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Gates: Hardware, Not Software, Will Be Free
orthogonal writes "That's small-'f', not capital-'F' free:
according to Bill Gates, "Ten years out, in terms of actual hardware costs you can almost think of hardware as being free -- I'm not saying it will be absolutely free --...." Gates expects this almost free hardware to support two of the longest awaited breakthroughs in computing: real speech and handwriting recognition. He further predicts -- ugh! -- that software will not be written but visually designed."
I have often said that there are two kinds of environmentalists: California Stupid & Common-Sense Smart.
The "Common-Sense Smart" environmentalist realizes that electric cars receive their electricity from a coal plant & that much of it is wasted by the time the rubber hits the road. He also realizes even if we can't specifically define why pumping carbon-monoxide (& such) into the air is bad, it sure as hell doesn't seem good. She also realizes that there are bigger battles to be fought than saving some damn tree in the middle of Bloomington, Indiana.
The "California Stupid" environmentalist thinks nuclear = disaster = death. He doesn't realize that power must come from somewhere and where we're getting it now sure does more damage that the nuclear alternative. She also thinks saving a whale actually matters. They take a city vote on banning dihydrogen monoxide. Pretty soon both Carbon Monoxide & Dihydrogen Monoxide will be banned. Sure we breath out the first & 70% of us is the second, but they're greenhouse gases damn it!
In reality, I haven't been able to figure out if the second group is actually stupid or just has an agenda. But, then again, I'm not quite sure why you would be considered intelligent if the agenda you are pushing contains so many stupid points.
that is interesting. every copy of xp ive installed has taken some real abuse and kept on ticking. while i dont care for microsoft in general, xp seems to do most everything people i know need it to do. there are a few of us that run some linux stuff on the side for personal web/ftp servers, etc, but xp seems to be pretty solid. I cant imagine what could be causing such problems with your install, unless its a matter of ugrading like another reply suggests.
use your turn signal! you people act like it's divulging information to the enemy
I agree... however, the parent you replied to...
Video drivers, buggy anti-virus (which hooks every file system call you make), even third-party power management, etc.
Bad RAM could also cause subtle problems like he mentions. But it sounds more like bad componetns added to the OS.