Here's the method for crashing Windows, even Win2K.
1) Go to the Start Menu 2) Open any application 3) Commence enjoyment, or proceed to make progess on something important 4) Do not save anything
With this easy method, a blue screen of death is immenent. It really helps if you're working on a VERY VERY important project, like something due tomorrow. That'll bring non-stop blue screens!
The real people who buy their products the most are the geeks who have to have everything from the first day something comes out...and the grannies and grandpas who think that MS is telling the truth in the ads, so if they upgrade now, they can run the Interweb faster by loading a bigger OS that takes up more RAM, requires more hard drive space, and a faster processor than their current one.
You make a good point, but I don't think making yourself out to be a Frenchie-Canuck is cool.
Not that this matters. Way offtopic now. Put your dollar signs in front, like a good patriotic American. Or the FBI will come after you for being part of some terrorist plot to undermine our dialectic syntax (or lack thereof).
Movie would've been better, IMHO, if they went back and did an Agent K and Agent L (Remember the woman from Being John Malkovich, the coroner chick?) thing.
I think it would've turned out more interesting that way, but then again, probably not.
Yeah, I think it'll be the first college class in history that will be packed wall-to-wall with people ready to diss the instructor.
The class aptly listened to Prof. Romero. At the end of class, chuckles ensued as the student, who asked the most questions and seemed the most active, just smiled and crammed a pie in Romero's face.
If you've never been to an anime convention, I can see people thinking that that anime is not a nerdy thing.
But if you have, and once you pass the 3rd guy in a Sailor Moon outfit and the 6th 40+ guy dressed in Shinji's plug suit and then the 12 "rotund" guys wearing the overstretched "NERV" shirt (and the various knockoffs: "NARC", "NERD", etc.) and eating hoagies off their chests...
Then you have learned the meaning of "Nerd". Anime cons are the definition of Nerdvana, proving that all your previous conceptions of the word "obsessed" were wayyyyy too short-sighted.
Look at the top of your page when you go to Slashdot each day. Note it doesn't say "News for Computers. Stuff that matters.", nor does it say "News for Linux. Stuff that matters."
"News for NERDS. Stuff that matters."
Now please, open your Half-life console and type in "/stfu"
Also, don't overlook places like a Philipino Convienience Store near my house. They rent serious H-K live action, kung fu, anime and have Pocky at cut-rate compared to other places I've seen.
Find one near your house and become friends with the owner. Then you're set.
"I may not mind getting a Mac, but please don't force me into it."
Just think if the world was the other way, with Windows with the small, but growing market share, and Mac OS getting besieged by Linux and Windows!
We'd see quotes: "I may not mind getting a Wintel, but please don't force me into it."
Thanks to some of the more manipulative techniques and basically piracy on MS's part, you ended up initially buying a Wintel, because of previous market pressures. Now, it's the other way and Apple is evil because of it?
Honestly, if you don't think MS is shady...then I have no hope for you.
I agree with the last guy. Everyone who uses Windows because they like it better the all the other OS's out there must be the same guys who're surfing the interweb.
>i wonder if stuff like this is filed into the memory of bill gates when he negotiates with apple? it could be on a list of reasons to discontinue ms office, or IE (no great loss that one).
::rolls around on the floor laughing for hours before composing himself to write a post:: Okay, anyway, get real. Mac software sales is more profitable for Bill Gates than most of his other departments. Sure it doesn't beat the Windows Office department, but Mac Office was a girl with expensive tastes. If he felt like dropping Mac Office on a whim, he wouldn't dedicate massive human and financial resources to the Macintosh on a yearly basis.
You say "no great loss", but the great loss comes out to be about 20-30% of MS's yearly profits.
Point of the matter: Microsoft ain't ditching Mac. Really. Gates ain't stupid. He knows Macs have slower obsolescence than PCs and Mac users will not buy into a company that destroyed their favorite machines. Killing Mac by ending development will send the die-hard Mac guys (some of which are already toying with PPC distros of Linux) to Linux.
CSPAN! Erk. Wait, if you're able to watch CSPAN for more than 10 minutes without a terminal brain shutdown, then you CSPAN is the only place you'll find it, I think, but most likely, the proceedings will make watching paint dry seem as exciting as finding out you just won the $300 million lottery, just after Ed McMahon gave you a check before the Publisher's clearing house van pulled up on your front lawn and hooked you doubly.
Also, if you look at Mac users, there's no prob. You see how they can do stuff. Installing a program usually is little more than extracting a folder. SOMETIMES, you have to extract a couple of files into the System Folder.
But you want to uninstall? Delete the folder and you're done, unless you've made the program a startup item, and that's easy to nix, too.
Registry is not necessary anymore. It's stupid to keep it, except for copy protection.
And they were sued by Bob Dylan when they codenamed one of their projects after him, and same when the Code-Named the Power-Mac 7100 series "Carl Sagan", you bet it caused a lawsuit for no reason, seeing as it was(at the time) a project to create the high-end of a new, cutting-edge product line, and he didn't want his name associated with that, despite the fact that codenames are not used in product market, except by the "Mac Cult".
The funny part is that he won, so they had to change the code name...to "Butt-Headed Astronomer". After he sued again, he lost, but Apple changed it to "Lawyers Are Wimps". The final architecture is referred to by Apple and Apple fans as the "BHA/LAW" architecture.
And the 8100 is called the "Cold Fusion" architecture. Just a tie-in.
Another fun fact is that it's always the same companies bullying people. You won't see a surfing company called "Tide Ryders" getting sued for infringement against a popular laundry detergent or by a popular rap group.
Another perfect market is the same market that burns money on Pre-paid as it is. Stupid Teenagers under 18(not necessarily all teenagers, just the dull ones). People who feel the need to be connected to their "friends" all the time.
About the pollution, who's to say there won't be a place designated to dump the stupid things off so they could be re-used, like those disposable cameras get recycled when you develop the photos.
Rights, yes, but at what price? EU wants to create one Europe without nations...meaning an end to individuality. The last group that tried to unify nations on a large scale under one government was...
Maybe they'll go Co$ and establish a new religeon around the almighty EULA and the new report
You'll have to pay for copies of both, and then you'll sell them to others to ensure that the Church of MicroNtelSoft doesn't get your first-born before you can go on a mission to kill Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds.
"Actually AMD is trying to establish a series of testing criteria that will allow us to rate cpu's by means other than performance... Some fo the other chip makers have hinted they may at some point support the idea."
Uh-huh. The only thing is that once it IS established...they'll "work the system" like they do now with GHz. So, you'll see over-inflated benchmark results, and the consumer will still be confused and buy the brand name he/she hears the most(Which'll be either Dell or Compaq...::shiver::).
The only thing that can fight ignorance is education, and educated sales personnel at computer stores would be a plus, but that's one hell of a pipe dream. At CompUSA, most people are well educated, but the issue is when the smart consumers meets the smart salesmen, but "Ma & Pa" get the dumbass "Mr. Greed" who's busy pimping Compaq for his spiff.
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Mmmmmm...DOS...
::drools on keyboard::
DOS....
You must no be trying hard enough.
Here's the method for crashing Windows, even Win2K.
1) Go to the Start Menu
2) Open any application
3) Commence enjoyment, or proceed to make progess on something important
4) Do not save anything
With this easy method, a blue screen of death is immenent. It really helps if you're working on a VERY VERY important project, like something due tomorrow. That'll bring non-stop blue screens!
The real people who buy their products the most are the geeks who have to have everything from the first day something comes out...and the grannies and grandpas who think that MS is telling the truth in the ads, so if they upgrade now, they can run the Interweb faster by loading a bigger OS that takes up more RAM, requires more hard drive space, and a faster processor than their current one.
You make a good point, but I don't think making yourself out to be a Frenchie-Canuck is cool.
Not that this matters. Way offtopic now. Put your dollar signs in front, like a good patriotic American. Or the FBI will come after you for being part of some terrorist plot to undermine our dialectic syntax (or lack thereof).
Movie would've been better, IMHO, if they went back and did an Agent K and Agent L (Remember the woman from Being John Malkovich, the coroner chick?) thing.
I think it would've turned out more interesting that way, but then again, probably not.
Yeah, I think it'll be the first college class in history that will be packed wall-to-wall with people ready to diss the instructor.
The class aptly listened to Prof. Romero. At the end of class, chuckles ensued as the student, who asked the most questions and seemed the most active, just smiled and crammed a pie in Romero's face.
The End.
Or, "Class ends: ?"
A comedian said that when you ever see an invitation and it says "9 to ?", it's usually over by 9:15.
I think Romero will run out of things to say sooner than that. Then he'll try to make jokes.
If you've never been to an anime convention, I can see people thinking that that anime is not a nerdy thing.
But if you have, and once you pass the 3rd guy in a Sailor Moon outfit and the 6th 40+ guy dressed in Shinji's plug suit and then the 12 "rotund" guys wearing the overstretched "NERV" shirt (and the various knockoffs: "NARC", "NERD", etc.) and eating hoagies off their chests...
Then you have learned the meaning of "Nerd". Anime cons are the definition of Nerdvana, proving that all your previous conceptions of the word "obsessed" were wayyyyy too short-sighted.
Look at the top of your page when you go to Slashdot each day. Note it doesn't say "News for Computers. Stuff that matters.", nor does it say "News for Linux. Stuff that matters."
"News for NERDS. Stuff that matters."
Now please, open your Half-life console and type in "/stfu"
I learned my Japanese from hentai. I should've been at that party to liven things up. :)
Hentai is anime without the sexual tension.
Also, don't overlook places like a Philipino Convienience Store near my house. They rent serious H-K live action, kung fu, anime and have Pocky at cut-rate compared to other places I've seen.
Find one near your house and become friends with the owner. Then you're set.
"I may not mind getting a Mac, but please don't force me into it."
Just think if the world was the other way, with Windows with the small, but growing market share, and Mac OS getting besieged by Linux and Windows!
We'd see quotes: "I may not mind getting a Wintel, but please don't force me into it."
Thanks to some of the more manipulative techniques and basically piracy on MS's part, you ended up initially buying a Wintel, because of previous market pressures. Now, it's the other way and Apple is evil because of it?
Honestly, if you don't think MS is shady...then I have no hope for you.
I agree with the last guy. Everyone who uses Windows because they like it better the all the other OS's out there must be the same guys who're surfing the interweb.
>i wonder if stuff like this is filed into the memory of bill gates when he negotiates with apple? it could be on a list of reasons to discontinue ms office, or IE (no great loss that one).
::rolls around on the floor laughing for hours before composing himself to write a post::
Okay, anyway, get real. Mac software sales is more profitable for Bill Gates than most of his other departments. Sure it doesn't beat the Windows Office department, but Mac Office was a girl with expensive tastes. If he felt like dropping Mac Office on a whim, he wouldn't dedicate massive human and financial resources to the Macintosh on a yearly basis.
You say "no great loss", but the great loss comes out to be about 20-30% of MS's yearly profits.
Point of the matter: Microsoft ain't ditching Mac. Really. Gates ain't stupid. He knows Macs have slower obsolescence than PCs and Mac users will not buy into a company that destroyed their favorite machines. Killing Mac by ending development will send the die-hard Mac guys (some of which are already toying with PPC distros of Linux) to Linux.
Then you'd have what I call a "Bad Day"
CSPAN! Erk. Wait, if you're able to watch CSPAN for more than 10 minutes without a terminal brain shutdown, then you
CSPAN is the only place you'll find it, I think, but most likely, the proceedings will make watching paint dry seem as exciting as finding out you just won the $300 million lottery, just after Ed McMahon gave you a check before the Publisher's clearing house van pulled up on your front lawn and hooked you doubly.
Also, if you look at Mac users, there's no prob. You see how they can do stuff. Installing a program usually is little more than extracting a folder. SOMETIMES, you have to extract a couple of files into the System Folder.
But you want to uninstall? Delete the folder and you're done, unless you've made the program a startup item, and that's easy to nix, too.
Registry is not necessary anymore. It's stupid to keep it, except for copy protection.
realonesucks@blowme.org eatmebillgates@homosoft.com linusisgod@ph33rm3.net MSiscool@gayn00b.org DMCA@fullofshite.com (Just some ideas) :)
Long live Cold Fusion!
The funny part is that he won, so they had to change the code name...to "Butt-Headed Astronomer". After he sued again, he lost, but Apple changed it to "Lawyers Are Wimps". The final architecture is referred to by Apple and Apple fans as the "BHA/LAW" architecture.
And the 8100 is called the "Cold Fusion" architecture. Just a tie-in.
Another fun fact is that it's always the same companies bullying people. You won't see a surfing company called "Tide Ryders" getting sued for infringement against a popular laundry detergent or by a popular rap group.
About the pollution, who's to say there won't be a place designated to dump the stupid things off so they could be re-used, like those disposable cameras get recycled when you develop the photos.
THE SOVIET UNION!
CompUSA Potomac Mills. Store #661. :) Region 3, I believe.
Enron. Arthur Andersen.
Nuff Said.
You'll have to pay for copies of both, and then you'll sell them to others to ensure that the Church of MicroNtelSoft doesn't get your first-born before you can go on a mission to kill Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds.
Uh-huh. The only thing is that once it IS established...they'll "work the system" like they do now with GHz. So, you'll see over-inflated benchmark results, and the consumer will still be confused and buy the brand name he/she hears the most(Which'll be either Dell or Compaq...::shiver::).
The only thing that can fight ignorance is education, and educated sales personnel at computer stores would be a plus, but that's one hell of a pipe dream. At CompUSA, most people are well educated, but the issue is when the smart consumers meets the smart salesmen, but "Ma & Pa" get the dumbass "Mr. Greed" who's busy pimping Compaq for his spiff.