Yes, but the point still is you have have a choice.
You can install Linux, buy a mac, or use XP without updates. Or become a neophite and give up technology all together.
You still have the choice. Microsoft will not force you to use vista. Unless you consider losing access to updates being forced
But you have the choice to run XP without updates or without Antivirus. All they would be doing is not supplying updates anymore. But, you can still run xp.
OK, its not slower if you have a decent machine. Its Safer because it prompts you to do everything instead of just assuming you want to run it. And it is more reliable if you have new hardware.
The problem is people are running it on old hardware. So, its good if you are running new hardware. In fact as i said earlier, it has been more beneficial for me. So its not crap for me. Its good for me. Just not for you.
So quit using "crap" because its subjective and instead use "not good for me"
You have freedom of choice to do all that I mentioned or run your machine unprotected when they drop the support life cycle, so you are not being forced because you can choose how much protection you actually want to run with.
Get a new laptop from someone who lets you have your XP. (That would be the maker of crapware, Dell).
Buy a mac.
Download Linux and run that.
Take their existing copy of XP if they have it. Then...this is good...buy an new laptop...AND DO WHAT?
install it on their new laptop. Its amazing how that works.
Its about choice, you can drive off a cliff if you want. No one will force you or stop you.
secondly, does anyone remember XP's release date? The first thing was oh no.. my drivers don't run on it.
Shortly followed by... oh no my DOS games do not run on it. Add in a little bit of, oh no my hardware won't run it.
What do you get? Vista! Give it two years or more and there will be far less problems with it. And Microsoft will force the control by no longer supporting XP. That means you won't really have a choice and companies and software makes won't have a choice either. How do you force compliance, you take away the keys. Its that simple.
I agree, what is so bad about Vista? I love it. Here is my case study:
Before Vista i was so careful and avoided most malware, but when i got any it was nasty.
Now I don't get any. I have anti virus, but i could easily live without it. UAC does help.
Instant Search.
I trim hours off my day by using instant search. So much better then XP.
gaming
Vista runs most games and many that are a couple years old. It even runs most games on gametap.
hardware.
I had constant blue screening with XP. But Vista has reduced by blue screens to one or two a year.
DRM
DRM is only an issue if you BUY THE DRM CRAP. So don't buy the DRM crap as far as HD support on vista, you can rest happy because HD-DVD is on its way out from all market indications.
I love Vista, so pound me for saying so, but Vista is the best operating system I have used. I am a Creative Suite user, so Linux is totally out of the question. lol i might just save this and change a few words for every stupid set arguments by people who touched it for 10 seconds and said its crap. It takes time to see if it helps you not 10 seconds
I grew not playing video games. We read and I watched little tv. To this day I watch little tv and do classes online. Then I play a little SWG. My best learnings comes from books and has growing up. I didn't have access to a game system even in the days of Nintendo and I think i turned out just as well. And when i finally discovered computers and art, I was doing constructive things like Photoshop and making web pages.
Art is a much better thing to do even if its just drawing a scribble on a page then sitting them in front of the tv and if you are concerned with them marking on stuff, save your money and buy non markable markers for coloring they can't ruin anything. And they learn art.
With respect to comparing real Tennis to Wii tennis. Real tennis teaches much better coordination then Wii can and having a real ball moving towards you teaches you coordination and timing and its more real then some pixel coming at at you
With respect to Problem solving, it can be learned in multiple ways. One huge way that does involve building and constructing. All these simple things cost TONS less then a game system and they learn more from it then some bouncing pixel on screen.
If you want a replacement for Tetris consider puzzles, they are problem solving and colors.
A child can survive without video games at least until THEY get to an age where they can decide for themselves what they do with them.
To this point, we have seen nothing but viagra ads and prescription pills.
I hope we don't enter a generation where the spammers start throwing in words like
bomb
plane
blow up
Osama
and other terrorist related words. if the government starts monitoring, spam could be a way to try and get someone arrested. On the other hand i could be like the RIAA, the government starts accusing enough people and the program goes to hell.
One problem At&t has is their coverage. I live in middle of the United States. Coverage extend from the east to the west only. From the west to the east coverage is very sparse. I know a lot of people here who would buy an Iphone, but its not available. If Apple had not contracted with such a low coverage provider, they would not be facing these problems.
Not only that, but when you compare the following (for our area. It could be higher for others):
T-Moblile at 60$/1500 minutes
Sprint at 80$/1350 with better coverage
US Celluar at 60/1300
and At&t at 80$/1350 with less coverage
The winners will always be Sprint, T-Mobile, and US cellular. The Iphone will not save At&t's wireless branch. And until it's available to other carriers, it will not see and end to unlocking phones. Its simple supply and demand. When you have something from apple that is so in demand why wouldn't you unlock it to work with a better network?
my point being, not to troll Openoffice, but its not a good choice for everyone and yes some people need more then a free solution. and might i add pot calling the kettle black anonymous. Microsoft is a good choice for some. Just like Linux is a good choice for others. It would undercut the consumer to include both. Because if they decide they need Microsoft for their profession or software thats needed, they will have to pay for a full license instead of the OEM license that saves them money.
Anyone can downgrade their copy of bundled os to Linux. If they need it later, they can pull the cd out and restore it (or os partition). Or..run vmware, then you get Linux and you can keep windows. Either way, the consumer benefits.
Yes, open office is good. But not as powerful as Microsoft Excel. People use Excel for high level stat analysis, and other high levels of equations. Open office has a history of not being good for this. Granted, most users aren't doing this, but if you can't exchange your files with the rest of the work, a free Office product is useless.
I used Openoffice to write a paper. I turned it in. I thought i had proofread it. Openoffice did not auto correct most things that Word did and i got it back with a lot of errors. I could have analyzed every word and super proofread it for weeks, but Word just does it right. It fixes error automatically that Openoffice could never do. In my opinion, Openoffice is a partial failure in this regard. Its improving, but has some serious flaws with it.
Some have argued that, for desktop Linux to succeed, the code base will have to be "forked" - that is, a separate base image for desktop and server distributions. It's an approach that has worked in the past, most notably with Microsoft Windows NT (and later Windows 2000/XP/Vista). As the Redmond behemoth has shown, you can have your cake (robust, shared kernel architecture) and eat it (separate code bases optimized for specific runtime scenarios) too.
Windows has always existed as a two seperate pieces until 95. At that point they said who needs DOS and went to the all in one model. Linux has always been a layered operating system. If you don't want a specific part you just compile that layer out. Micrsoft did it mainly because they did have an all-in-one model. And when you do that, you must do seperate images.
And why else did they do it? Well money of course. Linux has all the features and you compile what you want. the cost? FREE. Microsoft had somewhat of a shared code base in NT 4.0. If you typed the write registry fix, you could enable certain features. It was after that Microsoft went to seperate images and made it impossible to get the extra feaatures without he server product or an additional purchase.
The only company that included a purchaseable dvd player for linux that was legal and commercial was Lindows. So commercial dvd players really have never been available due to the open source issues and protected CSS keys.
Its not an issue of making it compatable, it all ready is because you can view it on a web page regardless of browser or platform. The issue is the backend, it could have been developed in Linux which is now MAC OS X or straight up Linux. They are simply a database and however the database is stored MYSQL or SQL 2005, it could have still survived and been developed and Google would have existed. It about ideas, not so much the backend.
Lets go back further. Without the processor or even the semi conductor, there would be existance of google or Microsoft to begin with. Whats the point of an OS or search engine if you don't have any hardware?
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You can install Linux, buy a mac, or use XP without updates. Or become a neophite and give up technology all together.
You still have the choice. Microsoft will not force you to use vista. Unless you consider losing access to updates being forced
But you have the choice to run XP without updates or without Antivirus. All they would be doing is not supplying updates anymore. But, you can still run xp.
OK, its not slower if you have a decent machine. Its Safer because it prompts you to do everything instead of just assuming you want to run it. And it is more reliable if you have new hardware.
The problem is people are running it on old hardware. So, its good if you are running new hardware. In fact as i said earlier, it has been more beneficial for me. So its not crap for me. Its good for me. Just not for you.
So quit using "crap" because its subjective and instead use "not good for me"
You have freedom of choice to do all that I mentioned or run your machine unprotected when they drop the support life cycle, so you are not being forced because you can choose how much protection you actually want to run with.
People have 4 Options.
install it on their new laptop. Its amazing how that works.
Its about choice, you can drive off a cliff if you want. No one will force you or stop you.
secondly, does anyone remember XP's release date? The first thing was oh no.. my drivers don't run on it. Shortly followed by... oh no my DOS games do not run on it. Add in a little bit of, oh no my hardware won't run it.
What do you get? Vista! Give it two years or more and there will be far less problems with it. And Microsoft will force the control by no longer supporting XP. That means you won't really have a choice and companies and software makes won't have a choice either. How do you force compliance, you take away the keys. Its that simple.
Now I don't get any. I have anti virus, but i could easily live without it. UAC does help.
I trim hours off my day by using instant search. So much better then XP.
Vista runs most games and many that are a couple years old. It even runs most games on gametap.
I had constant blue screening with XP. But Vista has reduced by blue screens to one or two a year.
DRM is only an issue if you BUY THE DRM CRAP. So don't buy the DRM crap as far as HD support on vista, you can rest happy because HD-DVD is on its way out from all market indications.
I love Vista, so pound me for saying so, but Vista is the best operating system I have used. I am a Creative Suite user, so Linux is totally out of the question. lol i might just save this and change a few words for every stupid set arguments by people who touched it for 10 seconds and said its crap. It takes time to see if it helps you not 10 seconds
Art is a much better thing to do even if its just drawing a scribble on a page then sitting them in front of the tv and if you are concerned with them marking on stuff, save your money and buy non markable markers for coloring they can't ruin anything. And they learn art.
With respect to comparing real Tennis to Wii tennis. Real tennis teaches much better coordination then Wii can and having a real ball moving towards you teaches you coordination and timing and its more real then some pixel coming at at you
With respect to Problem solving, it can be learned in multiple ways. One huge way that does involve building and constructing. All these simple things cost TONS less then a game system and they learn more from it then some bouncing pixel on screen.
If you want a replacement for Tetris consider puzzles, they are problem solving and colors.
A child can survive without video games at least until THEY get to an age where they can decide for themselves what they do with them.
- Osama
and other terrorist related words. if the government starts monitoring, spam could be a way to try and get someone arrested. On the other hand i could be like the RIAA, the government starts accusing enough people and the program goes to hell.One problem At&t has is their coverage. I live in middle of the United States. Coverage extend from the east to the west only. From the west to the east coverage is very sparse. I know a lot of people here who would buy an Iphone, but its not available. If Apple had not contracted with such a low coverage provider, they would not be facing these problems.
Not only that, but when you compare the following (for our area. It could be higher for others):
The winners will always be Sprint, T-Mobile, and US cellular. The Iphone will not save At&t's wireless branch. And until it's available to other carriers, it will not see and end to unlocking phones. Its simple supply and demand. When you have something from apple that is so in demand why wouldn't you unlock it to work with a better network?
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my point being, not to troll Openoffice, but its not a good choice for everyone and yes some people need more then a free solution. and might i add pot calling the kettle black anonymous. Microsoft is a good choice for some. Just like Linux is a good choice for others. It would undercut the consumer to include both. Because if they decide they need Microsoft for their profession or software thats needed, they will have to pay for a full license instead of the OEM license that saves them money.
Anyone can downgrade their copy of bundled os to Linux. If they need it later, they can pull the cd out and restore it (or os partition). Or..run vmware, then you get Linux and you can keep windows. Either way, the consumer benefits.
Yes, open office is good. But not as powerful as Microsoft Excel. People use Excel for high level stat analysis, and other high levels of equations. Open office has a history of not being good for this. Granted, most users aren't doing this, but if you can't exchange your files with the rest of the work, a free Office product is useless.
I used Openoffice to write a paper. I turned it in. I thought i had proofread it. Openoffice did not auto correct most things that Word did and i got it back with a lot of errors. I could have analyzed every word and super proofread it for weeks, but Word just does it right. It fixes error automatically that Openoffice could never do. In my opinion, Openoffice is a partial failure in this regard. Its improving, but has some serious flaws with it.
Some have argued that, for desktop Linux to succeed, the code base will have to be "forked" - that is, a separate base image for desktop and server distributions. It's an approach that has worked in the past, most notably with Microsoft Windows NT (and later Windows 2000/XP/Vista). As the Redmond behemoth has shown, you can have your cake (robust, shared kernel architecture) and eat it (separate code bases optimized for specific runtime scenarios) too.
Windows has always existed as a two seperate pieces until 95. At that point they said who needs DOS and went to the all in one model. Linux has always been a layered operating system. If you don't want a specific part you just compile that layer out. Micrsoft did it mainly because they did have an all-in-one model. And when you do that, you must do seperate images.
And why else did they do it? Well money of course. Linux has all the features and you compile what you want. the cost? FREE. Microsoft had somewhat of a shared code base in NT 4.0. If you typed the write registry fix, you could enable certain features. It was after that Microsoft went to seperate images and made it impossible to get the extra feaatures without he server product or an additional purchase.
The only company that included a purchaseable dvd player for linux that was legal and commercial was Lindows. So commercial dvd players really have never been available due to the open source issues and protected CSS keys.
Its not an issue of making it compatable, it all ready is because you can view it on a web page regardless of browser or platform. The issue is the backend, it could have been developed in Linux which is now MAC OS X or straight up Linux. They are simply a database and however the database is stored MYSQL or SQL 2005, it could have still survived and been developed and Google would have existed. It about ideas, not so much the backend.
Lets go back further. Without the processor or even the semi conductor, there would be existance of google or Microsoft to begin with. Whats the point of an OS or search engine if you don't have any hardware?