17. October 2008 by Terry.

I just got finished watching an OLD documentary on the science channel about how Microsoft sat there and ripped off Apple around the first days of Mac.   Had all sorts of interviews and everything like that from different people including Gates and Jobs.   It was pretty good watch for an ubernerd like myself, but there was one thing that I personally took a disagreement with.   Jobs at the end of the movie (being the smug asshole that he is) said that he has no problem with Microsoft’s success, that his problem is that Microsoft puts out nothing but 3rd rate software.   Allow me in all my nerdy glory to demonstrate why he is wrong…and please keep in mind that I OWN both a mac and pc…..

Steve Jobs is a bitter visionary who in his own mind is god.   Thats why mac’s are still the niche, because other than visual editing and creative purposes, it’s very hard for someone to use a Mac for everything.   Step in a windows machine.   Is Windows clunky? Yes.    Is it a security problem? Yes.    Is it the STANDARD? YES.   The reason many people have a problem with transferring their lives to a mac is the fact that its not the standard.   Doing so leaves many people (such as myself) longing for programs that just plainly aren’t availalble on Mac.   So in retrospect, is he bitter because Microsoft put such universally used software out that it became the standard? or is he just bitter because he didn’t think of it first?

Microsoft had the better strategy.   They didn’t try to redesign the wheel.   They took the innovations of the era, and made them better, thats simply what they do.   You’ll never see a version of Windows built from the ground up, because it goes against everything Microsoft has stood for.   Mac on the other hand had had an OS for the last 5 years that if an untrained eye has seen it, hasn’t changed at all.   Now don’t get me wrong, thats not a knock against Apple at all, the OSX 10 series is great software, but its still in its niche market.   The only reason half of the people who use a mac ever started USING a mac was because of something called the IPOD that came out something like 8 or 9 years ago.   And anyone who wants to flame me on that one can kiss my ass because you all know its true…

Apple creates good software.    Microsoft takes standard software and makes it better.    End of that discussion.

Personally, I’m really waiting for everyone to realize that the OS they should be paying attention too is Linux.   Anything windows or mac can do…..Ubuntu can do better.

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17. October 2008 by Terry.

Put up some photo’s from mom’s wedding last year, and to anyone who Hasn’t had the chance of seeing me in a couple years, that little kid my sister had in high school that we all rode the bus with, my niece……..she’s 12 now…….bet ya feel old now huh?

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17. October 2008 by Terry.

Finally getting around to updating my blog here, its only been a year or so since it happened last…..but goddamn has some shit gone down since then.   There’s a lot so I’ll keep it To a Minimum….

1) I finally graduated with my Associates Degree in August of this year…yay for me.

2) I decided to finally take the dive and go down to part time at Oreilly’s to focus solely on the business, which I stupidly decided to go through with 3 weeks before the market fell.   So not only did I give up my main source of income, I gave it up not thinking about the fact that I probably wouldn’t be able to get it back….more on that later…

3) Since my last update around this time last year, I fell madly in love with a girl and her daughter.   We ended up living together and at least for a little while It seemed like I was going to get what I always wanted…problem was what I wanted and what she wanted were two different things….also more on that later…

4) My mom Finally got married to my now stepdad Ronnie, thereby cementing the fact that every tiny piece of my childhood is now practically fucked……don’t get me wrong here, I don’t have a single problem with either of my step parents….its just the fact that after almost 25 years of being married together…..my family is no more……and anyone who really knows me knows how much that has affected me over the last year….

5) My grandmother passed away this year…..about 4 months ago…..she was really more than that……she really was almost my best friend…..I honestly don’t know of anyone who was anywhere near as close to their grandmother as I was and still am to mine…..RIP Fro…

6) My best friend Katie finally accepted the fact that a guy she was with is actually gonna be the one she spends the rest of her life with…..oh trust me…..MUCH more on that later….

Wow…..thats a lot of shit…..Hmmmm……..I’m gonna take a break here and Figure out just what I wanna Write about first….Peace

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