In fact since XP is actually Windows NT 5.1, it was a hell of a lot more stable than the old 95/98/me MS-DOS overlaid-with-a-desktop model which kept crashing or freezing. I'm glad Microsoft discontinued that line.
My brother bought a brand-new machine with 1/2 gig of RAM. It was slower than a snail through molasses. After he upgraded to 1.5 gig it did work a bit faster, but then he started having problems with Vista accusing him of using an unauthorized copy & refusing to startup. After he removed the RAM the problem went away, but it was again slow as a snail, and MS calls this "usable". Hardly.
Vista is the worst OS I've used since the Windows 3. Perhaps even worse than that. It's a pile of shit with whipped cream on top, and I'm glad it's been replaced with Windows 7.
For some reason this sentence suddenly reminded me of this youtube video of two sisters arguing over a Sidekick (fastforward to 1:40) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcFUDvTFokg
I never ever heard of Microsoft prior to 1992 (first time I used Windows 3). Prior to that the world revolved around IBM, Apple, and Commodore. Funny how fast things can change, and a small company can leverage itself to the top of the heap.
Also with ISPs like Comcast imposing 250 gig limits, why on earth would I want to offload my information across the net? It makes more sense to *minimize* the data transfer to avoid overage fees, not increase it.
I know my songs, videos, and other important files are backed-up across triple drives. I don't know if the same is true if I stored them online, and this major failure of Sidekick demonstrates I'm right not to trust them.
You paid for all that stuff - it was included in the price of your computer. And if you had said to a company like amazon.com "I won't be using Windows OS" you could have got a $50 refund.
It's one lost sale out of 2500 downloaded songs. BFD. And also far from one lost sale out of 2.3 downloads (41%) like the BSA is falsely claiming about programs.
>>>Because pirating software is not the answer to life the universe and everything.
Are you sure? On that somewhat-popular alternate universe called "Star Trek" TNG/DS9/&c, piracy is how everything works. People work and produce goods, and everyone else just takes them for free. They don't even use money anymore. That culture seems to make out okay so perhaps piracy is the answer - the path towards Roddenberry's utopia.
>>>>> Both studies were done by college universities with no bias, unlike the studies coming from RIAA and BSA. >> >>If it's on the internets it must be true!
No it's in two university studies - published in peer-reviewed journals. Can you not read? Besides if you really thought the 2 studies I cited were wrong, then you'd go off and find some other university studies to prove that copyprivilege infringement is horribly high.
Yeah just like getting bit by an ant "hurts" me, but not really. It's just an ant. Nothing to have a hissy-fit over like IRAA and the BSA seem to be having.
BSA: "Oh noes! We've been bit an ant. The end is nigh" US: "Stop being a wuss."
>>>But it's true that piracy is hurting the industry (be that software, games, music or movies)
No it isn't. See my signature. One study estimated 5000 downloads per 1 lost album sale, and another study estimated 2500 downloads per 1 lost album sale. I took the more-pessimistic estimate. Both studies were done by college universities with no bias, unlike the studies coming from RIAA and BSA. (Use google to find them if you're curious, same way I found them.)
It's all purchased (XP, MS Office) or open source (firefox) or free-to-use (Opera). I think the BSA's 41% estimate is brown and smelly due to having formerly occupied the lower regions of their bodies.
About a month ago MSNBC did a story about racist white men carrying guns at a presidential speech, and showed supposed video of these white guys with guns. It was later learned MSNBC's video was of a *black* man.
There doesn't seem to be any negative repercussion for MSNBC's "mistakes". They just keep raking in the dollars.
>>>While I agree that saying D's are better speakers than R's is pretty stupid, so is your apparent belief that political parties 200 years ago were even sort of similar to what they are today. >>>
I don't believe that. I was using the Jefferson (D) example as a way to insult a slashdot poster who I consider a racist/prejudiced SOB.
Yeah because scientists have NEVER been wrong before (flies spontaneously generate from rotting meat, planets revolve around earth, men have more teeth than women), therefore they couldn't possibly be wrong now, and we should not question them.
(rolls eyes)
Stop being a serf and blindly following leaders. Question everything.
>>>We first saw the greenhouse gasses, and global warming
On the other hand it could just coincidence, so that even if the entire human race died off and stopped emitting CO2, the earth might still continue getting warmer. Perhaps the mechanism is the same one that led to the 300 BC and 100 A.D. warming events, and had nothing to do with humans whatsoever.
>>>willing to bet your children's life on that?
Oh geez. If you can't come-up with a logical argument, just invoke fear. Brilliant.
As a matter-of-fact, if the scientists expect us citizens to completely change our lifestyles, then YES they owe us answers to our questions, else we'll just ignore them as a bunch of nutjobs like Nostradamus. My own viewpoint is if they cannot explain what caused the past events, how can we trust them to predict future events?
>>>Fascism means an ideology in which the government is seen as highest form of authority, as opposed to personal freedoms.
No that's an oligarchy - rule by a select number of men. Kind of like the U.S. Supreme Court.;-) Fascism is exactly what I said. If the U.S. or EU became fascist states, we would still have a privately-owned businesses, but the CEO would be the Congress or the Parliament who would operate and direct these private businesses. That's the "third way" of fascism, lying about halfway between communism and the free market.
>>>The disparate negotiating power of the thirty year old. It's not about a difference in what the 17-yr-old girl is doing; it is about a difference in her ability to understand the situation and control what is going on. >>>
By that logic a man like myself (40-something) should be thrown in jail when I date 20-21-22 year old college girls, because of the "disparate negotiating power" that allows me to coerce them to kiss me, hug me, or otherwise be affectionate. I submit your logic is flawed.
I also submit your law is ridiculous when I was an 18-year-old senior with a 14-year-old sophomore girlfriend. PER YOU and your dumb law, I should have been jailed. How much trauma would that have caused for both me and the girl??? Fortunately our parents were sane, so the whole thing was kept secret and never reported to the Assholes running the local police department.
And now it's a beautiful memory between two young adults, rather than a traumatic experience.
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I never had any problems moving from 98 to XP.
In fact since XP is actually Windows NT 5.1, it was a hell of a lot more stable than the old 95/98/me MS-DOS overlaid-with-a-desktop model which kept crashing or freezing. I'm glad Microsoft discontinued that line.
My brother bought a brand-new machine with 1/2 gig of RAM. It was slower than a snail through molasses. After he upgraded to 1.5 gig it did work a bit faster, but then he started having problems with Vista accusing him of using an unauthorized copy & refusing to startup. After he removed the RAM the problem went away, but it was again slow as a snail, and MS calls this "usable". Hardly.
Vista is the worst OS I've used since the Windows 3. Perhaps even worse than that. It's a pile of shit with whipped cream on top, and I'm glad it's been replaced with Windows 7.
No it's cold. Besides how am I going to watch these latest episodes of Stargate and Eureka if I'm outside playing with the squirrels and birds?
>>>I miss my Sidekick immensely.
For some reason this sentence suddenly reminded me of this youtube video of two sisters arguing over a Sidekick (fastforward to 1:40) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcFUDvTFokg
This video is also fun to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STtL5EJFUgE
I never ever heard of Microsoft prior to 1992 (first time I used Windows 3). Prior to that the world revolved around IBM, Apple, and Commodore. Funny how fast things can change, and a small company can leverage itself to the top of the heap.
Also with ISPs like Comcast imposing 250 gig limits, why on earth would I want to offload my information across the net? It makes more sense to *minimize* the data transfer to avoid overage fees, not increase it.
I know my songs, videos, and other important files are backed-up across triple drives. I don't know if the same is true if I stored them online, and this major failure of Sidekick demonstrates I'm right not to trust them.
You paid for all that stuff - it was included in the price of your computer. And if you had said to a company like amazon.com "I won't be using Windows OS" you could have got a $50 refund.
Harvard Study 5000 downloads == 1 lost album sale - http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=5000+downloads+lost+CD+sales
I can't find the other study, but it used statistical analysis to determine 2500 downloads results in just one lost CD sale
So is that a lost sale when the kid can't afford to pay $1300? Heck even I can't afford that kind of money. My vote is "no" - it isn't a lost sale.
It's one lost sale out of 2500 downloaded songs. BFD. And also far from one lost sale out of 2.3 downloads (41%) like the BSA is falsely claiming about programs.
>>>Because pirating software is not the answer to life the universe and everything.
Are you sure? On that somewhat-popular alternate universe called "Star Trek" TNG/DS9/&c, piracy is how everything works. People work and produce goods, and everyone else just takes them for free. They don't even use money anymore. That culture seems to make out okay so perhaps piracy is the answer - the path towards Roddenberry's utopia.
>>>Pirating MP3's also hurts streaming services like Pandora and Spotify too
Also radio, MTV, VH1. We need to bans the youtubes! We need to ban the cassette recorders! Ban VCRs and ban DVRs! Oh noes. ----- /end sarcasm
>>>>> Both studies were done by college universities with no bias, unlike the studies coming from RIAA and BSA.
>>
>>If it's on the internets it must be true!
No it's in two university studies - published in peer-reviewed journals. Can you not read? Besides if you really thought the 2 studies I cited were wrong, then you'd go off and find some other university studies to prove that copyprivilege infringement is horribly high.
Yeah just like getting bit by an ant "hurts" me, but not really. It's just an ant. Nothing to have a hissy-fit over like IRAA and the BSA seem to be having.
BSA: "Oh noes! We've been bit an ant. The end is nigh"
US: "Stop being a wuss."
>>>But it's true that piracy is hurting the industry (be that software, games, music or movies)
No it isn't. See my signature. One study estimated 5000 downloads per 1 lost album sale, and another study estimated 2500 downloads per 1 lost album sale. I took the more-pessimistic estimate. Both studies were done by college universities with no bias, unlike the studies coming from RIAA and BSA. (Use google to find them if you're curious, same way I found them.)
Not one single program on my computer is pirated.
It's all purchased (XP, MS Office) or open source (firefox) or free-to-use (Opera). I think the BSA's 41% estimate is brown and smelly due to having formerly occupied the lower regions of their bodies.
About a month ago MSNBC did a story about racist white men carrying guns at a presidential speech, and showed supposed video of these white guys with guns. It was later learned MSNBC's video was of a *black* man.
There doesn't seem to be any negative repercussion for MSNBC's "mistakes". They just keep raking in the dollars.
>>>While I agree that saying D's are better speakers than R's is pretty stupid, so is your apparent belief that political parties 200 years ago were even sort of similar to what they are today.
>>>
I don't believe that. I was using the Jefferson (D) example as a way to insult a slashdot poster who I consider a racist/prejudiced SOB.
Yeah because scientists have NEVER been wrong before (flies spontaneously generate from rotting meat, planets revolve around earth, men have more teeth than women), therefore they couldn't possibly be wrong now, and we should not question them.
(rolls eyes)
Stop being a serf and blindly following leaders. Question everything.
>>>We first saw the greenhouse gasses, and global warming
On the other hand it could just coincidence, so that even if the entire human race died off and stopped emitting CO2, the earth might still continue getting warmer. Perhaps the mechanism is the same one that led to the 300 BC and 100 A.D. warming events, and had nothing to do with humans whatsoever.
>>>willing to bet your children's life on that?
Oh geez. If you can't come-up with a logical argument, just invoke fear. Brilliant.
As a matter-of-fact, if the scientists expect us citizens to completely change our lifestyles, then YES they owe us answers to our questions, else we'll just ignore them as a bunch of nutjobs like Nostradamus. My own viewpoint is if they cannot explain what caused the past events, how can we trust them to predict future events?
>>>Fascism means an ideology in which the government is seen as highest form of authority, as opposed to personal freedoms.
No that's an oligarchy - rule by a select number of men. Kind of like the U.S. Supreme Court. ;-) Fascism is exactly what I said. If the U.S. or EU became fascist states, we would still have a privately-owned businesses, but the CEO would be the Congress or the Parliament who would operate and direct these private businesses. That's the "third way" of fascism, lying about halfway between communism and the free market.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Position
>>>hacked off of your favorite part of your body.
Yeah I won't be circumcising my future son, and if my wife pushes the issue I'll divorce her and sue for child abuse/mutilation.
>>>The disparate negotiating power of the thirty year old. It's not about a difference in what the 17-yr-old girl is doing; it is about a difference in her ability to understand the situation and control what is going on.
>>>
By that logic a man like myself (40-something) should be thrown in jail when I date 20-21-22 year old college girls, because of the "disparate negotiating power" that allows me to coerce them to kiss me, hug me, or otherwise be affectionate. I submit your logic is flawed.
I also submit your law is ridiculous when I was an 18-year-old senior with a 14-year-old sophomore girlfriend. PER YOU and your dumb law, I should have been jailed. How much trauma would that have caused for both me and the girl??? Fortunately our parents were sane, so the whole thing was kept secret and never reported to the Assholes running the local police department.
And now it's a beautiful memory between two young adults, rather than a traumatic experience.