...a big something, it's name is Microsoft.

Yeah, ok, some of the people are goofy, but hey, it's supposedly not ad copy, it's in their own words, and if so, cool. As a first step in actually trying to get Windows users...well, it's a step. :)
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More Rodney John Farr has a posting covering the death of Rodney O. Lain, he says some things in the article very well, it's worth the read, I think he puts to words, a lot of really basic feelings. That doesn't sound like much, in many ways, buut it's one of the harder things to do, really.

He also does something that I noticed, not so much for the fact that it was startling, but for the fact that it made sense. He comments on the links he provides.

There's a list at the bottom on the page to other elegies(sp?) to Rodney, in which he also comments on them. Now I got to his posting via a link over on MacEdition, but it was the usual "List o' Links" that has become the staple of most websites, since I dunno, 1992. I'm gonna have to use more commenting on standalone links.
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