If the 50 in your name is your age, I have you beat by a year.

Dale

"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message
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> "Poprivet" <poprivet@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
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>> BillW50 wrote:
>>> "The man from Finland!" <ThemanfromFinland@discussions.microsoft.com>
>>> wrote in message
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>>>> Yah, Linux is priceless as it doesn't cost anything. Everything is
>>>> done with pure joy and fun of making a better operating system than
>>>> Windows. Everyone knows we have succeeded. Windows looks like really
>>>> ridiculous and expensive piece of software. Please don't buy any of
>>>> that!. Ubuntu means hunanity and it is really a differenet world
>>>> from Microsoft. There's NO humanity in Microsoft!
>>>>
>>>> "Ray" wrote:
>>>> Exactly as
>>>> alias said!
>>>> software.
>>>>> They're priceless.
>>>>>
>>>>> "progressive realization" <-> wrote in message
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>>>>>> http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/1...ockkirkas4.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/2...ttyvistxp2.jpg
>>>
>>> Yeah I have been hearing this since 1991. And in Torvalds book, he
>>> claims he uses Windows. So the author of Linux uses Linux. That
>>> doesn't say much for Linux, does it?
>>>
>>> And I won't care if 99% of the world uses Linux, it is worthless to
>>> me until third party developers start selling hardware with Linux in
>>> mind. As I am not fooled with Linux is free, if I have to write my
>>> own TV card and VoIP phone drivers for the stupid Linux. I played
>>> that game with OS/2 and I ain't writing any more drivers. As I have
>>> far better things to do with my time. <grin>
>>>
>>> With Windows, you buy the box and if it doesn't work, you take it
>>> back to the store and get another one that works. With Linux, it is
>>> up to you and you alone to make it work. Blah! I'm too old that that
>>> stuff.
>>
>> Bravo! And it's not your age; that's just the way it is. I got
>> fooled into trying the Linux "thing" myself and when it turned out I
>> couldn't use all my hardware because of the lack of drivers, I had to
>> abandon it. There is nothing precisely WRONG with Linux; it's just
>> that, as with most anything, it's meant for a certain segment of the
>> population. It has a niche, and does well there. But for the pure
>> "users" out there, which are by far the majority, something like XP
>> is much better, as you described.
>> I've found that most people who make statements such as the cretins
>> above have done, are:
>> 1. Actually using windows but want to be noticed;
>> 2. Are power users who can write software and want to brag;
>> 3. Are nothing but parrots;
>> 4. And finally are usually Neanderthals and troglodytes on top of it
>> all.
>> Yer NEVER too old, long's you can THINK like a 17 year old; only
>> difference is, they haven't done the stuff yet that you've done where
>> you've done it and aren't amazed by it anymore < G >!! OH; maybe
>> that's just ME!! I aint's good's I once was but I'm's good once as I
>> ever was!
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pop`
>
> Well said Pop`. <grin>
>
> As for Dale... well... maybe you are not old enough to understand yet. I
> don't know, as it seems pretty easy to understand to me.
>
> --
> Bill