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- TPorter72, on 09/26/2008, -12/+254Lies, Al Gore did invented the Internet
- wontstoptalking, on 09/27/2008, -4/+1485:
If you're wearing glasses, are on Digg, and can type faster than 50 words a minute, you can hack into the Pentagon by typing really fast and saying really geeky things.
Status: PLAUSIBLE - jeevesatvic, on 09/26/2008, -1/+142The one about being able to magically track email forwards is the most annoying. I still haven't found a good way to convince non-technical friends that no-one is going to give a disabled vietnamese girl suffering from agent orange poisoning 5c for every person they forward to.
- Llanowar, on 09/27/2008, -10/+129Right clicking by holding down the control key is not really right clicking.
Might have the same function, but not the same convenience.
Other than that, it's just fun to annoy mac fanboys by saying macs don't right click. - tbredofsin, on 09/27/2008, -0/+103The "PC Gaming Is Dying" entry is a good one. PC gaming will not die as long as people use PCs. It may change focus to smaller budget games, it may be the home of a massive proliferation of indie developers, but there will always be PC gaming--and a lot of it.
- sjbdallas, on 09/26/2008, -5/+106I have Internet3 in my house.
- inactive, on 09/27/2008, -32/+131Here's a couple that annoy me.
1) Mac don't right click.
It's the myth that has never been true, but will absolutely not die. Before the Mighty Mouse, you could right click by holding down the control key OR buying a third party mouse from companies like Logitech and Microsoft. Macs work with any HID compliant mice.
2) Microsoft saved Apple in 1997
This is the myth that will not die. The $150 million dollars that Microsoft "invested" in Apple, was actually the result of a settlement between the two companies. At the time that Microsoft agreed to make this $150 million dollar "investment" (which was sold five years later) in Apple stock, Apple had $1.2 billion dollars in cash, but Steve Jobs needed Microsoft to restart efforts to complete a new version of Office for Mac, which had languished for three years. In turn, Bill Gates wanted Apple to use Internet Explorer as their default browser and to settle several billion dollar patent disputes involving Windows and Quicktime.
Look and Feel Lawsuit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer%2C_Inc ...
In 1997, five years after the lawsuit was decided, all lingering infringement questions against Microsoft regarding the Lisa and Macintosh GUI, as well as Apple's "QuickTime piracy" lawsuit against Microsoft, were settled when Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer the default browser over Netscape, and Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office and other software for the Mac for the next 5 years, and purchased $150 million of non-voting Apple stock.
Canyon Code Theft Lawsuit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_ ...
Later testimony in the U.S. D.O.J. Microsoft anti-turst trial revealed that, at the time, Apple was threatening Microsoft with a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over the allegedly stolen code, and in return Bill Gates was threatening with the cancellation of Office for the Mac. In August 1997, Apple and Microsoft announced a settlement deal. Apple would drop all current lawsuits, including all lingering issues from the "Look & Feel" lawsuit and the "QuickTime source code" lawsuit, and agree to make Internet Explorer the default browser on the Macintosh unless the user explicitly chose the bundled Netscape browser. In return, Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office, Internet Explorer, and various developer tools and software for the Mac for the next 5 years, and purchase $150 million of non-voting Apple stock. The companies also agreed to mutual collaboration on Java technologies, and to cross-license all existing patents, and patents obtained during the five-year deal, with one another.
Also see: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_199 ... - matt247, on 09/27/2008, -4/+89McCain invented the Blackberry
- BXRWXR, on 09/26/2008, -45/+115Linux is better than Windows.
/ducks - consonance, on 09/27/2008, -1/+69I don't care if Internet2 is not coming to everyone; I still want it.
- lofi4life, on 09/27/2008, -0/+63If you type "Google" into Google the internet will break.
- CycloneTH, on 09/27/2008, -1/+47The idea behind the Bill gates and the $1000 bill myth is actually that in the 2 seconds or so it would take to pick up the money (In the version I heard it was just $50), Bill Gates would make more than the value of the money he'd be picking up if he happened to be at work for those 2 seconds. Obviously he wouldn't just let the cash blow away in the wind, the entire thing is just a metaphor for how much money the guy makes.
- simoncallesen, on 09/28/2008, -0/+43Or...
Internot? - strictnein, on 09/27/2008, -3/+43or just ship the computer with a 2-button mouse. But that would make sense. How anyone can get by with a one button mouse is beyond me.
- thedragon4453, on 09/27/2008, -0/+40I'd say less complicated. Something where you tap some keys and "Hacking the pentagon" progress bar pops up. At least that is what I am usually seeing in movies.
- inactive, on 09/27/2008, -3/+43What about "Macs are better at graphics"?
- Pzycho, on 09/27/2008, -2/+39"I took the initiative in creating the internet."
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
Seems like a poorly researched article if they wouldn't even bother to find the quote. Instead they say "something along the lines of..."
Also, I am pretty sure the Bill Gates 1000$ bill thing came from the old story where they would talk about how Gates's value is increasing so fast that IF he were to drop $1k on the ground, it wouldn't be worth his time to bother to pick it up (which of course, isn't true because we all know his value wouldn't suddenly cease to increase because he stopped for a moment). - offrdbandit, on 09/27/2008, -1/+36But you need a ridiculously overcomplicated and "cool looking" desktop environment for you to pound out your 1337 HTML hax.
- Burrito, on 09/27/2008, -0/+33You better wear a cup too.
- wontstoptalking, on 09/28/2008, -0/+32This is UNIX! I know this!
- Sahdow, on 09/28/2008, -1/+33show you her penis
- chedabob, on 09/27/2008, -0/+31No mention of the Hotmail chain-email about them running out of names?
- unclejimbo88, on 09/27/2008, -1/+31But the power button ISN'T only for turning the computer on. Pressing it will shut the computer down exactly as if yoiu did it through the start menu.
- EntropyFan, on 09/27/2008, -4/+31Sorry, MS did save Apple.
If MS had pulled all support for the Macintosh (MS was and still is one of the largest software providers for the Apple platform), Apple would have died long before the lawsuits it had against MS ever got in front of a judge, let alone before any checks got signed.
MS would have taken a hit, but it has taken a lot of those (even from the US government and the EU) and survived just fine, thank you. - JakeWins, on 09/27/2008, -4/+30Internet2 features speeds up to 1Gbit? Omfg, well then there's no way that Internet2 would ever be implemented, glad you sorted that out John.
What? My apartment building is connected to Internet1 with a dedicated 1Gbit line? Oh.
Maybe, if you're writing articles for a serious magazine, you should check facts in more places than wikipedia. - betheturtle, on 09/27/2008, -1/+26If you do not forward this message,
- kamikaze134, on 09/27/2008, -2/+27The author seems to be suggesting that the Internet will forever max out at 100Mbps. We could never possibly attain 1Gbps.
100Mbps ought to be enough for anybody.
Article buried as lame. - kidd3ckz, on 09/27/2008, -0/+23You can only hack quickly if you getting your lollipop licked.
- bhowell, on 09/27/2008, -1/+23I already have the 1Gbps speed of Internet2 in my house! Unfortunately it just connects to my router, and I find my IM conversations with my router quite boring. It also has crap for movie and music selections to download.
- Pritchard, on 09/28/2008, -1/+22your true love is going to knock on your door at exactly 12 am tomorrow morning and
- smoothmann, on 09/27/2008, -0/+21Sooo
You have Internet0? - Llanowar, on 09/27/2008, -2/+23I don't have any internet.
- memoid, on 09/27/2008, -0/+21Tim Berners-Lee came up with html and is accredited with inventing the world-wide-web, yes that is correct. But the internet and the world-wide-web are not the same thing. The www is just one form of communication on the network that is the internet. The internet was around way before the www in the form of email, ftp, telnet etc. etc. The list is big.
- EntropyFan, on 09/27/2008, -2/+22GothAlice
I said MS is 'one' of the largest.
So learn to read please.
And everything you mention was developed LONG after 1997, so again what you are saying has absolutely no relevance to MS saving Apple in 1997.
It is the sad little people like you who reinvent history at a whim (and badly, I might add) that make the Mac crowd seem like clueless, arrogant snots. - MrChunks, on 09/27/2008, -0/+19Err.. the "Macs are better at graphics" myth is referring to Macs being used for graphic design/DTP purposes not games.
- kidd3ckz, on 09/27/2008, -1/+20/ is used for a trigger, as seen in scripting on mirc
also used to end an html tag
thats why people do /sarcasm etc...
not because they're making comments...
comments would have two //
// idiot - kappuru, on 09/28/2008, -1/+17It's /penguins, you fool.
- patthew, on 09/27/2008, -3/+19I've seen a few people credit it to CERN and as far as I can tell they're responsible for the worldwide Internet as we know it today, but DARPA laid the actual groundwork for creating a network over a wide area that allowed computers could communicate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cern#Computer_science - wonderbriefs, on 09/27/2008, -0/+16Mom, get off digg.
- NathanielJ, on 09/27/2008, -0/+16Thank you for restating something from the article...?
- kwilliam, on 09/28/2008, -0/+16Oooh, power buttons can only be used to turn ON a computer? Sheesh. It can initiate shutdown, hibernate, suspend to RAM, resume - all in the settings. Revoke that guy's know-it-all license.
- smoothmann, on 09/27/2008, -1/+16Shew, that was close.
I thought since I didnt post that myspace bulletin, i would be dead by midnight.
Dodged that bullet - rootsm3, on 09/27/2008, -0/+15Quiet, you.
- inactive, on 09/27/2008, -1/+16And McCain invented the blackberry.
- Asianwaste, on 09/27/2008, -1/+15The Bill Gates and the $1000 myth came from a tech TV special where there was a counter showing how much money Microsoft makes in the span of the episode
They demonstrated that if Gates had a choice between stopping that counter to pick up a lost $1000 bill or simply letting the counter roll while he ignores the loss, he would have been better off ignoring the $1000 bill and let the rest of his money work it off. - cheezintern, on 09/27/2008, -1/+15it was created by the US department of defense, under a darpa program
- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -0/+13No, he invented the Jitterbug.
- kaosethema, on 09/27/2008, -5/+17the best myth is that Macs are better than PC's
or that Mac-sheep are smarter than PC-clones
/currently in hiding - attackpanda, on 09/28/2008, -0/+12I'm John McCain, is this where the internet is?
Hello?
Can I buy pants? -
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