Boy, it's funny the professionals still use it. They should have consulted with you first. Torture, both physical and psychological, can break someone to the point they will in fact spill the beans. The pros know which type (physical or psychological) to use on whom, and how to tell when they're broken or merely saying stuff to end the pain. Maybe it's not humane, and maybe it's not legal everywhere, but that's an entirely different argument from saying it's completely useless.
I think the rate at which people buy new desktops/laptops and new phones is important too. My desktop lasted years with only minor improvements. My laptop is a year old, and I will probably get another year or two out of it. I get a new cell phone every year, and I know people who get one more often than that.
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My last computer cost less than $300. A netbook doesn't suit everyone's needs, but most people don't need $3k worth of computing either.
So nothing I don't already have enough of in XP then basically. Thanks for answering my question.
improved UI allows better productivity
How is randomly moving all the buttons I've spent 9 years memorizing improving productivity? I'm all for progress, and I'm all for change when it's in the name of progress. But Office 2007 and later, Vista, and 7 all seem like just change and calling it progress because it's different. At my job, we don't do HD video editing or anything more taxing than creating PowerPoint presentations and Word documents, browsing the web, etc. How about we actually write better, gasp! leaner code, and instead of doubling the processing power every 2 years to do WORD PROCESSING and WEB BROWSING, we follow Moore's Law down the other side? How about every two years the cost of my machine gets cut in half to do the same work?
[Enter Netbook stage left]
MS missed the boat on that one, and wants us all to keep doubling our processing power. Four Gigs of RAM just so I can boot up and access the internet? What are they smoking? Your User ID tells me you may also remember the days when 256 MB of RAM (or less) and a 266 mhz processor on Windows 98 allowed you to do word processing and web browsing at roughly the same speed that XP does with 2 gigs of RAM and Vista with 4. Maybe you should just get off my lawn now. I don't know.
Ten years worth of security enhancements at the software architectural level
They've been working on Windows 7 since 2000? Wait, what? XP has 9 years' worth of service packs, patches, et al and it works pretty well for an MS product. Given how long it takes for MS to get their shit together, I'm not buying anything within a few years of release.
proper 64bit support
This sounds a little circular to me. Upgrade to Windows 7 so you can properly use the hardware you'll need to buy so you can install Windows 7. What if I have a 32bit machine running XP and it does what I need it to do just fine?
Yes, agriculture can lead to mass deforestation - unless a society industrializes, and thereby reduces the pressures that strip timber from the land for heating and cooking fuel.
And instead strips timber from the land for making houses, lawn furniture, patios, paper products, and all the other mass produced items we consume on a daily basis.
Climate change / ecological damage happened even prior to the development of modern economies; you won't find giant ground sloths or mastodons roaming North America - they were hunted to extinction thousands of years before Europe discovered the New World.
...using the technological advancement of bows and arrows to kill, fire to cook, salting to preserve meat, etc. As our technological achievements, however meager by modern standards, grew, so did our destruction of the environment.
Over-population is a claim about the carrying-capacity of the world, and technology raises the carrying capacity
And greatly increased our ability to consume, pollute, and destroy. My only point is that technology is not the purely benevolent savior some make it out to be, and that it holds the ability to be our undoing.
Hunter gatherer / subsistence farmer societies are not without impact. And no, they were for damn sure not better off than we are now.
No, but the world was much better off. We've bettered our individual human lives at the expense of the planet and future generations. Hooray for televisions, running water, and air conditioning! Too bad there won't be any food for my grandkids.
Really? Agriculture led to mass deforestation, slavery, and alcohol and drugs. Mass production led to even more deforestation and pollution. Some individuals do better while many more suffer from the secondary effects. All these problems of global warming, oil consumption, over-population, pollution, etc are CAUSED by technology. And you think this has made us all better off?
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Boy, it's funny the professionals still use it. They should have consulted with you first. Torture, both physical and psychological, can break someone to the point they will in fact spill the beans. The pros know which type (physical or psychological) to use on whom, and how to tell when they're broken or merely saying stuff to end the pain. Maybe it's not humane, and maybe it's not legal everywhere, but that's an entirely different argument from saying it's completely useless.
I'll be someone's friend for money. I'm really interesting and have many divers...why is everyone laughing?
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Netcraft! They confirm it is in fact Netcraft.
I think the rate at which people buy new desktops/laptops and new phones is important too. My desktop lasted years with only minor improvements. My laptop is a year old, and I will probably get another year or two out of it. I get a new cell phone every year, and I know people who get one more often than that.
My last computer cost less than $300. A netbook doesn't suit everyone's needs, but most people don't need $3k worth of computing either.
I was kind of going for funny, not troll. Oh well.
Why do you hate America so much?
Um, except it's WEH OS: Windows Embedded Handheld Operating System. Still, you make a great point. It's a completely forgettable name.
I wonder if someone had an Evo, if they could just turn on Wifi hotspot and let Steve connect through that.
And what would commandos use?
Security, stability, reliability, performance,
So nothing I don't already have enough of in XP then basically. Thanks for answering my question.
improved UI allows better productivity
How is randomly moving all the buttons I've spent 9 years memorizing improving productivity? I'm all for progress, and I'm all for change when it's in the name of progress. But Office 2007 and later, Vista, and 7 all seem like just change and calling it progress because it's different. At my job, we don't do HD video editing or anything more taxing than creating PowerPoint presentations and Word documents, browsing the web, etc. How about we actually write better, gasp! leaner code, and instead of doubling the processing power every 2 years to do WORD PROCESSING and WEB BROWSING, we follow Moore's Law down the other side? How about every two years the cost of my machine gets cut in half to do the same work?
[Enter Netbook stage left]
MS missed the boat on that one, and wants us all to keep doubling our processing power. Four Gigs of RAM just so I can boot up and access the internet? What are they smoking? Your User ID tells me you may also remember the days when 256 MB of RAM (or less) and a 266 mhz processor on Windows 98 allowed you to do word processing and web browsing at roughly the same speed that XP does with 2 gigs of RAM and Vista with 4. Maybe you should just get off my lawn now. I don't know.
Ten years worth of security enhancements at the software architectural level
They've been working on Windows 7 since 2000? Wait, what? XP has 9 years' worth of service packs, patches, et al and it works pretty well for an MS product. Given how long it takes for MS to get their shit together, I'm not buying anything within a few years of release.
proper 64bit support
This sounds a little circular to me. Upgrade to Windows 7 so you can properly use the hardware you'll need to buy so you can install Windows 7. What if I have a 32bit machine running XP and it does what I need it to do just fine?
lots and lots of eye candy.
Aw, fuck everything! I'm sold!
Why isn't this tagged smellovision?
Exactly. And what critical functionality are we going to get in 7 that we don't have in XP?
I'm sorry, was there a point in there somewhere?
Heh. Nice sig.
Integrated Air Defense System?
It does have the same form factor, namely the flat back and squared off aluminum side, same as the iPad.
What are you, some kind of capitalist?
Love it. A detailed correction on an 80s comic book gets modded informative. BTW, what about the Pre-pubescent Slightly-microwaved Karate Hamsters?
Yes, agriculture can lead to mass deforestation - unless a society industrializes, and thereby reduces the pressures that strip timber from the land for heating and cooking fuel.
And instead strips timber from the land for making houses, lawn furniture, patios, paper products, and all the other mass produced items we consume on a daily basis.
Climate change / ecological damage happened even prior to the development of modern economies; you won't find giant ground sloths or mastodons roaming North America - they were hunted to extinction thousands of years before Europe discovered the New World.
...using the technological advancement of bows and arrows to kill, fire to cook, salting to preserve meat, etc. As our technological achievements, however meager by modern standards, grew, so did our destruction of the environment.
Over-population is a claim about the carrying-capacity of the world, and technology raises the carrying capacity
And greatly increased our ability to consume, pollute, and destroy. My only point is that technology is not the purely benevolent savior some make it out to be, and that it holds the ability to be our undoing.
Hunter gatherer / subsistence farmer societies are not without impact. And no, they were for damn sure not better off than we are now.
No, but the world was much better off. We've bettered our individual human lives at the expense of the planet and future generations. Hooray for televisions, running water, and air conditioning! Too bad there won't be any food for my grandkids.
Really? Agriculture led to mass deforestation, slavery, and alcohol and drugs. Mass production led to even more deforestation and pollution. Some individuals do better while many more suffer from the secondary effects. All these problems of global warming, oil consumption, over-population, pollution, etc are CAUSED by technology. And you think this has made us all better off?
Yeah, I saw that and thought, "Wow, what awesome resolution for reading text!"
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