h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Clive my darling! It's been far too long.

here let me fix you a poisoned .

(Just like old times.)

*Nobly dashes the glass from JJ's hands*

Don't drink it, warlord! The frail's running a scam.

*Licks the spilled drink*

Bromide! The humanity! Permit me to take her out behind the chemical sheds and shoot her.

Hi guys! I'm back. Real life shall no longer impinge on my frolicking with my dear old friends in the BoE... looks like we have promising new victims... erm... members...

*salutes sharply to Legion*

I seem to keep popping in and out... so hard to keep up with all this damned social networking, says I!

[glares about the room]

They're all ridiculous idiots these days anyway, Myst.

All the better for target practice and Indian burns and acid and soforth. The younger generation seems to have accepted suffering as an aspect of life. I think it was growing up with Teletubbies did it to them.

Meanwhile: WOE! DESPAIR! GNASHING-OF-THE-TEETH! My laptop has become estranged from its hard drive, leaving me with a black screen and the chilling words:

Operating System not found.

(It's okay if you just shivered a little.)

I've had this problem before, and recovered by eventually re-installing Windows rather than buying a new HD (all my stuff is backed up, as per Hally's advice). However, in the meantime - grr! How dare the Universe inconvenience me so?

I got the beat. My last hard drive dissolved all my files into meaningless hieroglyphics - completely unrecoverable - luckily I had all my essays backed up on floppy disk, until the next day when the boot of the disk sector self-destructed.

The last tem I checked, said computer was sat unregarded in the shed - after the hard drive caught fire wile trying to copy across my files to a Cd.

Flambé and Exeunt.

I backed everything up on a USB key, then lost the USB key, then the computer died. Ever get the feeling the universe has a mean sense of humour?

I have a little laptop for writing and gaming. If anything happened to her... I don't know what I'd do! (Probably get another laptop...)

I have two macs, and everything with any shred of importance backed up on a firelite hard drive.

HAHAHAHAHA. I LAUGH AT YOUR PC WOES.

I join in with the laughing.

I know too have a Mac. The hard drive catching alight really was the last straw!


~ Mwu-Ha-ha-ha-ha!

Haha! I laugh at your Mac's inability to support most games, and only shoddy support for many commonplace applications.

Not even Google likes Macs - no Mac versions of Picasa or Talk...

I laugh at the inability of your PC's commonplace applications to work properly and to tell you very proudly when they manage to do things that you didn't want them to do anyway. Macs are far superior. Deal with it.

Hally, I can't believe you ven tried that line of arguement with me.

You HAVE seen pictures of our videogame spread, haven't you? We own every goddamn system in existance, with the exception of the PS3, which is honestly just a joke.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/jadeelf/CIMG0542.jpg

Here. That's about half of it. Enjoy. Also I am making probably the most terrible of faces.

Personally, I love it when people who own Macs think they know more about computers simply because they own one. Macs, in many ways, are the hybrid cars of the computer world. They make the owner feel all superior because they've bought one, but in reality, they're not any better.

If you're a graphic designer, then yes, sure, there are advantages to using a Mac. And, no, iPhoto does not count as graphic design.

Frankly, I refuse to pay over the odds for mid-range hardware in order to be able to use an operating system that, while superior in some ways, yes, still doesn't support a very large proportion of applications.

And Jade, owning consoles doesn't make your Mac play any more games. You don't need it to play games, you may say, but this is no different than me saying I don't mind running an antivirus.

Here's my strategy (if you have a lot of money): get 1 Mac for simple programs that the PC version is a poor excuse for that form of program, 1 PC for games and things that can't run on a Mac, and 1 Lynix running system for anything that it can do.

I never said that I know a lot about computers, I merely stated that Macs are far superior. This is based entirely on my own secluded personal experience and doesn't represent any sort of reliable witnessing or anything, but for an imbecile like me to be able to edit a movie on a Mac after half an hour on the program that is pretty impressive.

*wanders back in*

What in the name of all evil things??? i leave you incharge and you have faiiled to conquor the world....

thats it im taking over here...

the lair shall now have a shark tank and all pc's shall be replaced by macs, any complaints may be sent to the complaints department - the bottom of the tank.

Hey Hally, I DONT GAME ON EITHER OF MY COMPUTERS.

That was the point I was trying to get across. It is wonderful that you love your PC, I just sort of hate them now because my toshiba laptop gave me nothing but heartache and probably several ulcers. Also I AM a graphic designer and I love it. Basely stated, I don't game on my computrons-- wait that's a lie, I have black and white on my mac mini, although one game doesn't constitute 'gamine, ' I know, but yeah.

LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN. I don't really game on my computers, and for my needs these work. They are not for everyone, and I don't profess to know jack about computers in general, just because I own a mac. ...But I also don't get .dll errors anymore, which is really nice. The end.

My hard drive no longer spontaneously combusts. This is a good thing. Ergo Macs rule.