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Behold, the Name of the Lord! For it is Copyrighted! Microsoft Corporation today announced its intent to purchase, copyright, and upgrade God Himself. The new product would be named, predictably enough, "Microsoft God," and would be available to consumers sometime in late 1998. "Too many people feel separated from God in today's world," said Dave McCavaugh, director of Microsoft's new Religions division. "Microsoft God will make our Lord more accessible, and will add an easy, intuitive user interface to Him, making Him not only easier to find, but easier to communicate with." The new Microsoft Religions line will be expanded to include a multitude of add-on products to Microsoft God, including: Microsoft Crusades: This conversion product will bring all worshipper accounts and prayer files over from previous versions of God, or from competing products like Buddha or Allah. Microsoft God for the World Wide Web: This product ties Microsoft God with Microsoft Internet Information Server, making our Lord accessible from the World Wide Web using a standard Web browser interface. It introduces several new Web technologies, including Dynamic Salvation and Active Prayer Pages (APP). Donations for the poor can be sent via a Secure Alms Server. |
Microsoft Prayers: Using a Windows-based WYSIWYG interface, this product will allow worshippers to construct effective prayers in a minimum of time. A Secure Prayer Channel technology allows guaranteed delivery of the prayer to Microsoft God servers, and Prayer Wizards enable users to construct new types of prayers with a minimum learning curve. Microsoft Savior: This product will allow worshippers to transfer their sins to its internal Vice Database. After a preset interval, the product will erase itself from the user's system and establish a clear line of secure communications to the user's Microsoft God server. Additionally, Microsoft is expected to announce a line of complimentary products for the new Religions line, which will enhance the functionality of the Microsoft God server product by providing a customized user interface. These interfaces will be based on popular religious sects, allowing worshippers to interact with the new God product in much the same way as the previous version. This line is expected to include Microsoft Christianity, Microsoft Catholicism, Microsoft Judaism (incompatible with Microsoft Savior), etc. Competitor Netscape Communications denies rumors that it is planning to release a competing product, Netscape Satanism, that would attempt to render Microsoft God installations inoperable. |
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10. You can't use 5-1/4" floppy disks. 9. You can't go shopping with your friends for a Sound Blaster board because Macs don't need one. 8. Your 200 MHz 604e Mac does integer calculation equivalent to a 362 MHz Pentium Pro, but you can only brag about 200MHz. 7. Networking a Mac is not an impressive feat. 6. Macs don't come in black, and we all know black cabinets make computers faster and louder. |
5. You have to add a system extension to make Mac menus stay down like Windows. We like pokey menus because it's too hard to hold that heavy mouse button down while we read. 4. And the Mac mouse is too slow. We want our cursor to fly wildly off the screen when we twitch our wrist because hyper cursors make our PCs look faster. 3. You just plug Macs in and they work. Where's the challenge in that? 2. When you add stuff, you just plug them in and they work, too. Again, no challenge. 1. Your clients and teachers know about # 2 and 3, so they expect Mac users to deliver results, not excuses! |
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# 10 The computer keeps asking you to "Insert Setup Disk #3 to continue." #9 There is no space left on the hard drive to store mission data. #8 The computer refuses to interact with the Mir's "Mr. Java" coffee maker. #7 Millions of dollars are traced to phone calls to a Redmond, WA 900#. #6 Mir astronauts are caught stealing RAM from other satellite's computers to keep their system running. |
#5 The Space Shuttle can no longer dock with Mir since "the proper driver cannot be found." #4 The system locks up whenever the astronauts try to run life support, the solar panels and thrusters at the same time. #3 The astronauts spend three days looking for cyrillic version of the CTRL-ALT-DEL keys. #2 Alien ships secretly observing Mir flee in terror. And the number one sign the new Mir computer is running Windows 95.... #1 You start receiving welcoming e-mail from the Borg. |
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