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  1. Re:We need to be more like our European friends... on Perspectives On Thompson's Latest Crusade · · Score: 1

    Because America was founded by puritans.

    Thank you England, thank you very fucking much.

  2. Disaster Area could use this thing on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy notes that Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all.

    Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, while the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.

  3. Every OS Sucks on How Computers Work -- Circa 1979 · · Score: 1

    Every OS Sucks
    By 3 Dead Trolls In A Baggie

    I come from a time in the nineteen hundred and seventies when computers where used for two things. To either go to the moon, or play pong. And nothing in between, you see, and you didn't need a fancy operating system to play pong and the men who went to the moon, god bless them, did it with no mouse and a plain text only black and white screen and thiry-two kilobytes of ram.

    But then round about the late seventies home computers started to do a little bit more than play pong. Very little more. Why, computers started to play games and balance check books. Why, you could play Zaxxon on your apple II or write a book. All with a computer that had thirty-two kilobytes of ram.

    It was enough to go to the moon, it was enough for you

    It was a golden time, a time before Windows, a time before mouses, a time before the Internet and bloatware and a time before every OS sucked

    Well way back in the olden times my computer worked for me
    I'd laugh and play all night and day on Zork One, Two and Three
    The Amiga, VIC 20 and Sinclair too, the TRS 80 and the Apple II
    They did what they where supposed to do
    It wasn't much but it was enough
    But then Xerox made a prototype
    Steve Jobs came on the scene
    Read of mice and menus, windows, icons, trash, and a bitmapped screen
    Oh, Stevie said to xerox "Boys, turn your heads and cough"
    And when no one was looking he ripped their interfaces off
    Stole every feature that he had seen
    Put it in a cute box with a tiny little screen
    MacOS1 ran that machine, only cost 5000 bucks
    But it was slow, it was buggy, so they wrote it again
    And now they're up to OS10
    They'll charge you for the beta, then charge you again
    But the MacOS still sucks

    Every OS wastes your time, from the desktop to the lap
    Every thing since Apple DOS, just a bunch of crap
    From Microsoft to Macintosh to Lin-line-lin-line-nucs
    Every computer crashes 'cause every OS sucks

    Well then Microsoft jumped in the game
    Copied Apple's interface with an OS named
    Windows 3.1, it was twice as lame
    But the stock price rose and rose
    Then Windows 95, then 98
    Man, Solitare never ran so great
    And every single version came out late
    But I guess thats the way it goes
    But that bloatware will crash and delete your work
    And dme man none of them work
    Bill Gates may be richer than Captain Kirk
    But the Windows OS blows. And sucks. At the same time

    I'd trade it in. Yeah, right. For what?
    It's top of the line from the CompuHut
    The fridge, stove and toaster never crash on me
    I should be able to get online without a Phd
    My phone doesn't take a week to boot it
    My TV doesn't crash when I mute it
    I miss ascii text in my floppy drive
    I wish VIC 20 was still alive
    It ain't the hardware man
    It's just that every OS sucks.. and blows

    Now theres lin-ux or line-ux. I don't know how you say it
    Or how you install it or use it or play it
    Or where you download it or what programs run
    But lin-ux or line-ux don't look like much fun
    However you say it, it's getting great press
    Though how it survives is anyones guess
    If you ask me it's a great big mess
    For elitist nerdy schmucks
    "It's free" they say, if you can get it to run
    "he geeks say "Hey, thats half the fun"
    Yeah, but I've got a girlfriend and things to get done
    The Linux OS sucks. I'm sorry to say it, but it does

    Every OS wastes your time from the desktop to the lap
    Everything since the Abacus, just a bunch of crap
    From Microsoft to Macintosh to Lin-line-lin-line-nucs
    Every computer crashes cause every os sucks
    Every computer crashes cause every os sucks

  4. The bad news.... on Direct to DVD Futurama Movie · · Score: 1

    It's going to be live action.

  5. Re:OLED keyboards on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To · · Score: 2, Informative

    It would rock even more if it actually existed

  6. Re:how do you play this on How Episode IV Should Have Ended · · Score: 3, Informative

    Aww.. Ain't that cute. A newbie.

    Here you go, install the appropriate version for your OS.
    http://www.bittorrent.com/

    This will explain how the whole thing works
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent

  7. How many people... on Firefox Community Site Hacked · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How many people upon reading the headline immediatly suspected that Microsoft is behind this?

  8. Re:Only two possibilities on Independence Day for Transformers Live Action · · Score: 1

    Ok, I just read the article.

    "It will be GREAT," Murphy continued, "and then we will make sequel after sequel. There is no doubt that this is true."

    Yep, it's gonna suck.

  9. Only two possibilities on Independence Day for Transformers Live Action · · Score: 1

    This movie will either be extremly good, or extremly bad.

  10. Re:Creative Commons License on NerdTV Coming in September · · Score: 1

    What if it shows up in SCO code?

    Why should it? Nothing else does.

  11. Nerd TV on NerdTV Coming in September · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want my...

    I want my...

    I want my Nerd TV.

  12. Re:New Format on The End of a Floppy Era · · Score: 1

    Some motherboard manufacturers (like Abit) have downloadable programs that let you do this from within Windows.

  13. Re:Instead of sueing them.... on The Internet Archive Sued Over Stored Pages · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because that would be UnAmerican(tm)

  14. Re:In Fable, the bias is by Gender on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 1

    In Fable, from what I understand, the decision to only allow the player to be male had less to do with bias and more to do with ease of development. Otherwise they would have to do a whole other good/evil scale of female skins and models, not to mention accoutrements such as varieties of clothes and hairstyles. Plus, there would have to be some alternative content and dialog for the game.

    Keep in mind I am basing all this on reviews that I have read, as I have never actually played Fable

  15. Re:Female characters on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 1

    Like everyone else, the first video game character I thought of was Lara Croft. Probably unlike everyone else, I was thinking of her doing that special move when she is hanging from a platform and slowly flips herself over backward instead of simply climbing up (the only one that I've played is Tomb Raider 2).

    It wasn't until I read a few responses that I realized that you were talking about what her spine is supporting.

  16. Re:World View on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Think "Deep Space 9" Holosuite, where Sisko didn't like to use the lounge program that was set in the 1940s because the racism that was so prevelent at the time was nowhere to be found. He thought that it was insulting because the creators of the program were trying to pretend that said racism never happened.

  17. Re:So hacker gets death... on Death Penalty For Hackers? · · Score: 0

    Martha Stewart is a rich white man?

  18. Re:In related news... on The Great Firewall of China, Continued · · Score: 1

    I just flashed on an image from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure of Gengis Khan in a sporting goods store, zipping around on a skateboard and wielding a hockey stick.

  19. Re:Even a caveman can do it. on Neanderthal Genome to be Sequenced · · Score: 1

    WHAT?! Not cool!

  20. Re:Meanwhile, at the AI Clinic, bugs are tested. on Interactive Drama Prototype 'Facade' Released · · Score: 1

    You totally ripped that off Monty Python.

    Thank you Captain Obvious! I don't know what we would do without you.

  21. Good on China Signs Anti-Spam Pact · · Score: 1

    At least in China, it might be possible for spammers to get the death penalty.

  22. Circular Slide Rule here.... on When Computers Were Human · · Score: 2, Interesting
  23. Re:Far reaching aspects of this case on Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe · · Score: 1

    Given the fact that Astrology is complete garbage anyway, the destruction of this asteroid does not harm her ability to make an income. She can simply make up some crap about how some other asteroid is affecting people's personal lives.

  24. Every OS Sucks on A Glimpse at the Linux Desktop of the Future · · Score: 1

    Every OS Sucks
    By 3 Dead Trolls In A Baggie

    I come from a time in the nineteen hundred and seventies when computers where used for two things. To either go to the moon, or play pong. And nothing in between, you see, and you didn't need a fancy operating system to play pong and the men who went to the moon, god bless them, did it with no mouse and a plain text only black and white screen and thiry-two kilobytes of ram.

    But then round about the late seventies home computers started to do a little bit more than play pong. Very little more. Why, computers started to play games and balance check books. Why, you could play Zaxxon on your apple II or write a book. All with a computer that had thirty-two kilobytes of ram.

    It was enough to go to the moon, it was enough for you

    It was a golden time, a time before Windows, a time before mouses, a time before the Internet and bloatware and a time before every OS sucked

    Well way back in the olden times my computer worked for me
    I'd laugh and play all night and day on Zork One, Two and Three
    The Amiga, VIC 20 and Sinclair too, the TRS 80 and the Apple II
    They did what they where supposed to do
    It wasn't much but it was enough
    But then Xerox made a prototype
    Steve Jobs came on the scene
    Read of mice and menus, windows, icons, trash, and a bitmapped screen
    Oh, Stevie said to xerox "Boys, turn your heads and cough"
    And when no one was looking he ripped their interfaces off
    Stole every feature that he had seen
    Put it in a cute box with a tiny little screen
    MacOS1 ran that machine, only cost 5000 bucks
    But it was slow, it was buggy, so they wrote it again
    And now they're up to OS10
    They'll charge you for the beta, then charge you again
    But the MacOS still sucks

    Every OS wastes your time, from the desktop to the lap
    Every thing since Apple DOS, just a bunch of crap
    From Microsoft to Macintosh to Lin-line-lin-line-nucs
    Every computer crashes 'cause every OS sucks

    Well then Microsoft jumped in the game
    Copied Apple's interface with an OS named
    Windows 3.1, it was twice as lame
    But the stock price rose and rose
    Then Windows 95, then 98
    Man, Solitare never ran so great
    And every single version came out late
    But I guess thats the way it goes
    But that bloatware will crash and delete your work
    And dme man none of them work
    Bill Gates may be richer than Captain Kirk
    But the Windows OS blows. And sucks. At the same time

    I'd trade it in. Yeah, right. For what?
    It's top of the line from the Compuhut
    The fridge, stove and toaster never crash on me
    I should be able to get online without a Phd
    My phone doesn't take a week to boot it
    My TV doesn't crash when I mute it
    I miss ascii text in my floppy drive
    I wish VIC 20 was still alive
    It ain't the hardware man
    It's just that every OS sucks.. and blows

    Now theres lin-ux or line-ux. I don't know how you say it
    Or how you install it or use it or play it
    Or where you download it or what programs run
    But lin-ux or line-ux don't look like much fun
    However you say it, it's getting great press
    Though how it survives is anyones guess
    If you ask me it's a great big mess
    For elitist nerdy schmucks
    "It's free" they say, if you can get it to run
    "he geeks say "Hey, thats half the fun"
    Yeah, but I've got a girlfriend and things to get done
    The Linux OS sucks. I'm sorry to say it, but it does

    Every OS wastes your time from the desktop to the lap
    Everything since the Abacus, just a bunch of crap
    From Microsoft to Macintosh to Lin-line-lin-line-nucs
    Every computer crashes cause evey os sucks
    Every computer crashes cause evey os sucks

  25. Re:Freedom of Information an Inalienable human rig on 100 Million Online in China · · Score: 1

    I agree, except you should have said "There are indeed different kinds of Atheism (it varies, like religions do)"

    Atheism isn't a religion any more than baldness is a hair color.