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Calum:
yeah, but working around the password protection just keeps people using Microsoft stuff, what we need to do is say "fuck wasting my time cracking this piece of shit! i'm off to use some much better software that i can get for a lot less money!"

If the majority were not stupid, this is what they would do. Sadly, they constantly prove their moronity with every passing day. We shall see. Every tidal wave started out small, i suspect...

psyjax:
I am soooo glad I own a Mac. Cuz' if this thing goes thrugh, throngs of windows user's will come to Apple.

I mean, Apple has a proprietary system, yet they openly reject DRM and embrace open source, they don't spy on you, are secure, user friendly, and let you do whatever the hell you want.

M$ is the antithesis to everything that Apple stands for. Maybe I'm a zelot, but I have been a fan since I heard Steve Job's insanely great speaches as a kid  :D

willysnout:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
that's what everybody says, and that's why linux is not as widespread as it could be. M$ has such a market share that the installer and desktop need to look exactly like windows to get the morons hooked, regardless of what's going on under the hood. Of course it won't be full of spyware and all that shit, that will be the attraction.

People that find linux userfriendly these days are right, but they all took time to learn it. morons think they were born knowing how to work windows, and need something that panders to their inherent moronity.
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I remember watching an ad a couple of years ago for a dot-com company called "I Won," which was a search engine and sweepstakes combined. The commercial had this guy saying he wouldn't use I Won.com because he didn't care whether he had a chance to win $10 million. As he was saying this, he broke down laughing and blurted out, "What do you think I am, an idiot?"

When I saw that ad, I turned to the other guy in the room and said, "Now I know this dot-com stuff is full of shit. I've just been told that unless I use someone's web site I am an idiot." What a way to get customers! Insult your way to riches!

But that's what so much of the dot-coms projected on TV. These ads all had the same plot. Some 20-something kid just off a skateboard making someone older and clueless feel old and clueless. The message was, "Do things my way or you are screwed." By the way, guess who got screwed? Guess who is bankrupt? Hint: Not me.

So ... I'm not a computer hobbyist. I do other things with my life, To me, a computer is just an appliance. I'm mad at Microsoft because their appliances are harder and harder to use with each "upgrade," and they spy on me, too. But I unless I dedicate my life to Linux, then I'm a moron.

Well, here's the deal. I just bought a computer six months ago. I was on a computer-every-two-years kind of track. But the fact is half the shit they sell doesn't work. One alternative is to look for stuff that works. Another alternative is to simply drop out, i.e., forget about the hot new wireless network, forget about the upgraded Palm Pilot, forget about the new "pads" they're talking about, forget about the digital camera or the video conferencing equipment, etc.

I've pretty much been in mode #2 since "upgrading" to XP not by choice. I was hoping to find an easy and cheap way out of this mess. After cruising around this web site I realize that what I really am is a moron. Thanks, kids, have a great conversation among your superior selves. See ya ...

[ June 25, 2002: Message edited by: willysnout ]

voidmain:
Hey, he said it not me.  Kids?  Sure there are some kids on this site but many of us are at least "middle aged" and older.  I think psyjax had it right.  Since you are a moron you should have purchased something that even a moron can use.  A Mac. Maybe if you would have done a little research before making that purchase at Best Buy because that is what the kid just off the skate board sold you. Go to a Mac store and try one out.

psyjax:
Ahem... Not to say that Mac users are morons mind you... tho many windoze lusers love to think so.

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