Oh, so you have God-like powers that control Windows from screwing things up? In that case, I supplicate myself to your holy power. Seriously, if you have never had a Windows problem, teach me how to avoid them and I’ll water your plants for a year.
Dipshit, read the OP again. I never used IE until last month, when I was FORCED to because Netscape can no longer handle several webpages that I read on a daily basis!!! I still use Netscape as my primary browser, and I would use it for everything if I could. BUT I CAN’T!!! What part of this statement do you not understand???
JET:
First, to give credit where it’s due, MS Word ain’t that bad.
This is the Pit, right?
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microsoft word (all versions) is so shitty that all of New York’s sewage treament plants together couldn’t dispose of it all. It sucks. It blows. It is shit incarnate. May all of its bits rot in hell, with maggots engaging in peanut butter and jelly lubricated anal sex with lice in the festering wounds of the blisters caused by the brimstone fires.
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If it behaves well for you then you probably haven’t done any earnest work with it. Granted, it is a good habit to save a file under a new name before editing it no matter what editor you use. Normally, however, that is just in case something drastically bad happens to your computer while you are working or just in case you want to go back to an earlier version. With word you absolutely must save your work under a new name everytime you go to edit a document. Word does horrid things sometimes that fuck up your formatting beyond human capability to repair. It loses inserted pictures or just freaking “decides” that a certain element just has to stay in one spot and won’t let you change it. This is not even mentioning the random crashes. Please don’t defend word unless you have at least one fifty page document with photos, diagramms, drawings, and table of contents. That kind of job will permanently disabuse you of the idea that word “ain’t that bad.” Word is a bloated text editor with delusions of being a desktop publishing system. It also burns my ass to have to drive a stake through the heart of that damned paper clip every time I install word on a new machine. It really bugs me that microsoft invested so much effort into something so irritating when they could have put more effort into debugging.
I think you remember a Doonesbury cartoon from a few years back. It was one of my favorites. They were standing around a PC, having just installed the brand new Windows 95. The software balked at the hardware they were installing it on, advising that they needed exorbitant RAM and disk space. Suddenly, the printer came on and one of them said, “It’s printing a complete list of its demands!”
“Hold it to its box specs!” another guy declared. Great cartoon!
Apparently so, although I guess with your limited mental capacity, a cigarette lighter would be considered a “God-like power”.
I didn’t say I’ve never had a Windows problem. I said I’ve never corrupted the registry. Again, learn to read, will ya?
Yes, you were forced. Of course. You HAD to continue viewing these webpages to go on living. If you didn’t continue viewing these web pages, the universe would have exploded.
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Suck it up and stop whining, you little prick.
And what part of the statement “Sure you can” don’t you understand? You choose to use Internet Explorer because it was capabilities which you desire over Netscape… or else you wouldn’t be using it. And now you’re whining about a choice that you made.
You weren’t forced into it. Microsoft didn’t threaten to kill your mom if you didn’t go to IE. There weren’t any cosmic phenomena that made you abandon Netscape. You chose to do it.
Don’t play semantics with me, you brainwashed slave. Technically, yes, using IE is a choice, and viewing webpages that are unreadable with Netscape is a choice. Unfortunately, reading non-Netscape compatible webpages with Netscape, or a similarly reliable browser, is NOT a choice. I am not complaining about the choice I made to use IE, I am complaining about the LACK of choice to continue using Netscape!!!
And you, like the rest of the world, tell me to “suck it up.” Well, maybe gargling on Microsoft cum turns you on, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth (so to speak.) Not everyone wants to be a slave to the system, so don’t yell at me for declaring my independence from it. I can’t help that you’re a slave. It’s not my problem.
Don’t know if it is such a nice thing to resurrect this thread, but it was asked at one point how to move IE favorites to Netscape bookmarks. (I’ve been living in the dark ages and did not realize that the days when Internet Explorer’s favorites was just another html file like Netscape’s bookmarks have passed…)
OK, the same question was posted to the Info-Mac Digest and here’s the response that was given, FWIW:
Microsoft has a simple, free little utility called Favtool that will convert IE favorites to Netscape bookmarks and vice versa. I would have mentioned it earlier, but I didn’t think it was appropriate, what with Microsoft being the Great Satan and all.
Great cartoon!