IQ and education are not directly related, however university entrance exam material does depend on education. And given the crap Liberia has been through, most of their kids are likely not educated sufficiently, as they've had other more pressing needs, like say, staying alive.
Also - i'm guessing the registry hacking was something to do with enabling NTLMv1 connections? I believe they're disabled by default in vista onwards because they're quite insecure. MS usually/used to get hammered (well they still do because plenty of people still run XP from 11 years ago) for being insecure out of the box. They fix that with vista and get hammered for that too.
The only driver that i didn't have out of the box when first running Vista was for my WIFI adapter, and the microsoft (well, windows update provided) driver which was released 6 months later worked fine, albeit at 54 megabit on my 108 megabit card.
Maybe i'm using different youtube content to you, but i haven't run into an inability to play anything on youtube on my ipad for 9 months plus now. Maybe its all good since google put out the youtube app? As far as a replacement for facebook goes.... uh... facebook? They have a number of mobile apps. Web games, not sure, don't play them; but there are plenty of proper tablet games for both Android and iOS that are promoted via facebook.
Yes, cost less. Mine cost $799 australian for an A500 in 1989 (i got into the market quite late). Comparable price PC at the time would have been a 286 with VGA and no sound card running DOS 3.3 or 4. Meanwhile I had full 32 bit pre-emptive multitasking, 4 channel stereo sound, plug and play, etc.
More to the point, the iMac has been selling with better spec for about 12 + months. GT675 > GT750. Higher screen res, 128GB SSD cache, 8GB or more of RAM in the 2012 model.
Ahem. Shortly after DOS, the Amiga came out with a full 32 bit pre-emptive multitasking kernel, flat memory model and a graphical user interface all running in under 128k of RAM.
Yeah but Jobs wasn't so concerned amount the money, despite having a shitload of it. He genuinely seemed to just want to make and sell cool shit. The money was made to enable the company to invest in the next round of cool shit.
Making cool shit was the aim, getting money for it was a side-effect of that.
Microsoft have it backwards. If they make things people want, the money will take care of itself. Yet they seem focused on lock in and how to best screw over the customer.
I see it as a lot simpler: Scrap hardware. They aren't a hardware company. Provide better integration for other platforms into AD. Sell their applications on other platforms. The desktop market is getting commoditized and being eaten/cannibalized by tablets as well. There's no avoiding this - don't fight it, let it happen. However, in terms of server/enterprise network admin tools, microsoft has quite a useful collection of stuff. Focus on management tools for other platforms via AD, and sell apps on whatever platform people want.
Give it 12-18 months and I think you'll see the desktop market starting to dry up some more. Tablets are just starting to get interesting, if you think the tablet market right now is the finished product, then you're in for a bit of a surprise. Most office users could get by with a tablet today with a bit of a compromise (lets give them a VGA adapter and a keyboard for use at the desk). The next couple of generations of tablets are going to be a lot more powerful.
No its not. Applications and user interfaces get deprecated every 18 months or so. Linux might be cheap or free, but re-training your staff every 18 months because some dick head decided to completely change the UI and/or scrap all the desktop apps you were using is not.
Sounds like you have shitty hardware or shitty drivers (or something else awry on that box), I ran vista between 2006 and 2009 just fine without any command line bullshit or registry hacking.
The desktop operating system market is nothing like the percentage of computing devices that it was in 1985. Mobile and cloud services are a much larger percentage of the market now, and Microsoft is trailing badly in mobile.
Windows RT is a dead platform, even if microsoft didn't fuck it up. Intel have pulled out the stops with haswell, and future x86 power consumption will be even better. Within 2-3 years there will be little point in bothering to run with ARM.
No, the reason it is growing in the gaming community is because people are buying new hardware and either getting windows 8 by default, or (like me) just buying a copy of 8 to stay current and get most of the drivers for my hardware built into the OS. Nothing to do with resource consumption - anyone with a gaming PC has plenty of RAM and CPU anyway, the difference between 7 and 8 is precisely FUCK ALL when running games on a decent gaming rig.
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When you've been through years of civil war, things like this tend to suffer.
IQ and education are not directly related, however university entrance exam material does depend on education. And given the crap Liberia has been through, most of their kids are likely not educated sufficiently, as they've had other more pressing needs, like say, staying alive.
See: Microsoft Update (not windows update). Came out slightly later. Also, Windows update does applications too.
Also - i'm guessing the registry hacking was something to do with enabling NTLMv1 connections? I believe they're disabled by default in vista onwards because they're quite insecure. MS usually/used to get hammered (well they still do because plenty of people still run XP from 11 years ago) for being insecure out of the box. They fix that with vista and get hammered for that too.
The only driver that i didn't have out of the box when first running Vista was for my WIFI adapter, and the microsoft (well, windows update provided) driver which was released 6 months later worked fine, albeit at 54 megabit on my 108 megabit card.
Maybe i'm using different youtube content to you, but i haven't run into an inability to play anything on youtube on my ipad for 9 months plus now. Maybe its all good since google put out the youtube app? As far as a replacement for facebook goes.... uh... facebook? They have a number of mobile apps. Web games, not sure, don't play them; but there are plenty of proper tablet games for both Android and iOS that are promoted via facebook.
Yes, cost less. Mine cost $799 australian for an A500 in 1989 (i got into the market quite late). Comparable price PC at the time would have been a 286 with VGA and no sound card running DOS 3.3 or 4. Meanwhile I had full 32 bit pre-emptive multitasking, 4 channel stereo sound, plug and play, etc.
I'm sure they've seen porn though.
If all you're doing is watching the screen, you're doing it wrong.
I hear that in the navy, ass is an option.
More to the point, the iMac has been selling with better spec for about 12 + months. GT675 > GT750. Higher screen res, 128GB SSD cache, 8GB or more of RAM in the 2012 model.
My point is that others (including FreeBSD) appear to have gotten the implementation of the spec right.
In terms of dirty, it all started with microsoft fucking IBM.
The amiga cost less than a PC and did more. Unfortunately commodore couldn't market water in the sahara.
Ahem. Shortly after DOS, the Amiga came out with a full 32 bit pre-emptive multitasking kernel, flat memory model and a graphical user interface all running in under 128k of RAM.
Yeah but Jobs wasn't so concerned amount the money, despite having a shitload of it. He genuinely seemed to just want to make and sell cool shit. The money was made to enable the company to invest in the next round of cool shit.
Making cool shit was the aim, getting money for it was a side-effect of that.
Microsoft have it backwards. If they make things people want, the money will take care of itself. Yet they seem focused on lock in and how to best screw over the customer.
I see it as a lot simpler: Scrap hardware. They aren't a hardware company. Provide better integration for other platforms into AD. Sell their applications on other platforms. The desktop market is getting commoditized and being eaten/cannibalized by tablets as well. There's no avoiding this - don't fight it, let it happen. However, in terms of server/enterprise network admin tools, microsoft has quite a useful collection of stuff. Focus on management tools for other platforms via AD, and sell apps on whatever platform people want.
Give it 12-18 months and I think you'll see the desktop market starting to dry up some more. Tablets are just starting to get interesting, if you think the tablet market right now is the finished product, then you're in for a bit of a surprise. Most office users could get by with a tablet today with a bit of a compromise (lets give them a VGA adapter and a keyboard for use at the desk). The next couple of generations of tablets are going to be a lot more powerful.
No its not. Applications and user interfaces get deprecated every 18 months or so. Linux might be cheap or free, but re-training your staff every 18 months because some dick head decided to completely change the UI and/or scrap all the desktop apps you were using is not.
This is happening less and less, and the services not catering to tablet users will get left behind.
Sounds like you have shitty hardware or shitty drivers (or something else awry on that box), I ran vista between 2006 and 2009 just fine without any command line bullshit or registry hacking.
The desktop operating system market is nothing like the percentage of computing devices that it was in 1985. Mobile and cloud services are a much larger percentage of the market now, and Microsoft is trailing badly in mobile.
Windows RT is a dead platform, even if microsoft didn't fuck it up. Intel have pulled out the stops with haswell, and future x86 power consumption will be even better. Within 2-3 years there will be little point in bothering to run with ARM.
WIndows will run the managed code the XBox One runs no doubt. So yes, it will be binary compatible.
No, the reason it is growing in the gaming community is because people are buying new hardware and either getting windows 8 by default, or (like me) just buying a copy of 8 to stay current and get most of the drivers for my hardware built into the OS. Nothing to do with resource consumption - anyone with a gaming PC has plenty of RAM and CPU anyway, the difference between 7 and 8 is precisely FUCK ALL when running games on a decent gaming rig.