Parting Advice To Stephen Manes, PC World Contributing Editor: Get a Mac or Linux box and hush!

Just when I thought this would be another crapola free day (sigh), yet another useless rant by a contributing editor of a well known industry magazine. Yo Stevie, take my advice and leave us poor "crap users" alone - I'm sure that it'll make you feel better, less stressed and hopefully write something actually useful.

On your journey, you should:

1. Quit kidding yourself:
• the crap we use makes/made your magazine relevant;
• the crap we use consequently and currently make you keep your job...you're not writing for MacWorld or LinuxWorld are you? Not to say that you can't, or don't....;
• the crap we use is quite possibly the single piece of crap that elevated the technology industry into the mainstream;
• the crap we use is making/made practically every other "original" and truly "innovative", something 2.0, relevant as well. BTW, I'm still trying to figure out what's out there that's really an original...
• Seems like you're saying copying sounds easy, no? Copy an idea and that's all you need to do to make a billion dollars. Forget 50, just one, you know, just to keep it real.
  
  Hint: everybody has an idea, it takes more than an idea to, um, be the dominant force in computing...
  
  And while we're on the subject is "derivative" cool? Original? Innovative? Semantics? BTW, I'm not blasting derivatives out there, yeah you know who you are, merely stating a point - go forth and create bettr, coolr stuff...and with cute animal mascots too!
  
  
2. Insist on quality and security
   A few posts ago, I got skewered when my comments were misunderstood as expecting 100% perfection from security vendors- you know, the people in the business of securing our systems? Turns out it's naive to think so (BTW, it really is). So if security vendors aren't expected to provide 100% security, due to the nature of things, what are you laughing at?
   
   Quality control? Sure we all strive for that. Problem is, the path to bullet proof quality control for this crap maker could quite possibly be "monopolistic" and "closed" and ahem, more proprietary. Maintain your own OS and hardware...wait, that's Apple! Ha! Is that why they have such great quality stuff? Yup, it largely is because of that.
   
   Um, how many times did you have to click through that Windows XP warning about possibly installing an untested/unverified driver? Was that crap manufactured by this crap maker?
   
   BTW, check your publication's online advertising content quality control, they seem to be running those ads that trick people into clicking on them because "Your system needs to be updated". Wow....
   
   
3. Shake up the talent
   If you're going to rant, do it in a blog, yeah, like I am. Save the trees...this space is for useful PC info.