And you thought our decision to pair a computer with a canine
on our cover was just an attempt to get you to say, "Oh, how cute!"
Trust us: We've thought a lot about this, and there's far more to
this pooch/PC connection than you might think. In fact, the more
we thought, the more similarities we found. Then we thought about
it some more and found, well, a lot of differences...
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| Favorite Food | Kibbles | Bits |
| Method used to end undesirable behavior | Hit with rolled up newspaper | Hit control-alt-delete |
| After destruction of personal property | Dog not Found | File not Found |
| Favorite Trick | Roll Over | Play Dead |
| Comic-page hero | Dogbert | Dilbert |
| Fun way to mess with their heads | Peanut butter on roof of mouth | Peanut Butter in CD-ROM drive |
| Consequence of virus | Replace valuable carpeting | Replace valuable data |
| Widely ignored government mandate | Leash Law | Communications Decency Act |
| Waste disposal tool | Pooper-scooper | Uninstaller |
| Sensitive internal procedures | Must be undertaken by fully qualified professional | May be undertaken by that guy at work who, Fixed one "kind of like it," once. |
| Method of marking territory | Lifting Leg | "Designed for Windows 95" |
| Unique behavior | Lick and drag | Click-and-drag |
| Inexplicable physical feature | Dewclaw | Scroll Lock Key |
| Estimated Lifespan | 12 years | 12 months |
| At end of useful life | Euthanasia | Tax Deduction |