On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 5:08:03 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:18:34 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 2/11/16 2:07 PM, wrote:

He is an Apple guy AKA someone who does not what to know how their
devices work or have any real control over them.

I do find it ironic that in the famous ad, Apple was trying to make
fun of "conformists" when the whole product line is based on
conformity to the point that it has become a cult.


Absurdity built on ignorance. My first two smartphones were android OS
phones, and I ran both of them with advances from the ways that existed
back then to bust out of the OS. When I was interested, I took formal
programming language courses in Pascal and Modula-2. My current iPhone
is almost always running the latest "jailbreak."

I have no compelling interest in tinkering with my android tablet. I
mostly use it as a device for reading books and for playing scrabble and
chess.

I don't have a smart phone or a tablet but I do know a lot of people
who were disenchanted with the limitations of their Apple product and
changed over.
The kid who works for my wife was bragging about his IP-6 and she just
said "got it" when he started talking about all of his new features.

Just because I wasn't a "grunt" in the military doesn't mean I am
ignorant of technology. These days, I learn what I have to learn to
please myself. While you two boys were shoveling coal in the bowels of
some obsolete ship somewhere, I was writing the user manuals for
minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China to aid in
weather forecasting for agricultural programs. Well, at least that was
their ostensible purpose.

Uh huh.

What "mini computer" were you writing manuals for in 1965?

LOL! Looks like he'd learn his lesson with making up whoppers one day. Or at least think it through before he types.