MS' grinning robots vs. the Brotherhood of the Mac

"I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: itÂs there, and thereÂs nothing you can do about it. OK, OK: I know other operating systems are available. But their advocates seem even creepier, snootier and more insistent than Mac owners. The harder they try to convince me, the more IÂm repelled. To them, IÂm a sheep. And theyÂre right. IÂm a helpless, stupid, lazy sheep. IÂm also a masochist. And thatÂs why I continue to use Windows Â horrible Windows Â even though I hate every second of it. ItÂs grim, itÂs slow, everythingÂs badly designed and nothing really works properly: using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981. And I wouldnÂt change it for the world, because IÂm an abject bloody idiot and I hate myself, and this is what I deserve: to be sentenced to Windows for life."

- Charlie Brooker

source: http://www.guardian....osoft-mac-windows

Post #315,382 by lincoln 10/9/09 1:34:27 PM Reply	MS' grinning robots vs. the Brotherhood of the Mac "I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: itÂs there, and thereÂs nothing you can do about it. OK, OK: I know other operating systems are available. But their advocates seem even creepier, snootier and more insistent than Mac owners. The harder they try to convince me, the more IÂm repelled. To them, IÂm a sheep. And theyÂre right. IÂm a helpless, stupid, lazy sheep. IÂm also a masochist. And thatÂs why I continue to use Windows Â horrible Windows Â even though I hate every second of it. ItÂs grim, itÂs slow, everythingÂs badly designed and nothing really works properly: using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981. And I wouldnÂt change it for the world, because IÂm an abject bloody idiot and I hate myself, and this is what I deserve: to be sentenced to Windows for life." - Charlie Brooker source: http://www.guardian....osoft-mac-windows "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #315,386 by drook 10/9/09 2:02:42 PM Reply	LRPD in the comments It was worth the frustration and skinned knuckles for the techtostosterone rush. -- Drew
Post #315,396 by Andrew Grygus 10/9/09 4:45:10 PM Reply	Sentient LRPD "If you want to tinker, use Linux. If you want to be afraid, use Windows."

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