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Mac OS X Secrets of the Elite
anti-drew writes "Stepwise has posted a list of fantastic secrets in MacOS X, which reveals all of the hidden features that you just knew were lurking in there, including preferences you can set from the command line to make everything 10% faster, and extensive class libraries and undocumented Objective C APIs that take all the work out of coding. Literally. Check it out!"
I hope it has a feature that allows you to turn off april fools jokes. Anything that lessens the tide of fools joke spamming is a plus in my book.
The angel in the oatmeal.
Annoying and funny are not the same thing, editors.
Yes, they are. That's the first rule of Trolling. The point isn't to make you laugh, it's to make you complain, so they can laugh at you. I think they're doing a fine job.
Sure, Slashdot's fun. Slashdot brings me some "news" items I might not have heard about otherwise. But it's not like the world's going to end if, for one day out of the year, there's a bunch of bogus stories.
Al Qaeda has ninjas!
Or, of course, we could just laugh at the jokes. (Or would that be to simple?)
It would be simple if the jokes were actually funny. Right now I'm worried the cumulative groaning effect is detrimental to my health.
The other simple solution is to not read slashdot for the day. But that's a head in the sand resolution. It seems like a large percentage of the posters (and I know that's not the readers) hate this shit. And my scheme doesn't affect Taco's other 90%, so why does it matter to the readers?
Focusing all the jokes on a single day turns laughter into a Hallmark greeting card day. Like only showing love on Valentine's Day, or only showing ramapant commercialism on Christmas Day.
Geez, and to think about 40 of my 50 mod points came through funny mods. Bloddy Malcontent...
It's always been a stretch. The trick to any good AFJ is to come up with a good, yet outlandish, prank, and a delivery so brilliant and so believable that people fall for it, such as the infamous write only memory ad.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
I dunno. The best way my old High School computer lab teacher taught me was simply by saying: "It's doing _exactly_ what you're telling it to do". Many many times I imagined strangling the guy for saying that...it really was the best thing he did for me.
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