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Monday, July 29, 2002

Jackass
Perennial jackass award winner Stephen Manes writes that PC users sick of the Blue Screen of Death should just buy a Mac. Only someone who doesn't use Mac OS X regularly, as I do and Manes obviously doesn't, would assume that it's more stable than Windows XP. It isn't, and any Mac OS X user accustomed to the "beach ball of death" (where an application just freezes and never comes back) knows exacty what I'm talking about. Manes has made a career out of being controversial, but the truth is that Windows XP is better--for most people--than OS X. It just is, Stevie.

Oh, and BTW: Few people would argue that I don't spend a lot of time with Windows XP. In fact, I've been running it regularly since Beta 2 in February 2001. I have yet to see a single Blue Screen in XP. Not one. Not on several different machines, including numerous laptops. Never. Ever. Am I tempting the fates? Maybe. I don't care. It won't happen. Ever.

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