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Andy Rooney sticks it to Microsoft
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OS X is definitely the better mousetrap, and it's always fun to get a good reminder. On 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney takes a good rip on Windows and Microsoft, including this gem:
"All I can say is it's a good thing Bill Gates didn't invent television. If it took as long to start up a television set as it takes to start up a computer, you'd need two hours to watch 60 Minutes."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in583494.shtml
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Unfortunately, Rooney doesn't say anything about Macs or OSX.
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I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity...
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Considering Bill Gates didn't even invent computers, giving him credit for having done so seems a bit off really.
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Not that I expect Andy Rooney to switch, I went ahead and sent him a message via the feedback link. Now he knows that there is an alternative.
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Andy Rooney write most of his columns on a 1930's vintage Underwood. While this is a beautiful and excellent machine, probably the pinnacle of manual-typerwriter achivement, I would posit that Rooney is not exactly the most tech-literate pundit writing tody.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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Originally posted by chris v:
Andy Rooney write most of his columns on a 1930's vintage Underwood. While this is a beautiful and excellent machine, probably the pinnacle of manual-typerwriter achivement, I would posit that Rooney is not exactly the most tech-literate pundit writing tody.
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From Andy's article:
"People like to think that loveable old Andy Rooney still uses this 1920 Underwood typewriter.
Well, sorry to disappoint you, but he doesn't. I wrote eight books on that and thousands of television scripts, but I've written on a computer for several years now."
Yes, he isn't exactly a geek but he at least he realizes Windows sucks.
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According to Gates, indeed they did:
"We have to. We invented personal computing. It is the best tool of empowerment there has ever been. If there is anything that clouds that picture, we need to fix it."
http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/33397.html
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