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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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Macintosh: God's Gift to Microwaves
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I was watching T.V, trying to dodge all of the infomercials
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that they show at late hours of the night, when I saw the most
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ridiculous and misleading piece of advertising that anyone can be
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subjected to. The commercial was one half hour long, dedicated
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to Macintosh, a paid advertisement from Apple, Inc. Not only was the
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premise of the advertisement disgustingly sweet and family-oriented, it
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also happened to be a string of lies. The following is a compilation
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of just a few examples cited in the commercial:
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APPLE MYTH #1: You must know actual (GASP!) commands in order to
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operate an IBM-compatible PC.
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REALITY CHECK: Since most PC's now come loaded with Windows95 or
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WindowsNT, CLIs (Command Line Interfaces) have pretty
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much been reduced to mousing around. Die-hards use
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DOS, but it is no longer necessary, and can be
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completely avoided if that is the way the user wishes
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it to be.
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APPLE MYTH #2: In order to run a CD-ROM title on an IBM compatible,
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you must "configure dipswitches and jumper settings."
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REALITY CHECK: Running a CD-ROM title on a PC requires nothing more
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than putting it in and installing it in much the same
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way required by Macintosh computers.
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APPLE MYTH #3: IBM compatibles have no multinedia capability off the
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shelf. You need to purchase speakers, a sound card, and
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a CD-ROM drive in order to acquire this capability.
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REALITY CHECK: Every IBM compatible on the retail shelf comes with
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full multimedia capability. In fact, most come with
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better quality speakers than the Macintoshes do and
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have MPEG capability (Power Macs do not).
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APPLE MYTH #4: IBM compatibles have no video editing capability under
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any circumstances.
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REALITY CHECK: All of those people using Snappy! (hardware based video
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editor) with their IBM compatibles must be performing
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miracles. (NOTE: The commercial led the consumer to
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believe that all Macintoshes are video editing capable
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right off of the shelf. In fact, only one lower end
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model, the 6220 ($1999 before monitor), comes with
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this capabilty.)
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APPLE MYTH #5: IBM compatibles are not Plug n' Play.
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REALITY CHECK: Many IBM compatible peripherals, OSs, and other hardware
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are P n' P capable. This is slowly becoming an
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industry standard, especially now that Windows95
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supports P n' P.
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APPLE MYTH #6: IBM compatibles come with little or no software.
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REALITY CHECK: Packard Bell, Acer, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, and IBM
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have between $1700 - $2500 worth of software pre-loaded.
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APPLE MYTH #7: IBM compatibles cannot be just "plugged in" and booted.
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REALITY CHECK: Most of the major manufacturer's of home PC's are color
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coding all of their cables and including posters
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illustrating set-up. On the Macs you must plug in the
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mouse, the keyboard, the monitor, and the printer, if
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you have one. On the IBM compatibles you must plug
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in the mouse, the keyboard, the monitor, and the printer,
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if you have one. I don't seem to be able to detect the
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difference.
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APPLE MYTH #8: The Internet is E-World and vice versa. IBM clones
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have more trouble on the Internet than Macintoshes do.
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REALITY CHECK: Let's see... There are 7 or more major GUI based
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Suites of Internet Software for IBM clones. There is
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one Suite of Internet applications for the Macintosh.
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E-World is *not* the Internet, despite what Apple
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tells its' customers.
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APPLE MYTH #9: There are thousands of CD titles available for the
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Apple platform, not to mention that Apple has the best
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games.
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REALITY CHECK: The only reliable place to find Mac software is in Mac
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catalogues. Many retail stores carry thousands of
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titles for the IBM platforms, and less than 100 for
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the Mac platform.
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APPLE MYTH #10: Macintoshes are better because schools use them.
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REALITY CHECK: IBM's are better because businesses use them. (The
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fact is that you cannot say that one platform is better
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than the other based on where/when you may use them. It
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is faulty logic.)
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APPLE MYTH #11: IBM clones are useless educationally speaking because
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they do not have the Mac based WORLD OF LEARNING
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SOFTWARE.
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REALITY CHECK: There are just as many (if not more) educational titles
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for the IBM clones as there are for the Macintoshes.
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Personally, I feel rather insulted that Apple would expect me,
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as a consumer, to believe all of these outright lies. In my eyes this is
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a clear example of false advertising, or at least misrepresentation of
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information. They used a 2-3 year old all-in-one Compaq unit as their
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example for the "IBM compatible of today". Anyone who knows anything about
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the PC industry knows that *anything* from that "long" ago is outdated by
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now. The bottom line is that they make false claims about their own
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products, insinuate several things that are simply untrue about other
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non-Apple products, and then ask you to spend money on their products as
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a result of these lies. No wonder they are laying people off. If this
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tye of treatment insults you (and it should), feel free to contact Apple
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themselves about their claims and ask them to prove that they are indeed
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true. You can SNAIL them at:
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Apple Computers, Inc.
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900 East Hamilton Avenue
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M/S73-PC Dept. I
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Campbell, CA 95008
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NOTE: Their claims that Windows95 is MacOS '84 is also untrue.
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According to an Apple Representative that I spoke with, he
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said that the MacOS is not, and never has been,
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mulithreading. This is an important feature of Windows95.
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Prior to Micro$oft's new OS, Unix variants have had this
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feature prior to 1984. So much for that.
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DeMoNiKa
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demonika@netcom.com
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= Questions, Comments, Bitches, Ideas, Rants, Death Threats, etc etc... =
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= Internet : jericho@netcom.com (Mail is welcome) =
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= gote land +27.31.441115 =
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= Arrested Development +31.77.3547477 =
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= Chemical Persuasion 203.324.0894 Celestial Woodlands 214.252.6455 =
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= that stupid place 215.985.0462 Hacker's Haven 303.343.4053 =
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= E.L.F. (NUP) 314.272.3426 Misery 318.625.4532 =
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= Dungeon Sys. Inc. 410.263.2258 Psykodelik Images 407.834.4576 =
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= Paradise Lost 414.476.3181 Black SunShine 513.891.3465 =
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= underworld_1995.com 514.683.1894 Digital Fallout 516.378.6640 =
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= PSYCHOSiS 613.836.7211 Bad Trip 615.870.8805 =
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= Plan 9 716.881.3663 suicidal chaos 718.592.1083 =
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= Phallic Paradise 801.944.7353 Purple Hell 806.791.0747 =
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= Atrocity Exhibition 905.796.3385 Phoenix Modernz 908.830.8265 =
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= The Keg 914.234.9674 =
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= Files through Anonymous FTP: FTP.NETCOM.COM - /pub/je/jericho/FUCK =
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= FTP.WINTERNET.COM - /users/craigb/fuck =
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= ETEXT.ARCHIVE.UMICH.EDU - /pub/Zines/FUCK =
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= Files through WWW: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/je/jericho/jericho.html =
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