Microsoft's Dumbest And Smartest Moves Of 2011

[smerf]

Hi,

Lets face it, the tablets that are coming out are more for people like MAC users who just want to turn it on use it, get done with what they want and then shut it off. The hardest thing a MAC user does on his machine is find the on/off switch and basically that is all the tablets do, you turn them on do what you have to do, then turn them off, that is why the ipads are such a big hit with the MAC users.

Real computer users (like me) think the tablets are nothing but junk. I use one only to read books when the wife goes shopping, she reminds me of a typical MAC user, goes into the store to buy a gallon of milk, and it takes her only 3 hours, and yes it is an all day affair when she really decides to go grocery shopping, but we both have cell phones, so every now and then I can call her and say "How much longer?"

Yea for MAC users, with out them who would I complain about?

Linux users, nah I use Linux
Amiga users, nah they complain about too much already
Atari users, nah they all are dead or dead heads.

Oh well MAC users it is then

smerf

[smerf]

Computer! Tea.  Earl Grey.  Hot.

Hi,

@stefcep2,

I like Earl Grey Tea too!!

As a matter of fact I am having a cup right now.

What do you think of that.

smerf

[smerf]

Hi,

@Bloodline,

"But then I'm not sure the desktop has long left for this world"

Come on man, laptops are nothing but junk, you can buy the most expensive laptop gaming computer on the market today and in two years it will be more obsolete than the Amiga 4000. You will pay about $7000 for a good laptop, and in 2 years you will be lucky to give the thing away.

Desktops are the real meat of playing PC games, doing 3D rendering, and setting up all kinds of weird things. The desktops only keep getting more powerful every day. Sure my 6 core which I bought last year is now obsolete, but I am thinking of upgrading it to a new 8 core, which will slip right into my motherboard. If I need better graphics I just buy a new card, do that on a stinking laptop. Heck the Amiga will outlive that laptop. You need to get away from them MAC's and go out and build your own desktop, then once you see how much fun it is, you will never look at another laptop, tablet or MAC.

smerf

[smerf]

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

Yes! I'm still not sure how I'm going to enter text from a touch interface (a picture of a keyboard? lame).

Hi,

@Iggy,

I heard that mirosoft is working on a tablet that you speak to, it then takes your words and prints them out on the screen. So pretty soon we will all be talking to our computers.

Computer (or name like Hal) bring up Fallout 3.

Go north,
go northwest

Hal go to hello operator

smerf

[smerf]

Thanks for that Smerf you made me chuckle. If we Macintosh users have to be the outlet for your little rants then so be it. I have broad enough shoulders for it

Oh and I am a windows and linux user too.

Hi,

@CritAnime and all "Mac" users

Happy I made someone happy, anywhoo, today in the shop where I work, one of the guys brought in an duo core iMac, wanted to know if anyone could fix it, now you are looking at a bunch of high tech idiots that repair some really wild electronic gear, but we all use PC's, either laptops or desktops, well he asked me first I looked at this white smooth modern day looking object and said Hmmmm an iMac, well the first thing we have to do is look for the on / off switch, well it wasn't on the classy looking keyboard, it wasn't on the front of this ultra smooth classy shiny monitor with a slot in the right hand side, so I took a wild guess and looked in the back, viola an on / off button on the back left hand side. My sweaty hands reached back there and pushed it and the screen lit up, we waited 10 seconds, 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 60 seconds (getting boring isn't it) 2 minutes, then a folder with a question mark came to the center of the screen. I looked at the guy who brought it in, and said is that it, he answered that's all it does. Not knowing what to do next since I own a PC, I said do you have the operators manual, he said yep, here it is.  The op manual said to press certain keys if this folder kept popping up, well I pressed those keys at least 25 times and the same folder with a question mark kept popping up. He asked me well, I looked at him and said "It's Broke".

We then contacted our best PC tech in the house, just before quitting time he came down and looked at it.  We all sat anxiously by, since this was the first iMac we have ever seen, and touched. He looked at it with those eyes of wisdom, turned it on after finding the on / off switch, watched that deadly folder. He then asked for the book, looked at it and said what you have here son is a real friggin hardware problem. I suggest that you call this number in the back of the book and ask for Apple tech support, tonight, and tomorrow I will take a closer look at it, sure is a beauty, awful sexy looking machine, something like my wife, awful good lookin but don't work.

smerf

[smerf]

Hi,

@Duce,

I use Windows Vista on my latest greatest PC game machine, does all right now, but the trouble with micrsoft is if you do a lot of updating to your equipment you get the keycode not valid syndrome, where you have to call some person in India, who talks with a weird accent (probably he thinks the same) and you try to tell him it is the same computer, only updated, this happended when I went from a quad core to a six core cpu, when I went from 4 gig to 8 gig of memory, when I changed hard drives from 250 gig to 1 terrabyte and when I changed my graphics card.

I don't think Microsoft expects you to update your computer, then when you do you have to revalidate, and after the third time you have to explain to those idiots, that it is the same computer only updated.

By the way after the third time,they want you to purchase a new keycode.

Thats why I am holding off from updating my other quad core computer, it is getting quite old (4 years) but really don't feel like going through the hassle with windows 7.

Why can't the game companies make games for Linux, this is the only reason I still use windows.

Linux the best OS after Amiga OS.  

I don't need no stinkin Mac

smerf

[smerf]

Hi,

@Transition,

[Vista is like a high maintenance girlfriend who is also very ugly, why bother?]

Well just like a high maintenance girlfriend, some people just can't afford to purchase another copy of Windows, and are forced to use what they have.

but just like a high maintenance girlfriend,

You can turn her upside down, step on her nose, and turn her into a water fountain.

smerf