Man vs. Wild

I went on a trip to Yosemite with 10 others this past Sunday to hike...Half Dome.


17.2 miles roundtrip. 10-12 hour hike.


12pm. 6miles left.

 
4:30pm...Man wins!

Everest, you're next.

Ignorance

I overheard my friend/co-worker say "macs are for unintelligent people" today and it was quite upsetting. I wasn't mad because I am a mac user and I worship Steve Jobs. I was mad because this statement has no ground, is pretty damn ignorant, and my friend--of whom I think should know better--is saying it.

Just because macs "just work" and are more intuitive for beginners doesn't mean its for unintelligent people. I concede that there are some things windows does better than OSX. But there are also many things, including video compression using cluster computing and color grading, that PCs just can't do. The people who tend to say "PCs are better" or "Macs are better" are the same people who have never tried the rival operating system. Or at least try it long enough. They tend to give up and go back to what they already know and claim that the other operating system sucks because they don't know how to do something.

In the case of my friend, he doesn't understand why anyone would spend the extra cash for something that just looks "prettier." Obviously has hasn't spent 200 hours working on a video project in Windows to have it crash every 2 hours while rendering. He hasn't experienced the useful third party programs readily available in OSX. He hasn't experienced Apple's customer service in comparison to Dell's. Sure, you can write your web applications and play microsoft games on your PC all day. But think about which machine is used to edit the shows you watch on TV and the movies you watch on big screen. Consider which machine can run both operating systems at once. Actually, consider this: if Macs are made for unintelligent people, how come you can't use it?

Personally, I think the better machine depends on what you need to do. If I'm going to do some accounting, I'm using a PC. If I'm writing a song, I'm using a Mac. I wish people would put their biases aside and just see things as how it is. It'll make for a better world.

----edit----

I was kidding when I said I worship Steve Jobs. I was making fun of my apple fanboy-ness.