the hell are you talking about? "the state"? he's talking about a company with world domination plans, and I kind of agree with his point. the answer is that as a user you don't need Microsoft these days. at all. MS has enslaved the masses with marketing, but you still have a choice, and a very good one. I use linux on my desktop, firefox to browse, have a Rio MP3 player that needs no special crap software like itunes or any of the fairplay stores, have a nokia smartphone, a linux based PDA, use OOo for my docs, Gimp for picture editing, and HR Block's web based taxcut works fine in firefox for my online e-filing needs. When I have to use windows, I get pissed off that it doesn't work the way I need it to, and often times the only way to get it to work is to spend more money on sub-par software.
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Geoffe @ Jan 8th 2007 2:58PM
xVariable: Careful what you say dude. In the digital world, there is only 2 states: on or off. Yes or no.
We all no what happens to people that say no. To the people that rebel, that reject? You don't want to be on the bad side of The State my friend...
Chris @ Jan 8th 2007 8:57PM
the hell are you talking about? "the state"? he's talking about a company with world domination plans, and I kind of agree with his point. the answer is that as a user you don't need Microsoft these days. at all. MS has enslaved the masses with marketing, but you still have a choice, and a very good one. I use linux on my desktop, firefox to browse, have a Rio MP3 player that needs no special crap software like itunes or any of the fairplay stores, have a nokia smartphone, a linux based PDA, use OOo for my docs, Gimp for picture editing, and HR Block's web based taxcut works fine in firefox for my online e-filing needs. When I have to use windows, I get pissed off that it doesn't work the way I need it to, and often times the only way to get it to work is to spend more money on sub-par software.
you don't have to be a slave to Windows.