Re: [WoW] How I got World of Warcraft to run on Win32

From: Grackle (nowhere_at_lalaland.ca)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:56:28 -0500

"Cyde Weys" <cyde@umd.edu> wrote in message
news:Xns9621D328B55AD2galopagosterrapincy@199.45.49.11...
> "Grackle" <nowhere@lalaland.ca> wrote in
> news:6b30e.16744$nK.783998@news20.bellglobal.com:
>
>> [WoW] How I got World of Warcraft to run on Win32
>>
>> I went to the store, bought WoW, and installed it on my home machine
>> while I ate a bag of Doritos.
>
> So what? Any idiot can install WoW on Win32. Installing it on Linux is
> an
> accomplishment. You can't brag about installing WoW on Win32.
>

Riding a pogo-stick to work on the highway is also an accomplishment. But
you don't impress anyone but other pogo-commuters. The rest of us take the
car, get to work on time, and do more productive things with the time we
saved. Just because you have a narrow and specialized knowledge about a
particular OS doesn't actually make you smarter.

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