Pegritz on: Computers.

Who the fuck cares that Apple it switching to Intel chips? Apple is the world's most annoying company. Their products are extremely good--I love OS X to pieces, and their hardware is oftimes really impressive--but disgustingly overpriced and the company itself is chaired by a complete fucking asshole whose ego makes Bill Gates' seem no bigger than St. Francis of Asissi's. Whatever Apple wants to do with Intel doesn't mean shit to me, and shouldn't mean shit to anyone, because Macs will still be overpriced and I'll never own one.

Linux! Linux is a great little software package that makes for a great, secure server solution. But, hey, Slashdot geeks? Linux will never compete with Microsoft or Apple in terms of desktop solutions. Linux is too fucking complicated for most everyday users, period. And there just isn't enough productivity software for it. C'mon, people...OpenOffice can't hold a candle to MS Office for Windows or the Mac. And audio software? Try to find me even a half-decent .wav editor and I'll be amazed. I'm planning on building a Linux file server for my house this summer, but to use it for anything else is...well, pointless.

Windows "Longhorn" is basically just going to be a cheap, PC-based knockoff of OS X. WindowsXP with a few extra bells and whistles stolen from Tiger. The end. Am I excited about it? No. I was excited about XP because, well, XP was such a gigantic improvement on allllllllllll previous versions of Windows--but Longhorn is just going to be XP with some databasing features and a couple of GUI tweaks. Whoop-a-dee-doo.

You know what the greatest OS of all time was? DOS. Period.

And the greatest computer system? The TRS-80.

Discuss.

The Creepiest Thing I Have Ever Seen

What the FUCK is an "exocell?"

It has tentacles. CLAWED tentacles.

It eats human brains?

It's probably a hoax, but man is it a COOL one!

Edit: Ah-HA! It's from a video game called Cold Fear. Looks kind neat, actually....

The fake "report," though, is still the coolest thing.