Computers are evil
MeTheSheeple's laptop just got a bonafide Blue Screen Of Death, something rare on Windows XP. The crash came as he finished reading a book in a record 2:20 and decided to take a break. The break came with a buggy game with massive memory problems (Red Orchestra: Ostfront) combined with a buggy Web browser with massive memory problems (Firefox, with extensions including Forecast Fox).
This'd normally be the time some jackass steps in to levy the usual bullshit about "This is better" or "That company is evil." You know the one -- like when the Mac guys supporting an abusive monopoly rail against the abusive monopoly of Microsoft. Then the Linux/open-source guys do the same -- forgetting, of course, that Firefox is largely responsible for this.
Almost no one argues the absolute truth: Computers are evil.
Yeah, they let us get work done. But they're also evil.
Fortunately, they're slowly becoming less evil. Years ago, MeTheSheeple bought a computer with NT 4.0 on it. The computer crashed every _12 minutes_ with all sorts of weird colors on the screen, making him think it was a video problem. Turned out to be a mouse driver -- and for a Microsoft mouse, if memory serves. Once the mouse driver was updated, the computer only crashed, on average, every 75-90 minutes. The answer was in Windows Millenium Edition, which everyone else thought was too buggy to use. Are we better in 2006? Yeah. Are computers still evil? Hell yeah.
This'd normally be the time some jackass steps in to levy the usual bullshit about "This is better" or "That company is evil." You know the one -- like when the Mac guys supporting an abusive monopoly rail against the abusive monopoly of Microsoft. Then the Linux/open-source guys do the same -- forgetting, of course, that Firefox is largely responsible for this.
Almost no one argues the absolute truth: Computers are evil.
Yeah, they let us get work done. But they're also evil.
Fortunately, they're slowly becoming less evil. Years ago, MeTheSheeple bought a computer with NT 4.0 on it. The computer crashed every _12 minutes_ with all sorts of weird colors on the screen, making him think it was a video problem. Turned out to be a mouse driver -- and for a Microsoft mouse, if memory serves. Once the mouse driver was updated, the computer only crashed, on average, every 75-90 minutes. The answer was in Windows Millenium Edition, which everyone else thought was too buggy to use. Are we better in 2006? Yeah. Are computers still evil? Hell yeah.
posted by MeTheSheeple at 3:12 PM
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That's why I sing...
"Every OS sucks"
http://www.deadtroll.com/index2.html?/video/ossuckscable.html~content
- Anonymous Rod
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