"BootCamp is LAME" - Venkat Pullena

[spitty27]

meh...i guess i overlooked the fact that divisiontwo is a satirical site but what about that article on bootcamp? anyone feel like finding out if that's a real one? (besides, i didn't waste my energy on divisiontwo..i totally forgot to link to the bootcamp crashes and burns website...) go check it out and let me know

[Myke]

I don't know whether I am confused or other posters here are. The link Spitty provides takes you to a college campus website, which doesn't appear to be the spoof site you guys are talking about. Or did I miss something?

Admittedly his opinions are so ludicrously uninformed (Venkat's that is) that the article reads like a spoof. But I think he is genuinely stupid.

In any event its only a college site, so where's the problem? We were all young and foolish once. Well, i still am, actually!

[spitty27]

in my first post i linked to a jorge lopez article on the mac mini (which really is a satire) but wrote about a different article (forgetting to link to it)...leading everyone else to assume/poke fun/laugh with me that i wrote this long email to someone who wrote the article as a joke.

to clarify things: i referenced jorge lopez because i said that venkat's article upset me almost as much as his did...the email i wrote was in response to the article venkat wrote (which seems to be a real article from someone who is genuinely stupid)

[jwoods]

I didn't view the article as satire.

I saw it on the California Aggie website. This guy is a moron. The only thing correct in the article was that he spelled Mac and Boot Camp correctly.

Google the authors name and it will come up.

[spitty27]

k i dont feel pwn3d anymore..ill post back here if he ever replies...

[lurk]

Yep, after I followed your later link I agree he is not a troll but rather is off his meds.

[nixgeek]

VENKAT PULLELA is senior majoring in philosophy and can be reached at vspullela@ucdavis.edu.

Take it with a grain of salt, folks. This is like taking medical advice from a slice of bread. Once I saw that it was an op-ed piece from an undergrad studying philosophy of all things, I stopped reading.

And I'm sure he got his information with the help of his Starware Toolbar.

[celeborn]

Well, what one's major is says nothing about their computer skills... I mean, you don't have to be a CS student or graphic designer to gain the right to have an opinion on Macs. However, this particular individual seems very uninformed.