Monkeys Don't Like Macs 78
sebFlyte writes "silicon.com is reporting on a new twist on some oft-done probability research, into the suggestion that an infinite number of monkeys will eventually produce a perfect script for Hamlet , given typewriters (or indeed keyboards) and enough time. The researchers claims that the monkeys used in their test preferred using systems running Windows XP to those running Mac OS X. Which begs the question -- do only monkeys use Windows, or can even monkeys tell Macs aren't worth bothering with?"
Neither, really (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Neither, really (Score:2)
In blind taste tests, monkeys prefer eating Golden Delicious Apples over getting their head smashed through windows 97-3.
Re:Neither, really (Score:1)
Subscription (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Subscription (Score:1)
Apple introduces zero-button mouse
Apple buys Microsoft, next version of Mac OS to be based on Longhorn
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Monkeys (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Monkeys (Score:2)
Re:Monkeys (Score:2)
wow... (Score:1)
Fools day (Score:1)
enough already (Score:1)
How'd they get their Macs? (Score:1, Troll)
Re:How'd they get their Macs? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:How'd they get their Macs? (Score:2)
tired, real news please (Score:4, Informative)
No Matter! (Score:2, Funny)
Nice real nice (Score:1)
Re:Nice real nice (Score:1)
bleh (Score:1)
Ooooooo (Score:2)
Banana!
Oooooo, eeeeee, oooooo, eeeeee
No, Apple!
Oooooo, eeeeee, oooooo, eeeeee
Fallacy! (Score:5, Insightful)
No, really. [skepdic.com]
I'm a monkey (Score:2)
Re:I'm a monkey (Score:3, Funny)
Trolling the Mac users on April 1... (Score:2)
But even monkeys can learn.... (Score:2)
Hacked (Score:2)
Everything's bigger in Texas (Score:5, Funny)
Don't know about monkeys, but an infinite number of Texans with an infinite number of shotguns, and a long enough stretch of Interstate highway, will produce a perfect script for Hamlet, albeit in Braille.
Re:Everything's bigger in Texas (Score:1)
I live in Texas (Score:1)
In a related story (Score:5, Interesting)
March to end "Beg The Question" abuse [begthequestion.info]
But seriously isn't this FlameBait?
Re:"Posted by CmdrTaco on 05-04-02 1:15" (Score:1)
April 2nd can't come soon enough. (Score:2)
One word, one syllable: Weak
H.
Monkey theory proved false... (Score:2)
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
Re:Monkey theory proved false... (Score:2)
Monkeys and apples. (Score:5, Funny)
2 weeks later, the monkey acompanied the man to the bar again. Subdued, it hopped on to the bar, grabbed a cherry, stuffed it into his rear, pulled it out, and ate it. The bartender, disgusted, asked the man why on earth he's bringing that monkey in... Why, after making a wreck last time and showing peculiar eating habbits today?
"Well", says the man, "he's learned a lot since eating that cue ball. For instance, he checks the size of anything he eats."
Enough Already! (Score:3, Funny)
I think we have enough April Fools jokes to last us the year.
Of course Monley's don't like Macs (Score:2)
let those below average intelligent people use Windows. The rest of us know what a real OS can do for us, instead of to us.
President Bush's Preference (Score:2, Funny)
Already disproven (Score:1)
I think the internet has helped to disprove this assertion.
April Fool (Score:2)
Misuse of "Begging the question" (Score:1)
Re:Misuse of "Begging the question" (Score:2)
Use dictates meaning, not vice versa.
God, I hate atheists...
Re:Misuse of "Begging the question" (Score:1)
Maybe this just proves (Score:2)
What about evolution??? (Score:1)
Evolution, my dear Watson (Score:2)