soapbox

I would assume to no great surprise of most of the blog’s readership, the recent AAPL vs MSFT showdown (conducted by Popular Mechanics) had a decisive winner (hint: not the blue screen of death).  Several interesting details of the contest caught my eye, however.

The ease-of-use and subjective ratings for OSX and Vista were surprisingly similar; it was in the hardware performance categories that OSX destroyed Vista.  The Mac benchmarks for Vista (while running bootcamp) were slightly but consistently better than those of the PC-Vista benchmarks, but even if you subtract the Mac-PC hardware difference, Vista is, as we all know by now, and ugly beast.

Another funny thing - check out the reader comments at the bottom of the article.  The Coke vs Pepsi analogy was made, and it’s an accurate one: the stereotypes still persist and Mac people make fun of PC people, and PC people make fun of Mac people.  I choose to use Mac products because they don’t suck, but that doesn’t mean I blindly follow whatever line Steve Jobs tries to sell me.  anyway, good times.

A london man was fined 225 quid and (more importantly) given a criminal record for having a rubbish bin (big wheeled trash can) full enough that the lid wouldn’t quite shut.  Keeping in mind that things are only collected every two weeks, and… meh, can’t be bothered to make a good post.  Read the whole nonsense yourself.

Last week Whitehaven magistrates convicted him in his absence of “over-filling the receptacle used to dispose of waste” - a criminal offence.

Yeesh.