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Windows XP Starter Edition Review
Digitalommm writes "Paul Thurrott has a story on the latest developments on Windows XP Starter Edition. There are some very good points that the Linux community could adopt. An example is end-user training videos such as how to use a mouse." This is an optimistic, even glowing look at the Starter Edition, which even for Thurrot was not available for unsupervised use, only demonstrated by Microsoft for him. (For using-a-mouse videos, I would suggest also Roblimo's book Point and Click Linux .)
For viewing videos, you recommend a book.
You probably recommend a knife at a gunfight, screen doors on submarines, and drinking your coffee from a spaghetti strainer.
Damn, but you're an idiot. You just can't get over the fact that someone likes what MSFT has done with this OS.
Why can we never discuss TECHNOLOGY anymore? I'm sick of moronic discussions and flamebait OSS philosopy vs Apple philosophy vs MS philosophy.
Anyone have anything to say about the technical merits, or lack thereof of XP Starter Edition?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Stop making desktops that fucking suck (eg KDE, GNOME)
Stop making office suites that fucking suck (OO, KOffice)
Stop making drivers that fucking suck (XFree86, CUPS)
Adopt standards instead of bloating the install with half assed applications (Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror & Galeon -- Pick a fucking browser and make it the standard!)
MSFT's entire potential market for this just got swept into the sea a couple weeks ago.
As it turns out, God wasn't so pleased with the Jihad after all.
You could have googled it yourself, but in case anyone else is wondering the finished version of Windows XP was released October 25, 2001.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WindowsXpNameDiscussion
I swear, there must be some kind of crack addiction prerequisite for moderator consideration.
I used to bulls-eye womp-rats in my pants
Asking Steve Jobs to do a review of the new headless mini-mac.......
Minus the viruses and adware of course.....
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish.
Twitter, you're a petulant cock-gobbling sycophant to Linux Torvaldyos! Quit taking DP from ESR and RMS's feculent cocks and why don't you try to stop sucking quite so much? Get out of your parents' basement and see the real world - maybe then you'll see how pathetic you sound, with your neverending stream of bullshit about how Microsoft is stalking you. Wasn't it you who said that Microsoft believes your insane ranting is actually a threat to them, so they PAY PEOPLE to reply to you on Slashdot? No sir, I don't get any money. I do it for the love. Someone has to go up against your paranoid whining. So get back in your cage and shut the fuck up already.
I'm posting this so that you (the moderator) have some context to consider twitter and not mod him up whenever he posts his filler preformatted rants about installing Knoppix or whatever that unfortunately get him karma every single time and allow him to continue posting his trademark toxic crap (read on) day in and day out. You may consider this a troll - I consider it community service. And I ain't kidding.
If you're a /. subscriber, I invite you to look through some of his posting history. I guarantee that you'll be hard pressed to find someone that is more "out there" than twitter. You'll also probably notice he's got quite an AC following. Don't just read his posts, make sure you go through the replies.
To get an idea of what I'm talking about, check this post out. I mean, this is an article about email disclaimers, right? The parent of the post is complaining about the ads in the linked page and so on, and twitter actually goes off on a rant to blame it on Microsoft and recommend Lynx. WTF?
Here's another. In this post twitter not only calls the OP a troll but attempts to "tell it like it is" while making some vague argument about "GNU". Yes, if you're confused, you're not alone. The reply (modded +4) proceeds to simply destroy his bogus argument. You will notice he did not reply. This is what some people call "drive-by advocacy". A sort of I'll just leave you with my thoughts here and move on to the next flamebait kind of deal. In fact, he almost never replies because he knows that his fanatical arguments simply do not hold up to any sort of discussion. It's not that he's chosen the wrong cause - he's just going at it in a completely wrong way.
More? Just read though this post and the subsequent replies. I guess this stands on its own. Or these two. Or this one.
Still not convinced? This is what twitter considers "humour" while going about his daily "M$" routine.
More? Bad spelling in astounding conspiracy theories, more offtopic FUD and uninformed "I'm right, look at me" rants, promptly proven wrong. Worse even, twitter wants to be RMS, apparently (that first one is a winner). I mean,