Blind faith in Apple
Brad DeLong is a wicked-smart economist. But when it comes to PCs, well… He thinks Microsoft Is Evil:
Memo to self: warn all family members that just because Microsoft Internet Explorer can *display* .pdf documents is no reason to expect that Microsoft Internet Explorer will be able to *print* them.
If his relatives can’t print PDF files, there is probably a good reason. My father-in-law routinely screws up his Mac and has to call on various family members to fix it. That doesn’t mean Macs suck, only that computers are inherently complicated.
I will extend the same offer to Prof. DeLong that I offer to Prof. Froomkin: free Windows help, any time.
2 Responses to Blind faith in Apple
Good for you! People forget that Adobe Acrobat makes its security features — such as no printing — easy. Oddly, I’ve come across a handful of non-printable PDF pages myself recently. So it ain’t all Microsoft’s fault, folks.
yeah I think Microsoft gets more then it’s fair share of blaim.. when something goes wrong everyone blaims the OS, when it could be shotty drivers, or software/applications that are cause the problems. Windows XP is by far my favorite OS, and for the most part haven’t had any problems with it.. and I throw alot of beta programs.. or just testing different freeware/shareware programs out to see what they do and see if they could be of use. So that’s alot of installing and uninstalling.