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Dave Barry Does Windows
retrosteve writes: "Well, it's finally happened. Someone (Dave Barry) in the popular press has finally, explicitly and with a sense of humour, pointed out that Microsoft Windows doesn't get any more reliable or usable, no matter how many versions you buy."
clint mathis is god - he will tear the gold cup a new one.
Props to all the dead homies and whatnot.
So we have a humour article by a guy who doesn't even claim to have tested his operating system, places the blame for all crashes on the operating system, and clearly exaggerates things for humourous intent.
This is worth a Slashdot article? Well, if you're an editor looking for Yet Another Microsoft-bashing Article, then I guess it is.
Methinks Slashdot is stretching to justify its pro-Linux bias in the face of evidence that the new operating systems might actually be stable.
Do you know whats funny? me fucking you mom!!! AHAHAHAHAH!!!
Are you guys hard up or what? /. post something informative, and not so freaking lame.
This has got to be the stupidist waste of data space I have seen in a whiile. Dave Barry is NOT funny, and obviously is a complete moron when it comes to computers.....sheesh!!!!
Get w/it
"Look where we worship" -- Jim Morrison
How could he have wrotte this 5 years ago?
He makes a comment about Win98, and WinXP...
Ya goof!
"Look where we worship" -- Jim Morrison
Hmmm. That's funny I have NEVER had to recompile the kernel to change refresh rates on Windows.
Nothing like having to rip into the guts of the OS just to change something. I'm sorry but you will never convince me or oh 90% of the people that Linux or anything is better than windows.
That doesn't mean Linux can't improve. But I suspect that by the time it reaches Window's levels of ease of use it will have so much code in it that it will be just as glichy.
Of course Microsoft has been at the ease of use game for a decade now and Unix folks are just now waking up to the fact that computers are tools. And tools need to be easy to use. Its not easy making a complex tool easy to use. And I honestly don't think there is enough talent in the open source arena to pull it off.
If I am wrong that would be awsome. I would love to have competition. But open source is not likely to bring this about. Sun or Mac are better bets. But the two Steves are complete morons.
uuhu. yeah. my roommate installed XP professional on his machine. Crashed TWICE during install process. thereafter crashed approximately once every 2 hours, BEFORE INSTALLING ANY APPLICATIONS.
after several upgrades, he got it down to crashing twice a day when not playing video gamees (again, he hadnt really installed any apps other than email, AIM and some computer game)
most reliable ever my ASS
Doesn't that have to be funny?
Funny:
Dilbert, Robot Monster, South Park, Jon Katz falling out of a window.
Not Funny:
Teen comedies, Jim Carrey, Recycled/Out-Of-Date 'Windows is unreliable' jokes, Dave Berry.
I survived the Dick Cheney Presidency 7 to 9 AM 7-21-07
something like .004 percent of the people use linux.
isn't that right?
so i wouldn't worry about windows losing marketspace just because people don't like it.
(yet)
What can you tell me about Taco-Snotting?
It is becoming more popular
It is becoming less popular
I am doing it right now!
I am one of CmdrTaco's unfortunate victims tied up in his basement. If anyone is reading this HELP!
It sure is great to be WIPO's boitoi
CowboyNeal! ahhhh... that's it... right there!
yeah. I never heard her laugh so loud as when she saw the size of your pecker. Maybe if you yank on it some more it'll get bigger.
Microturd says, "Best Windows Ever!"
Win2k is just as buggy and quirqy as anything else M$. I've been using it on a nice new Dell at work for a month. The machine is a reasonable 850MHz PIII. Nothing cutting edge there, you would think it would work. Supprise, it's got loads of new bugs on top of bizzar dummy features that impede function. Take Office XP. Word's default auto correction features would try the patience of a saint. M$ was nice enough to leave them all turned on by default and make Word the default editor for Outlook. It took me a day to learn how to turn it all off. MSIE has the world strangely devided between intranet, internet and local files. When you view one type the others dissapear from your history view. Pressing the back button accros this devide can crash your computer. This combined with the default OLE behavior, and my company's insistance that we use the propriatory .DOC communications protocal, makes for dreary research eXPeriences. I don't even want to talk about how well word docs sometimes open in the browser and sometimes don't. Let's just say that the rule set is not easy to see. Oh yeah, it still crashes when you try to use it. Oh yeah, those new features borke a slew of old work.
MS XP: eXPenditure, eXcuses, eXasPiration. Nothing new but what you call it.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
I used to use latex condoms, but hey, abortions aren't all that expensive, and most of the time I'll never see my one-night stand slut again. Besides, you only live once, and herpes isn't as bad as people say it is.
I'm using Win98 SE (forgot to mention that as well) and IE5 at this very moment. I can't remember the last time it crashed.
Hey, you are running a virus, Windows is just a graphical shell on a boot virus.
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You're 26 and you're only making $49k? Wow.
You guys were arguing with a retard.
This is the dumbest article Ive ever read. The guy sits there and talks about his wart, but neglects to mention all the new 'toys' added to windows xp to make it 'more friendly', and you know what, they work :)
Ive been using windows since version 3.1, I just recently installed windows xp and have only needed to reboot once, I havent crashed, and it covered every peice of hardware on my computer (ME seemed to like to delete my network card)
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jesus fuck man, this guy is simply confessing his love of anal sex with hamsters to you. can you see that the above post was a cry for help? it is as though he is saying "fucking help me, my massive cock is jammed in a hamster"! fucking christ, show some sympathy.