Quotes from Slashdot

You have a choice: you buy a product NOW, or you read the news: oh, there is a quad-GPU graphics card scheduled in 6 months. By the time it’s ready, you read again: there is another one with 64 GPU’s ready in one year. So, if your choice is to never be happy, don’t blame it on tech.

— alxtoth (914920)

The Ubuntu OS exceeds the Mac OS in Gibboniness, whereas Apple seems to have cornered the market on Leopardiness. The overall Toucaniness and Salamanderiness of the offerings is about the same.

— Kohath (38547)

Of course it’s a trap. Imagine you were walking along and you saw a bear trap on the ground, with a trip wire beside it leading to a gas canister. A cage is suspended over it by a rope, and there’s a sentry gun mounted nearby. You might think, “this is a trap”, unless you were a Novell executive, in which case you would step into the the apparatus try to find ways to “interoperate” with it.

— Experiment 626 (698257)

Once upon a time, there was a brave man who ventured far into the depths of cyberspace. Walking from server to server he learned the way of the packets, the protocols, and the fiber that connected the world in such a beautiful harmony. He looked back at what it had taught him and said, “all your base are belong to us.”

— brianez21 (945805)

This was in an article about creative documentation:

Agreed, and I try to work around it with the following question line to clients: “Say you have two drivers. One is familiar with the state Driver’s Handbook and traffic laws, having read up on them. The other has just got behind the wheel for the first time. Which one do you think would get in more accidents, and why?”

Whichever one ATI wrote.

— gardyloo (512791)

This was in an article about Ubuntu Linux vs. Mac OS X:

Firing up a tank to go buy some milk at the store would be pretty silly,

Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t do it if I had the option.

— snoyberg (787126)

I remember in online games, if everyone else looks like they’re lagged, it’s really you that has the problem. Perhaps, when everyone else looks like an idiot… well, you know. You are responsible for your own happiness.

— Highrollr (625006)