So is this a modly mandate?

Hey, Twe$term ju$t made a thread that wa$n't anti-$ony!

Will wonder$ never cea$e?

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Regarding M$ and this complaint, all I can say is...

I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him "Money" for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTLqng2We0E

M$ was originally a reference BASIC with a double entendre. Originally in BASIC variable names could only have one letter (such as M) and since the "microsoft" is a string you would have to reference any variable by ending it with a $ (eg. M$).

You didn't get the joke and neither do most people these days, but that doesn't mean it wasn't clever.

You're right, I don't get that joke (and don't remember BASIC only letting me having variables with names that are one letter, but it's been years since I used BASIC) but I was referring to the people that say M$ meaning an evil money grubbing corporation.

Unwilling irony ensues from your own rant being peppered with subcultural jargon, that is also seldom as funny or clever as its now accustomed speakers think ;)

Yeah, admittedly I'm more a Linux fan than a Windows fan, and i used to do the m$ thing, but it got old after i did it a few times, and quite frankly MS isnt that bad.

They have an OS that has 90% of the consumer market (done somewhat unfairly, but they still offered the supperior product for many years 1992-2004 imo) They've done good things in bringing in API standardization and keeping a backwards compatible system for 18 years, which is not a small feat.

However things like security ( i dont want to have most of my processor runtime take by an antivirus), stabilty (a system shouldnt crash at least once a day and shouldnt slow down over time), and design flaws (page file fragmentation, high resource usage) are things that need improvement and ensure I'll be dual booting XP and Ubuntu 8.04 for some time to come.

That was inspringly insightful

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