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Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE
KillaKen187 writes "A CNET article claims that 'just days after the launch of open-source browser Firefox 1.0, Microsoft executives defended Internet Explorer, saying it is no less secure than any other browser and doesn't lack any important features.' It's also interesting to note that these statements made by Steve Vamos, Microsoft Australia's managing director, come with no knowledge of what Firefox has to offer as he admits not even installing or using Firefox."
Yeah, you are dumb. In most of your examples you have no basis for not being completely screwed by a smooth-talking salesman or service person.
In my day, and I'm only at the lunchtime of life, I have worked on cars, done my own electrical work (to code or better), remodeled a home (to code or better), and I currently tutor my nephew in English because his private school fails him in this one area.
So yeah, you do seem kinda dumb to me. Back in the day, you would have seemed fairly dumb to most hackers too.
You are reading a site where people mod boxes, build computers from spare parts or even from scratch, and even do some electrical and fairly extensive carpentry for their MAME machines.
So by the standard of the average hacker - yes, and I apologize to you in advance, but you come across almost like a blithering moron.
Now I agree, a superior attitude won't get you very far with someone. But it wouldn't hurt for the people on the other side of the equation to occasionally acknowledge that we hackers are literally the architects of the future. Instead, we are being driven down the economic and status chain just as was once done to our country's educators. That's not a wise thing to do.
We might just jump ship. Once the U.S. becomes the cheap labor camp the Red states wanted, what will be our reason to stay on? National pride?
Oh, I laugh...
Most people that know me consider me one of the smartest people they know. How do I know this? I have been told this repeatedly over the years, and without solicitation.
Perhaps surprisingly, I treat most people with a deference that they almost certainly do not deserve from me. Most people are complete lamers, and I am not, AND I know it. But I am almost always perfectly sweet to people in real life because you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. I am nice to people because I find it useful to be nice to them.
So I ask you: What kind of hacker doesn't know how to do the things you claim not to know how to do?