Sparq

And there's supposed to be three more after this.

Backdoor. Vista blows, based on the systems Dell keeps sending us. Half our software shit didn't work, and most of it is Microsoft kit to begin with. XP for the win.

They were moderately entertaining. But overall, yes. They're not really "good".

You also mentioned in another thread that you're not a computer person. I can actually see how that might be somewhat believable. At any rate, it sparked a whole geektastic operating system discussion.

If you search for that article in Google News, it comes up with a "Satire" flag. At any rate, yeah. There aren't many commerically available systems with a linux preload, aside from certain corporate servers and the like. Dell's got a good idea there, but I'm not sure how well it'll actually sell. The systems we're getting at work from Dell right now are all coming with a Vista preload...well, the laptops, anyway. We immediately ghost them with an XP Pro image.

You do realise it's a joke, right? Dell is going to ship computers with Ubuntu Linux, but M$ has certainly not created any kind of Windows-Linux hybrid. The "Expert" from PC Age magazine probably doesn't exist. PC Age doesn't either, though it used to in the 80s. It died before I was born.

Yeah. Right.

I suppose, if you're accepting the possibility of numbers being rounded off. This area of discussion is delightfully pointless. Coffee.

I wouldn't know. To my knowledge I've never heard a single thing from Feist.

A beer, though I guess you don't actually eat that. It was free. I would like to take this opportunity to point out that 100/100 and 10/10 are technically the same thing.

I woke up around 3 or 4 AM, mad as hell. And with only a vague notion of why. That's always fun.

it is the malignant houseplant

Or quantum superposition. Quantum physicists can either know how fast they do it, or where they do it, but not both.

There's four of him?

African or European?

No, they really are following you. They follow us all. They know us better than we know ourselves. They could replace any of us with a convincing googlebot at any moment. They are vigilant. They are pervasive. They are innumerable. They are unstoppable. Bow down.

Hydrogen bombs are three-stage weapons which involve a fission trigger which is just a small atomic bomb (sometimes boosted with a tritium core), followed by fusion of tritium and deuterium from a lithium deuteride core, and finally another fission detonation of a depleted uranium shell, made possible by the energy of the second-stage fusion reaction.

Zeromancer - Split Seconds

The only good that has ever come of Pokemon is Ling-ling, the parodic, antisocial asian battlemonster from Drawn Together.

Google is Skynet?

I hope Howie Mandell was also devoured. Some chips and dip, I think.

Luke Skywalker was is pretty whiny and annoying for a hero.

That's exactly it! The "no guns" solution would only work if the world was not already saturated with them.