February 25, 2003, 03:13
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Please explain this User Friendly strip.
Thanks! 
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February 25, 2003, 03:16
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Simple - Micro$$$$$$$$$$$$$$oft is evil. That pretty much describes every other strip, too.
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February 25, 2003, 03:23
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No, Illiad hasn't been hitting MS that hard recently, and I haven't heard about this .net, so I'm wondering what stirred him up.
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February 25, 2003, 03:43
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.NET is like Java, only quite a bit better and more flexible.
In the third cell, that's what the guy on the left asks about.
The guy on the right makes a very lame joke (that would warrant a shot in the arm). I'm not even sure what the joke is. That's how bad it is.
Basically, MS is Satan. .NET is by MS. So therefore it's "platform-satanic".
God, somebody smack them.
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February 25, 2003, 03:46
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I'm sure even Asher would agree that Penny Arcade and This Modern World are more humorous than this comic.
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February 25, 2003, 03:48
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Penny Arcade is usually pretty good. Gabe's a moron sometimes, but who isn't? 
I never got into This Modern World. The comics MarkG posted turned me off completely...
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February 25, 2003, 04:15
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My thought on Tom Tomorrow:
If you need partisan flame humor to survive, you don't deserve to survive.
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February 25, 2003, 05:03
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Originally posted by Asher
.NET is like Java, only quite a bit better and more flexible.
In the third cell, that's what the guy on the left asks about.
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Ahem.
That's not what that guy asked. He wanted to know if .NET is platform independent, i.e., write once, run many. The answer is no.
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February 25, 2003, 05:07
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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Ahem.
That's not what that guy asked. He wanted to know if .NET is platform independent, i.e., write once, run many. The answer is no.
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The answer is YES.
What do you think Rotor, Mono, etc. are all for?
Tell .NET to compile to intermediate code (syn: Java bytecode), it runs it through the .NET CLR (Rotor or Mono for *nix, Apple is making an OS X port, and the Windows XP one has been available for over a year)
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February 25, 2003, 05:19
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While User Friendly sux0r, Penny Arcade sux0r even more.
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February 25, 2003, 05:21
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No way, User Friendly is atrocious, Penny Arcade has some classics.
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February 25, 2003, 06:53
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In anycase, this one was lame.
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February 25, 2003, 07:23
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February 25, 2003, 07:24
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I'd agree it was pretty poor, but I don't think it's worth getting all worked up over.
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February 25, 2003, 07:30
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Was that the last time Penny Arcade had a funny strip?
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February 25, 2003, 07:30
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February 25, 2003, 07:32
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Originally posted by Paul Hanson
I'd agree it was pretty poor, but I don't think it's worth getting all worked up over.
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UR and Asher only need the flimsiest of excuses to start b1tch-slapping each other. 
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February 25, 2003, 08:33
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Tell me about it.
"MS sucks"
"MS rocks, you ****er"
"Stop being a little ****, Asher"
"Don't don't be a ****er, UR"
And then they proceed to out-geek each other, with both of them ultimately claiming victory. Pity that none of the rest of us can understand a ****ing word they say.
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February 25, 2003, 09:01
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Originally posted by The Mad Monk
Was that the last time Penny Arcade had a funny strip?
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February 25, 2003, 10:44
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Was that the last time Penny Arcade had a funny strip?
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Now that's just a trick question.
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February 25, 2003, 14:41
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Way better than UserFriendly.
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February 25, 2003, 16:04
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UserFriendly rules. I have every single of its strips archived to my hard drive.
What do you think Rotor, Mono, etc. are all for?
Attempts unforeseen by Micro$oft to prevent the omnipresence of Windoze?
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February 25, 2003, 16:42
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UF is okay. It's the least-regularly-funny of the comics I read, but I still read it.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-12-06 had me laughing hard by the time it finished up.
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February 25, 2003, 20:47
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Originally posted by St Leo
What do you think Rotor, Mono, etc. are all for?
Attempts unforeseen by Micro$oft to prevent the omnipresence of Windoze?
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Uh... what? I'm not sure what you're saying.
Rotor was made by MS. It's open shared source, developed for BSD, and runs .NET code.
Ximian is working on Mono, another implementation, with help from MS.
So I guess what I'm saying is, how is this "unforeseen"?
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February 25, 2003, 23:29
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Ah, that explains it. Shared source = evil attempt by M$ to kill OSS.
Oh, and my screensaver is a sequence of random UF strips.
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