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Intelligence of the Average Windows User
« on: 24 May 2005, 02:52 »
Illustrated here.
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Re: Intelligence of the Average Windows User
« Reply #1 on: 24 May 2005, 03:49 »
*nix doesn't ever say press any key?
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Re: Intelligence of the Average Windows User
« Reply #2 on: 24 May 2005, 04:17 »
Hehe. That's a good one. I bet whoever was tasked with typing in that KB entry had a hard time keeping a straight face.

Windows has nothing to do with it though.
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Re: Intelligence of the Average Windows User
« Reply #3 on: 24 May 2005, 06:10 »
This is new to you guys?  Wow, this has been around for years.  It is, however, a pure classic.

In second place: "Keyboard error, press F1 to continue" :thumbup:
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Re: Intelligence of the Average Windows User
« Reply #4 on: 24 May 2005, 06:39 »
No, I've heard the 'any ley' joke before. It've just never seen it in an official FAQ.
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Re: Intelligence of the Average Windows User
« Reply #5 on: 24 May 2005, 07:03 »
While I have to agree its funny that its in an FAQ, it is incorrect for two reasons to state its applys to windows users entirly (Did I just say that? lol)

1. Not all windows users are dumb. I'm sure my hero Stephen Hawking has used windows at some point, true its prob not his main OS. I don't even hold it against them if they have a reason. I personally know many scientists with very high IQs who use only windows. I have also seen propriatery software required for the operation of machines such as Atomic Mass Spectrometers,that only runs on DOS/Windows.

2. HP/Compaq does not just manufacture PC's that run windows, they also have Alpha workstations and servers running a form of UNIX
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Re: Intelligence of the Average Windows User
« Reply #6 on: 24 May 2005, 08:19 »
Quote from: BobTheHob
2. HP/Compaq does not just manufacture PC's that run windows, they also have Alpha workstations and servers running a form of UNIX

We are an HP shop where I work. We have an old HP 3000 thats runs some old antiquated HP OS (not Unix), and a newer HP 9000 which runs HP/UX 10.x. I'm not a big fan of HP/UX as it is rather antiquated...it runs a version of sendmail that belongs in a frikken museum - but the boxes are pretty darn reliable.

All of our x86 servers are HP NetServers. We're getting this badboy any day now to replace an aging HP LH6000.
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Re: Intelligence of the Average Windows User
« Reply #7 on: 24 May 2005, 12:44 »
Get back to me when you find the same question in Apple's knowledge base, or asked on a Linux or BSD forum.

This isn't a punditry game, it's just fact.  Someone who made a conscious decision to not run a mainstream OS is generally going to be a bit more intelligent, or at the very least more educated.  Someone who took the time to try 5 different Linux distributions, or pay a bit extra for a Mac (pre mini era, anyway) put some thought into how he/she uses their computer, and isn't going to ask "where is the any key?"

HP/Comaq does sell non-windows machines, but I think you'd be fooling yourselves to think its UNIX/VMS audience is who this is directed to.

BTW, IQ is a horrible measure of intelligence.
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Re: Intelligence of the Average Windows User
« Reply #8 on: 24 May 2005, 19:49 »
:thumbup: I agree with everything you've said, it's quite funney.

One of my sister's friends thought that the operating system deturmined the speed of a computer, she said "My computer's faster better than the ones at school because I have Windows XP and they only have Windows 2000" :D I laughed and briefly explained  the concept of an operating system to her and showed how much faster my computer became when I booted to Vector Linux. :D
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Re: Intelligence of the Average Windows User
« Reply #9 on: 20 June 2005, 09:29 »
Are you sure a hacker wasn't inolved?

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Re: Intelligence of the Average Windows User
« Reply #10 on: 20 June 2005, 11:43 »
Why do stupid threads have to be resurrected?
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Re: Intelligence of the Average Windows User
« Reply #11 on: 20 June 2005, 17:48 »
So stupid users have aught to bitch about.
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