Stop Microsoft

Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: slave on 30 October 2002, 08:37

Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: slave on 30 October 2002, 08:37
Pick one

Apple Computer
Red Hat
Sun Microsystems
Microsoft (yeah, I know, but I threw it in here just for kicks)
SuSE
IBM
AOL
AMD
Ximian
Lindows

[ October 29, 2002: Message edited by: Windows XP User #5225982375 ]

Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: voidmain on 30 October 2002, 08:40
Hooters.
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 30 October 2002, 08:48
quote:
Originally posted by void main:
Hooters.


I second that!

NOBODY GOES TO HOOTERS FOR WINGS    :D  
-Chris Rock

[ October 29, 2002: Message edited by: The_Muffin_Man/B0b ]

Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: slave on 30 October 2002, 08:58
If you're going to vote based on sex, why not vote for Microsoft, seeing that Steve Ballmer is so incredibly hot.  I'm sure you've seen him in those videos, strutting around in a wet shirt and shouting "Devlopers! Developers! Developers! Developers!  AGGgh!" How can that not turn you on?
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: psyjax on 30 October 2002, 21:00
Apple
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: Kintaro on 30 October 2002, 21:00
This is in preference order

Red-Hat
Apple Computer

You can download Microsoft best product, Windows .NET from www.windotnet.tk (http://www.windotnet.tk)
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: Kintaro on 30 October 2002, 21:08
quote:
Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
If you're going to vote based on sex, why not vote for Microsoft, seeing that Steve Ballmer is so incredibly hot.  I'm sure you've seen him in those videos, strutting around in a wet shirt and shouting "Devlopers! Developers! Developers! Developers!  AGGgh!" How can that not turn you on?


Because unlike you we tend to prefer Pictures like this:
http://www.akgames.net:8000/Downloads/Files/Personal/LinuxChicks/linux.jpg (http://www.akgames.net:8000/Downloads/Files/Personal/LinuxChicks/linux.jpg)
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: hm_murdock on 30 October 2002, 21:25
Old school (pre Jobs) Apple, and Be were friendly to everyone ('cos they were pretty much the same people). Palm, before they forgot about innovation and started copying everyone else.

Old school Apple made some wierd decicions, but they didn't turn a blind eye to users. Their design and marketing decisions seemed as though they were a healthy combo of "good business sense" and "quality for the users". They had inexpensive Macs that were below the price of the cheapest PCs, but had comparable specs and features (Classic, Color Classic, Performa 500s), and they had high-end workstations that offered unique features (Quadra 840av, Power Mac 8600/9600), unique products that nobody else was brave enough to create (Newton, the eMate, and innumerable others). But they were stagnant in marketing. I think their products were best in the early 1990s, near the end of the 68k era and the beginning of the Power Macs. Now all Macs are really just the same computer in different shapes. There's no uniqueness to features... and they're all expensive as fuck.

New Apple under Jobs seems to be Hell-bent on this vision of his... whatever it may be. It's pretty vaporous if you ask me.
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: psyjax on 30 October 2002, 21:35
Im a Job's-ite

Even if he runs Apple into the ground, It's really his company, he made it, he loves it, it's his. And that's why I respect him.
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: Chooco on 30 October 2002, 21:36
AMD.
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: voidmain on 30 October 2002, 21:58
quote:
Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
If you're going to vote based on sex, why not vote for Microsoft, seeing that Steve Ballmer is so incredibly hot.  I'm sure you've seen him in those videos, strutting around in a wet shirt and shouting "Devlopers! Developers! Developers! Developers!  AGGgh!" How can that not turn you on?


Heh heh, if I had to vote for a major computer company based on sex I suppose it would be HP. That CEO is a real hottie for an older lady (probably my age).

[edit]Just looked up her age, she's too old for me. I suppose I could make a sacrifice if she gave me a decent allowance.[/edit]

[ October 30, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: Kintaro on 30 October 2002, 10:03
And she rich voidmain, so go forth, and live your dream.

Personally Sarah Jane is da best (And Australian)
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: Fett101 on 30 October 2002, 12:26
MS. I grew up screwing around with 3.1, and since then using the OS has become second nature.

That and I have a hard time adjusting to Linux whenever I use it. Also, the penguin scares me. Lookit the hardened criminals that those things turn into.

(http://home.midsouth.rr.com/fett101/feathers.jpg)

[ October 30, 2002: Message edited by: fett101 ]

Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: voidmain on 30 October 2002, 13:46
quote:
Originally posted by fett101:
Also, the penguin scares me. Lookit the hardened criminals that those things turn into.


Yeah, they have a hard time buying their way out of federal criminal cases like Microsoft does.
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: aapl on 30 October 2002, 14:01
Apple taught me how to date differntly, drink differentbly, preside over the usa differrentabbly.

Barbera gave SJ a BJ the last time he was in Austin.
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: creedon on 30 October 2002, 20:05
DEBIAN!!  (BTW, how's that Deb install doing, WXP?)
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: Master of Reality on 30 October 2002, 20:54
quote:
Originally posted by creedon:
DEBIAN!!  (BTW, how's that Deb install doing, WXP?)

there is no real debian company, is there??
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: creedon on 30 October 2002, 21:04
quote:
Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0B:

there is no real debian company, is there??
Kind of; it's more of a central authority, but I think that it is incorporated under U.S. laws (and possibly in other countries as well).  I've never really looked at that aspect, it might be interesting to see what the structure is.
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: Master of Reality on 30 October 2002, 21:07
quote:
Originally posted by void main:
Hooters.


[ October 30, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0B ]

Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: SpaceMonkey on 30 October 2002, 23:43
i do not base my feelings on companies its a vetter idea to evaluate each indivdual product. As consumers our role is to compare and contrast but not on companies on a whole. if that were so then microsoft would already own us.
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: voidmain on 31 October 2002, 00:02
quote:
Originally posted by aapl:
Apple taught me how to date differntly, drink differentbly, preside over the usa differrentabbly.


And how to spell different.
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: Refalm on 31 October 2002, 00:13
quote:
Chooco: AMD.


AMD used to be cool... until they joined Bill Gates' TCPA crap  :(

VIA C3 or IBM Cyrix is the best choice, if you want to go x86 now days...
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: MacUser3of5 on 31 October 2002, 04:26
All of them suck.

Apple's stuff (pcs) are too expensive and slow. Plus, Jobs killed the Newton, and Beezelbub must give him a special spot in Hell for that.

Sun? HAHAHAHAHA. Whatever. Scott McNealy is an ass, bitching about MS all the fucking time in conferences, etc. (MacUser3of5 is an ex-shareholder, and quite bitter  ;)  ).

Microsoft? No comment needed. Just another lame company, although they are the biggest lame company, so I guess they get a prize.

Redhat? Couldn't care. I guess not caring is better than spite, or something...

Suse/Ximian/IBM? See above.

AOL? *cough*slow as shit*cough*

AMD? Eh. See Redhat.

Lindows!?! Only a moron could actually like Lindows. May it burn in Hell.

Basically, all companies suck, and I have no warm feelings toward any of them whatsoever. Generally speaking though, Apple Sucks Less™
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: hm_murdock on 31 October 2002, 21:45
Apple needs to drop prices of their stuff. Sure, it's nice, and it *might* be worth more... but for the love of God, a 700MHz iBook with shitty 128MB of RAM and a puny 30GB drive for $1500? WTF?!?!

I love OS X, but not enough that I couldn't switch to Red Hat 8 or Lycoris if it came down to it.
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: alex247 on 31 October 2002, 10:17
quote:
Originally posted by Chooco:
AMD.



I second that  (http://smile.gif)
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: Kintaro on 31 October 2002, 10:19
Red-Hat 8.0 Kicks ass!!!

Other Companys/Orgs i like:
www.msproblem.tk (http://www.msproblem.tk)
www.exeleven.tk (http://www.exeleven.tk)
www.bobcult.tk (http://www.bobcult.tk)
(All dead above until Server fixed!)
www.bobs.tk (http://www.bobs.tk)
www.bobhub.tk (http://www.bobhub.tk)
www.cultofbob.tk (http://www.cultofbob.tk) (Also no longer working)
www.windotnet.tk (http://www.windotnet.tk)
www.getnewos.cjb.net (http://www.getnewos.cjb.net)
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: MacUser3of5 on 31 October 2002, 20:35
Wow, that was pretty mastubatory/self-pimping, eh?  ;)
Title: Which company do you have the warmest feelings for?
Post by: Calum on 31 October 2002, 22:49
i vote for DARPA.