From: Keith Rohrer Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [uk.comp.os.linux] Re: NT sucks... Except for Jungle Monkey! Date: 8 Nov 1997 18:40:52 GMT Subject: Re: NT sucks... Except for Jungle Monkey! From: roystgnr@roystgnr.jones.rice.edu (Roy Stogner) Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux, alt.os.linux.caldera, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.unix.advocacy, comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy, comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy, comp.sys.next.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy On Sun, 2 Nov 1997 19:16:30 GMT, Nathan Dorfman wrote: >>Windows advocates claims that for them NT is much easier to learn than Unix. > >I don't find NT easier to use or learn at all. Unix is much more straight- >forward and to the point; in NT you have to wade through countless icons >and menus and dialog boxes to accomplish what you want, ...which makes it easier to learn. Sure, UNIX is easier to configure once you know what you're doing, but with NT you have a nice hierarchical GUI to hold your hand through that configuration. >where in Unix >everything is stored in its respective file, and is much easier to >configure. Easier to configure, but not easier to learn to configure. >Same for Unix applications. vi may seem intimidating at >first, but in the end 10,20s/foo/bar/g is much easier than wading >through checkboxes and waiting for Word or similar to figure out that >you want to change foo to bar in lines 10 through 20. Assuming you use a text editor enough to make learning those functions (rather than being able to look through a menu for the same functionality) useful. If you just type an occasional memo, Word beats vi hands down. >> True, but Unix got more strengths and NT got more weakneses :-) . > >The only strength I can see for NT is that completely braindead >jungle monkeys can be taught to use it. Now, this I would see as a great strength for NT. Wouldn't that be a cool office to work in!?! Some annoying marketing-drone is leeching off your precious time? "Jungle Monkey, attack!" And then Jungle Monkey could take dictation for you as you send condolences to marketing-drone's next of kin. Soon, in fact, Microsoft will realize that "Jungle Monkey" is an integral part of the Windows NT experience, and will deny OEMs permission to ship copies of Windows NT without Jungle Monkey. And, finally, Jungle Monkey will be integrated into the operating system, completely replacing Windows Explorer or IE. You will be able to give Jungle Monkey simple verbal commands, like "Jungle Monkey, show me www.nasdaq.com," or "Jungle Monkey, attack the interloper," with Microsoft's patented voice recognition technology ensuring a correct response from Jungle Monkey to 97% of commands. Unfortunately, there remain certain "issues" with the Jungle Monkey implementation, such as Jungle Monkey's tendency to go insane and begin randomly slaughtering innocent bystanders upon the occurance of a "Blue Screen Of Death," (which would naturally upset Jungle Monkey greatly) but Microsoft promises that these issues will be improved upon in NT Service Pack 5. This was going to be a serious post originally, I swear.