I still don't see Microsoft FORCING anything on anyone. Upgrading Windows or Office might require upgrades in other places but upgrading is still optional. I don't remember paying $15 each for Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 Enterprise and thinking,"Thank God this upgrade wasn't expensive." I'm pretty sure it was more along the lines of "Wow, I'm going to take advantage of this deal. Ultimate and Office 2007 both have features I want and look easier to use." I was right. My laptop won't support most of the new eyecandy but Vista has more cool things and features and Office 2007 is really easy to use.
Don't forget the important part, funding. Where are Boeing and Lockheed going the get the hundreds of billions of dollars to develop and build spacecraft? How are they going to pay the sub-contractors? Those are 2 huge companies but they need the backing of a government to pay for things.
If I was running servers with Phenoms and I found out I needed to spend thousands of dollars more on servers to get the performance I should have been getting, I'd ask for a refund and go with Intel. That isn't something to be taken lightly.
By your reasoning, it is alright to tell customers incorrect performance limits of a product because they might never find out?
Anyone else find it amusing that the consensus on Slashdot seems to be that a Microsoft monopoly of OSes is evil but an Apple monopoly of mp3 players needs to be defended? What I find amusing is people claiming, after reading a story like this, that Apple has a monopoly in MP3 players.
I hope you were joking. What I understood was "blah blah blah Linux blah blah(IMAP) blah blah blah blah blah email blah blah blah blah spam-ridden blah blah blah."
I think you got your terms switched. Your rant makes more sense if manned is replaced with unmanned and vice-versa. So what if a robot goes to Mars. That doesn't get ME really any closer to going to Mars. Human collection gathering is far superior to robotic collection. The rovers on Mars slowly drive up to a rock and take a picture. Almost 15 minutes later, scientists get a picture of the rock. They then spend a couple hours examining the picture. If they decide to take a sample, it will take another 15 minutes for the signal drill to reach the rover. A human on Mars would say,"Hey, this rock looks interesting!" and a couple minutes later at most continues searching for interesting items. Time to take a sample with a robot: hours and hours. Time for a human: minutes. Do you really think that NASA would only send people that know how to fly the spacecraft to Mars and not send any scientists or at least tell the astronauts what to look for?
I'd like to be the first to welcome you to the 21st century. These days, we can drop bombs through a specific pane of glass on a window if we have to and the bad guys often still get away because of their proximity to religious buildings or other protected areas. War-fighting has changed a lot since the 20th century.
The bad: Microsoft Office comes with Outlook, which is vital for most business users. For this reason, OpenOffice isn't an alternative to Microsoft's corporate solutions. It's also lacks some of the advanced design functions of the 2007 version of Word.
The Bad: The software suffers a few bugs that could be something of a hurdle for newbies. It's in the advanced pre-release stages, meaning the team developing it hasn't deemed it suitable for general release. Conclusion: MediaPortal is ideal for anyone who isn't afraid of looking at a program's preferences screen. If looking at settings confuses and scared you into a dark corner, stick with Microsoft's Media Centre for now.
The Bad: VLC won't let you sync your media library with your new MP3 player. There are no radio services directly available through VLC.
The Bad: WinZip offers a vast array of features for advanced users, such as intelligent compression, which chooses the most efficient archiving method based on the type of files being compressed. WinZip will also let you schedule backups and periodic and automatic updating of existing backup archives.
The bad: It's not as attractive as the standard IM chat clients and it's not blindingly obvious which contacts are part of each network.
The bad: The interface is quite basic and not as accessible to less tech-savvy users. More sophisticated and well-designed wizards in programs such as Nero are better at easing newbies through the creation process. The program is also a little slow when preparing to burn a disc. Conclusion: Technophobes, however, will prefer the idiot-proof wizards provided by commercial software bundled with pre-built PCs.
The bad: While it's superbly kitted out for home users and podcasters, it can't match commercial products like Adobe's Audition software for studio recording. The GUI is also rather plain and not as easy to read as some paid-for alternatives. Conclusion: Be prepared for a steep learning curve.
The bad: Firefox can sometimes devour a system's RAM. It can also take a few seconds longer to load a page than Opera or Internet Explorer.
It seems to me like the programs work but if you want more advanced features or a prettier/easier to use interface you have to buy the non-OSS software.
Since Linux? I told Vista I have a monitor to the right of my laptop screen and it said,"Here you go!" I told Ubuntu I had a monitor to the right of my laptop and it said,"WTF? Don't you mean you have a screen to the left?" "No, the screen is to the right." "No it isn't." "Fine, make the screen on the left the default screen." "Ok. Nah, just kidding."
Your ability to put words together in a sentence continues to amaze me. You are a Truther, aren't you? Only a Truther would continue to use the wrong words after it has been pointed out that they are the wrong words. The idea of stealing ideas arises during childhood and for most people is shown to be wrong. When will you see that ideas can't be stolen?
You mean this? "Claiming something in terms of absolutes is often a sign of ignorance." That is just a general statement. I see nothing personal about it.
Ideas are definitely not property that can be stolen. Even if you "steal" one of my ideas, I still have the idea. They are still property. I have yet to hear a convincing argument that says otherwise.
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SP1 will reduce the number of prompts.
Tell your friend to run codeblocks as an administrator.
I still don't see Microsoft FORCING anything on anyone. Upgrading Windows or Office might require upgrades in other places but upgrading is still optional. I don't remember paying $15 each for Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 Enterprise and thinking,"Thank God this upgrade wasn't expensive." I'm pretty sure it was more along the lines of "Wow, I'm going to take advantage of this deal. Ultimate and Office 2007 both have features I want and look easier to use." I was right. My laptop won't support most of the new eyecandy but Vista has more cool things and features and Office 2007 is really easy to use.
Don't forget the important part, funding. Where are Boeing and Lockheed going the get the hundreds of billions of dollars to develop and build spacecraft? How are they going to pay the sub-contractors? Those are 2 huge companies but they need the backing of a government to pay for things.
The backlight on my old phone hurt my eyes, so you know what I did?
I turned it down. Problem solved.
Wal-Mart enables me to throw cheap heavy objects through windows because they sell heavy objects. That doesn't make Wal-Mart responsible.
They are often roads that go through residential areas that are located next to industrial areas.
Moving into or out of the village would be a royal pain if they have moving vans the size of the ones in the States.
If I was running servers with Phenoms and I found out I needed to spend thousands of dollars more on servers to get the performance I should have been getting, I'd ask for a refund and go with Intel. That isn't something to be taken lightly.
By your reasoning, it is alright to tell customers incorrect performance limits of a product because they might never find out?
I know what the context is. I'm not stupid. If you think Apple has a monopoly, you are wrong.
Even if the part only cost $50, I'm sure the engineers and marketing weren't free.
You do know that WMP11 is out now, right? I think they vastly improved the WMP experience in 10.
I hope you were joking. What I understood was "blah blah blah Linux blah blah(IMAP) blah blah blah blah blah email blah blah blah blah spam-ridden blah blah blah."
I think you got your terms switched. Your rant makes more sense if manned is replaced with unmanned and vice-versa. So what if a robot goes to Mars. That doesn't get ME really any closer to going to Mars. Human collection gathering is far superior to robotic collection. The rovers on Mars slowly drive up to a rock and take a picture. Almost 15 minutes later, scientists get a picture of the rock. They then spend a couple hours examining the picture. If they decide to take a sample, it will take another 15 minutes for the signal drill to reach the rover. A human on Mars would say,"Hey, this rock looks interesting!" and a couple minutes later at most continues searching for interesting items. Time to take a sample with a robot: hours and hours. Time for a human: minutes. Do you really think that NASA would only send people that know how to fly the spacecraft to Mars and not send any scientists or at least tell the astronauts what to look for?
I don't see where the leap of faith is. Companies have always claimed that ad-supported material would be cheaper but have never followed through.
I'd like to be the first to welcome you to the 21st century. These days, we can drop bombs through a specific pane of glass on a window if we have to and the bad guys often still get away because of their proximity to religious buildings or other protected areas. War-fighting has changed a lot since the 20th century.
Are you serious?
If your point was that you are indeed a MS fanboi, he did do quite well. I ditched my 1 year old iPaq for the iPhone because of all that he is saying.
Firefox 3 itself has no text? That is a huge departure from standard web browsers!
The bad: Microsoft Office comes with Outlook, which is vital for most business users. For this reason, OpenOffice isn't an alternative to Microsoft's corporate solutions. It's also lacks some of the advanced design functions of the 2007 version of Word.
The Bad: The software suffers a few bugs that could be something of a hurdle for newbies. It's in the advanced pre-release stages, meaning the team developing it hasn't deemed it suitable for general release.
Conclusion: MediaPortal is ideal for anyone who isn't afraid of looking at a program's preferences screen. If looking at settings confuses and scared you into a dark corner, stick with Microsoft's Media Centre for now.
The Bad: VLC won't let you sync your media library with your new MP3 player. There are no radio services directly available through VLC.
The Bad: WinZip offers a vast array of features for advanced users, such as intelligent compression, which chooses the most efficient archiving method based on the type of files being compressed. WinZip will also let you schedule backups and periodic and automatic updating of existing backup archives.
The bad: It's not as attractive as the standard IM chat clients and it's not blindingly obvious which contacts are part of each network.
The bad: The interface is quite basic and not as accessible to less tech-savvy users. More sophisticated and well-designed wizards in programs such as Nero are better at easing newbies through the creation process. The program is also a little slow when preparing to burn a disc.
Conclusion: Technophobes, however, will prefer the idiot-proof wizards provided by commercial software bundled with pre-built PCs.
The bad: While it's superbly kitted out for home users and podcasters, it can't match commercial products like Adobe's Audition software for studio recording. The GUI is also rather plain and not as easy to read as some paid-for alternatives.
Conclusion: Be prepared for a steep learning curve.
The bad: Firefox can sometimes devour a system's RAM. It can also take a few seconds longer to load a page than Opera or Internet Explorer.
It seems to me like the programs work but if you want more advanced features or a prettier/easier to use interface you have to buy the non-OSS software.
I can only hope it doesn't have as many grammatical errors as the summary.
Does it to fail so hard?
Since Linux? I told Vista I have a monitor to the right of my laptop screen and it said,"Here you go!" I told Ubuntu I had a monitor to the right of my laptop and it said,"WTF? Don't you mean you have a screen to the left?" "No, the screen is to the right." "No it isn't." "Fine, make the screen on the left the default screen." "Ok. Nah, just kidding."
Your ability to put words together in a sentence continues to amaze me. You are a Truther, aren't you? Only a Truther would continue to use the wrong words after it has been pointed out that they are the wrong words. The idea of stealing ideas arises during childhood and for most people is shown to be wrong. When will you see that ideas can't be stolen?
You mean this? "Claiming something in terms of absolutes is often a sign of ignorance." That is just a general statement. I see nothing personal about it.
Ideas are definitely not property that can be stolen. Even if you "steal" one of my ideas, I still have the idea. They are still property. I have yet to hear a convincing argument that says otherwise.