By “technology negative idealist” I mean I don’t particularly believe in any technology or technology gathering. I am not a fanboi.
The most famous fanbois are probably the Apple fanbois. They are rabidly pro-Apple. They hang without interrupti~ Steve Jobs’ every word and drool at Apple events and announcements. They come every shred of gossip. And most annoyingly, they’ll play anything and everything Apple in messageboards across the internet.
Of path, not all fanbois are pro-something. Apple has its share of anti-fanbois, on the other hand perhaps the company that attracts the most is Microsoft. Their anti-fanbois amongst the most rabid on the internet, although this has abated somewhat in newly come years. They’ll ascribe the most malevolent motives to everything Microsoft does. For these antis, “Microsoft” may similar to well be “Satan” — it’s eeeeeee-vil!
Fanbois dress in’t have to be company-specific, either. Linux fanbois are well-nigh as rabid as the ones described above. You get on to the subject of operating systems and they’ll bash the pair Apple and Microsoft while blithely ignoring the shortcomings of the detail flavor of Linux that they worship.
Thus, I am a technology etc. When I discuss the latest tech online, I try to evaluate the whole of the choices as fairly as possible, while acknowledging my own biases. For prototype, I have worked and played on Microsoft operating systems for almost thirty years now and I am not going to simply shake that store of knowledge aside lightly. Even so, I certainly put on’t worship Microsoft and am happy to consider alternatives.
With in ~ degree luck this will lead to civil and useful discussions of the subject at intervention with a minimum of “Such-n-Such is teh draw in” or “If you don’t think Such-n-Such is magnificent then you suck!”
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For the ended couple of years when the morning for the latest iPhone slide from the stocks came around I found myself stood at the front of the queue at my local O2 store in eager anticipation. That’s why I raise it rather strange to be sat at my desk on Thursday reading about
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