Jaguar has a soul

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
you know what just dawned on me - listen...



when OS X 10.0 shipped there was a LOT of cool things in it, and a lot of potential.... the problem was many rough edges... which led to a general feeling that my computer simply wasn't a mac any more... more like a NeXT based Macinstien - and although I have been a NeXT fan since before the merger, and I dug OpenStep; I bleed in 6 rainbow colors, and my computer just wasnt a mac anymore. Today, while using my (getting old) 400Mhz sawtooth running Jaguar... i realized something: Jaguar feels more like a mac to me than 9.x does. Jaguar has a macintosh soul.
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  • Reply 1 of 31
    Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
  • Reply 2 of 31
    i agree with grad student--right on baby
  • Reply 3 of 31
    [quote]Originally posted by smithjoel:

    <strong>Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Get a life.



    Grad Student talked about how Jaguar made him "feel." Are feelings always rational? It's obvious that you feel differently about it, but you should actually describe your feeling instead of baselessly knocking his...
  • Reply 4 of 31
    smithjoel - think you cute huh? little bitch... seriously, Jaguar finally feels like a mac, more so than any mac before it - and this was my observation...
  • Reply 5 of 31
    Dude, it' an Operating System. Not even a new one at that, it's just an update. I really don't think I need to express how a piece of computer software makes me feel.



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    Oh, man move ove Picoso, that is beauty!



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  • Reply 6 of 31
    kecksykecksy Posts: 1,002member
    [quote]Originally posted by smithjoel:

    <strong>Dude, it' an Operating System. Not even a new one at that, it's just an update. I really don't think I need to express how a pices of computer software makes me feel.







    Oh, man move ove Picoso, that is beauty!</strong><hr></blockquote>



  • Reply 7 of 31
    "Dude, it' an Operating System. Not even a new one at that, it's just an update. I really don't think I need to express how a piece of computer software makes me feel."



    listen idiot... you spend your time writing and reading a macintosh forum - you don't need to talk about how it makes you feel, but you must be pretty f*ckin interested or you wouldn't be here. And get this - if you don't think you need to talk about how it makes you feel - DONT, just shut the f*ck up. Besides, I never said how OS X made me feel personally, I described how it fealt more like a mac than any before it. Stop acting like such a little bitch - really.



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  • Reply 8 of 31
    [quote]Originally posted by grad student:

    <strong>"Dude, it' an Operating System. Not even a new one at that, it's just an update. I really don't think I need to express how a piece of computer software makes me feel."



    listen idiot... you spend your time writing and reading a macintosh forum - you don't need to talk about how it makes you feel, but you must be pretty f*ckin interested or you wouldn't be here. And get this - if you don't think you need to talk about how it makes you feel - DONT, just shut the f*ck up. Besides, I never said how OS X made me feel personally, I described how it fealt more like a mac than any before it. Stop acting like such a little bitch - really.



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    too long didn't read.
  • Reply 9 of 31
  • Reply 10 of 31
    Lovely photo of Joel.
  • Reply 11 of 31
    kecksykecksy Posts: 1,002member
    Hey...That isn't...very...nice.



    I agree with you, grad student. Mac OS X has become very Mac-like in last 18 months. Jaguar definitely feels more polished than Puma or Cheetah. There's room for improvement of course, but I think Apple can finally say that OS X is a worthy replacement to 9.



    Hehe. The last time I booted into 9, I kept moving my cursor to the edge of the screen so the dock would appear. I totally forgot about the old Apple Menu. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />



    I believe the Apple Menu's usefulness has been greatly exaggerated ever since its disappearance. There is nothing inherent about OS 9 that makes it more usable than X, because I can't do anything fast in 9 anymore. The more usable operating system is simply the one you use more often, and for me that's X.



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  • Reply 12 of 31
    rhoqrhoq Posts: 190member
    Actually, this is not the first I have heard such a thoght. A friend of mine once said that his Mac was like a person, displaying it's own personality traits and attitudes.
  • Reply 13 of 31
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    How about you kiddies keep this crap over on the MacNN forums, k? We actually have a decent community over here.



    BTW, IBL.
  • Reply 14 of 31
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    Don't sweat it, grad student, I think it's just a bit of post-count-steroids (I mean, you have less than he does, that's the reason) and the desire to be more like the big boy a-holes around here (who, truth be known, can be very to-the-point when needed) that elicited smithjoel's ill-fated reply. Very childish. He's one of the bystanders who try to please their masters by attacking little shrimp. Frustrated-a-mundo.
  • Reply 15 of 31
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    The flaming and pissing will stop now.



    That includes signatures.



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  • Reply 16 of 31
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    smithjoel: pay attention what u do, yes ?



    let's just keep to the thread and put the rest to the side, alright?



    grad student, you're right. with jaguar I feel that my mac is more mac again than before.



    I embrace him from time to time to express my feelings I have about him (hey, If you can love a car, why not a computer?). Maybe he doesn't crash bcs of that.







    I'm a mac user again.
  • Reply 17 of 31
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Anyway, grad student, I can understand your sentiment. I love my computer. It wakes up when I need it to, it doesn't crash or gripe and complain when I'm working at 4 in the morning while having it do 10 other things in the background. Truth be told, however, I was never all that fond of OS 9. It was better than the alternatives and it's quirks were ok once I got used to them, but OS X is so much better.
  • Reply 18 of 31
    kelibkelib Posts: 740member
    [quote]Originally posted by smithjoel:

    <strong>Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.</strong><hr></blockquote> How old are you?
  • Reply 19 of 31
    Wow, that's a whole lota recation.



    First of all, I'm not a "bitch troll". Check the previous posts, there are some well though out an intellegent replies.



    I disagree with the assumption that an OS, any OS, has a soul. And I do belive that anyone who dose is idiotic. 10.2 is better than 10.1, yes. But did it somehow develop a soul, no. I didn't even develop a new version number. (By the way shouldn't this be in the OS X forum?)



    You are just suckered my Steves marketing techniqes. Oh, it has a name now, it must have a personality. If you go home an hug your computer and pay to Steve Jobs, you need to re-evaluate your life: take a bath, get a job, and move out of your parents basement.



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  • Reply 20 of 31
    thegeldingthegelding Posts: 3,230member
    oh i feel the moderator coming back to this thread real soon...they asked once for you all to play nice, few listened (some did, and we thank you for that)...g





    no, jag doesn't have a "soul", but he likes it, so be happy for him....have fun with jag, grad student....but say goodbye to this thread about it, cuz i don't see it lasting much longer....g



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