You want to know how powerful the Apple brand has become among young people. Go to this site and check out the two side-by-side photos of a lecture hall at the Missouri School of Journalism. Amazing.
Monday, October 01, 2007
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Dude, it's like an Apple version of "Where's Waldo"!
That's scary! Seriously! Borgish to the max. There was a time when I thought Apple meant "creative" and people would customize their mac cases with stickers, paint, and such. What happened to those people?
Wow!
There are just enough non-Apples there to make one believe it isn't staged.
Unfortunately this is really going to get the Borg's attention, who will notice that a funny thing has happended while they were all obsessed with Google.
It has definitely taken over communications and arts areas of schools. (and teacher ed... which I really didn't expect, but there is a whole mac class) But yeah, outside those areas, most kids don't even know how to use a Mac. I even get response like you and your mac (since I'm notorious for always for having my mac) and That Mac is confusing/hard to operate. Or just the plain Mac haters.
But we just got a mac Mini lab in the humanities area... with Boot camp. I guess all can be hoped is baby steps.
"We're all individuals"
I'm Not!
Re: non-artsy people in academia don't use Macs. Nonsense. In astrophysics, at least a third of the laptops that show up at conferences are Macs, and in my subfield it's well over half. The ratio looks pretty consistent across ranks (grad students, faculty, etc.) and nationalities (though the Japanese are heavier on Macs than most). At a quick count, here on my floor Macs are used by 9 out of 12 grad students, at least 3 out of 6 postdocs, and at least 5 out of 11 faculty. The rest are using Linux or Suns.
A couple of years ago I attended a meeting of several dozen grad students who had all received a particular fellowship. These were people from all areas of science and engineering, and at least half of the laptops were Macs.
So let's please dispense with this "only liberal arts people use Macs" crap.
Apple über alles!!
Fake Steve,
It's called Photoshop. It's an Adobe product. Have you heard of it?
Mizzou is my Alma Mater and I used to work for the campus computer retailer. Laptops are required for all J-students. Macs are strongly recommended. If you go over to the School of Engineering however, You are not going to find many (any) Macs. This doesn't take away from the fact that this is a cool photo.
god, that almost... {sniff! sniff!} makes me wanna ... {lip quivver!}
oh gawd, it's so byoo-ti-ful!... it's what the whole world should be like, everywhere! oh gawd, i promised myself i wasn't going to cry ... {sniffle, sob!}...
HOLEY MOLEY
Where's the obligatory guy with the flaming Dell?
We're non conformists here, and if you get the exact same thing as us you can be non conformist too!
thats beautiful, even my community college has a mac lab (nice G5's). I pray for the day Apple gets 50% of the market share... Hope they stay the same apple.
I saw this and my heart became happy
FSJ,
Design consideration:Gotta tone down on that shining apple logo there. So many baleful eyes when congragated. Like a bunch of cyclops staring at the lecturer
It's getting to be difficult to darken the room enough for the stupid power-pointless presentations. Maybe you can sell colourful stick-on transparent film, to confuse the hell out of the poor lecturer. MIT nerds can use the lights to spell out "Harvard sucks".
Vegan Vgean
(the good ol' colourful apple logo)
"I pray for the day Apple gets 50% of the market share... "
Steve is doing his darnedest to prevent this.
... wow that's funny, the journalism majors I recall from Economics classes always had this confused, furrowed-brow, eyes-glazed-over look, and they'd cry whenever the professor would draw a chart.
But, I'll bet 20% of them can find America on a map.
Chickenface, it is not Photoshop.
It's actually something called Vista. It's a Microsoft product. Have you heard of it?
I don't know -- it smacks a bit of 'look how cool we are', doctored photo or not.
In one of the private "academic" institutes here (where weak-brained monied prats go for their degrees) macbooks are the new fashion accessory.
Is that Fred Durst, 3rd from the right in the bottom row?
I always wondered what he was up to these days..
One Word --- "ORCHARD"
One Word -- "ORCHARD"
Just because you can use XP on a mac :P
This means you went to far with cutting prices. As you have said before; the whole point of all apple products, is to be something that not everyone can have.
Missouri needs at least a 10% increases in price across the entire portable lineup, or this could ruin the very essence of the mac experience in the state.
fake. photoshopped.
The reflection and the resolution is all wrong for about half of those logos.
Bu then its easy to fool anybody who thinks 'al gore for president' isn't it?
"Mac's are for people that matter"
I shudder to think what would happen to the schools wi-fi network if any of those kids started running unauthorized apps.
That is whole metric crapton of Mactards. *shudder*
You should see our computer labs and library here on campus...moving to 50%+ iMacs running OSX and XP!
Go Mizzou!
Sorry, not Photoshopped. I challenge you to find a computer that are cloned or modeled. If the school requires computers, like one poster noted, and they recommend getting a Mac, then this seems perfectly reasonable to me. What I noted was the Macbooks that have had colored films applied - two green ones and two red ones... And that when I was at USC SCA 2000-2004 I was the only one in class using a laptop.
fake
I am sure that this picture is ORIGINAL. I graduated from the same J-school this summer and that's what I saw in my classroom. BTW, the school's newspaper - Columbia Missourian's newsroom was equipped with Macs. They switched from PC to Mac about 20 monthes ago.
they kinda look like the sitting people in the 1984 ad, without any hammer-throwin' chick.
I'm more dismayed by the number of laptops than the brand breakdown.
Look at all the kids fiddling with their laptops instead of giving their full attention to the lecture...
For all you "it's fake!" idiots, see here.
"Last year, 99.5 percent of incoming students chose the Apple option." In a school that requires laptops.
You know, this "it's Photoshopped!" whenever someone posts an interesting picture online is really getting annoying. Your eyes are not as good as you think they are, and artifacts have many origins.
Steve,
Classic.
We need that for an add compain.
"Think Cool"
Shit, my stock just went up...
And you all who claim Photoshop are stupid.
Zoom it and look for pixel anomalies. Frigtards...
Educational Fee — $6606.00
Est. Additional Course Fee — $567.00
Recreation Facility Fee — $259.00
Student Activity Fee — $232.00
Information Technology Fee — $328.00
Prepaid Health Fee — $178.00
Room/Board $7,170.00
Books/Supplies $980.00
Personal/Transportation Expenses $2,860.00
--------------------------------
Academic Year Total: $8,170.00
Soaking your parents out of the cost of the laptop to view porn/MySpace/YouTube/Facebook/Twitter/etc. instead of actually taking notes in the lecture - PRICELESS!
Dude, you busted her site. It's only available throught a dugg mirror. Try clicking to her homepage and it errors out.
My new wallpaper. Glad to hear the Missourian finally moved to Macs. Some idiot put WinTel machines there when I went to school with only an island of Macs in the photo department (with Photoshop 2 on a IICI).
I wish we knew what class the students are attending.
-BJ'92
Now we need the sequal shot. Entire class opens a goatse.jpg email all at once.
Comedy GOLD baby!
BTW for photoshopped morons - perhaps if you USED photoshop (and I mean actually USED - not just a pirated copy to open your porn files with) - it'd be more believable when you make claims about it.
This is funny. The university I attended tried to force all of us communication students to get Macbooks as well. It didn't go over well. Apple wined and dined the dean and other influential professors, but the students wouldn't have it. Yes, Macs are cool . . . yes even cooler than the coolest PC. But people seem to forget that more people have PCs than Macs. And, FYI, there are PC users that are just as fanatical as any Mac user . . . I believe you call them "Mac Haters."
Actually....that's the lecture hall at the business school. Clearly it's a journalism class and judging by the attendance it's also the first day.
These are freakin Journalism students.
We shouldn't take their opinions seriously.
I mean, they are spending good money going after a degree in a dying industry.
Frigtards indeed.
According to the school's laptop requirements as found on its website, "...School has designated [Apple]as its preferred provider". The picture's not such a big deal when your college, while not outright requiring you to, practically tells you to buy an Apple.
Think Different
It's in the Fisher Auditorium in Gannett Hall, a J-school class room.
-M.A. 07
Journalism students are as diverse in their choices of computer as they are in their choices of ideology.
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