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Microsoft's Athens PC
OneLeg noted that the Seattle Times has a story on Microsoft deciding to partner up with HP and
work on new PCs with a simpler, more controlled architecture. Including things like integrated telephony into the PCs, and in general, being a bit more Maclike and locking Linux out of the desktop market.
All your bus are belong to us?
Anyone want to start a pool on when a port of Linux to this will be ready?
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1990s MS: "We are not a monopoly."
2000s MS: "We can't compete fairly, lock out the competition."
2010s MS: "Would you like Fries with that?"
Trolling is a art,
Hmmm...
1. Microsoft controlled architecture
2. Thumbprint scanner
Does anyone else see through this simple ploy on Microsoft's part to collect all of our biometric information? I bet their next computer requires a blood sample for verification.
lysergically yours
Just what I've always wanted, a $2000 Caller ID box.
Gates also plans to demonstrate a new scroll wheel and set of buttons for navigating Windows-powered devices with one hand.
Uh-huh...
MS Marketing Guy : Our new plan is to create a proprietry hardware platform and lock the Linux rebels out of the desktop! This "Athens" PC will be the ultimate power in the universe!
Darth Gates : Do not be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to monopolize a desktop is insignificant, next to the power of the Source. (breathes heavily)
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
Or a dangerous president? That would be MS Bush:
"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for precedent."
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
Does anyone else see through this simple ploy on Microsoft's part to collect all of our biometric information?
/me grabs his tin-foil hat.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Apple Computer 1 year chart.
Like a rich uncle sending a check when the cupboards are bare
yeah, more like a rich uncle who has some goons beat the shit out of the grocery delivery man, then straps you to a table and feeds you cold oatmeal with cat urine and roaches in it.
While calling your mother and telling her that you've gone on a health-food kick.
PC moderators can suck my White pierced, tattooed dick. If you think pride == hate, s/dick/Aryan meat mallet/g.
I initially read this as:
..click to download Redhat ISO.. ..phone rings..
"The Athens PC has a built-in telephone linked to Microsoft"..
I instantly imagined a call from a MS representative the instant your attempt to do MS does n't approve of.. imagine:
"Hello?"
"I'm sorry Dave I can't let you do that"
Also, that "precious bodily fluids" port seemed a bit strange to me...
------ What's sadder than realizing you've filtered out your own comments?
preventing users from clogging up PC's with dancing gorillas and other crap.
You mean the ones shouting "Developers! Developers! Developers!"... I wish those damn gorillas would leave me alone.
Main HD, spin up.
It's you!
How are you Gentleman. All your kernel are belong to us.
Compile you say?
You have no chance to link, make your time.
Ha Ha Ha.
(Incidently, it's set up us, not set us up)
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Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
However, for the most part, there isn't a more powerful force in the "end market" than the many different and varied buying decisions of potential customers.
How 'bout the multimillion-dollar bullhorn voice of madison ave, screaming that intel whatever's and windows will make your internet faster?
Yes, because you can't install NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD or Linux on a Mac.
Oh wait.
Hail to the king, baby!