I HATE APPLE

i'm thinking about hating apple.

by mouse do you mean trackpad? a slightly damp - not wet, just slightly damp - cloth should do the trick. don't use any cleaning products.

i'm not even going to ask where the motherboard comes into this.

http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2005/09/27/restore-your-ipod-nano-to-new-condition-with-a-4-can-of-brasso/

I can vouch for this since last night... my nano looks a lot better now, but quite not perfect. I got bored, frankly, it takes AGES to work, but in *most* lights it now looks nearly new again, or rather used (if you stare hard) but not abused.

Worked on my phone display too.

i dunno. i can kind of understand fanatical devotion to a product ... but fanatical hatred? get one life, muppets!

I'm going to the pub now.

I just plugged it into the PC for shits and giggles and it launches iTunes right away. GAH.

yea and now we get to compare dual core to single core! yay!

I've been through a lot of phases with personal computers. First I used Apples, because it was 1986 and using an IBM would have been really weird for an 11 year old. Then I used PCs, because it was 1996 and Macintoshes were, for all intents and purposes, made by Fisher Price. They were hilarious to anyone who wanted to DO anything with a personal computer... like play games, or make music, or expand the capacity of thier machines, or really anything. This went on for a long time.

pple OS 9 made it seem for a while like maybe it was the best OS, like maybe there were things you could do with an Apple that you could never do elsewhere. This thinking lasted for about four years, give or take. It was a silly fantasy. Apple never cornered any market here, it just claimed to. Plus, they charged an arm and a frickin' leg for their computers.

So now I have a PC, and I do a lot of the kind of work that makes people ask why I don't have an Apple. I draw and I make pictures and I Photoshop my ass off. I like my PC for that, not because it's necessarily better than an Apple, but because it's about a thousand dollars less for the same computer.

Apple zealots are wrong. Apple is not about being better, it's about being a goddamn control freak company that rushes inferior products to market (same as that other company that you hate so much) and selling you a brand before they sell you a usable product. This is not only true of the iPod (though that's an especially painful example), it's true of every product they've released for the past three years. They're a bunch of goddamn scheisters.

Same as anyone. Your computer is a gamble. You should know that going in.

I don't hate Apple per se, just that crappy program.

Now that I've been to bed:

I'm not an Apple zealot, and never really have been. Actually, Mac-versus-Windows is a debate that I refuse to participate in. I own an Apple because that's what I learned to make music on - I've been using Logic Audio in its various incarnations for well over a decade, and to me, there's simply nothing better out there for my needs. (I personally don't care for the Pro Tools interface, even though it's an industry standard.)
But I also have a homemade Windows box that I use strictly as a virtual synth unit, and because it's purpose-built, it's rock-solid. (*Touches wood for good luck.*)

Moreover, until recently, I made my living setting up computers (both Mac and PC) for digital audio recording. My experience is that no platform is ideal - there are far too many variables for things to run smoothly all the time. All computers crash, and I've even seen identical setups exhibit wildly different behavior.

What Apple are guilty of is not scheisterism but inconsistency. They've grown exponentially in the last six years, and are rushing to catch up with their demand. The few times I've actually needed service, they've been more than helpful, and in all likelihood, I will get my Shuffle replaced without hassle.

Simply put, Apple-bashing is just as lame as Windows-bashing.

Regular (clean!) pencil erasers worked for a friend of mine.

the only reason i upgraded was to get my new mobile phone to work. woo, i thought at first, look at all these whizzy features.

little did i realise it'd be so fucking slow-ass and pointlessly buggy. for no apparent reason, the user drop-down just disappeared from the menu bar; i had to log out and back in again for it to reappear.

10.3.9 rocked. two weeks of 10.4.4 has been painful. i sincerely hope the 10.4.5 upgrade fixes some of this ... but then given that i read a thread this afternoon about how it stopped someone's iPod working, i'm kinda apprehensive.

Runs significantly better now.

so i've bought some memory for the powerbook in the hope that might make the experience of using 10.4 marginally less painful.

and i discover that, in order to install it, i need a philips size 00 screwdriver.

because yes, of fucking COURSE i have one of those knocking around the place. can't move for fucking tiny jewellers' screwdrivers round this gaff.

JESUS CHRIST, apple, what the FUCK is wrong with using a marginally more sensible size of screw?

nobody i know has got one of these fucking things either, so i'm going to have to buy one. i think i'll send it to apple when i'm done with a note saying: "dear steve jobs. shove this RIGHT up your arse, you cunt."

i don't wear glasses. mrs fiendish does, but a) she's away in england and b) she doesn't have such a thing anyway. nor, it seems, do any of my speccy chums.

and, oddly, i don't tend to keep the ephemera that falls out of xmas crackers, thinking: "gosh, one day this 50p piece of crap will come in very useful when i need to put £38 worth of memory into £1200 worth of computer."

(I have been known to keep the tiny screwdriver sets you get in christmas crackers, so I have one for my glasses case, one in my main clarinet case, one in the spare clarinet case, etc etc etc)

not really. i know a couple of fiddlers and a lot of people who blow. but that's it.

Clockmakers? Scale modellers?

(you can tell I'm barrel-scraping here)

But no glasses I've ever had have had Philips screws. But my regular (they're called "pozidrive"¿?) mini screwdriver was originally bought for this purpose, yes.