Will Linux takeover Microsoft?

Nick Parker

Lost User

:laugh: Excellent! :-D Now all they need is random crashing 5 times an hour ;P Paul ;)

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realJSOP

You thinkthe crashes are random? They're actually very carefully timed to occur at a time at which the user is likely to lose the largest portion (and most critical part) of his work. In fact, the crashes also depend on fuzzy logic to determine at which point said data is least likely to be recoverable from a .bak file or backup media. Nothing is random. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 "You won't like me when I'm angry..." - Dr. Bruce Banner Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends

Lost User

if (openDocs > 5) { Crash(); } else { Freeze(5); } Paul ;)

Garfield.Bark(); **---Configuration: garfield - Win32 Deworm---** C:\garfield.cpp(9) : error C2039: 'Bark' : is not a member of 'CCat'

Navin

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Nothing is random. The generation of random numbers is too important to be left up to chance. "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein

nssone

That reminds me of this: GM replies to Bill Gates At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "if GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued the following press release - If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics - 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 5. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought "car NT", but then you would have to buy more seats. 6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would only run on five percent of the roads. 7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light. 10. The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before deploying. 11. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. 12. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the cars performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept. 13. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 14. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. <--Signature begins here--> I am... Currently: A Programming Student/Intern. Working on an outside project: A game for t

Chris Meech

Reminds me of this gem. Events that occur randomly are completely predictable. Chris Meech "what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002. Oh and for those that ask programming questions in the lounge. Seek the truth here[^].

Jorgen Sigvardsson

I want a pink screen of death. :(( -- Serial killers don't kill their boyfriends.

Lost User

:laugh: [edit] I seem to recall reading somewhere that the colour can be changed :) [/edit] Paul ;)

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peterchen

Cute... Although it would have been funny back in 1999, but now it#s just... outdated.

"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
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John M Drescher

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Thanks. The funny thing is that I remember this happening (plug & play scanner causing a blue screen) when Bill Gates was giving a demo for Win98 (I think)... John

Shog9 0

...but as much fun as an "all Bück Dich, all the time" nightclub must be, you may want to try a few others now and then, just to mix it up a bit... :rolleyes:

Shog9

Let your mercy spill / On all these burning hearts in hell If it be your will / To make us well...

keegan

Now i've definately done my fair share, but why does everyone always insult bill gates for writing an imperfect operating system. If you think you could do better, why do you have your salary, and not his? *.* cin >> knowledge;

Vikram A Punathambekar

Sorry, we don't have pink. Would you like red? Gray? Magenta? Or any of a dozen other colors? Vikram.

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Navin

I think it's some sort of registry option, but I think it only works on 95/98/Me. "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein

Vikram A Punathambekar

Having been around for nearly a year, I've noticed: You, Paul Watson and I seem to be the only ones who change the subject field when we reply. :rolleyes: :laugh: Vikram.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.- Dijkstra KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.

Ted Ferenc

It's called marketing/sales, it has nothing to do with the quality or otherwise of the product. It is where is software guys fail!

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton 1676

Chris Losinger

Vikram Punathambekar wrote: You, Paul Watson and I seem to be the only ones who change the subject field when we reply you should really look harder. -c CheeseWeasle

Chris Meech

;P ;P ;P Chris Meech "what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002. Oh and for those that ask programming questions in the lounge. Seek the truth here[^].

Vikram A Punathambekar

...since you made a good joke. :laugh: Vikram.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.- Dijkstra KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.