Warp wrote:
> Gail Shaw <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
>>> I thought Sun only made hardware?
>>>
>>> [Oh, mind you, they did do that little Java fad...]
> 
>> And MySQL. Don't forget SunOS. They may have done Solaris too, but I'm not
>> sure.
> 
>   Of course Solaris is made by Sun. And don't forget OpenOffice.

Oh yeah. And StarOffice. I completely forgot that part...

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Warp escribió:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Blizzard
> 
>> ...who?
> 
>   In my books you have stopped being a computer nerd from this moment
> forward.
> 

I have never played *any* MMORPG. And I know what WoW is and who its 
maker is.

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>>   In my books you have stopped being a computer nerd from this moment
>> forward.
>>
> 
> I have never played *any* MMORPG. And I know what WoW is and who its 
> maker is.

I don't even know what a MMORPG *is*.

[Well, I mean obviously it's a massively-multiplayer online role-playing 
game. But what the hell does that even mean anyway?]

Uh... wait... would anybody else like to hold this shovel for a minute?

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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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>
>   Of course Solaris is made by Sun. And don't forget OpenOffice.
>

I wasn't sure if it was Sun themselves, or a subsiduary. Haven't worked with
either for quite some years

I prefer to sound uncertain than to state a fact as categorically true when
it's not.

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> I don't even know what a MMORPG *is*.
>
> [Well, I mean obviously it's a massively-multiplayer online role-playing
> game. But what the hell does that even mean anyway?]

GIYF. So is wiki, for that matter.

But if you're too lazy/uninterested to do a search....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMORPG

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Invisible wrote:

> 
> Why? Because I don't play certain types of games?
> 

I'm not a gamer in even the remotest sense, and *I* knew who Blizzard was.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >>> Blizzard
> > 
> >> ...who?
> > 
> >   In my books you have stopped being a computer nerd from this moment
> > forward.

> :-(

> Why? Because I don't play certain types of games?

  I have never played a game by Blizzard, yet I know what Blizzard is.

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Invisible wrote:

> 
> Oh yeah. And StarOffice. I completely forgot that part...
> 

Speaking of wasting time downloading software ... a few years ago, I 
downloaded and tried Staroffice. I found it seriously lacking. Felt like 
MS Office circa Windows 3.1

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Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Speaking of wasting time downloading software ... a few years ago, I 
> downloaded and tried Staroffice. I found it seriously lacking. Felt like 
> MS Office circa Windows 3.1

  You should demand a refund, then.

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Invisible wrote:
>>>> Borland
>>> Are they still going?
>>
>> Sure
> 
> Oh, OK. I thought they went under after Delphi failed...
> 
>>>> Blizzard
>>> ...who?
>>
>> Diablo
>> Warcraft
>> Starcraft
>> World of Warcraft
>>
>> Gaming company.
> 
> Oh, OK. I hadn't heard of them. [But then, I've never played or even 
> seen any of the games you mention, so...]

I cringe any time I see Orchid display his ignorance.

World of Warcraft?  what kind of geek are you to not know Blizzard?! 
they are the id of hack-and-slash games...

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