__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Wednesday 16 August 2006 23:00 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Handover Phist
> <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:50:01 GMT
> <slrnee6q19.bmq.jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> [H]omer :
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> Now I'm a believer
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | I know I can do all that on a PC, but it's so ugly. The Mac makes it
>>>> | all easy, with maximum integration and with a supremely elegant
>>>> | operating system. And I've had to reboot twice
>>>
>>> What is "reboot"?
According to Ballmer, it's what you do when your development reaches a stage
of "development crash". "We needed to reboot (Vista/Longhorn)", he recently
said.
>> That's the campy afternoon cartoon that was on a couple of years back
>> isn't it?
>>
>
> That's the one -- and they mangled a lot of metaphors.
>
> (How could the Web be considered evil, for instance? Why
> did games manifest as purple cubes dropping from on high,
> as opposed to blue spheres, green cones, yellow doorways,
> red springy coils bouncing around, or black circles on
> the ground with a "teleport glow" effect? Why didn't the
> sysadmin guy (what *was* his name? Bill?) just carry a
> big jug of "Virus B-Gone" and just do away with the two
> resident pieces of malware? How many bad puns could one
> count per episode? How does an old sector blanking command
> interfere with a puppy's digestion, exactly? Is Dot Matrix
> related to Dot Matrix of _Spaceballs_? Does Dot have any
> other color outfits? For that matter, do any of them have
> any other color outfits? Did any of them ever use Linux?)
Your message is as clear as the storyline of The Matrix. *smile*
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