How do you even pronounce something like that? "Two" doesn't sound like the letter "O" nor does it look like one. Isn't "2" supposed to replace the letter "Z" or something?
Can someone with a major in L337-sp34k explain it?
To all the morons who think I'm trolling: get a clue.
Yes, "From my point of view" wasn't the best way to describe my position. But I did rectify my position in replies below, which also got modded "troll".
I should have said "from the point of view of home users".
IBM is as irrelevant to home users as Komatsu motors or Caterpillar. That doesn't mean that these companies are useless, it means that home users don't have their products in their homes.
So what? That's got nothing to do with what I said: home users.
Of course we're going to "use" IBM hardware, but we don't own it, we don't have to buy it, we don't have to wonder how it works. companies are using IBM hardware/software, not home users (unless you run OS/2 on an IBM-branded PC, which is probably even less likely, as a home setup, as an Irix workstation).
Yes I know that's not old. Even if you were only 20 years older than me that means nothing in computer terms. We used the same computers, we have more or less the same knowledge.
Even if you were 50 years older than me, it doesn't mean much since the first personal computers were sold around 1975 (too tired to check actual year/computer models).
I said "more than", which means you're still young. And we're talking about the computing field here, where a decade is extremely long and a lot can happen.
If you didn't start using computers before MS-DOS, you're still very young.
Mr. Burns: Smithers I'm thinking about donating some money to the orphanage... when pigs fly! (Smithers and Burns both laughing) (Homer's BBQ pig flies past the window) Smithers: Will you be making that donation now, sir? Mr. Burns: Eh, I'd rather not.
Even if they finally turned around and will finally work with everyone else with no dark agenda for the future, old-timers like me (i.e. more than 25-30 years old) will not trust them until they have really proven themselves.
Their most recent move was the OOXML fiasco, so you can understand my skepticism.
Yes, I'm a subscriber and a fast reader (but not a "he").
Nerd #1: Hello? Are there any girls in this room at all?
Nerd #2: Yeah, bring on the hot chicks 'cause I'm a hot stud.
Nerd #3: Yeah! So are we!
[Leela pushes her way to the centre of the crowd.]
Leela: I'm a woman, if that's what you mean. [The nerds gasp.] I don't like to play games, so I'll just say I'm a cyclops, I'm a spaceship captain, I'm the only one of my species and I'm interested in meeting a man.
Nothing prevents you from covering your wireless headset with your hand while talking. I guess that would make you look a bit less like Nerdutis of Borg.
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You have my vote for "Tron 10". Write is as such but say "Tron 2" when speaking it out loud.
Would confuse the hell of out of people. :D
Well at least if you pronounce that it sounds a bit like "two-ron", pretty close to "T-ron". Closer than "Tr2n" anyway.
I see there's no point in trying to argue facts with people around here.
How do you even pronounce something like that? "Two" doesn't sound like the letter "O" nor does it look like one. Isn't "2" supposed to replace the letter "Z" or something?
Can someone with a major in L337-sp34k explain it?
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan
To all the morons who think I'm trolling: get a clue.
Yes, "From my point of view" wasn't the best way to describe my position. But I did rectify my position in replies below, which also got modded "troll".
I should have said "from the point of view of home users".
IBM is as irrelevant to home users as Komatsu motors or Caterpillar. That doesn't mean that these companies are useless, it means that home users don't have their products in their homes.
It's more than obvious that home users do NOT have IBM-branded hardware or software in their homes.
Just because I say "IBM is irrelevant to home users" doesn't mean "IBM is useless and nobody uses IBM anymore at the corporate level".
IBM is as irrelevant to home users as Nintendo is irrelevant at the corporate level. How difficult is that to understand?!
So what? That's got nothing to do with what I said: home users.
Of course we're going to "use" IBM hardware, but we don't own it, we don't have to buy it, we don't have to wonder how it works. companies are using IBM hardware/software, not home users (unless you run OS/2 on an IBM-branded PC, which is probably even less likely, as a home setup, as an Irix workstation).
Damn you pentium, you win again!
I said "my point of view". I don't care if IBM are the biggest Linux vendors of the universe, I don't see anything labeled "IBM" in my computer room.
Regular people don't use IBM products, even if companies do. And that's my point. One day, Microsoft might become as irrelevant to home users as IBM.
Yes I know that's not old. Even if you were only 20 years older than me that means nothing in computer terms. We used the same computers, we have more or less the same knowledge.
Even if you were 50 years older than me, it doesn't mean much since the first personal computers were sold around 1975 (too tired to check actual year/computer models).
Actually from my point of view IBM is no longer relevant. If that's the path Microsoft is now following, then by all means, let them go there.
I said "more than", which means you're still young. And we're talking about the computing field here, where a decade is extremely long and a lot can happen.
If you didn't start using computers before MS-DOS, you're still very young.
Mr. Burns: Smithers I'm thinking about donating some money to the orphanage... when pigs fly!
(Smithers and Burns both laughing)
(Homer's BBQ pig flies past the window)
Smithers: Will you be making that donation now, sir?
Mr. Burns: Eh, I'd rather not.
Even if they finally turned around and will finally work with everyone else with no dark agenda for the future, old-timers like me (i.e. more than 25-30 years old) will not trust them until they have really proven themselves.
Their most recent move was the OOXML fiasco, so you can understand my skepticism.
Hey mi, thanks for making Spider-Man laugh.
I didn't know Zaphod Beeblebrox read slashdot.
Nerd #1: Hello? Are there any girls in this room at all?
Nerd #2: Yeah, bring on the hot chicks 'cause I'm a hot stud.
Nerd #3: Yeah! So are we!
[Leela pushes her way to the centre of the crowd.]
Leela: I'm a woman, if that's what you mean. [The nerds gasp.] I don't like to play games, so I'll just say I'm a cyclops, I'm a spaceship captain, I'm the only one of my species and I'm interested in meeting a man.
Nerd #4: A woman! I'm scared.
He's a doctor, not a dictation machine.
So.... how long did it take before you banned yourself?
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I didn't know Professor Farnsworth was a slashdot reader.
If people drove on my lawn I'd be pissed off too,
Nothing prevents you from covering your wireless headset with your hand while talking. I guess that would make you look a bit less like Nerdutis of Borg.