When you leave it on for two months, it gets a bit wonky.
I have Macintoshes.
The unfortunate side effect of owning Mac computers is that many people become Mac evangelists. They have to get everyone to use Macs, they have to make fun of Windows whenever possible, they have to hate Bill Gates (even though lots of them use and love Microsoft Word), and they gloss over any problems that the Mac might possibly have. In other words, they become fundamentalist Mac evangelists.
My attitude, of course, is: Whatever computer works for you, use it. So I guess I’d be a liberal Mac evangelist… most of the time. Every once in a while someone’s computer will break down or get a virus or otherwise malfunction and I’ll joke, “Shoulda bought a Mac.” (Hey, it’s a hilarious punchline. Mac users know what I’m talking about.)
The dopey part is that there are such things as Mac evangelists. Granted, it’s a great computer; true, I spend a ridiculous amount of time using my computer; but it’s just a computer. It’s a tool. It’s an intelligent typewriter that plays
It is horribly frustrating when they don’t do what you want them to, though. My case in point is the microphone plug on my computer. It was working. For some reason, it wasn’t working this past month. So I decided to finally turn off the computer, which had been n on since May, and turned it back on, and it began working again. Why? I dunno. I don’t know squat about how the programs work; I just know what I can do with them.
So that’s working. Which is good, ’cause I was getting tired of recording audio through the built-in microphone in my computer (the computer’s fan made too much noise) or my Pocket PC (which took two minutes to save for every minute I recorded) or through my video input cable (which means I have to have the