Certainly many are healthy enough to keep working. Due advances in medical care and their living. But you haven't mentioned about their lives, what a retired and healthy worker can do with the new free time? Staying home watching TV? Taking sunbaths?
That is also one of the main reason retired workforce keep working, on one side is work and the other is voidness and uncertainty.
By your claims I know that you use pirated software, indeed M$ owes its popularity to pirates, wondering why they are using protection for it. Why I write the above? well you mentioned you worked with Linux, but currently aren't. I don't think you're one happy user that pays for licenses and has the original box of all the games. There is something called dual boot, I use it because as you, I like Linux, but game in Windows XP (sorry can't afford a new PC for WinVista, neither want a crippled one) With Linux I don't have to look for or buy pirated software, so I work in Linux and play pirate games in Windows.
I concur with most posters that Linux will be present in more PCs in the future (PCs as in electronic devices for doing work) but with that I don't mean Windows will disappear completely, they will coexist (M$ is working in countermeasures, hope they won't end with Skynet) But what would be of Linux without M$ products?
Also KDE and Gnome are favorite desktops but that doesn't mean other won't grow to that position. So I won't take the freedom to comment about which is best.
Thats a real nice idea, using eyes as targetting device. May be you can do gestures with it, or using the keyboard. The calculation of where someone is looking is done with laser, which might need to everyone to wear a helmet. XD A web cam might work, with face recognition and some tweak to calculate where someone is looking. Nice idea, wondering if someone is working on that. =)
Indeed, the mouse won't just disappear. Its a natural device. I don't know about having a trackpad like iphone screen, could it handle strong movements? falls? can it really a keyboard and those devices mentioned be combined to work together? A tablet device? it won't be comfortable, having to rise the hand to touch the screen if its at the same level of your head, or over your lap or a desk, where you have to rotate your head to look at it. (not ergonomic) And the Wiimote, to be always rising your arms, is tiresome. A trackstick is natural, works like a joystick.;) I really have to try one.
The discussion isn't about price, is it? I worked with MacOS 7.6 (update from MacOS 7.5) and was pretty stable, also easy to understand. Would you compare SCSI drives? with IDE? I won't. And I not an Apple fanboy.
The guy is talking about total sales then, hoping someone should ask about the branded OS box, not the OEM packet absurd. May be this egg-guy (Ballmer) enjoys eggs throwing. XD What worries really is that he is using some politician tactics, half truths. Ballmer for president? suddenly not living in US is great! =P~
What UAC is the only thing wrong? wondering why many corporations are downgrading to XP, mister. Wondering also why M$ extended the support for XP. Wonders will never cease!!
What the heck has this guy studied? an MBA? from now on won't believe an MBA ever in my life. Another clear example that higher management never listens to customers, neither care.
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Certainly many are healthy enough to keep working. Due advances in medical care and their living.
But you haven't mentioned about their lives, what a retired and healthy worker can do with the new free time? Staying home watching TV? Taking sunbaths?
That is also one of the main reason retired workforce keep working, on one side is work and the other is voidness and uncertainty.
By your claims I know that you use pirated software, indeed M$ owes its popularity to pirates, wondering why they are using protection for it.
Why I write the above? well you mentioned you worked with Linux, but currently aren't. I don't think you're one happy user that pays for licenses and has the original box of all the games.
There is something called dual boot, I use it because as you, I like Linux, but game in Windows XP (sorry can't afford a new PC for WinVista, neither want a crippled one)
With Linux I don't have to look for or buy pirated software, so I work in Linux and play pirate games in Windows.
I concur with most posters that Linux will be present in more PCs in the future (PCs as in electronic devices for doing work) but with that I don't mean Windows will disappear completely, they will coexist (M$ is working in countermeasures, hope they won't end with Skynet)
But what would be of Linux without M$ products?
Also KDE and Gnome are favorite desktops but that doesn't mean other won't grow to that position. So I won't take the freedom to comment about which is best.
Thats a real nice idea, using eyes as targetting device. May be you can do gestures with it, or using the keyboard. The calculation of where someone is looking is done with laser, which might need to everyone to wear a helmet. XD
A web cam might work, with face recognition and some tweak to calculate where someone is looking.
Nice idea, wondering if someone is working on that. =)
Indeed, the mouse won't just disappear. Its a natural device. I don't know about having a trackpad like iphone screen, could it handle strong movements? falls? can it really a keyboard and those devices mentioned be combined to work together? A tablet device? it won't be comfortable, having to rise the hand to touch the screen if its at the same level of your head, or over your lap or a desk, where you have to rotate your head to look at it. (not ergonomic) ;) I really have to try one.
And the Wiimote, to be always rising your arms, is tiresome.
A trackstick is natural, works like a joystick.
thats a possibility, but I think any competent geek has its own linux media to do the needed installations. Having a XP partition is just a formality.
The discussion isn't about price, is it?
I worked with MacOS 7.6 (update from MacOS 7.5)
and was pretty stable, also easy to understand.
Would you compare SCSI drives? with IDE? I won't.
And I not an Apple fanboy.
I remember that... I liked MacOS 7.5 on PPC 75 Mhz with 8 Mb RAM over PCs with W95 and 32 MB Ram.
that speaks by itself, doesn't it?
The guy is talking about total sales then, hoping someone should ask about the branded OS box, not the OEM packet absurd.
May be this egg-guy (Ballmer) enjoys eggs throwing. XD
What worries really is that he is using some politician tactics, half truths. Ballmer for president? suddenly not living in US is great! =P~
What UAC is the only thing wrong?
wondering why many corporations are downgrading to XP, mister. Wondering also why M$ extended the support for XP. Wonders will never cease!!
What the heck has this guy studied?
an MBA? from now on won't believe an MBA ever in my life.
Another clear example that higher management never listens to customers, neither care.