Macs at Oxy
Last week’s Oxy Weekly, (the newspaper at Occidental College that has never been online, and probably never will be because the weekly staff is actually actively trying not to put it online. Seriously. I’ve offered to do it like six times, and they just don’t want it done. Luddites.) Anyway, last Wednesday the feature article was “should oxy switch to an all-mac campus.”
This is a silly argument to have for a couple of reasons:
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Oxy is broke
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Macs aren’t really “servers,” and Oxy needs those
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Macs have some weird networking issues because of their stricter permissions setup
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Oxy is broke
My favorite bit though, is that one of the arguments for switching to an all-mac campus is, I shit you not, that anyone who doesn’t prefer Macs “has not been exposed to Apple computers and Mac OS X or they have been given misinformation about its capabilities and limitations.”
This is a ridiculous argument, because it says that someone’s preference is wrong. Imagine this:
Me: Oh man, I like tuna salad.
Bob: No you fracking don’t.
Me: Fracking?
Bob: Shut up, toaster.
The whole thing is academic, since basically everyone has their own computer on campus anyway, and those that don’t aren’t really complaining too much. Besides, why not just get some Macs, and let people work on whatever they want.