Koelling
I Think Different
What's your favorite Myth? Here are two that I recently had to deal with to debunk some my girlfriend and her parents had.
1.) Macs have no software. Handed down from her father, she somehow thought that this was true. I asked her what she did with her computer and she said "Chat(AIM), Web browsing and Music scoring". I know I have a better chat client and there are lot's of others that do AIM better than the PC. Granted the AOL distributed Mac version is crap but in third party releases, we have the lead. Web: I don't want to talk about that Music scoring stumped me for a sec, so I opened Version tracker and found one in 10 minutes that is just as good as hers. That weekend she went to tour her soon to be college of music and guess what they used? 100% Mac labs running Finale.
2.) Macs have no memory. This one I just had to laugh at because she got it from her mom, who is a preschool teacher and knows nothing about computers. I can't forgive this tho because she is recycling the lie. There is so much brainwashing and I have no idea where it comes from. Either it is made up on the spot or someone maliciously plants it. I wouldn't be surprised of the former from her father because he is like that (we have our differences).
What myths have your run up against recently?
1.) Macs have no software. Handed down from her father, she somehow thought that this was true. I asked her what she did with her computer and she said "Chat(AIM), Web browsing and Music scoring". I know I have a better chat client and there are lot's of others that do AIM better than the PC. Granted the AOL distributed Mac version is crap but in third party releases, we have the lead. Web: I don't want to talk about that Music scoring stumped me for a sec, so I opened Version tracker and found one in 10 minutes that is just as good as hers. That weekend she went to tour her soon to be college of music and guess what they used? 100% Mac labs running Finale.
2.) Macs have no memory. This one I just had to laugh at because she got it from her mom, who is a preschool teacher and knows nothing about computers. I can't forgive this tho because she is recycling the lie. There is so much brainwashing and I have no idea where it comes from. Either it is made up on the spot or someone maliciously plants it. I wouldn't be surprised of the former from her father because he is like that (we have our differences).
What myths have your run up against recently?