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Monkeys Don't Like Macs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-they-fling-a-helluva-poo dept.

sebFlyte writes "silicon.com is reporting on a new twist on some oft-done probability research, into the suggestion that an infinite number of monkeys will eventually produce a perfect script for Hamlet , given typewriters (or indeed keyboards) and enough time. The researchers claims that the monkeys used in their test preferred using systems running Windows XP to those running Mac OS X. Which begs the question -- do only monkeys use Windows, or can even monkeys tell Macs aren't worth bothering with?"

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  1. Neither, really by SparksMcGee · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's just that the monkeys couldn't get the hang of the one-buttoned mouse.

  2. Subscription by datafr0g · · Score: 4, Funny

    The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early! God I wish I had one today, I can't wait for the next story.

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  3. Monkeys by the_sidewinder · · Score: 5, Funny

    An infinite amount of monkeys could also come up with the mess that is windows source code

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  4. tired, real news please by teetuck · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wait for a nice Apple anouncement all day and suddenly /. has 30 fake articles an hour?! End the madness!

  5. No Matter! by darth_MALL · · Score: 2, Funny

    as long as Monkees still like Micks

  6. Fallacy! by The-Bus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't BEG the question, it RAISES the question.

    No, really.

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  7. Re:How'd they get their Macs? by monolith25 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is the least stealthy attempt to get referrals that I think I've ever seen.

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  8. Everything's bigger in Texas by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > an infinite number of monkeys will eventually produce a perfect script for Hamlet , given typewriters (or indeed keyboards) and enough time

    Don't know about monkeys, but an infinite number of Texans with an infinite number of shotguns, and a long enough stretch of Interstate highway, will produce a perfect script for Hamlet, albeit in Braille.

  9. In a related story by krgallagher · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "Which begs the question -- do only monkeys use windows, or can even monkeys tell macs aren't worth bothering with?""

    March to end "Beg The Question" abuse

    But seriously isn't this FlameBait?

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  10. Monkeys and apples. by Rahga · · Score: 4, Funny

    A man brought his money into a bar... after a few drinks, the monkey hopped up onto the bar, swallowed an apple whole, smashed a pool cue, then popped up on the pool table and devoured a cue ball. Embarrassed by that behavior, the man grabbed the money and escaped the bar.

    2 weeks later, the monkey acompanied the man to the bar again. Subdued, it hopped on to the bar, grabbed a cherry, stuffed it into his rear, pulled it out, and ate it. The bartender, disgusted, asked the man why on earth he's bringing that monkey in... Why, after making a wreck last time and showing peculiar eating habbits today?

    "Well", says the man, "he's learned a lot since eating that cue ball. For instance, he checks the size of anything he eats."

  11. Enough Already! by jack's+wasted+liver · · Score: 3, Funny

    Whatever happened to the Stuff that matters part of the /. tagline?

    I think we have enough April Fools jokes to last us the year.

  12. President Bush's Preference by krunk4ever · · Score: 2, Funny

    Guess we know know which one Bush prefers.

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  13. Re:I'm a monkey by maglor_83 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So what OS are you running?