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RE: new Physics of Racing Article

To: "'Ron N.'" <nottingham@alltel.net>, Mike Mitchell
Subject: RE: new Physics of Racing Article
From: Paul Hagger <paulhag@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:25:23 -0700
Yep.  You know it.  That's exactly how it is.

-paul :-)


-----Original Message-----
From: Ron N. [mailto:nottingham@alltel.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 6:32 AM
To: Mike Mitchell; Phil Ethier
Cc: Brian Beckman; jeff.harmon@Adobe.COM; nwautox@wwscc.org;
autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: new Physics of Racing Article


Not to start a PC vs. Mac argument, but the PC is dragged down by Micro$haft
WinBlows.  To make the argument short, if the Mac would have had more than
educational and graphics software available when it came out in the 80's
we'd all be using Macs.  Instead, the software industry during the 80's
concentrated on Micro$haft DOS/WinBlows apps, not any other OS.  Which
brings us to where we are now, most people still associate Macs with
educational and graphics software as all that is available to them, plus the
simplicity of the Mac is against it, i.e.: If it's too simple, it must not
be able to do much.

Now, to tie this into the current ongoing thread.....

If Micro$haft rolls over, will anyone stick their arms out the WinBlows to
keep it from rolling over ;-)

Sorry, just couldn't resist!

Ron N. - Dalton, Ga
84 300ZX Turbo
IZCC# 4779   TLS#30



> Guys.
>
> Here's a story I tell to exemplify Mac vs. PC/Windows.
>
> Two suburbans get up at 7 AM on a Saturday morning to play golf but first
they need to cut the grass.
>
> Our PCer gets up and proceeds to measure the height of the grass, reset
the mowing height, check his directional diary
> to see how he cut the grass last time, lay out a new mowing pattern with a
minimum of turns etc.   Two hours later,
> he's waiting in line to tee off about 10 AM.
>
> The MAC guy goes in the garage, pulls the cord on the mower, and is done
cutting in about 30 minutes, and is teeing off
> by 8 AM!
>
> You know, sometimes as a pick driver's minds to find ways I might go
faster on an autox course, sometimes I think....is
> this a Mac driver, or a PC scientist.    Is it intuitive, what works, hey
let's try this?  Or is it you got to get the
> latest (whatever), if I just had more torque, where's my brakepoint? Sort
of right brain vs. left brain.
>
> Later
>
> MIke M
> '97 Eclipse GSX
> NWOR/CENDIV
>
>

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