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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: jr2 on August 11, 2007, 11:51:39 am

Title: M$: A History
Post by: jr2 on August 11, 2007, 11:51:39 am
Heh, heh...  M$: A History (http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=gxftfml57e) video.  A little drawn out, but funny.
Title: Re: M$
Post by: Fineus on August 12, 2007, 06:05:54 am
If you're going to keep posting random stuff like this, do you reckon you could give a bit of a description?
Title: Re: M$
Post by: achtung on August 13, 2007, 05:37:11 am
I want to pie Bill Gates now.
Title: Re: M$
Post by: jr2 on August 13, 2007, 05:59:35 am
If you're going to keep posting random stuff like this, do you reckon you could give a bit of a description?
  Hmm... M$, a History?  XD  OK.

I want to pie Bill Gates now.

Your wish is my command (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NU2F177V)  :lol:

EDIT: Run piebill.exe inside its own directory, it's a self-extracting archive.  then run setup.exe.  Yes, I scanned for viruses.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: M$: A History
Post by: Desert Tyrant on August 16, 2007, 12:33:08 am
Somebody remind me why people insist on using the stupid M$ thing?  What, last I checked,, companys are in fact supposed to make money.

Is this wrong?
Title: Re: M$: A History
Post by: jr2 on August 16, 2007, 01:39:25 am
Hmm.  Right.  But they aren't supposed to become competition squelching monopolies.  the $ is there to remind you that they are.  For a company that makes billions of dollars on their OS, they can't afford to get bugs fixed in a decent timeframe, if at all?  And it took Mozilla FireFox to get them to introduce tabbed browsing and a modicum of security into their browser? :ha:  Among other things....
Title: Re: M$: A History
Post by: achtung on August 26, 2007, 04:44:40 am
Hmm.  Right.  But they aren't supposed to become competition squelching monopolies.  the $ is there to remind you that they are.  For a company that makes billions of dollars on their OS, they can't afford to get bugs fixed in a decent timeframe, if at all?  And it took Mozilla FireFox to get them to introduce tabbed browsing and a modicum of security into their browser? :ha:  Among other things....

Bug fixing for windows sounds like a living hell.  You would have to check, re-check, re-check, re-check, and re-check everything you did, and make sure it was compatible with every possible configuration someone could use.  So I can see why it would take them a while to get bug fixes out.
Title: Re: M$: A History
Post by: jr2 on August 27, 2007, 01:46:30 pm
... and it takes them three weeks under pressure to admit that, yeah, there's a problem.  Don't forget, this is M$.  They have billions of dollars, and hordes of staff.  With great privilege comes great responsibility.  :p
Title: Re: M$: A History
Post by: phreak on August 27, 2007, 05:51:06 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvbWLfr-Z4s

This commercial rules, except in Nebraska
Title: Re: M$: A History
Post by: Scuddie on August 27, 2007, 09:15:25 pm
Idiots who make these kinds of videos deserve to be castrated.  They are in no way funny, and actually quite inaccurate.  Whoever thought it was funny need to get their head examined.  Not to mention the fact that every single Mac enthusiast is a bastard child of Ann Coulter and Adolf Hitler.  ****ing maccees...  They piss me off.  Oh, and lets not forget about Firefox.  Any dip**** who sees Firefox and thinks it's the best browser needs to remove themselves from the gene pool.  A very late featured browser with more memory allocation problems than an Alzheimer's patient.  Good job.  And we owe it all to a bunch of pricks over at the University of Ohio for shoving that garbage down our throats.  The idiots who praised it for being 'open source' deserve a commendation too.  Nevermind Opera was always a superior browser, and nevermind Firefox stole everything that Opera made, the University of Ohio needs to line its pockets with gold by using stupid and gullible people to do their money laundering for them!  Woh-Pah!  Lets all masturbate to Steve Jobs and the University of Ohio!

EDIT:  For some reason, I think I might be taking this a little bit too seriously.
Title: Re: M$: A History
Post by: jr2 on August 28, 2007, 01:34:29 am
Hmm.  Mayhaps the fact that FF is free software would tend to make me agree with your edit.  :p  I'll check Opera out, mayhaps you're on to something... last time I tried to get Opera, I seem to remember having problems.  Was it not freeware at one point?
Title: Re: M$: A History
Post by: Jeff Vader on August 28, 2007, 03:47:31 am
Yeah, a while back Opera had some register fee, meaning that you could use it for free but you'd see some ads on the top row or something. Paying some amount and registering it would remove the ads. They've since declared it freeware, or something, anyways meaning that it's free and you don't see any ads anymore.

Personally I like FF, because
1. It's free
2. It's safer and more reliable than IE
3. It's not loaded with God knows what when you install it, but rather you can easily install/uninstall additional features if you want to
4. In my use, it has shown every site correctly, unlike Opera that somehow messed up the HLP front page.

There, if you wanna take it outside with me, fine. Bring it on.
Title: Re: M$: A History
Post by: Scuddie on August 28, 2007, 02:07:22 pm
1.  So is opera.
2.  Again, so is Opera.
3.  Opera isn't installed with anything at all.  But I will give Firefox credit for the extensions idea.
4.  That's one advantage Firefox and IE have over Opera...  Opera doesn't render pages well that aren't correctly written.

I don't want to go outside.  It makes me have to get out of my char.  I will not be doing that today, sir.
Title: Re: M$: A History
Post by: Jeff Vader on August 28, 2007, 02:45:51 pm
3.  Opera isn't installed with anything at all.
The last time I checked, the Opera had extra features like an email client, an instant messaging client and a torrent thingie. Therefore I state that Opera is installed with something that I deem unnecessary for a browser.

I did try Opera for a while. The main points for stopping were the problems with pages, such as the HLP front page, and the feeling that Opera just isn't... like me. Unlike FF. You seemed to state that Firefox has ripped almost everything from Opera and I have to say that it suits my personality quite well. Don't reinvent the wheel; wait for someone to do it and then snatch the idea. Yeah.