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Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4?

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. not surprising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    9/10 people polled also couldn't tell the difference between rabbit shit and deer shit.

    1. Re:not surprising by Tiber · · 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".

    2. Re:not surprising by Bill_the_Engineer · · 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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    3. Re:not surprising by jgtg32a · · Score: 4, Funny

      Did you mean ex-wife in your post?

    4. Re:not surprising by Tiber · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nah, the dead can't talk.

      You know anything about putting my honda back together?

    5. Re:not surprising by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 4, Funny

      9 out of 10 people polled couldn't tell the difference between 9 and 10.

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    6. Re:not surprising by Creepy · · 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.

    7. Re:not surprising by c-reus · · Score: 3, Funny

      as seen on bash.org

    8. Re:not surprising by Hatta · · 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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    9. Re:not surprising by Darundal · · Score: 5, Funny

      Until she figures out what happens when you put a period at the start of a files name.

    10. Re:not surprising by JCSoRocks · · Score: 3, Funny

      Apparently 1/10 enjoys studying fecal matter.

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    11. Re:not surprising by ozmanjusri · · 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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    12. Re:not surprising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I consider myself fairly computer literate and I can't tell the difference between Windows Vista and Windows Vista.

    13. Re:not surprising by MrHanky · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or it would be, if you had a girlfriend.

    14. Re:not surprising by dwarg · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bucking for some informative karma I've tracked down some visual aids for our comparison:

      Windows 7

      KDE 4

      Your welcome.

    15. Re:not surprising by Zero__Kelvin · · 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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    16. Re:not surprising by StikyPad · · 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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    17. Re:not surprising by H0p313ss · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or it would be, if you had a girlfriend.

      #include <stdyourmom>

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    18. Re:not surprising by baegucb · · Score: 4, Funny

      "I am not married" negates your comment. Try that when you are married :)

  2. I fell for it.... by hal2814 · · 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.

  3. Folgers... by Sabathius · · Score: 5, Funny

    We've secretly replaced Your coffee with Fogers Crystals!

  4. I like the conclusion... by gzipped_tar · · 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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  5. Re:eye candy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'll buy KDE4?!?!

    I've got this pirate copy of KDE4.2... It's much cheaper than the original.

  6. Re:eye candy by MrNaz · · 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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  7. Re:eye candy by Just+Some+Guy · · 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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