advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

Arthur C. Clark has stated:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

And it is true... what a great mind!

But Vista is certainly NOT magic...

Searching for drivers, fiddling with software versions,
blue screens, strange bugs, copy move and delete that takes millennia,
bad design, and horrible slow performance is CERTAINLY NOT MAGIC!!!

Or it could be black magic.. something like a curse on your PC!

Let me GRADE the each OS on how magical it is:

XP is 10 out of 10. BECAUSE IT WORKS incredibly well, so well its like
Magic!

Vista is 0, it is a defective, bloated ,buggy, ugly, distorted thing that
belongs in the trash bin.
Perhaps its even -5 because its sinister.

Linux is 5 because if you remain to whats on the repositories everything is
ok...
once you need to install different stuff the magic goes away.

"Tiberius" <> wrote in message
news:46fff21b$...
> Arthur C. Clark has stated:
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
>
> And it is true... what a great mind!

Its the words of a superstitous person.
Just because you can't understand something doesn't make it magic.
Anything so advanced I can't understand it is just something so advanced I
can't understand it and not magic.
Show me some magic and I will look for the technology that makes it work.

Tiberius wrote:
> Arthur C. Clark has stated:
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

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Problem is, idiots like you confuse "indistinguishable' with "is".
Frank

dennis@home wrote:
>
> "Tiberius" <> wrote in message
> news:46fff21b$...
>> Arthur C. Clark has stated:
>> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
>>
>> And it is true... what a great mind!
>
> Its the words of a superstitous person.
> Just because you can't understand something doesn't make it magic.
> Anything so advanced I can't understand it is just something so advanced
> I can't understand it and not magic.
> Show me some magic and I will look for the technology that makes it work.
>
>


I'll take Arthur Clarke's version any day, I don't know how you can call
that "Superstition", it is perfectly factual.

Course why I should have expected better does demonstrate that even I
can be fooled...

dennis@home wrote:
>
> "Tiberius" <> wrote in message
> news:46fff21b$...
>> Arthur C. Clark has stated:
>> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
>>
>> And it is true... what a great mind!
>
> Its the words of a superstitous person.


Sorry, but you've just demonstrated a woeful ignorance of modern
literature *and* science, if you didn't understand that quote.


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"Bruce Chambers" <3t> wrote in message
news:...
> dennis@home wrote:
>>
>> "Tiberius" <> wrote in message
>> news:46fff21b$...
>>> Arthur C. Clark has stated:
>>> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
>>>
>>> And it is true... what a great mind!
>>
>> Its the words of a superstitous person.
>
>
> Sorry, but you've just demonstrated a woeful ignorance of modern
> literature *and* science, if you didn't understand that quote.

While you may think you can derive something about my knowledge of
literature I don't see how you can derive anything about my understanding of
science from what I said.
If you think you can then there is something wrong with your reasoning.

PS magic doesn't exist so its very easy to distinguish technology, I feel
sorry for you if you actually believe magic exists. ;-)

franky boy, when are you going to start helping people in here...?

You have an awfully big mouth when calling other people names.. but what are
YOU doing?

all your posts are attacks and stupid comments, and endless quarrels with
various other posters.. go on.. give us the good example
and start doing something useful for a change...

I say you are incapable of helping, because you lack even the basics of
computer knowledge..

Prove me wrong. Prove me wrong and I will never call you a stupid
micro-brained monkey again.




"Frank" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Tiberius wrote:
>> Arthur C. Clark has stated:
>> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Problem is, idiots like you confuse "indistinguishable' with "is".
> Frank

Tiberius wrote:

> franky boy, when are you going to start helping people in here...?
>
> You have an awfully big mouth when calling other people names.. but what are
> YOU doing?
>
> all your posts are attacks and stupid comments, and endless quarrels with
> various other posters.. go on.. give us the good example
> and start doing something useful for a change...
>
> I say you are incapable of helping, because you lack even the basics of
> computer knowledge..
>
> Prove me wrong. Prove me wrong and I will never call you a stupid
> micro-brained monkey again.


Prove to me you even have Vista, then that you have a brain and then you
can start answering the salient questions I have asked about your
industrial/mechanical and computer design education/experience that you
so often allude to when you criticize Vista.
Otherwise, get back into that cardboard space ship you built in your
moms basement and disappear...again...and this time forever.
Frank

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
>
> And it is true... what a great mind!
>
> But Vista is certainly NOT magic...

nor is it advanced thecnology if it were we wouldn't be on this newsgroup he
be out there actually doing something important on our system.

--
Jonathan Perreault

Personnal Advice To You:
#1: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work, Or It'll Undermine You As A User.
#2: Torture Windows (Any) Now Before It Tortures You
#3: Windows Is Bad Enough In English, Why Get It In Another Language

Best Comments From Users:
No Matter The Problem Even With Linux, It's Microsoft's And Windows's Faults

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
"Tiberius" <> wrote in message
news:46fff21b$...
> Arthur C. Clark has stated:
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
>
> And it is true... what a great mind!
>
> But Vista is certainly NOT magic...
>
> Searching for drivers, fiddling with software versions,
> blue screens, strange bugs, copy move and delete that takes millennia,
> bad design, and horrible slow performance is CERTAINLY NOT MAGIC!!!
>
> Or it could be black magic.. something like a curse on your PC!
>
> Let me GRADE the each OS on how magical it is:
>
> XP is 10 out of 10. BECAUSE IT WORKS incredibly well, so well its like
> Magic!
>
> Vista is 0, it is a defective, bloated ,buggy, ugly, distorted thing that
> belongs in the trash bin.
> Perhaps its even -5 because its sinister.
>
> Linux is 5 because if you remain to whats on the repositories everything
> is ok...
> once you need to install different stuff the magic goes away.
>
>
>

dennis@home wrote:
>
> "Bruce Chambers" <3t> wrote in message
> news:...
>> dennis@home wrote:
>>>
>>> "Tiberius" <> wrote in message
>>> news:46fff21b$...
>>>> Arthur C. Clark has stated:
>>>> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
>>>>
>>>> And it is true... what a great mind!
>>>
>>> Its the words of a superstitous person.
>>
>>
>> Sorry, but you've just demonstrated a woeful ignorance of modern
>> literature *and* science, if you didn't understand that quote.
>
> While you may think you can derive something about my knowledge of
> literature I don't see how you can derive anything about my
> understanding of science from what I said.
> If you think you can then there is something wrong with your reasoning.
>
> PS magic doesn't exist so its very easy to distinguish technology, I
> feel sorry for you if you actually believe magic exists. ;-)


That only makes you look more ignorant then you did first time around.
Clarke was actually saying that very thing...