Not many people are so fed up with Windows that they would pay that much extra to avoid it, and most people don't know about barebones systems or how to build their own PC.
I actually tried reading the article to try to find out what it is that Vista does wrong that the other O/Ses (like Windows XP, OSX, Linux) don't.
OSX and Linux don't have the sheer brute force of a monopoly behind them. It doesn't really matter if they do it right, because it's what MS does that affects (effects?) their sales. Also, even if OSX and Linux don't handle flash (drives) properly, if they became popular Linux would quickly assimilate this technology and OSX would probably work it in to the next 10.x release.
And guess what, the article is crap. No details.
Well, I can't argue with this one
Of course Vista isn't optimized for SSDs, why should it have been?
Well, anybody should have been able to see that FDDs where the future, but MS either didn't have that insight or thought it would be a few more years.
Is Windows XP optimized for SSDs? The only thing related difference I can see is Vista has a larger footprint.
...and the fact that flash drives were puny things at XP's release, and there was not a snowball's chance in hell that FDDs would be pervasive in desktops over any meaningful portion of the OS's lifetime.
To me it looks like they're casting blame (while trying to get their tech up to speed).
Quite possibly. But they did pick a rather plausible (at least to me) excuse.
So how exactly is this different from the moon, mars or even space itself? It actually seems more difficult and worse environment for humans than any of those.
We can mine the Moon and possibly Mars, but what does Venus offer us? Fuel? I would think it is too hot for mining the surface (robotic miners capable of operating in the heat may not be cost-effective)
Hopefully not the UI. I try to like it, but I find the cookie handling and the flash control awkward (true, FF needs a addon for the flash, but it's still easier), and the tabs over the address bar can't (as far as I can tell) can't be moved down under it.
Only if you ignore the parts that say you should stone people
no comment
and eradicate whole villages if one of the members doesn't believe in the Bible's god
I am not familiar with this one. Lots of villages being eradicated, but I can't recall one destroyed over a single pagan/heathen/insertpolicticallycorrecttermhere living there. In fact, Sodom and Gomorrah would have been spared if there were even 10 righteous men there.
retain slaves
...and free them every seven years
and that giving up your virgin daughter to a rape gang is preferable to turning over a foreign man to them.
In Lot's defense, there was no laws regarding this at the time. And there were two daughters. And the crowd didn't want them.
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Not many people are so fed up with Windows that they would pay that much extra to avoid it, and most people don't know about barebones systems or how to build their own PC.
Do you think XP, OSX, and for that matter, Linux, are generally "optimized for SSDs"?
Linux is.
I actually tried reading the article to try to find out what it is that Vista does wrong that the other O/Ses (like Windows XP, OSX, Linux) don't.
OSX and Linux don't have the sheer brute force of a monopoly behind them. It doesn't really matter if they do it right, because it's what MS does that affects (effects?) their sales.
Also, even if OSX and Linux don't handle flash (drives) properly, if they became popular Linux would quickly assimilate this technology and OSX would probably work it in to the next 10.x release.
And guess what, the article is crap. No details.
Well, I can't argue with this one
Of course Vista isn't optimized for SSDs, why should it have been?
Well, anybody should have been able to see that FDDs where the future, but MS either didn't have that insight or thought it would be a few more years.
Is Windows XP optimized for SSDs? The only thing related difference I can see is Vista has a larger footprint.
...and the fact that flash drives were puny things at XP's release, and there was not a snowball's chance in hell that FDDs would be pervasive in desktops over any meaningful portion of the OS's lifetime.
To me it looks like they're casting blame (while trying to get their tech up to speed).
Quite possibly. But they did pick a rather plausible (at least to me) excuse.
I don't use much P2P applications, but I am under the impression that only bittorrent could seed while downloading.
I think he is feigning ignorance to the fact that his EEE doesn't run Vista.
But because of Vista's shortcomings, (deployed) SSD technology cannot move forward.
OOXML is 2 (at least the documentation is), ODF is 1, and OUF is .5?
Regarding your sig: I prefer the humor collection by a different Simon
I sense a divide-by-zero error.
Don't worry. If you find even a single vent and turtle well enough, you'll have an infinite supply. It will just come more slowly after it's depleted.
So how exactly is this different from the moon, mars or even space itself? It actually seems more difficult and worse environment for humans than any of those.
You get to deal with corrosion.
And our reason for going to Venus is...?
We can mine the Moon and possibly Mars, but what does Venus offer us? Fuel? I would think it is too hot for mining the surface (robotic miners capable of operating in the heat may not be cost-effective)
Hopefully not the UI. I try to like it, but I find the cookie handling and the flash control awkward (true, FF needs a addon for the flash, but it's still easier), and the tabs over the address bar can't (as far as I can tell) can't be moved down under it.
Frankly, we should just do away with the subject line entirely.
Or /. could stop adding the Re:*'s for people and force them to type something.
Pay increase for going from soldier to non-soldier should be only a lower risk of life, nothing else.
Well, we certainly can't have the higher-ups in our military structure actually being alive, now can we?
But this very specifically isn't modern hardware.
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Who else would it be to?
I was thinking sandbars.
...stinks up the whole bathroom.
You're doin' it wrong.
Try using it on a machine with more than 2 cores or try to make more than 10 simultaneous connections to it.
If I had one, they (apple) would need to compensate me very well for me to give it up.
Only if you ignore the parts that say you should stone people
no comment
and eradicate whole villages if one of the members doesn't believe in the Bible's god
I am not familiar with this one. Lots of villages being eradicated, but I can't recall one destroyed over a single pagan/heathen/insertpolicticallycorrecttermhere living there. In fact, Sodom and Gomorrah would have been spared if there were even 10 righteous men there.
retain slaves
...and free them every seven years
and that giving up your virgin daughter to a rape gang is preferable to turning over a foreign man to them.
In Lot's defense, there was no laws regarding this at the time. And there were two daughters. And the crowd didn't want them.
But it's probably easier than meeting a girl.
Unfortunately, I was just kidding, too.
Now that we can do.