Not me >:-) I will cling to my guns and my Bible and my cable shifting.

Stepped on a rock and rolled my ankle on it which resulted in me seeing how hard I could hit the concrete. Luckily I had two witnesses for the workers comp. I'm not abusing workers comp, just letting them handle the doctor visit. I was only supposed to work 5 hours today, not sure if I will have to use sick leave or if workers comp covers it. I'll be back to work on Monday.

I was skeptical as well. My skepticism was completely unwarranted. Di2 is amazing and this is coming from a Shimano hater.

Electronic shifting seemed senseless to me, until I saw it on a tri bike. It seems amazingly sensible where you have two distinct shifting locations. On a road bike, I see no point.

I have a friend with celiac. He's doing fine with it. But dietary restrictions are no fun.

Ouch LowCel!

My downtube shifters have SIS. :)

Indexed shifting is a fad.

Yup.

That sucks LC. Take care of that ankle. I landed wrong from a jump on my snowboard once, and it knocked my ankle out of place. Swelled up like a golf ball on the side of it. I was stubborn and never went to the doctor. It hurt for months. Eventually I got used to it. Then one morning about 8mo later I was stretching unconsciously as I was waking up and I felt a pop in my ankle and it hurt for a day. It popped so hard it woke me up. Then I was back to normal again, and pain free the next day. Don't do what I did. Make sure it's good to go. That is what worker's comp is for.

I went to the ER last night. Nothing broken. I'm doing everything they told me to, I want back on the bike as soon as possible so I'm going to do it right.

So you're a hobbyist. Nothing wrong with that, but that shouldn't cast dispersion on Macs either. Users and hobbyists are often two different things - one likes to play with it's tools, the other prefers to use the tool to get things done. (Double entendre not intended.) Doesn't make either better or smarter then the other, they just have different priorities.

OW!

I am having sympathy ankle pain.

DG

I think its easier nowadays to build a Hackintosh with the advent of OSX running on Intel CPUs. ( I also ramrodded 6 internal hard drives into my MacPro chassis but thats really not hard to do with available aftermarket parts). But I admittedly never built a Hackintosh, but have (re)built countless PCs over the years. I even have a small server farm in my basement.

But I agree with whomever said that Apple is a bunch of marketing hype. They do it better than anybody else. When your products are coveted and treated like jewelry wherein people wont even question the asking price, regardless of lack of utility, then you have arrived.

Edit: And dont get me wrong. I LOVE my Mac. It serves a purpose for me. It freakin' rocks in fact and I wish I could deploy it more in my work day. Its just having to be aligned with all the mindless fanboys which gets old really fast.

You know who else had an ankle injury? :innocent:

with the amount of bruising I highly recommend more advanced imaging of your ankle. You likely have a grade 3 sprain (or severe grade 2). Ultrasound and MRI are the gold standards. See a sports med doc if you can.

What he said. That looked bad.

I had a high ankle sprain in high school that looked an awful lot like that. Took longer than 10 days to recover and I was 18, much less ancient than you are now.

yikes LowCel! stupid rock!

do you have to use crutches?

sprained my ankle a few years back pretty badly (it bruised and swelled from my toes all the way up to my knee) and the moment it happened it was pretty much the most painful thing i'd ever experienced. i do not envy you.

hope it heals up quickly!

Well put, but labelling me a hobbyist as as bad as me labelling you a fanboi (your username). The Millenium Falcon outran the Imperial fleet eventually and helped destroy two Death Stars. The Falcon was the PC, the Empire is Apple.

I still think Cervelos are ugly, too.

Patently incorrect. Are they great at marketing? - finally, yes! Are their products the best around and deserving of all the hype? - as they have been for almost 30 years, yes!

The common "over-priced" criticism should need no explanation . . . you get what you pay for. The Apple product experience is unlike any other, so why shouldn't you pay for it? How can a BMW cost the same as a ford or chevy? Not to mention the world-class product support . . . who else has brick-n' mortar shops where you can walk in with your machine and they will help you untangle the mess you made of your machine, for free?

The new rumors indicate a move away from Intel.

meh. this.
i mean, i probably am a fangirl, but i like them because they just work. ever since i was introduced to macs and their os i've just never been interested in making the switch back. i don't care about building computers or having to root my phone. i want to just turn it on and have it work. it's a tool i use to do my job, and it's the best tool i've ever used for it.

i will say that the whole genius bar concept is effing stupid. i had to get a new battery (one of their generations of MBPs had a battery that would overhead and expand, causing the case to open up and the trackpad to not work) for my work computer around christmas last year. yeah, that's what i want to do when i have projects to finish... go to an apple store. in a mall. right before christmas.

After the product is outside of 1 year? Not Apple.

As Macster pointed out, it is about whether you want to play with your tool, or get stuff done with it.

As for the Apple Stores to which you refer - absolute crap. I am willing to concede that maybe it is only my store, but I find being an IT professional the number of blue shirts roaming that cramped space has less to offer COMBINED than I do, and I am not a Machead.

Example: My daughter (20 years old, ideal Apple target) took in her iPad to ask how to and what she needed in order to perform a simple task such as upload documents to her college's website. We spent half an hour in that place and walked out without an answer. The answer? Upload the file with her netbook. Took all of 30 seconds.

The iPad is a toy, not a productivity tool, but Apple markets it as the end-all be-all of computing needs for those on the go. It has caused her a headache, but as most Apple loyalists eventually do, she adapted to its limited use vs. the netbook. So now there are jillions of people walking around out there with their iPads because Apple said it would do. It does something, it just doesn't to everything, and that is the marketing genius. Selling people s**t they do not need.

And FWIW, the girl went iPhone 4S at our last phone upgrade, I went free Samsung Galaxy Stellar. My phone blows hers away, and now she has buyer's remorse. Well done, Apple, well done indeed.

/rant