Posted by
michael
on from the double-your-pleasure dept.
cojsl writes "Anandtech reviews the Jetway Magic Twin small form-factor PC that allows two simultaneous users on one Windows PC. The article mentions a mobo only option too."
Actually, I can't help thinking "Share violation reading file winword.exe - this file is in use by another program. Windows will reboot now in order to free the file winword.exe for your usage [OK] "
-- -><- no.sig is good sig.
Ready for the jokes?
by
eric76
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· Score: 4, Funny
How about the blonde who had one of these with a KVM switch to handle both screens?
Happens all the time where I work
by
Neil+Blender
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· Score: 3, Funny
The user of the windows box and the admin trying to fix it working together as one. I see it everyday.
awesome. two player doom3
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Funny
Awesome! Now we will be able to play two-player Doom 3 using one computer.
This is good and all but...
by
TechnologyX
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· Score: 5, Funny
Well, minus multiplied with minus becomes a positive. So I guess it would cancel out. On the other hand, Windows would probably BSOD when trying to multiply something. So, we get (--)-, which is -. A BSOD. Now, if the bluescreen subroutine (known internally in microsoft as "void releaseDateFixer(void)") also BSODs, you would be back in the graphical interface again. To crash the BSOD routine, you would probably need to do something as cruel as... plugging in a new printer or something.
-- Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you
Two blue screens of death for the price of one...
by
SmackCrackandPot
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· Score: 3, Funny
... that's got to be a bargain!
Re:Wondering about licensing and grammar
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Mr.+Bad+Example
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· Score: 5, Funny
> An object cannot be "somewhat unique" or "almost totally unique." The word means one of a kind, and without equal. Something either has equals or it doesn't.
That's the most perfect description of a superlative I've ever seen.
Pair programming
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Funny
Now I can do pair programming!
Re:Wondering about licensing and grammar
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Dun+Malg
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· Score: 2, Funny
> An object cannot be "somewhat unique" or "almost totally unique." The word means one of a kind, and without equal. Something either has equals or it doesn't.
That's the most perfect description of a superlative I've ever seen.
And my addendum is the worstest joke on the subject, ever.
-- If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
Re:On (U|Li)n[iu]x
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stonedyak
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· Score: 3, Funny
Linx? Uniux? Those aren't operating systems. You're just making this up now!
It wasn't enough to steal Windows from Xerox. Now they have to go and steal ideas from *nix. Hasn't that been standard in *nix environments for awhile?
Does this mean that when purchasing a Windows liscense users will now have to decide whether or not the need a liscence and a half? Or just the single.
Oh I'll have the single please. And crack it later
What will this do to Grandma and Grandpa computer user? Imagine your grandparents out getting their first PC.
The technobable alone is staggering. I know what you are thinking, "not me I'm the uber geek".
Well think back to your first box, how much did you know? Chances are older consumers purchasing new systems, some for the first time, may be frightened off or taken advantage of.
Microsoft needs to stop. How much money is enough?
I have an idea for Microsofts new business model. Do one thing. Do it well. You guys already have the world by the short n curlies.
Besides when the rest of the world realizes that there are Linux distros out there for less than half the cost of a Windows liscnse, they will switch. As for me, I've had enough B$ from M$.
THANK YOU! Mr. Torvalds
-- I am Bennett Haselton!
I am Bennett Haselton!
Re:Terminal Server
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pseudochaotic
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· Score: 5, Funny
It's not IMPOSSIBLE to do, but I'm interested to see how they did it.
Yeah. Wouldn't it be great if slashdot linked to an article or something?
meaning the MoBo is actually siamese twins sharing non-critical chips (err.. organs).
I predict, in the very near future, a blockbuster Hollywood buddy movie about one of these conjoined mobos: Stuck on BSOD.. Starring Matt Damon as the Chipset and Greg Kinnear as the Floppy Drive. Bound to make a mint, no chance that it will bomb...
Ok, so it's per-seat. Is Visual C++ per seat, and what implications does this have for extreme programming?
Visual C++ is per seat. Extreme Programming is not alright. Extreme Programmers are pirates. They are an evil group of people who have figured out a way to get around our DRM. But it will not be tolerated. We are hard at work, finding a way to stop them, and force the people who leech off another user's terminal to pay up. Our current strategy is to make maximum font size in Windows 6 points. Then another person will not be able to read.
This will be a huge inconvenience for all of the people who don't engace in this dispicible practice. But all you pirates out there made us do it. I hope you're happy. And by the way, did I mention that what you are doing is stealing?
Sincerely,
Craig Mundie
Microsoft
Re:Install guide has some more details...
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John+Hansen
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· Score: 2, Funny
But they do warn the second user if the first user decides to shut down the system.
What, you mean like...
Broadcast message from root (pts/4) (Sat Apr 17 02:47:52 2004):
Slashdot Mirror
I mean UNIX did it!
How about the blonde who had one of these with a KVM switch to handle both screens?
The user of the windows box and the admin trying to fix it working together as one. I see it everyday.
Awesome! Now we will be able to play two-player Doom 3 using one computer.
How will it know which virus to run first?
Slashdot sucks
what happends when you BSOD twice? Do they cancel each other out and the computer works again?
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
... that's got to be a bargain!
> An object cannot be "somewhat unique" or "almost totally unique." The word means one of a kind, and without equal. Something either has equals or it doesn't.
That's the most perfect description of a superlative I've ever seen.
It means you aren't blocking advertisements properly.
Morphing Software
Now I can do pair programming!
That's the most perfect description of a superlative I've ever seen.
And my addendum is the worstest joke on the subject, ever.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
Linx? Uniux? Those aren't operating systems. You're just making this up now!
It wasn't enough to steal Windows from Xerox. Now they have to go and steal ideas from *nix. Hasn't that been standard in *nix environments for awhile?
Does this mean that when purchasing a Windows liscense users will now have to decide whether or not the need a liscence and a half? Or just the single.
Oh I'll have the single please. And crack it later
What will this do to Grandma and Grandpa computer user? Imagine your grandparents out getting their first PC.
The technobable alone is staggering.
I know what you are thinking, "not me I'm the uber geek".
Well think back to your first box, how much did you know?
Chances are older consumers purchasing new systems, some for the first time, may be frightened off or taken advantage of.
Microsoft needs to stop. How much money is enough?
I have an idea for Microsofts new business model.
Do one thing.
Do it well.
You guys already have the world by the short n curlies.
Besides when the rest of the world realizes that there are Linux distros out there for less than half the cost of a Windows liscnse, they will switch.
As for me, I've had enough B$ from M$.
THANK YOU!
Mr. Torvalds
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
It's not IMPOSSIBLE to do, but I'm interested to see how they did it.
Yeah. Wouldn't it be great if slashdot linked to an article or something?
And the l33t shall inherit the 34r7h.
meaning the MoBo is actually siamese twins sharing non-critical chips (err.. organs).
I predict, in the very near future, a blockbuster Hollywood buddy movie about one of these conjoined mobos: Stuck on BSOD.. Starring Matt Damon as the Chipset and Greg Kinnear as the Floppy Drive. Bound to make a mint, no chance that it will bomb...
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
I thought with the usual Microsoft security holes that Windows users already had people sharing their PC.
Yes! that's my 100th attempt at Karma whoring! Thank you, thank you!
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
Yeah, I sure do wish Linux could do that! We're always playing catch-up with Microsoft!
More like three decades.
Wow, a computer that lets 2 users run different apps at the same time -- a bold leap into the 1970s!!
What will they think of next???
What do your licenses say about them?
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
Visual C++ is per seat. Extreme Programming is not alright. Extreme Programmers are pirates. They are an evil group of people who have figured out a way to get around our DRM. But it will not be tolerated. We are hard at work, finding a way to stop them, and force the people who leech off another user's terminal to pay up. Our current strategy is to make maximum font size in Windows 6 points. Then another person will not be able to read.
This will be a huge inconvenience for all of the people who don't engace in this dispicible practice. But all you pirates out there made us do it. I hope you're happy. And by the way, did I mention that what you are doing is stealing? Sincerely,
Craig Mundie
Microsoft
What, you mean like...
Oh, the horror!