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Olympic Committee Chooses XP Over Vista

Posted by samzenpus on from the if-it's-not-as-broken dept.

Vinit writes "The popularity of Windows XP is still making things difficult for Vista. Now Vista has again suffered a major setback, with Lenovo (Olympic 2008' official sponsor) installing XP on it's machines to run the Olympic Games' vital PC-related tasks. Vista will only be used in internet lounges set up for athletes to use during the games."

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  1. Re:Not surprising by okinawa_hdr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is off-topic, but what I find amazing is that we BOTH posted the first post at exactly: Wednesday August 15, @07:56AM

    We have no life, but we can embrace this together!

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    okinawa japan
  2. Its not so difficult by orzetto · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... installing XP on it's machines...

    Why is it so difficult to get?

    • It's: the apostrophe indicates something is missing: he's (he is), she's (she is), it's (it is).
    • Its: this is the possessive, since possessive do not have apostrophes: his, her(s), its.

    Really, I have never lived in an English-speaking country, but I am amazed at how bad supposedly native people spell. An orthographic reform will never be too early, IMHO.

    Yeah, yeah, you can mod down the grammar Nazi now.

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    1. Re:Its not so difficult by pev · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I think there's a critical observation to note - these days there's a clear separation between "American English" and "English English". In American English it's a kind of lazier language with many more complicated rules dropped and things shortened or slackened. That doesn't necessarily make it wrong, just a different parallel evolution. I wouldn't be surprised if they completely dropped the apostrophe completely one day as it would be easier. At the end of the day, people know what you mean with or without it so why use it in the first place?

      Still that still doesn't excuse American flight attendants use of the word "de-plane". Really, who thought of such a ridiculous and superfluous word?!

      ~Pev

  3. Re:Not surprising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, you two reloaded and reloaded and had just sixty seconds to get the first post in during the same minute. Truly, an amazing achievement.

    Your parents must be very proud.

  4. its not it's by BadERA · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    its not it's

    its not it is

    get it?

    got it?

    goooooooooood.

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  5. congratulations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After almost 2 years of browsing at -1, you have single handedly managed to get me to raise my threshold to 0.

    Congratulations.

  6. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey - you insensitive clod - that was my shit!