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I can't remember where I read it, but Mac is thinking of switching from Motorola to IBM's processors. The IBM processors would include 64 bit processors. But Intel has come out to criticize that desktop users have no need for 64 bit processing. Don't they realize that desktop users also have not need for 3.0 GHz processors?

In a world without <font color=red>walls </font color=red>or <font color=green>fences </font color=green>, what use have we for <font color=red>Windows </font color=red>or <font color=green>Gates.</font color=green>

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Of course they realize that, that's how they get away with producing a 3GHz P4 that only has the performance a 2GHz PIII would have.

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Reply to Crashman

rofl personaly I cant stand either company, amd is the way to go. Apple is for gay nerds who cant buuild their own system and teenage girls who want their computer to be a pretty translucent pink

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Reply to papasmurf

I couldn't agree with you more.

In a world without <font color=red>walls </font color=red>or <font color=green>fences </font color=green>, what use have we for <font color=red>Windows </font color=red>or <font color=green>Gates.</font color=green>

Reply to icy_oblivion

Dude. I know a bunch of Gay Nerds that swear by their PC's. What's with the gay this and gay that? Are you Homophobic or something?

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Reply to Schmide

Gay is also defined as brilliant in color, so macs are that:)

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Reply to Flamethrower205

Mac's ()wN J00 4LL, Ph00Lz!!!!!!

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Reply to ejsmith2

If you look at the context of his last two usages of the word Gay. It has been used in a derogatory manner. It's his preference to do so. I'm just calling him on it.

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Reply to Schmide

The word "gay" occurs once in his context. Specifically, he is referring to gay nerds who like macs which are multicolored. Given the definition, it can be used as adjective to also mean liking colored objects, as it is further defined as something that is pleasing.

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Reply to Flamethrower205

I was also referring to the thread "gay lan party going down"

You'd think that someone with a handle of a small blue woodland creature would be conscious of Gay people.

I'm sure you're right and he's using the word "gay" in a complementary manner.

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Reply to Schmide

homophobic? hell no, I do not fear fags, I mearly hate them.

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Reply to papasmurf

Eh?...I think the Mac´s look far more better than most PC´s I´ve seen.
Just look at most of the computer cases to PC´s, no taste whatsoever...why the
[-peep-] would anyone paint it, for example purple with UV flourocent pink lines and mint
green dots all over the place...that´s just so tasteless.
Seems like things have not changed so much since the 80´s when it comes
to PC´s...
sure, I´ve seen a few modded cases too that looks marvelous, but that´s very rare.

I think most PC users don´t have any taste when it comes to design, they are
very technically oriented though.

Mac users are the opposite.

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Reply to Jake75

Your choice, I just wanted to know where you stood. Have fun hating people.

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Reply to Schmide

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homophobic? hell no, I do not fear fags, I mearly hate them.



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Reply to dhlucke

Pst I think he means guys that like guys... you know in that other way... more than a friend way... Im sure hes like all of us and like a little bit of lesbian though:).

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Reply to spud

I know I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body...

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Reply to ejsmith2

I'm an Extraterrestrial Consciousness caught in a humand body searching the means for my liberation and return to the Ocean of all Consciousness!

I'd give bisexuality a go! Why not? It's an illusion anyway, right? So WTF!

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Reply to pike

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Apple is for gay nerds who cant buuild their own system and teenage girls who want their computer to be a pretty translucent pink


Never mind the "gay nerds" for now, but what's this about "teenage girls"?

Man, wake up! TEENAGE GIRLS!

Why knock them? Christ Allmighty! WTF is wrong with you?

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<pre>well, just till you see through the illusion! haha</pre><p>
:)

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Reply to pike

good point, we should buy a buch of these pieces of [-peep-] and then lure hot teenagers into our beds *evil laugh*

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Reply to papasmurf

are you trying to come out of the closet? I know a few people who could accomodate you in this regard shcmide. Hey Wingding check it out fresh meat!

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Reply to papasmurf

I find it interesting how the word "gay" has changed its meaning.

Once upon a time it meant 'happy' or 'merry' or 'full of energy'. At some point it also meant 'bright' or 'colourful' particularly when refering to painted objects.

Then gay became an insult, refering to homosexuality.

Now we have gay pride, though its still used as an insult.

Interestinly in certain contexts the word gay now also means 'just plain dumb/stupid'
i.e. "man, that program you wrote was gay" or
"look at that honda civic with big spoiler and twin fartpipes... how gay!"

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Reply to lhgpoobaa

You bad:)

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Reply to Flamethrower205

And then there's the l337 H4x0|2S version of gay- ghey.

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Reply to Flamethrower205

First thing, I am very comfortable with my sexual orientation. I'll leave it up in the air, as I don't care what people think, and in general it should not be an issue to anyone.

I have no idea what part of the US you live in, but where I live it is very common to meet Gay people everywhere and it has become an accepted part of our society.

Speaking of coming out. PapaSmurf was a very fluffy character that never pursued Smurfette. Could you be compensating for something?

Common usage of words often changes. You should check the usage note at <A HREF="http:// www.dictionary.com/search?q=gay" target="_new">http:// www.dictionary.com/search?q=gay</A>.

What other groups of people do you hate?

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Reply to Schmide

I wonder where the word gay originated... it sounds german

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Reply to papasmurf

mostly just gays and sandmonkeys but I have been known to point and laugh at democrats as well

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Reply to papasmurf

Here you go. a nice big illegal cut and paste job.

Gay

Much commentary about this adjective referring to homosexuals exists, mostly
having to do with usage. Our concern here, however, is etymology and two mistaken
notions prevail. The first is that gay meaning homosexual originated as an acronym
for Good As You. The second is that it is of relatively recent origin, dating only to the
late 1960s. Both of these ideas are in error.

Many, Bryson among them, believe that gay came to mean homosexual only in the
late 1960s with the Stonewall riot and the rise of the gay rights movement. This is not
the case. The error these people are making is confusing the adoption of the term by
the heterosexual community, and thus the English language as a whole, with its
origin. The term is in fact much older, being used by homosexuals to refer to
themselves with certainty as early as the 1930s, and possibly as early as the 1860s.

Lighter gives the earliest usage cite as a 1922 quote from Gertrude Stein's "Miss
Furr & Mrs. Skeene" which appeared in Vanity Fair. It is uncertain, however, if
Stein's use of gay in this case is a reference to lesbianism or to the [then] conventional
sense of gay meaning happy:

"They were ... gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, ...
they were quite regularly gay."

The first unequivocal written use of gay to mean homosexual is in 1933 in Ford and
Tyler's Young & Evil. In 1938 in the movie Bringing Up Baby, the character David,
played by Cary Grant, when asked why he is wearing women's clothing replies,
"Because I just went gay all of a sudden." In retrospect, this is probably a joke
slipped in by the screenwriters intended to slip past the censors. In their 1941 book
Sexual Variations, Gershon Legman and G.V. Henry cite gay as a slang term for
homosexual, which indicates that it was in use for some time prior.

Lighter also indirectly cites an 1868 song by female impersonator Will S. Hays titled,
Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store. The lyrics do not explicitly link the word
with homosexuality, but they can be interpreted that way, especially if sung by a man
in drag. Then again, that may be reading too much into the lyrics. You be the judge:

"It's about a chap, perhaps you know,
I'm told he is 'Nobody's beau,'
But maybe you all knew that before,
He's a lively clerk in a Dry-Goods Store.

"O! Augustus Dolphus is his name,
From Skiddy-ma-dink they say he came,
He's a handsome man and he's proud and poor,
This gay young clerk in the Dry-Goods Store."

OK, so gay was definitely in use in the 1930s, and perhaps earlier, but how did the
term come to be associated with homosexuals? Several possibilities exist, but the
acronym for "Good As You" is not one of them.

The most likely explanation is that it derives from gaycat or geycat, a slang term for a
tramp or hobo who is new to the road. Gaycats were commonly in the company of
older tramps, implying a homosexual relationship. The term, according to Lighter,
dates to at least the 1890s. Gaycats were employed as lookouts while other hoboes
committed crimes. The OED2 cites the 1935 Underworld & Prison Slang by N. Ersine
as defining geycat as a homosexual boy. The origin of gaycat is unknown. Green,
however, says a gay cat was a tramp who offered sexual services to women.

Another possible origin is the late nineteenth century slang usage of gay to mean
promiscuous. A gay house meant a brothel. This sexual sense of the term could have
become associated with homosexuals and the heterosexual sense lost.


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Reply to lhgpoobaa

Thank you...I have an essay due monday anyway:)

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Reply to Flamethrower205

No need to (LURE) them!

Just talk to yourSelf within them! Then, tell yourSelf: ok! I`ll touch you, one LAST time!

In order for this to work, you gotta understand it!
In order to understand it, you gotta be pure of heart!
In order to be pure of heart, you gotta let go of all that Ego wants!
Letting go of ALL that Ego wants is the tough part...:(

:))

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Reply to pike

...lego my ego!

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Reply to papasmurf

suit yourSelf!

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Reply to pike

Intel may say 64 bits isn't needed for the desktop... but as soon AMD gets a greater share because of it they will introduce a 64 bits CPU too.

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