Unlike Windows 9x and 3.1, Windows XP "just works" for most people, so it will die a slow, painful death.
I still use it on my gaming computer because it runs my games faster than 7, and since my gaming computer is now 5 years old (nForce 4), the drivers for my network card in 7 don't work very well and make my computer bluescreen.
I could spend $1000-$1500 on a new gaming computer, but why would I when the one I have now works fine and plays everything I want it to?
(BTW I have upgraded the CPU, RAM, and video card since I got it, so it's not *that* old.)
You can pretty much install a single copy of Windows on as many computers as you want. After you try to activate it a certain number of times (3-5), you have to call Microsoft. They'll ask you how many computers you have installed it on, and if you tell them "one", they'll just read you your activation code, and you're done.
I'm sure there is some reasonable limit. If they see you've activated the same copy of Windows 50 times, they'll know something is up.
One of the companies I work for recently switched all employees over to iPhones because it was cheaper (and easier) to buy new phones than to buy a BES server.
Missed the "Democratic" in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Have we? Maybe, just maybe, politcal groups name themselves things that will appeal to their audience.
They can claim to be Democratic because they have elections. However, since there is no secret ballot, Kim Jong-Il always gets 99% of the vote.
That's not the least of it! I have people every day call desktop PC towers "hard drives", web browsers "the internet", LCDs "flat screens", DVD discs "CDs", and disk space "memory."
Don't even get me "started" on how difficult it is to get people over the phone to click the "start" button in Vista and Windows 7, now that it doesn't say "Start."
The Dems always seem to add so much more to their bills than what they actually say they are for. Take health care, for example: > 2000 pages? There only one reason for a bill to be so big - because the authors of the bill want to confuse us, and hide things in it that we will never find, because they know we won't like what's there.
Now that I think of it, though, both parties seem to use this tactic. I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.
What a waste of $1.73 million that would be. It would be more productive to spend all that money and manure and dump it on the lawn of their HQ. That's about the only way to get something to grow out of that patent shill mill.
I have an idea. I work right next to SCO. Their wireless network uses WEP.
The cost of providing broadband has decreased dramatically, though. For the most part, your ISP can just plug everything in, sit back, and let it work. The exception of course is when you have some kind of issue connecting, or when enough subscribers saturate the lines, routers, and switches that more have to be installed.
As many have said, I think the issue is that there isn't much competition.
Traditionally, the "expectation of privacy" is what prevents Peeping Tom from peeping at you when you have your blinds shut. If your blinds are open, there is not an expectation of privacy.
Translating that to the Internet is kind of a gray area, but, IMO, I would think any data that's encrypted would fall into that category. I always expect that my ISP, the government, or whoever is logging, indexing, and sifting through anything I put out on the Internet without going through an encrypted channel.
I realize you're just joking, but it's an interesting point. I'm not sure there's any way to get anonymous internet access in the US, except illicitly.
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Is a regular bachelor's degree in the U.K. a 3-year program?
At least people on FB can take a joke.
Why did I join? To look at girls I'm interested in dating!
Why else would anyone use Facebook?
Unlike Windows 9x and 3.1, Windows XP "just works" for most people, so it will die a slow, painful death.
I still use it on my gaming computer because it runs my games faster than 7, and since my gaming computer is now 5 years old (nForce 4), the drivers for my network card in 7 don't work very well and make my computer bluescreen.
I could spend $1000-$1500 on a new gaming computer, but why would I when the one I have now works fine and plays everything I want it to?
(BTW I have upgraded the CPU, RAM, and video card since I got it, so it's not *that* old.)
And yet, Macs *are* capable of uploading viruses to alien ships.
Yeah, but that app was rejected from the app store.
Meh, just use Tor
You can pretty much install a single copy of Windows on as many computers as you want. After you try to activate it a certain number of times (3-5), you have to call Microsoft. They'll ask you how many computers you have installed it on, and if you tell them "one", they'll just read you your activation code, and you're done.
I'm sure there is some reasonable limit. If they see you've activated the same copy of Windows 50 times, they'll know something is up.
Not that I would know, of course. :)
One of the companies I work for recently switched all employees over to iPhones because it was cheaper (and easier) to buy new phones than to buy a BES server.
Same medicine legally in India (by the same damn manufacturer)? $2.00
Is it really $2.00, or do you pay $2.00, and the Indian government subsidizes $98.00 of it?
Missed the "Democratic" in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Have we? Maybe, just maybe, politcal groups name themselves things that will appeal to their audience.
They can claim to be Democratic because they have elections. However, since there is no secret ballot, Kim Jong-Il always gets 99% of the vote.
And 1% of the population mysteriously vanishes...
short? the average height of women in the USA is 5'4".
Does this average include non-white Americans? There is definitely a disparity among races.
In Soviet Russia, Android illegally copies YOU!
That's not the least of it! I have people every day call desktop PC towers "hard drives", web browsers "the internet", LCDs "flat screens", DVD discs "CDs", and disk space "memory."
Don't even get me "started" on how difficult it is to get people over the phone to click the "start" button in Vista and Windows 7, now that it doesn't say "Start."
The Dems always seem to add so much more to their bills than what they actually say they are for. Take health care, for example: > 2000 pages? There only one reason for a bill to be so big - because the authors of the bill want to confuse us, and hide things in it that we will never find, because they know we won't like what's there.
Now that I think of it, though, both parties seem to use this tactic. I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.
SSL can be cracked rather easily
[citation needed]
My guess would be that Apple pays them to put Macs on TV, but also, everyone who is in the industry seems to like Macs.
It seems Wine works pretty well on very popular apps, but not so much with obscure ones.
And those are the ones that usually keep people stuck on Windows.
So, I'm wondering, why is the computer that controls a nuclear reactor hooked up to the internet?
That's just asking for trouble.
You know what they say about censorship: the internet just routes around it.
It appears we have invented a new swear word!
Dr. Ann De Wees Allen
What a waste of $1.73 million that would be. It would be more productive to spend all that money and manure and dump it on the lawn of their HQ.
That's about the only way to get something to grow out of that patent shill mill.
I have an idea. I work right next to SCO. Their wireless network uses WEP.
I'm serious.
Wasn't 2000 the year of the shitty "Sub-$1000 PC?"
The cost of providing broadband has decreased dramatically, though. For the most part, your ISP can just plug everything in, sit back, and let it work. The exception of course is when you have some kind of issue connecting, or when enough subscribers saturate the lines, routers, and switches that more have to be installed.
As many have said, I think the issue is that there isn't much competition.
Where are my mod points?
Traditionally, the "expectation of privacy" is what prevents Peeping Tom from peeping at you when you have your blinds shut. If your blinds are open, there is not an expectation of privacy.
Translating that to the Internet is kind of a gray area, but, IMO, I would think any data that's encrypted would fall into that category. I always expect that my ISP, the government, or whoever is logging, indexing, and sifting through anything I put out on the Internet without going through an encrypted channel.
I realize you're just joking, but it's an interesting point. I'm not sure there's any way to get anonymous internet access in the US, except illicitly.
Your local coffee shop?