Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4?

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Posted by timothy on Friday February 6, 2009 @01:20AM from the spy-vs.-spy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4? In this video, ZDNet takes to Sydney's streets to find out what people think of what they think is a Windows 7 demonstration. The results are surprising." Or maybe they're not surprising at all.

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not surprising by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-06 01:29 · Score: 5, Funny

9/10 people polled also couldn't tell the difference between rabbit shit and deer shit.
1. Re:not surprising by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-06 01:48 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  9/10 people polled also couldn't tell the difference between rabbit shit and deer shit.
  And nine out of ten couldn't tell the difference between your statistics and bullshit.
  That said it is a useful comparison.
  Someone who is just walking in the woods probably cannot tell rabbit shit from deer shit. A tracker or someone dependent on hunting for food certainly will.
  Someone who just needs to run a browser and word processor probably can't tell Windows 7 from KDE. Someone who needs to configure and administrate systems for an organisation certainly will.
  Also 9/10 enjoys group rapes
2. Re:not surprising by Tiber · 2009-02-06 02:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I have the opposite problem. My wife won't touch linux but still wants to use my PC.
  Then she gripes that it doesn't "automatically log in" or gives me the "we should share passwords".
  I say to her, "Do you know shit about Linux?" "no" "THEN YOU DON'T NEED MY PASSWORD FOR SHIT".
3. Re:not surprising by Bill_the_Engineer · 2009-02-06 02:24 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I say to her, "Do you know shit about Linux?" "no" "THEN YOU DON'T NEED MY PASSWORD FOR SHIT".
  Careful, sledgehammers need no passwords.
  
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4. Re:not surprising by jgtg32a · 2009-02-06 02:25 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Did you mean ex-wife in your post?
5. Re:not surprising by Tiber · 2009-02-06 02:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Nah, the dead can't talk.
  You know anything about putting my honda back together?
6. Re:not surprising by gestalt_n_pepper · 2009-02-06 02:49 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  9 out of 10 people polled couldn't tell the difference between 9 and 10.
  
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7. Re:not surprising by Creepy · 2009-02-06 03:08 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  And nine out of ten couldn't tell the difference between your statistics and bullshit.
  that's because 9 out of 10 statistics are made up 73% of the time.
8. Re:not surprising by c-reus · 2009-02-06 03:18 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  as seen on bash.org
9. Re:not surprising by Hatta · 2009-02-06 03:19 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  This is why I have no problem with my GF running windows. If it breaks, I don't know what to do with it anyway, so it's not my problem.
  
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10. Re:not surprising by Darundal · 2009-02-06 03:36 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Until she figures out what happens when you put a period at the start of a files name.
11. Re:not surprising by JCSoRocks · 2009-02-06 03:56 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Apparently 1/10 enjoys studying fecal matter.
  
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12. Re:not surprising by ozmanjusri · 2009-02-06 04:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  the truth goes: "You'll never find my porn stash, hehehe, hehe, heh".
  Meh
  I linked my porn stash to a directory called .secret in my girlfriend's home dir.
  She thinks she's clever for having found it, and gets some great ideas from the porn. It's a win-win.
  
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13. Re:not surprising by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-06 04:19 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I consider myself fairly computer literate and I can't tell the difference between Windows Vista and Windows Vista.
14. Re:not surprising by MrHanky · 2009-02-06 04:56 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Or it would be, if you had a girlfriend.
15. Re:not surprising by dwarg · 2009-02-06 05:02 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Bucking for some informative karma I've tracked down some visual aids for our comparison:
  Windows 7
  KDE 4
  Your welcome.
16. Re:not surprising by Zero__Kelvin · 2009-02-06 05:45 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  OMFG! You defeated my encryption by putting a period before the filename? Dude, I wanna learn to hack from you!
  
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17. Re:not surprising by StikyPad · 2009-02-06 05:49 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  NOT AUtistic, ARtistic.
  Wait, are you saying that your wife does NOT live in her own little world AND effectively communicates her wants/needs? I'm not sure you appreciate the full magnitude of your discovery, sir. Please.. go on.
  
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18. Re:not surprising by H0p313ss · 2009-02-06 06:11 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Or it would be, if you had a girlfriend.
  #include <stdyourmom>
  
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19. Re:not surprising by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-06 08:29 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  My welcome?
20. Re:not surprising by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-06 08:38 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  #include <stdyourmom>
  STD? no thanks
21. Re:not surprising by baegucb · 2009-02-06 11:06 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "I am not married" negates your comment. Try that when you are married :)
I fell for it.... by hal2814 · 2009-02-06 01:30 · Score: 5, Funny

I'll admit I fell for it. But in my defense, they showed it to me in the morning and I was really tired that morning for some reason. It's like someone switched out my usual high quality Columbian coffee with Folgers or something that day.
Folgers... by Sabathius · 2009-02-06 01:31 · Score: 5, Funny

We've secretly replaced Your coffee with Fogers Crystals!
I like the conclusion... by gzipped_tar · 2009-02-06 01:38 · Score: 4, Funny

It is indeed surprising AND unsurprising.
The video ends with the two guys discussing "what have we learned today". FTFV:

-- Are you saying that we learned nothing?
-- Nothing.

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Re:eye candy by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-06 01:46 · Score: 5, Funny

You'll buy KDE4?!?!
I've got this pirate copy of KDE4.2... It's much cheaper than the original.
Re:eye candy by MrNaz · 2009-02-06 02:02 · Score: 5, Funny

That's a bug in your legal system. I heard you recently voted a new president who may submit a patch.
Then again, your system is so broken you may want to consider a ground up re-write.

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Re:eye candy by cparker15 · 2009-02-06 02:53 · Score: 2, Funny

Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

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Re:eye candy by Just+Some+Guy · 2009-02-06 02:55 · Score: 3, Funny

I heard you recently voted a new president who may submit a patch.
Yeah, but it touches about 30 unrelated systems and runs magic code as root.

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Re:Thats it just show the eye candy. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-06 07:48 · Score: 2, Funny

It's actually worse than static. It's grabbing some chunk of uninitialized video memory. Only it's being displayed (normally) at a different height/width ratio, so it looks like junk.
Those images are still sitting in the video memory pool. So when I've popped up dialogs, what occasionally shows up are flashes of images that I've been viewing.
This is a Seriously Bad Thing when you've been looking at NSFW graphics. I'm not kidding, either - it's happened to me a number of times.
Re:Welcome to Niggerbuntu by budgenator · 2009-02-06 08:55 · Score: 2, Funny

I Sir, will have you know I'm a civilized primate and only fling poo at others during football season.

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