I have to agree completely. Is everyone suffering from some sort of collective, selective amnesia? Does anyone besides me remember what XP was like in SP0?
Having owned Vista (Home Premium 64-bit) for about a month and a half, (OEM edition because I'm not such a fool as to pay $400 for it) I've turned off the constant confirmation requests, and with proper care and maintenance, I've experienced not a single system crash except when overclocking. All told I've spent about twenty minutes getting compatibility issues sorted out. I'm not that worried about my benchmarks, but with 4 gigs of RAM, I don't think I'm taking much of a hit over 64-bit XP anyway. DX10 sure is pretty, though.
In the end, Vista is, at the least, much less hideous out of the box than XP was. I think we can all agree on that. Does anyone here not run XP to look just like 2000?
Who wants totally uncontrolled system? Weed at 18, harder drugs at 21, no PCP or Oxy without prescription. Fair? Tax the lot of it and let transparent companies take control of the market and you eliminate virtually all of the violence associated with the drug trade. As it is, we simply enrich the kingpins and encourage more people to get into the business.
For the war it was designed to fight. Network centric warfare can't create national identity or diffuse serious political deadlocks such as those created by the Hussein regime and its fall. The war was fought well, but there was basically no attention paid whatsoever to the social dynamic of the "nation" of Iraq.
Studies like these are always popular because people like having something tangible to blame for their kids acting up that's not their own parenting. This study in no way demonstrates causality, (virtually no statistical study can, believe it or not) it merely demonstrates that violent videogames and violent people are attracted to each other, a correlation that could have several causes.
Not to mention the fact that Vista already does all of this excepting the multiple desktops functionality, which shouldn't be necessary for the organized user. I have a grand total of one icon on my desktop: the recycle bin.
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Hey wow, another post with the same mantra: FF good... Vista bad... Braaaiinnnsss...
There's certainly no cleaner way to generate ginormous amounts of power.
I have to agree completely. Is everyone suffering from some sort of collective, selective amnesia? Does anyone besides me remember what XP was like in SP0? Having owned Vista (Home Premium 64-bit) for about a month and a half, (OEM edition because I'm not such a fool as to pay $400 for it) I've turned off the constant confirmation requests, and with proper care and maintenance, I've experienced not a single system crash except when overclocking. All told I've spent about twenty minutes getting compatibility issues sorted out. I'm not that worried about my benchmarks, but with 4 gigs of RAM, I don't think I'm taking much of a hit over 64-bit XP anyway. DX10 sure is pretty, though. In the end, Vista is, at the least, much less hideous out of the box than XP was. I think we can all agree on that. Does anyone here not run XP to look just like 2000?
... You'll be out of work in three years.
Who wants totally uncontrolled system? Weed at 18, harder drugs at 21, no PCP or Oxy without prescription. Fair? Tax the lot of it and let transparent companies take control of the market and you eliminate virtually all of the violence associated with the drug trade. As it is, we simply enrich the kingpins and encourage more people to get into the business.
For the war it was designed to fight. Network centric warfare can't create national identity or diffuse serious political deadlocks such as those created by the Hussein regime and its fall. The war was fought well, but there was basically no attention paid whatsoever to the social dynamic of the "nation" of Iraq.
Studies like these are always popular because people like having something tangible to blame for their kids acting up that's not their own parenting. This study in no way demonstrates causality, (virtually no statistical study can, believe it or not) it merely demonstrates that violent videogames and violent people are attracted to each other, a correlation that could have several causes.
Not to mention the fact that Vista already does all of this excepting the multiple desktops functionality, which shouldn't be necessary for the organized user. I have a grand total of one icon on my desktop: the recycle bin.