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I'm in a mood (Score:1)

by jjohn (22)

Once I again, I find myself between the horns of the Redmond dilemma. On the one hand, it would be great if we all moved beyond operating systems that were designed for 20-30 year old hardware (yes, I'm including Unix in this rant). On the other hand, most folks (including me) sometimes just want to use a computer like an appliance: no thought, no maintenance, no service packs. I call this mode of operation: just do it, bitch.

What this has to do with Pudge's log entry is that my first response was going to
- Re:I'm in a mood (Score:3, Funny)
  
  by ziggy (25) on 2002.03.05 9:33 (#5488) Journal
  
  Perhaps Uncle Bill will be kind enough to release a service pack to fix this? :-D
  Only if you can demonstrate that this is a security bug.
  Oh, wait. That was last month's issue. This month, you need to demonstrate that fixing this bug will prevent people from pirating digital audio and video from Disney.
  
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