I imagine everyone here will enjoy Final Fantasy X though. I know how you linux geeks are. You like to sit there and pretend YOU are the super hero playing the homosexual beach volleyball game. You like to pretend like you are the mysterious and dark man with the strange past. You like to pretend the girl with the huge boobs and no personality is talking to you. You weep softly as you watch the game and see the life you wish you had. Your tears roll down your cheeks and the combination of the water and the pus dripping from your flaring acne drips onto your chest (the linux shirt you're wearing) and you begin to weep softly as you realize you will never be Justin from Nsync. You will never be Tidus. You will always be the man who lives in his mother's basement. Tidus is the football player from High School who used to slap you on the back of the head and call you names. You would go home at night and fantasize about killing him.. Thinking of how powerful your anger made you. The hilarious part about it is no matter how angry you got, he would still slap you around like a rag doll. If you went after him with a gun, you'd never have the balls to pull the trigger. He'd pull the gun out of your fat fingers and beat you with it. Then he'd be hailed as the school hero, for saving them from you. He's out there passing his genes on to another generation, mating with all of the attractive females who won't even talk to you. How does that feel, geek? How does it feel to read my words and realize they are the inevitable flow of your failed life? I've got to go... Got a date with a hot slut from the college. She's gonna bring along one of her friends too! Have fun palming your cock geekmaster!
Just because I tell the truth, I get moderated? Excuse me let me be a normal slashdotter Oh Linux I love you so much!! *SMOOCH* Linus Torvalisdufljiwer let me kiss your fat ass! Oh, I hate bill gates! I love linux! Linux is so great, watch what i can do with it!/mount -d asdflkjw09oeirjl;asdjkf;alsdjkfzxck, output: hi look! it says hi !! wow!!!
You have plenty of freedom. You could, buy a mac, use linux or BeOS (Though I can't imagine why anyone would use either), etc. etc. Invading privacy? never seen that
exactly. Decent PC's would be non-existant because rather than having an open market, we'd have the OS AND the machines owned by one company. Also, they'd be so expensive, not everyone would be able to afford them like they can now.
They tied their software into their OS. Netscape ruined themselves by letting MS make a better browser than them. Perhaps being bought by AOL was the end for them?
BeOS? Oh yea, that's the thing nobody has ever heard of before. That's right, that's the thing with no software or hardware support for it! Macintosh? You mean those cute looking things they have in computer stores? The ones that have a commercial about "changing your decor" to match them? There's some real machines! In all seriousness, Apple was good back in the day (I'm talking about Apple IIe) but now.. No.
They didn't invent the first PC, but they brought about the age of the PC. If it wasn't for Microsoft, there wouldn't be a PC in almost every home. That is a fact.
You forgot to mention they made the first (and only) GOOD GUI in computing history. Despite all the bugs and problems, Windows remains the only decent, GRAPHICAL, OS. There's other great ones like Unix of course, but we're talking about PC's, not servers.
How are they hurting the industry now ? Innovating? Making Windows 2000, an AMAZINGLY good product? Boosting our economy? Giving thousands of talented programmers good jobs, with great opportunity to advance?
But of course:) If anyone can explain to me why people think Microsoft didn't revolutionize the computing industry, and basically create PC's as we know them today, please do.
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I imagine everyone here will enjoy Final Fantasy X though. I know how you linux geeks are. You like to sit there and pretend YOU are the super hero playing the homosexual beach volleyball game. You like to pretend like you are the mysterious and dark man with the strange past. You like to pretend the girl with the huge boobs and no personality is talking to you. You weep softly as you watch the game and see the life you wish you had. Your tears roll down your cheeks and the combination of the water and the pus dripping from your flaring acne drips onto your chest (the linux shirt you're wearing) and you begin to weep softly as you realize you will never be Justin from Nsync. You will never be Tidus. You will always be the man who lives in his mother's basement. Tidus is the football player from High School who used to slap you on the back of the head and call you names. You would go home at night and fantasize about killing him.. Thinking of how powerful your anger made you. The hilarious part about it is no matter how angry you got, he would still slap you around like a rag doll. If you went after him with a gun, you'd never have the balls to pull the trigger. He'd pull the gun out of your fat fingers and beat you with it. Then he'd be hailed as the school hero, for saving them from you. He's out there passing his genes on to another generation, mating with all of the attractive females who won't even talk to you. How does that feel, geek? How does it feel to read my words and realize they are the inevitable flow of your failed life? I've got to go... Got a date with a hot slut from the college. She's gonna bring along one of her friends too! Have fun palming your cock geekmaster!
No because who gives a shit about Germany ?
Talk to me when you have interstellar chocolate... Mmmmm real Milky Way bars!
what's your point ?
Why would I, a home user, user Unix?
hehe I can agree with that
Name another good GUI.
There's no alternative. Windows isn't bad, it's not perfect but not bad.
well if all the other crackers sucked, who would care?
Just because I tell the truth, I get moderated? Excuse me let me be a normal slashdotter Oh Linux I love you so much!! *SMOOCH* Linus Torvalisdufljiwer let me kiss your fat ass! Oh, I hate bill gates! I love linux! Linux is so great, watch what i can do with it! /mount -d asdflkjw09oeirjl;asdjkf;alsdjkfzxck, output: hi look! it says hi !! wow!!!
Then the stores would need to decide if they really wanted Nabisco crackers, huh ?
More than 65% I believe. Up from like 10% 10 years ago I think...
So, should nabisco include another company's crackers when they sell you a pack of Triscuits?
You have plenty of freedom. You could, buy a mac, use linux or BeOS (Though I can't imagine why anyone would use either), etc. etc. Invading privacy? never seen that
exactly. Decent PC's would be non-existant because rather than having an open market, we'd have the OS AND the machines owned by one company. Also, they'd be so expensive, not everyone would be able to afford them like they can now.
They tied their software into their OS. Netscape ruined themselves by letting MS make a better browser than them. Perhaps being bought by AOL was the end for them?
BeOS has no support. I had a guy come into work one day needing a modem LOL that was a joke. He left thinking a lot lower of BeOS (BS)
and why is that ? Because you guys are so jealous of Bill Gates it makes you sick?
Why should they open their API? It is *THEIR* API, is it not ? Who wants Netscape anyways ?
BeOS? Oh yea, that's the thing nobody has ever heard of before. That's right, that's the thing with no software or hardware support for it! Macintosh? You mean those cute looking things they have in computer stores? The ones that have a commercial about "changing your decor" to match them? There's some real machines! In all seriousness, Apple was good back in the day (I'm talking about Apple IIe) but now.. No.
They didn't invent the first PC, but they brought about the age of the PC. If it wasn't for Microsoft, there wouldn't be a PC in almost every home. That is a fact.
You forgot to mention they made the first (and only) GOOD GUI in computing history. Despite all the bugs and problems, Windows remains the only decent, GRAPHICAL, OS. There's other great ones like Unix of course, but we're talking about PC's, not servers.
How are they hurting the industry now ? Innovating? Making Windows 2000, an AMAZINGLY good product? Boosting our economy? Giving thousands of talented programmers good jobs, with great opportunity to advance?
But of course :) If anyone can explain to me why people think Microsoft didn't revolutionize the computing industry, and basically create PC's as we know them today, please do.
faster at what ? as far as I've seen, they can't do anything! Besides access the internet, of couse.