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Windows XP Has Arrived

ruszka writes "CNN has a good article on the release of Windows XP in London and NYC.. The BBC has their own article." I find it amusing that I didn't really even notice until I saw this submission. I know this affects a fair number of users but for the life of me I just don't know why ;)

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  1. Ask Slashdot: Has Slashdot made me gay? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Before I used to retch at the thought of gay sex.

    Then I started reading Slashdot regularly and got exposed to constant barrage of foul, explicit talk about gay and goat sex with occasional gay porn stories thrown in.

    Now, after two years of exposure to Slashdot, the idea of two dudes kissing and fondling each other doesn't make me sick anymore!

    What can I do?!

  2. Re:Queuing... by barneyfoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    REM sucks d-ck. listen to something a little more meaningful. Especially REM in wma format. What complete corperate sellouts. I doubt they even give a f-ck that cd's cost $17 now. REM's soul has officially been reaped.

  3. Fisher-Price designed their GUI by Rai · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    gates has a child fetish and all xp users are now his children...he's now the john wayne gacy of the computering world.

  4. Re: Mentifex AI abstains from XP upgrade. by Mentifex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, thank you. The Artificial Mind of http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind is being developed on a Compaq Presario Windows 98 machine that arrived free in the mail (well, UPS) from Free-PC.com back in 1999 before the Dot-Com bust of ca. 15 March 2000. If it weren't for the Free-PC (thank you, vulture capitalists), Mentifex PD AI would still be creaking forward on a vintage-1987 Amiga 1000 at 7.6 megahertz.

    The Windows 98 environment with its JavaScript 4.1 is actually preferable for the development of the Artificial Mind thanany later upgrade, for several reasons. First of all: compatibility -- if the AI works (and it does, primitively) under JavaScript 4.1, then there is no fretting and worrying about downwards compatibility from newer, but more tyrannical, releases of Internet Explorer.

    Even today on Windows XP release day there has been a flood of new PD AI uploads visible at the http://mind.sourceforge.net/sitemap.html Site Map of the first True AI (and if anyone in cowardly anonymity gainsays this notice of XP abstention, inspect and think for yourself before modding up cowardice).

    Summing up, no way will the People's AI upgrade to any level at all of a monopolistic, dirty-tricks operating system from people who live in hundred-million-dollar houses in sneering usurpance of the hard-earned pittances of the suffering masses.

  5. Re:WTF? by barneyfoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Quality Talent?

    Keep dreaming buddy. Talent is number 4 on their top ten list of qualifications. #1 is good looks. #2 is youth. #3 is attitude. And MAYBE, if you're LUCKY, quality talent will be #4.