Subject: Harmful Video Games
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2001 - 02:45:31 EDT
"Harmful Video Games"
Video games considered harmful?
"It is ridiculous claiming that video games influence
children. For instance, if Pac-man affected kids who
were born in the eighties, we should by now have a
bunch of teenagers who run around in darkened rooms
and eat pills while listening to monotonous electronic
music."
Oh.... they do..... darn...
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"Microsoft's Upgrades"
After first seeing Microsoft's slogan for its upcoming
Windows XP operating system, "it just works," I
couldn't help wondering: what were the slogans for
all the previous releases? After thinking about it for
a while, they became obvious.
Windows 1.0: Good joke, eh?
Windows 2.0: Still funny, isn't it?
Windows 286: Yeah, we're still kidding.
Windows 386: Going boldly where Desqview has been
for years.
Windows 3.0: It's finally worth buying!
Windows 3.1: It's finally worth using!
Windows 95: Going boldly where the Mac has been
for years.
Windows 98: More usable! Less stable!
Windows 98SE: More stable! Less usable!
Windows ME: Less usable AND less stable!
NT 1.0: Give me more hardware! NOW!!!
NT 2.0: Darn it, I said MORE HARDWARE!!! NOW!!!!
NT 3.0: Which part of "more hardware" do you not
understand?
NT 3.5: With enough hardware, I'd work. Honest.
NT 4.0: Does less than Win98 with twice the hardware
at one-half the speed.
Windows 2K: Works almost as well as Windows 98!
Honest!
Windows XP: It just works.
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