Right. Despite atheism being on the rise in the US and extremism being relegated to the fringes, this Musuem represents the true face of America.
This Museum is to religion what Tom Cruise is to science.
...and yet it takes me about 40 minutes to reinstall Vista and update all of my drivers.
This is a bogus comparison. I could say it took me 7 days to install Feisty Fawn because I had to download the ISO, then I had to drive to the store and get some writable DVDs, then my DVD drive went out and I had to go buy a new one and install it, and then I found out the ISO was corrupt and had to download it again, but I was late paying my broadband bill so it got shut off and I had to pay it and wait a few days for it to get turned back on, and finally I downloaded it, burned it, and got it installed.
I tried [Ubuntu] for a file/print server. One of my raid drives went out. Took me a few days to figure out how to get it hooked up again. Then I realized, I could've done this in 5 minutes on [Windows], so why am I messing with [Ubuntu]? I installed [Windows], set everything in under an hour, and haven't had to touch it since.
Now, feel free to swap out [Ubuntu]/[Windows] with any other operating system combination and repost this response on every other "My OS is better than your OS" battle.
Final Fantasy XII was great. Especially when compared to X-2 (the only one I've never finished. When I saw the dance number in the intro I knew I was in trouble. And dancing to cast spel...I should stop there...)
Anyway, I play Final Fantasy now because that's what I do. A Final Fantasy comes out, I play it. It's like the sun comes up and it goes down. It's a force of nature.
The only way I WOULDN'T play a Final Fantasy is if, say, they made all the lead characters the guys from N'Sync or somthing......almost like X-2, where all the girls were from girl bands or something.
You don't let the garbage collector determine when shared resources get closed. You explicitly close it yourself when you're done with it. Closing a stream and deleting the object that manages it are two different things
The immediate lack of adoption of Vista doesn't mean people are dissatisfied with Microsoft and are looking for something else. XP is a great OS, and many people just don't see the point in upgrading yet.
Vista was years late, and the future of processors; cell, multi-core, distributed computing, internet-based applications, cell phone computers - will be beyond Microsoft's narrow, one-user/one-cpu, world view.
Because after all, Windows Vista only uses one core if your processor has more than one. Any other cores are secretly used by the OS to generate pure evil.
Don't get me wrong, I'm with you. I like the idea of an OS being locked down on install and let me start only the services I need. But I'm a developer, so I'm familiar with computer management. But a lot of people are reluctant to change things in the OS for fear of breaking something and not knowing how to get the computer back to the way it was before. Microsoft has to cater to these users. So I install windows and go about securing it and then get on with my life.
..well...what SHOULD the response have been?
"Microsoft has also set up a military strike team that can travel through time, stopping virus and trojan developers before they infect the future."
It's not about if Windows STILL crashes. Of corse it does. So does any OS. But it's considerably less likely for XP/Vista to do so now. I've developed on XP for years, and the only times it has hit me with the BSOD is when hardware has gone out.
I haven't seen a BSOD in ages. Back in the Win98 days in college I did my assignments on linux and ported it because a core dump was more friendly than a BSOD. Once I moved to XP, BSODs virtually went away, so I didn't need to use linux anymore. I really only see them now when I'm adding new hardware and there's a conflict somewhere, or a piece of hardware goes bad. So, I see maybe one or two a year.
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I'll even further that.
One of these days, Microsoft will completely cease to exist. The end has already begun.
It may not be in the next five years...or even 5 billion years...but it's coming.
"I get way more done on my Sun Ultra 25 than my silly Windows Craptop."
Of corse I get way more done on my silly Windows Craptop than I would get done on a Sun Ultra 25.
Wierd. I guess the lesson is that there is no one perfect solution for everyone...
Of corse when Joe Sixpack asks "Can Linux run Windows?", and receives a "No" in response, he'll ask for the the one that has Windows on it.
(And no, he won't understand "But you can emulate windows on Linux.")
As for "Windows is rapidly becoming irrelevant"....irrelevant how? Linux is free, but so is Windows. You buy a new Dell and it 'comes with' windows.
Shodan was one of the greatest game villians ever. (HAL9000 anyone?)
I can't imagine a System Shock spiritual successor without a Shodan spiritual successor to be in it.
Right. Despite atheism being on the rise in the US and extremism being relegated to the fringes, this Musuem represents the true face of America. This Museum is to religion what Tom Cruise is to science.
'godless atheist' is redundant.
Just 'atheist' will suffice.
Did nobody learn anything from The Quiet Earth?
When you die at the exact moment the field goes active, you are transformed to some alternate dimension.
MIT must be stopped!
Centauri rules. Go Alyx!
...and yet it takes me about 40 minutes to reinstall Vista and update all of my drivers.
This is a bogus comparison. I could say it took me 7 days to install Feisty Fawn because I had to download the ISO, then I had to drive to the store and get some writable DVDs, then my DVD drive went out and I had to go buy a new one and install it, and then I found out the ISO was corrupt and had to download it again, but I was late paying my broadband bill so it got shut off and I had to pay it and wait a few days for it to get turned back on, and finally I downloaded it, burned it, and got it installed.
I tried [Ubuntu] for a file/print server. One of my raid drives went out. Took me a few days to figure out how to get it hooked up again. Then I realized, I could've done this in 5 minutes on [Windows], so why am I messing with [Ubuntu]? I installed [Windows], set everything in under an hour, and haven't had to touch it since.
Now, feel free to swap out [Ubuntu]/[Windows] with any other operating system combination and repost this response on every other "My OS is better than your OS" battle.
Final Fantasy XII was great. Especially when compared to X-2 (the only one I've never finished. When I saw the dance number in the intro I knew I was in trouble. And dancing to cast spel...I should stop there...) Anyway, I play Final Fantasy now because that's what I do. A Final Fantasy comes out, I play it. It's like the sun comes up and it goes down. It's a force of nature. The only way I WOULDN'T play a Final Fantasy is if, say, they made all the lead characters the guys from N'Sync or somthing. .....almost like X-2, where all the girls were from girl bands or something.
You don't let the garbage collector determine when shared resources get closed. You explicitly close it yourself when you're done with it. Closing a stream and deleting the object that manages it are two different things
The immediate lack of adoption of Vista doesn't mean people are dissatisfied with Microsoft and are looking for something else. XP is a great OS, and many people just don't see the point in upgrading yet.
...they'll announce "We finally have the technology to save Lincoln."
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If Lincoln were alive, what would he be doing today?
Clawing desperately at the lid of his coffin.
It would come with an Ocarina controller. The game would include songs such as 'Greensleaves', 'Scarborough Fair', and 'Crazy Train'.
Don't get me wrong, I'm with you. I like the idea of an OS being locked down on install and let me start only the services I need. But I'm a developer, so I'm familiar with computer management. But a lot of people are reluctant to change things in the OS for fear of breaking something and not knowing how to get the computer back to the way it was before. Microsoft has to cater to these users. So I install windows and go about securing it and then get on with my life.
If they don't have the knowledge to lock it down, they won't have the knowledge to unlock it, either.
..well...what SHOULD the response have been? "Microsoft has also set up a military strike team that can travel through time, stopping virus and trojan developers before they infect the future."
It's not about if Windows STILL crashes. Of corse it does. So does any OS. But it's considerably less likely for XP/Vista to do so now. I've developed on XP for years, and the only times it has hit me with the BSOD is when hardware has gone out.
I haven't seen a BSOD in ages. Back in the Win98 days in college I did my assignments on linux and ported it because a core dump was more friendly than a BSOD. Once I moved to XP, BSODs virtually went away, so I didn't need to use linux anymore. I really only see them now when I'm adding new hardware and there's a conflict somewhere, or a piece of hardware goes bad. So, I see maybe one or two a year.