Slide-out QWERTY Data (gprs / edge / 802.11b/g) volume control on side 7+ programmable function external keys Bluetooth
No on board gps, have an external unit for that. Phone has enough oomp to run Garmin XT or TomTom functionally, and run the bluetooth on top of that to the external GPS unit.
Runs windows mobile, has a fairly large hacking background.... LOTS of support on the internet.
Someone else said HTC had suck battery life. Depending on how many and quality of background process apps running (your today screen, so to speak), wifi / data left on 100 % of the time, etc., I get 2 days at a time out of mine.
It's an old device, but I really like mine. Touch screen, does everything an IPOD will (and so much more... I don't have to hack my phone to install a program I want, and I can program my own software as well), but has WiFI as well.
We are also fighting to ensure the safety of our own populace and country. Notice, not a friggin thing has happened on our soil since taking the initiative to bring the war to their area.
Lisa: Dad, what if I were to tell you that this rock keeps away tigers.
Homer: Uh-huh, and how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work. It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: I see.
Lisa: But you don't see any tigers around, do you?
Homer: Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock. Let me make this a little simpler for you, rather than you taking a cartoonish approach.
1. Where we attacked in and on the US soil? 2. Did we change our preventative measures since? 3. Did we enact different policies towards our "enemy" 4. Has their been attacks anywhere else in the world since? 5. Has the USA had any attacks locally? 6. Has there been reports of any thwarted attacks?
Thank you. You can go under your rock again. Just because nothing has happened, doesn't mean it never would have happened. Had that idiot Clinton actually acted, instead of bombing a school and pharmaceutical factory, we might not have HAD a 9/11 here. Nobody knows for sure, but one thing IS for sure. History WILL and DOES repeat itself for those that don't learn and prepare.
Am I a war monger, no. Do I agree with the present US administration, no. Do I have enough common sense to realize we can't all just sing Kum Bay Yah, holding candles and each others hands and all our enemies will get eradicated by the "love fairy".... Yeah, right.
The best defense is still the best offense. Not much will change that.
Calling another names. That's mature. You said something about them having a gun rack to goad a comment out of me to attempt to make a retort... Just like you did. However, you didn't elicit the response from me you wanted, though. I sat down and typed something that was well written, not a diatribe, not seething with anger, nothing, but yet, the best you could come up with was "calm down". Please retort with something at least 'on topic', rather than name calling. Name calling is great on the playground, but I prefer to actually DEBATE someone.
I have every right to bring up World War II, since my country saved your butt from speaking German for presumably, the rest of time. My family was directly involved, as was yours. I think it's great. But, if you think I don't have the "right" to bring up something my country did to save your's, to make a point about people having the right to bear arms (something OUR country is founded upon), then, I'm not sure what you should do.... But to sit here and tell me I have no right to go back in history and make a point with it is stupid, ludicrous, and a sign of youth.
Glad your happy guns aren't allowed. I think it's great you agree with your laws. I agree with the laws of my country as well. They can be different from yours, and still be OK. I'm mature enough to be OK with the fact we can live in different places, and have different views and laws.
In the USA, a lot of people DO equate having a gun to patriotism, since it is one of our first lines of defense against a home invasion, a right of ours, from the inception of our country, etc. As I said, I HAVE owned firearms, currently don't, but wouldn't mind having one. I find them enjoyable, fun to go out and responsibly shoot, and don't have a problem with others having them, either.... I have enough trust in my fellow human beings to think that not everyone is going to kill me if they have a gun.
And with a lot of people here HAVING a gun, nobody has conquered our country yet, have they? Can you say the same?
The people(s) who defeated Hitler where a lot more apt to carry a gun in their truck than the people(s) of today.
Case in point, people (city slickers) bitching about the ranchers carrying guns in their trucks.
Grandpa carried a few guns behind his seat. Was he a redneck, some people might say so. Texas, born and raised, decorated war hero (fought the 'japs' in the big one, as he used to put it), and made his money in real estate in California. Go figure.
The leap was from this: Typically, the ones WILLING to go fight and are WILLING to put it on the line are the SAME "good old boys" you would find with a gun behind their seat or in the window of their pickup truck.
Don't believe me, listen to a country song or three lol.
Yes, and the USA fought because they gave a damn about Europe's freedom.
You are also fighting now because you care about Middle East's freedom, aren't you? We (and I have no idea how or why you think I can speak for a nation) are fighting for a few reasons now. One is for the freedom of the local populace. If that wasn't the case, we would have taken their oil, told them to fuck off, and threatened anyone else with nukes that dared to tell us otherwise.
We are probably fighting for the profits of the oil companies as well, since our elected official is an oilman and son of an oilman. I have no concrete proof of that.
We are also fighting to ensure the safety of our own populace and country. Notice, not a friggin thing has happened on our soil since taking the initiative to bring the war to their area. To the local population of Afghanistan, screw you. You are the people that ALLOWED them to train in your backyard.. Can't handle the problem yourself, fine. Handled.
It's really too bad that we have to go talk to lawyers before we can initiate any major military action, or for that matter, drop a bomb. We haven't won a war or police action, for that matter, since that rule went into effect, that I know of (read that as other than covert ops, whereby we "get around" that rule).
And don't kid yourselves... Europe wasn't the major reason we went in to fight... It was more because we knew the Germans where coming to bring the war to our soil if we didn't stop them. Dumb ass kids of today who spent too much time in World History and US History on their coding projects can't remember that it's easier to stop an enemy before he gains a foothold in stopping you... IE, bring the front to his backyard.
Anywho, enough of that.
The kids where supposedly on public land, come to find out. Still, the ranchers where doing nothing illegal. Heres a question to pose to ya... Do you think the "kids" would have given a care in the world if it would have been google taking a picture of their cars on a public land?
Screw the 2nd amendment, I'd rather not take the chance. It helps that I live in the Netherlands though;) Yes, and because of countries like the USA that HAVE or HAD the 2nd amendment or laws like it, that you have FREEDOM today.
My forefathers (grandfathers, both of them) fought to give you the ability to actually have a voice. Something most of Europe seems to have forgotten. Had it not been for the USA, you would ALL be speaking German or Russian today.
Having a gun is not a bad thing. I don't personally possess one today, but I have in the past. OOoOOoohh Big scary American, with all his guns.
There are laws on the books here, and unfortunately, the idiots running around with their computers where the ones on the wrong side of the law. They where the ones trespassing. They where the ones who did NOT procure proper permissions before going on someone elses property.
In the USA, ranchers (not farmers, ranchers.. Farmers raise food from the ground (think vegetables, fruit, etc)... Ranchers raise animals for food)) carry weapons. Typically they operate in the thousands of acres type of scenario, sometimes out of cellular and radio range. They run across illegal aliens attempting to evade law enforcement, mules (people used in the transport of drugs / other contraband), methamphetamine labs, portable marijuana grow operations.... And these are just a few of the illegal operations that typically have guns as well, that they may also carry a weapon to "level the playing field".
Someone else brought up the fact they carry them also to protect their herds from natural predators. Coyotes, wolves (yes, they do still exist) and even wild (feral) dogs all pose a risk. Fox's and coyotes will destroy a chicken ranch quickly. As will wild pigs. As will a plethora of other things.
The ranchers came up, took pictures, and had guns placed inside their vehicles, in plain sight (which, means they where not concealed and they where being carried in complete compliance of the law in the state they where in) and where not brandished in a threatening manner. And the people having their vehicles where the ones in violation of the law.
Mod me however you want, but the fact remains. A bunch of geeks broke the law and got their pictures taken and found a reason to bitch. Period. They should be taken to court, fined and sentenced to picking up trash for a few weekends to be taught the lesson of respecting other peoples property... But then again, most "geeks" don't believe in IP, I'm guessing that ideal will carry over to real property soon enough. F'ing Commies.
Use your machine as a server, and get an XBOX used, chip or otherwise modify it, load the latest rev of XBMC and you are done.
If you want PC functionality, there are companies that make (or you can homebrew) a XBOX to USB adapter. The xbox uses USB for it's controllers and it's a proprietary one. You can get keyboard drivers, linux, basically anything you want on the XBOX, and I think it would fix most of your problems.
It did mine. Dropped all the computers in the room, put in an XBOX, a wireless controller from FRY's for about 45 dollars on sale, and I have EVERYTHING I need in a set top player, weather updates, RSS grabber, MAME / any other emu you can think of pretty much emu, insert anything else you can think of.
Being a racer myself, my uncle having held three world records, was one of the founders of ASRA, etc (as well as sitting here with a double compound fracture in my rt leg, broken hip and broken shoulder, all rt side), I can tell you this. It isn't fear, it's respect.
My cousin was killed by his dad's car. In the garage, of all places. A malfunction on an electric switch activated the trans-brake and when they switched from alcohol to nitromethane, the car leaped forward and the wing of the dragster hit him in the head. He (my cousin)"acted" fearless, but at the same time, he rarely, if ever, had the throttle wide open on his quads, trucks or anything else he had. Before I learned the restraint that came with respect, I wrecked one of his quads, breaking my nose (simple wreck).
Incidentally, my current accident was a mechanical failure.. Lucky to be alive, life-flight said. I won't be touching a bike again for a few years, I can tell you that much. Also, hope the paragraphs work this time. Last two posts where horrible with no line breaks.
--Toll_Free
Ahh, yes.
Sending from my HTC Wizard and it didn't format correctly.
Guess the grammer nazi didn't have anything else to add of value to the comment(s), though, eh?
--Toll_Free
Having been in the IT arena for most of my adult life, I find it funny how many of the people supposedly "in the know", or people who supposedly are supposed to be IT Professionals, etc. sit here and OS bash.
I remember it when 2K came out. For 2 years, it was the biggest turd on the planet, nobody would run / want / install / use it, and the ONLY thing that changed that was the leaked / warezed versions of XP coming.
Then, OMG, when XP hit the market, for two more years, all we heard from the IT community was how horrible it is / was. Now, all the idiot fanboi's who felt it was their place to run XP down are doing the same thing with Vista. Keep in mind, these are the same people who said they would NEVER upgrade to 2k, XP, Vista, etc.
Time to grow up. Vista works. I use it. I have been in IT since the mid 80s. Just because it doesn't work the way YOU think it OUGHT to, doesn't mean it's a turd OS. After about 20 minutes with Yamicsoft (I have no interest in them, other than I think their tuning utilities are fairly good) Vista Manager, I had a great running OS, it rarely, if ever crashes, and I haven't had to reboot it because of a crash. I can say the same thing for XP, ALMOST. I have had XP systems crash, quite a bit, but so far, the two laptops we have here at home, both running Vista, have had NO OS related problems.
Prior to tuning / making the system look / feel / operate the way I wanted to, I HATED Vista. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that it was a turd at that point, either. I don't like eye candy, don't need eyecandy, nor do I want eyecandy (unless it's female lol). Remove / disable the eyecandy, and it's a stable OS.
And in my > 25 years of working and running IT departments, I've found one thing that runs true more than anyone here will care to admit. Most of the problems with people running Vista are due to the fact that you are trying to run it on a POS system that was built for (usually) 2 OS revisions ago, no updated drivers are available for it and that is what makes it unstable. Both my laptops running Vista came with it, and they work WELL with it. My 3 yr old Dell Inspiron that came preloaded with XP, DOES NOT LIKE VISTA!!!! Tried it, didn't like it, didn't work well.
Next stop, 64 bit version of Vista. Still can't see why HP decided to give a 32 bit version of Windows on a 64 bit Turion system out of the box. Having to find all the 64 bit drivers is keeping me from doing it yesterday, but then again, why would I install a good OS on a good system, only to load it down with drivers written for a different OS that makes it all unstable.
Oh yeah, so I could come to slashdot and bitch about Vista being a turd. All because I can't make it work the way I Want it to, or because everyone else is OS bashing.
People who OS bash are no different than the Jihadist Muslims. I use to "trick question" people when interviewing them... Anyone who bashed MS or another OS, they immediately went to the back of the hiring list. Life is too short for people who refuse to grow and learn.
Anywho, my first post on here, after having been reading/. for literally years. I look forward to being modded to hell for my views, but then again, the people modding it down will be the same ones using something else because they read Vista sucks.
One other interesting tidbit, most of the MS OS bashers I've run across in my lifetime have been the same people who drive semi expensive euro-trash cars, live at home, are typically overweight, etc,. etc., etc. Just another useless statistic I've found in the years of working in this crappy field.
--Toll_Free
Slashdot Mirror
You must live in Santa Cruz. I think I've seen your car.
--Toll_Free
This just in: Road rage linked to white trash tweekers. Film at 11.
--Toll_Free
You want the HTC Wizard / Cingular 8125.
Slide-out QWERTY
Data (gprs / edge / 802.11b/g)
volume control on side
7+ programmable function external keys
Bluetooth
No on board gps, have an external unit for that. Phone has enough oomp to run Garmin XT or TomTom functionally, and run the bluetooth on top of that to the external GPS unit.
Runs windows mobile, has a fairly large hacking background.... LOTS of support on the internet.
Someone else said HTC had suck battery life. Depending on how many and quality of background process apps running (your today screen, so to speak), wifi / data left on 100 % of the time, etc., I get 2 days at a time out of mine.
It's an old device, but I really like mine. Touch screen, does everything an IPOD will (and so much more... I don't have to hack my phone to install a program I want, and I can program my own software as well), but has WiFI as well.
YMMV
--Toll_Free
You mean like the ORIGINAL 3D card, the Voodoo?
:) And the S3 Virge I used I used as my 2D card.
Still have mine
--Toll_Free
Lisa: Dad, what if I were to tell you that this rock keeps away tigers.
Homer: Uh-huh, and how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work. It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: I see.
Lisa: But you don't see any tigers around, do you?
Homer: Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock. Let me make this a little simpler for you, rather than you taking a cartoonish approach.
1. Where we attacked in and on the US soil?
2. Did we change our preventative measures since?
3. Did we enact different policies towards our "enemy"
4. Has their been attacks anywhere else in the world since?
5. Has the USA had any attacks locally?
6. Has there been reports of any thwarted attacks?
Thank you. You can go under your rock again. Just because nothing has happened, doesn't mean it never would have happened. Had that idiot Clinton actually acted, instead of bombing a school and pharmaceutical factory, we might not have HAD a 9/11 here. Nobody knows for sure, but one thing IS for sure. History WILL and DOES repeat itself for those that don't learn and prepare.
Am I a war monger, no. Do I agree with the present US administration, no. Do I have enough common sense to realize we can't all just sing Kum Bay Yah, holding candles and each others hands and all our enemies will get eradicated by the "love fairy".... Yeah, right.
The best defense is still the best offense. Not much will change that.
--Toll_Free
Calling another names. That's mature. You said something about them having a gun rack to goad a comment out of me to attempt to make a retort... Just like you did. However, you didn't elicit the response from me you wanted, though. I sat down and typed something that was well written, not a diatribe, not seething with anger, nothing, but yet, the best you could come up with was "calm down". Please retort with something at least 'on topic', rather than name calling. Name calling is great on the playground, but I prefer to actually DEBATE someone.
I have every right to bring up World War II, since my country saved your butt from speaking German for presumably, the rest of time. My family was directly involved, as was yours. I think it's great. But, if you think I don't have the "right" to bring up something my country did to save your's, to make a point about people having the right to bear arms (something OUR country is founded upon), then, I'm not sure what you should do.... But to sit here and tell me I have no right to go back in history and make a point with it is stupid, ludicrous, and a sign of youth.
Glad your happy guns aren't allowed. I think it's great you agree with your laws. I agree with the laws of my country as well. They can be different from yours, and still be OK. I'm mature enough to be OK with the fact we can live in different places, and have different views and laws.
In the USA, a lot of people DO equate having a gun to patriotism, since it is one of our first lines of defense against a home invasion, a right of ours, from the inception of our country, etc. As I said, I HAVE owned firearms, currently don't, but wouldn't mind having one. I find them enjoyable, fun to go out and responsibly shoot, and don't have a problem with others having them, either.... I have enough trust in my fellow human beings to think that not everyone is going to kill me if they have a gun.
And with a lot of people here HAVING a gun, nobody has conquered our country yet, have they? Can you say the same?
--Toll_Free
The people(s) who defeated Hitler where a lot more apt to carry a gun in their truck than the people(s) of today.
Case in point, people (city slickers) bitching about the ranchers carrying guns in their trucks.
Grandpa carried a few guns behind his seat. Was he a redneck, some people might say so. Texas, born and raised, decorated war hero (fought the 'japs' in the big one, as he used to put it), and made his money in real estate in California. Go figure.
The leap was from this: Typically, the ones WILLING to go fight and are WILLING to put it on the line are the SAME "good old boys" you would find with a gun behind their seat or in the window of their pickup truck.
Don't believe me, listen to a country song or three lol.
--Toll_Free
You are also fighting now because you care about Middle East's freedom, aren't you? We (and I have no idea how or why you think I can speak for a nation) are fighting for a few reasons now. One is for the freedom of the local populace. If that wasn't the case, we would have taken their oil, told them to fuck off, and threatened anyone else with nukes that dared to tell us otherwise.
We are probably fighting for the profits of the oil companies as well, since our elected official is an oilman and son of an oilman. I have no concrete proof of that.
We are also fighting to ensure the safety of our own populace and country. Notice, not a friggin thing has happened on our soil since taking the initiative to bring the war to their area. To the local population of Afghanistan, screw you. You are the people that ALLOWED them to train in your backyard.. Can't handle the problem yourself, fine. Handled.
It's really too bad that we have to go talk to lawyers before we can initiate any major military action, or for that matter, drop a bomb. We haven't won a war or police action, for that matter, since that rule went into effect, that I know of (read that as other than covert ops, whereby we "get around" that rule).
And don't kid yourselves... Europe wasn't the major reason we went in to fight... It was more because we knew the Germans where coming to bring the war to our soil if we didn't stop them. Dumb ass kids of today who spent too much time in World History and US History on their coding projects can't remember that it's easier to stop an enemy before he gains a foothold in stopping you... IE, bring the front to his backyard.
Anywho, enough of that.
The kids where supposedly on public land, come to find out. Still, the ranchers where doing nothing illegal. Heres a question to pose to ya... Do you think the "kids" would have given a care in the world if it would have been google taking a picture of their cars on a public land?
--Toll_Free
It helps that I live in the Netherlands though
My forefathers (grandfathers, both of them) fought to give you the ability to actually have a voice. Something most of Europe seems to have forgotten. Had it not been for the USA, you would ALL be speaking German or Russian today.
Having a gun is not a bad thing. I don't personally possess one today, but I have in the past. OOoOOoohh Big scary American, with all his guns.
There are laws on the books here, and unfortunately, the idiots running around with their computers where the ones on the wrong side of the law. They where the ones trespassing. They where the ones who did NOT procure proper permissions before going on someone elses property.
In the USA, ranchers (not farmers, ranchers.. Farmers raise food from the ground (think vegetables, fruit, etc)... Ranchers raise animals for food)) carry weapons. Typically they operate in the thousands of acres type of scenario, sometimes out of cellular and radio range. They run across illegal aliens attempting to evade law enforcement, mules (people used in the transport of drugs / other contraband), methamphetamine labs, portable marijuana grow operations.... And these are just a few of the illegal operations that typically have guns as well, that they may also carry a weapon to "level the playing field".
Someone else brought up the fact they carry them also to protect their herds from natural predators. Coyotes, wolves (yes, they do still exist) and even wild (feral) dogs all pose a risk. Fox's and coyotes will destroy a chicken ranch quickly. As will wild pigs. As will a plethora of other things.
The ranchers came up, took pictures, and had guns placed inside their vehicles, in plain sight (which, means they where not concealed and they where being carried in complete compliance of the law in the state they where in) and where not brandished in a threatening manner. And the people having their vehicles where the ones in violation of the law.
Mod me however you want, but the fact remains. A bunch of geeks broke the law and got their pictures taken and found a reason to bitch. Period. They should be taken to court, fined and sentenced to picking up trash for a few weekends to be taught the lesson of respecting other peoples property... But then again, most "geeks" don't believe in IP, I'm guessing that ideal will carry over to real property soon enough. F'ing Commies.
--Toll_Free
This seems like a no brainer.
Use your machine as a server, and get an XBOX used, chip or otherwise modify it, load the latest rev of XBMC and you are done.
If you want PC functionality, there are companies that make (or you can homebrew) a XBOX to USB adapter. The xbox uses USB for it's controllers and it's a proprietary one. You can get keyboard drivers, linux, basically anything you want on the XBOX, and I think it would fix most of your problems.
It did mine. Dropped all the computers in the room, put in an XBOX, a wireless controller from FRY's for about 45 dollars on sale, and I have EVERYTHING I need in a set top player, weather updates, RSS grabber, MAME / any other emu you can think of pretty much emu, insert anything else you can think of.
--Toll_Free
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BMO 1Kw
lol
You jest, Uncle Charlie coming after a driver.
--Toll_Free 22Kw PEP
I have nothing against anonymity... Cowardice is completely different.
--Toll_Free
Spoken like a true coward.
--Toll_Free
Would a self-absorbing cunt require tampons? No idea why that thought popped into my head. Why is he being modded funny?
Insightful, yes. Honest? yes.
Funny, too...
And wtf about the Freudian slip with the second sentence.. Talking about tampons and popping things in his head..
--Toll_Free
A circle just has more angles on everything.
--Toll_Free
Thanks. Appreciate the help.
--Toll_Free
Being a racer myself, my uncle having held three world records, was one of the founders of ASRA, etc (as well as sitting here with a double compound fracture in my rt leg, broken hip and broken shoulder, all rt side), I can tell you this. It isn't fear, it's respect. My cousin was killed by his dad's car. In the garage, of all places. A malfunction on an electric switch activated the trans-brake and when they switched from alcohol to nitromethane, the car leaped forward and the wing of the dragster hit him in the head. He (my cousin)"acted" fearless, but at the same time, he rarely, if ever, had the throttle wide open on his quads, trucks or anything else he had. Before I learned the restraint that came with respect, I wrecked one of his quads, breaking my nose (simple wreck). Incidentally, my current accident was a mechanical failure.. Lucky to be alive, life-flight said. I won't be touching a bike again for a few years, I can tell you that much. Also, hope the paragraphs work this time. Last two posts where horrible with no line breaks. --Toll_Free
But how many FPS does it do with Duke Nukem Forever? --Toll_Free
Ahh, yes. Sending from my HTC Wizard and it didn't format correctly. Guess the grammer nazi didn't have anything else to add of value to the comment(s), though, eh? --Toll_Free
Having been in the IT arena for most of my adult life, I find it funny how many of the people supposedly "in the know", or people who supposedly are supposed to be IT Professionals, etc. sit here and OS bash. I remember it when 2K came out. For 2 years, it was the biggest turd on the planet, nobody would run / want / install / use it, and the ONLY thing that changed that was the leaked / warezed versions of XP coming. Then, OMG, when XP hit the market, for two more years, all we heard from the IT community was how horrible it is / was. Now, all the idiot fanboi's who felt it was their place to run XP down are doing the same thing with Vista. Keep in mind, these are the same people who said they would NEVER upgrade to 2k, XP, Vista, etc. Time to grow up. Vista works. I use it. I have been in IT since the mid 80s. Just because it doesn't work the way YOU think it OUGHT to, doesn't mean it's a turd OS. After about 20 minutes with Yamicsoft (I have no interest in them, other than I think their tuning utilities are fairly good) Vista Manager, I had a great running OS, it rarely, if ever crashes, and I haven't had to reboot it because of a crash. I can say the same thing for XP, ALMOST. I have had XP systems crash, quite a bit, but so far, the two laptops we have here at home, both running Vista, have had NO OS related problems. Prior to tuning / making the system look / feel / operate the way I wanted to, I HATED Vista. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that it was a turd at that point, either. I don't like eye candy, don't need eyecandy, nor do I want eyecandy (unless it's female lol). Remove / disable the eyecandy, and it's a stable OS. And in my > 25 years of working and running IT departments, I've found one thing that runs true more than anyone here will care to admit. Most of the problems with people running Vista are due to the fact that you are trying to run it on a POS system that was built for (usually) 2 OS revisions ago, no updated drivers are available for it and that is what makes it unstable. Both my laptops running Vista came with it, and they work WELL with it. My 3 yr old Dell Inspiron that came preloaded with XP, DOES NOT LIKE VISTA!!!! Tried it, didn't like it, didn't work well. Next stop, 64 bit version of Vista. Still can't see why HP decided to give a 32 bit version of Windows on a 64 bit Turion system out of the box. Having to find all the 64 bit drivers is keeping me from doing it yesterday, but then again, why would I install a good OS on a good system, only to load it down with drivers written for a different OS that makes it all unstable. Oh yeah, so I could come to slashdot and bitch about Vista being a turd. All because I can't make it work the way I Want it to, or because everyone else is OS bashing. People who OS bash are no different than the Jihadist Muslims. I use to "trick question" people when interviewing them... Anyone who bashed MS or another OS, they immediately went to the back of the hiring list. Life is too short for people who refuse to grow and learn. Anywho, my first post on here, after having been reading /. for literally years. I look forward to being modded to hell for my views, but then again, the people modding it down will be the same ones using something else because they read Vista sucks.
One other interesting tidbit, most of the MS OS bashers I've run across in my lifetime have been the same people who drive semi expensive euro-trash cars, live at home, are typically overweight, etc,. etc., etc. Just another useless statistic I've found in the years of working in this crappy field.
--Toll_Free