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@NXIII: No offense, but you're as proprietary as Microsoft.

hahahahahahaha! pahahaha! This is an odd converation 

erm, anyway, yup, that's real nice idea, thanks Jens... did you translate the original de.po file? your name's in it here and there 

nXIII wrote:

Well, they're a very successful company....

Yeah, but everyone hates them.  You don't want that, do you?

Jens, if the generic hat block is so easy, let's do it in BYOB!  I like blocks that accomplish a lot of expressive power with very little mechanism.     [Which isn't to say you shouldn't also do it in Panther; everyone should do it!]

nXIII wrote:

waveOSBeta wrote:

@NXIII: No offense, but you're as proprietary as Microsoft.

Well, they're a very successful company....

LINUX ROCKS!

markyparky56 wrote:

waveOSBeta wrote:

nXIII wrote:

Well, they're a very successful company....

LINUX ROCKS!

Poor misguided child... (no offence) But whats Rockable about Linux? To me the only good thing is the penguin...

It's free, open source, fast, it works good on 64-bit, you can mod it, you can change the taskbar to look like a mac's, ...

The list could go on forever.

10.04 is the most stable OS I've ever seen. Windows crashes every 10 seconds.

Also, the mac taskbar/dock looks cool.

No, I validated it as genuine.

Also, People have different opinions.

markyparky56 wrote:

Grrrr... Whats hateable about them?!

Sigh, I apologize if you're a stockholder/employee/child of employee.  But...

1.  Bill Gates gets a contract from IBM to supply an operating system for the PC on the strength of falsely claiming to have one written.

2.  He then turns around and buys DOS from some actual programmer for a pittance.

3.  He signs a contract promising that IBM will have exclusive rights to market PC-DOS, then screws them by making some infinitesimal change and selling the new version as MS-DOS.

4.  Microsoft then illegally uses its monopoly in operating systems to establish monopolies in other software categories, most notably browsers, by requiring manufacturers to bundle MS software with the machines and by taking advantage of secret OS features that competing software can't use.  They also tell PC manufacturers that MS will not give them OEM quantity discounts on Windows if they also sell machines that run other OSes.

On reliability, to be fair, it's gotten better since NT.    It's still the most virus-prone by far, but (to be fair again) that's more because virus writers target the monopoly OS than because the others are better software.

But, along the way, MS basically maintains its position in the OS market by reimplementing other people's ideas, most notably Xerox/Apple's ideas.  People who are uptight about other people stealing ideas from Panther ought not to be MS fans, I should think.

Sorry for the long mostly-off-topic message, but you did ask. 

I have used both windows and mac. I love the graphics of mac, as well as the sound editing program "logic" which windows simply does not have    but I use a PC for the main reason that it's so much cheaper to by.

bharvey wrote:

sparks wrote:

I have used both windows and mac...

Somehow (I don't think you started it, sparks) this has devolved into the usual discussion of which OS is best (to which the answer, alas, is ITS).  But that wasn't the original topic, which was why people hate Microsoft, the company, not Windows the OS, and whether nXIII, on reflection, really wants to hold them up as a standard of behavior!  Much more interesting. 

I said "successful", not "awesome", "ethical", "moral", or anything else of the sort....

bharvey wrote:

nXIII wrote:

I said "successful", not "awesome", "ethical", "moral", or anything else of the sort....

Yeah, but you said it in response to an accusation of being like them!  You could have said "No I'm not!" 

(You don't mind being teased among friends, do you?)

Of course not!

cds56 wrote:

Hehe, this is such a quirky thread 

I can't wait for the Panther (beta) mod to come out.
If only I could've been on the dev team... Panther seems like one of the only mods worth following.

P.S: There are two block settings now?(low graphics and high graphics?)

...Is nXIII a MACCIE?

No, three settings: fast, normal (Scratch-style), and good (awesome-style).

What's a MACCIE?

bharvey wrote:

nXIII wrote:

I said "successful", not "awesome", "ethical", "moral", or anything else of the sort....

Yeah, but you said it in response to an accusation of being like them!  You could have said "No I'm not!" 

(You don't mind being teased among friends, do you?)

And now comes the point where I realize that I just said I was neither moral, awesome, nor anything else of the sort.... 

Last edited by nXIII (2010-05-11 21:23:25)