I agree. Being around computers as a teenager with pre windows OS'es (DOS, OS2, etc.), through the minefield of Win9x, and all the way up to my current stint of 7 years in Corporate IT officially, I am very experienced with every flavor of the MS spectrum. With the alleged DRM and negative impact items in Vista and Win7 from what I have read, I actively WANT to switch to Linux in one form or another. Yet every time I play around with a distro whether it be Slackware or Ubuntu or Red Hat or any number of other distros of ranging sizes and capabilities, I always come back to XP.
It is hard being a gamer and not being able to enjoy a decent game while in Linux. Even WINE is limited in the games I wish to run so that is a limitation there as well. I would hate to see Linux become more like Windows simply for the sake of getting Win users but alas it is about the only way.
I never have any problems with my XP installs and even my family who abuse Windows can't seem to break it within a year of building a machine for them. I want to switch but until it is close to the user friendliness that Windoze offers I won't make a permanent switch anytime soon.
With how many times I have called and have had people come out and blame every other tech and such it does not even phase me with what you said... Still better than Comcrap!
With the exception of the already mentioned Clone Wars shorts that were produced recently, I remember Droids and Ewoks from 1985. They were craptsatic but none the less considered Star Wars animated series.
One would think that after three years of showing mostly the same thing with little to no improvements that the organizers would have caught on and prevented them from coming. Smells like vaporware to me...
Can anybody tell me what MS has actually been forced to do as a result of anti-trust lawsuits? I don't mean what they have been told to do but rather what they were forced to follow through with. IIRC, they still haven't paid a hefty fine imposed by the EU a long time ago.
Haven't they been forced to hide there Monopolistic ways more carefully now? Possibly find new ways and means of extending their tentacles just a bit further without rousing suspicion? Just a though...
Comcast can allow this as they have ridded themselves of all of the abusers that they can track. With this dramatic drop in usage, they can free themselves to provide this service to mom and pop Joe Sixpack as they won't care to begin with.
"These numbers is bigger than Verizon Maw."
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I agree. Being around computers as a teenager with pre windows OS'es (DOS, OS2, etc.), through the minefield of Win9x, and all the way up to my current stint of 7 years in Corporate IT officially, I am very experienced with every flavor of the MS spectrum. With the alleged DRM and negative impact items in Vista and Win7 from what I have read, I actively WANT to switch to Linux in one form or another. Yet every time I play around with a distro whether it be Slackware or Ubuntu or Red Hat or any number of other distros of ranging sizes and capabilities, I always come back to XP.
It is hard being a gamer and not being able to enjoy a decent game while in Linux. Even WINE is limited in the games I wish to run so that is a limitation there as well. I would hate to see Linux become more like Windows simply for the sake of getting Win users but alas it is about the only way.
I never have any problems with my XP installs and even my family who abuse Windows can't seem to break it within a year of building a machine for them. I want to switch but until it is close to the user friendliness that Windoze offers I won't make a permanent switch anytime soon.
After all, it not rocket surgery.
So easy, even a caveman could do it?
That describes the Air Force and not NASA...
look forward to our Comcastic overlords!
With how many times I have called and have had people come out and blame every other tech and such it does not even phase me with what you said... Still better than Comcrap!
With the exception of the already mentioned Clone Wars shorts that were produced recently, I remember Droids and Ewoks from 1985. They were craptsatic but none the less considered Star Wars animated series.
One would think that after three years of showing mostly the same thing with little to no improvements that the organizers would have caught on and prevented them from coming. Smells like vaporware to me...
Haven't they been forced to hide there Monopolistic ways more carefully now? Possibly find new ways and means of extending their tentacles just a bit further without rousing suspicion? Just a though...
Comcast can allow this as they have ridded themselves of all of the abusers that they can track. With this dramatic drop in usage, they can free themselves to provide this service to mom and pop Joe Sixpack as they won't care to begin with. "These numbers is bigger than Verizon Maw."