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No More Linux for You!
ravuya:
quote:Originally posted by jtpenrod:
This isn't true. Linux people tend to be more tech-savvy than the run-of-the-mill Dell customer.
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Is that ever true. If I had a penny for each time I had this conversation:
ME (talking to someone): "So I use a Mac."
SOMEONE ELSE ENTIRELY: "Macs suck!"
ME: "Well, what do you use, Mr. I'm A Fucking Genius?"
S.E.E.: "I use a Dell! It has 600 mega gigahertz! With 40 gigabytes of memory!"
ME: "Well then, I should just bow to your obvious technical superiority and let you dictate what I should purchase and use for my computing platform, then."
S.E.E.: "I told you Macs suck."
ME: "Damn, you are stupid, aren't you?"
S.E.E.: "THERE ARE NO GAMES FOR MAC!!!"
ME: "And that matters to someone like me... how?"
ORIGINAL PERSON I WAS TALKING TO: *groaning*
[ January 29, 2002: Message edited by: Ravuya ]
voidmain:
Macs Suck! just kidding...
Calum:
ha ha!
I tried to install Linux on my nice new laptop, and it wouldn't install the bloody stuff for the display, so only command line for me,
still, i tried to install win98 after that, and had about an hour trying to sort out all the peripherals. The modem, and the PC card slot were both beyond my abilities to install under win98, and after a couple of weeks trying to get the damn thing to work right, it totally failed to detect the CDRW drive at all!
so while linux sucked a bit on my new machine, windows, once agin, sucked louder and longer...
Calum:
by the way, anybody got any update on that PCs for Kids thing? i'm quite interested.
WMD:
I dug this thread up, because I think we need to be reminded of this one:
quote:Microsoft Gives Kids' Charity Cold Shoulder
The Australian charity organization PCs for Kids reacted angrily to Microsoft's attempt to prevent it from distributing obsolete copies of MS-DOS and Windows, on recycled computers, to underprivileged children. Instead, Microsoft offered to donate 150 copies of Windows 95 and 10 refurbished computers to the charity, which took the size of the donation as a slap in the face. "I am ashamed at this half-hearted offer by Microsoft," PCs for Kids founder Colin Bayes said. I'm ashamed, too. And knowing Microsoft, the Win95 copies that the company offered are probably those nonbootable versions without Internet Explorer (IE) that the company designed to meet Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling a few years ago.
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Charitable. Uh-huh. :mad:
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