The problem with Swiss model, is that to work rather than cause the country to sink even further into opposition, is that such a democracy has to come from within.
All former SSRs, including Russia, had democracy effectively forced upon them at economic gunpoint in 1990s. As a result, it became something dramatically different from what it is in the West. Similar effect is seen in almost all countries where such a democratic transformation has happened - it takes a very much local flavour. Japan is a good example of this, there is effectively no democracy there to speak of. Same party has ruled the country for half a century with only one period of not being the ruler. Effective governance is done in a very japanese way, which is through personal connections, massive nepotism and very little of consultation with populace over actual points of importance. It's not even allowed to have proper campaigning in Japan - most campaigns even for high level posts are effectively vans with loudspeakers driving around blasting the election greetings of the candidate.
This is the issue that has doomed essentially all attempts of "democratization" in known history. The issue appears that even our own governments started to believe their own propaganda that democracy is some kind of universal panacea to political problems, and started exporting it as such, completely ignoring decades of utter failures. Another good example of this failure happening in a much more dramatic fashion is the state of Arab states after their Arab spring. Democracy merely brought out the massive internal problems and within a few years, most of the countries are far worse off than they were under dictatorships, both for the upper echelons of society and ordinary people.
Democracy cannot be exported. It must be allowed to grow from within. Countries such as Switzerland are a good example of just how stable and functional democracy is when it is allowed to do so.
The problem, as it often is, that arguments tend to polarize people over time if they are not solved. Most people in Ukraine view themselves as Ukrainians, not Russians, or Poles, or Jews, or Lviv residents or whatever. They're Ukrainians.
But their trio of leaders, in their desperate struggle for power focused on dividing rather than uniting people, which is actually a Western model of gathering votes. Focus on your own group and those who doubt and show them how strongly you defend them against "those others who vote for the other guy and are actually your enemies".
In a way, it's a pretty big warning sign for that kind of political approach and it's recent wide adoption in the West. When it blows in your face eventually, explosion is spectacular and deadly. We need more emphasis on consensus in politics rather than adversarial approach.
You appear to misunderstand. I'm quoting the general split along the linguistic lines, which is about 55/45 as stated above. I also note that "high tech exports such as", which means "one of the many types of exports". It was a good example because of the recent progress with laying down new plants making similar/same product has happened recently.
The main issue for Ukraine's high tech exports is that vast majority of them are designed for USSR-era technology and its follow-up which is mainly needed in Russia, and there's very little demand for same products in the EU.
I don't buy the "polish and german leadership" argument. One thing about extreme nationalists that doesn't change from country to country is that they abhor foreigners of any kind. They may accept assistance to drive their goals from abroad, but they would never cede leadership. EU and US are very likely to be financing the opposition, but they are highly unlikely to be in position to control it. Otherwise they would never have allowed the situation to go as bad as it is today - it's massively against EU's interests to have Ukraine sink into a civil conflict and that's where it's headed now.
On the last note, I live in Finland, and I have been seeing East European products (which due to our small market size relative to rest of Europe are generally not repackaged, but simply have stickers with description in our state languages, finnish and swedish glued onto the original East European package) show up in increasing amounts on market shelves, typically displacing the spanish, french, italian and other south European produce. So while they're definitely not "instantly there", they are slowly edging in and taking their share of the market.
So, can you tell us about that machine that lets you send messages across parallel worlds? It's much more interesting than the strange retelling of history from our world's stand point that you're engaging in.
I'm am... astounded by the sheer ignorance before me.
Truly, I do not think I can argue against this. To do so would require me typing out pages of material because the sheer depth of ignorance requires going to the basics of our financial system.
It's been so for a while. People stalk researchers working on life-savng drugs, threaten to kill a woman with cancer who thanks the people who work on saving her life and so on.
Being a crazy lunatic is fashionable in certain circles. It's quite sad really.
If you seriously think that economic disasters in Greece and Spain were caused by their governments and banks have no parts in it, I only have one question for you.
What are the base principles behind that device that allows creation of tunnel that lets you post on slashdot from a different universe and how can I build one?
For a government intelligence agency that does that sort of thing as a part of their mission? Easy. It's what they do. You can likely bring one in a truck/several trucks for better coverage.
The mess started with Ukraine basically being forced to choose between economic deal with EU, or economic deal with Russia. Right now, they have a deal with Russia. Problem is that if they also make a deal with EU, it would allow exporters to basically push their EU>Russia exports which are extremely lucrative though Ukraine to avoid tariffs.
A very large part of Russia's budget comes from these tariffs, so Russia explicitly stated that it will not allow for such an obvious loophole, and that if Ukraine does make a deal with EU, current deal with Russia is off.
At the same time, Ukraine is effectively divided along the linguistic lines. About half the country speaks russian, and another half speaks ukrainian. Kiev is in the ukrainian-speaking region, so it's always a mess when a pro-russian speaking government is in power and does something that ukrainian speaking leaders don't like.
There are some other rather nasty issues, like the nature of current protests. Lviv, the home city of the current waves of protests is the home of extreme right movement in Ukraine, borderline nazi movement that wants to purge everyone ranging from russian-speaking minority to jewish and polish minorities. They have about 8% popular support across Ukraine but well in excess of 20% in their hometown of Lviv. They have been a very important power behind mobilizing the current protests, and they also appear to be the ones turning them violent.
Majority of those protesting just want a more EU-like rule. Less corruption, more wealth to the citizens. This is actually one thing that likely unites both the part of the nation protesting and one that is not - they all agree that government is corrupt and want better rule. It's just that pro-Western leaders that were in power for years before showed to be even more corrupt then current leadership, so options are pretty slim.
Also Eastern russian speaking part of the country is calm - it's actually industrialized and manufactures a lot of high tech things such as military helicopter engines for Russia's Mil helicopters. They have a very healthy export economy and they need good relations with Russia - Russia proposed an economic union similar to EU which would bring massive economic boon to that region. This is also why most of the Ukraine's oligarchs who own the heavy industries support the moves to approach Russia, and why they are against the EU deal - they need the current deal with Russia so that their heavy industry exports can continue. In light of the mess in Ukraine, Russia has already made some steps to isolate itself from potential fallout and parts shortage that breaking of their trade agreements with Ukraine would cause, such as laying down a new helicopter engine factory near St. Petersburg. This is very worrying for Ukrainian exporters located in the East for the obvious reasons.
On the other hand Western ukrainian speaking half is mainly agricultural, and of those exports, they want to send as much as possible to EU as it's a very lucrative market. Right now, tariffs keep that trade low, while on Russian market they have to compete with EU companies AND Asian ones. Russian agricultural market is very lucrative, but also extremely competitive and Ukraine doesn't really have the ultra-efficiency of EU competitors, nor extremely cheap labour of the Asian countries. The deal with EU would bring at least some potential prosperity to that part of the country as Ukraine would be able to supply cheap labour-based agricultural products to EU. It's highly unlikely that any of the high-tech exports would be allowed in EU however.
So there you have it. A country split among the linguistic, economic and ideological lines. And split is fairly even, right now it's something around 55% pro West and 45% pro East. No matter who wins in the current political struggle, half of the country will feel it lost. It's a mess. And in addition to that, no matter who it chooses economically, half of the country will likely get economically hit.
2. That is called "technological progress". Issue is, that in spite of it massively pushing forward even today, quality of life is actually going down.
That suggests we have hit the saturation point where parasitic corporatism is so powerful, that even technological progress can no longer hide its inefficiency.
I keep hearing this excuse, yet I never saw a period when this was true. Unless you are looking for utter high end laptop ONLY, meaning extreme internals, in which case price doesn't come from the screen but from the internals.
All my laptops were 768p except for one back in very early 2000s, which was 4:3 1024p because I needed vertical space at the time and judged 4:3 1200p to be uncomfortable to use. Every time I was buying and I do mean every single time, there was an affordable 1080p laptop or two in my selection list, which I always dropped because GPU was too weak to drive it for my usage pattern. They still are, because a laptop with 1080p screen would need a much bigger battery and much more powerful GPU than 786p. Approximately twice as powerful GPU alone that is.
And being actually mobile, that means that whereas I can live with integrated solutions on 786p, 1080p would require a discreet GPU, which is just unaffordable in terms of power consumption and increased cost. My laptop also needs to be fairly disposable as I tend to drag them through rather harsh environments.
Considering that about the only problem I did see was the discrimination against certain people, and everything else you mention is pretty much imaginary or not a problem, I would take it over not getting a job, or getting fired over getting sick, or because company wants to hire someone from China to do your job, or just not being liked by the boss any day, yes.
And mind you, single people didn't get discriminated against. They got fast tracked since they could travel freely and could do the job that required quick response (i.e. moving when necessary).
As for getting cheated on pensions, you are utterly clueless. My generation, we will get cheated on pensions due to current situation with population and the fact that there won't be anyone to pay for mine. The generation currently on pension on the other hand is living off their pensions in Thailand and Spain like kings.
But hey, if you want to think that if you're talented, you're somehow better off today than you were a few decades ago, keep on living that dream. Reality is, nepotism is much stronger today and advancing purely on talent was much easier a few decades ago, unless you are absolutely exceptional.
There is a huge choice of 1080p laptops available. Grab one of those.
Many people on the other hand do not want 1080p, with all the scaling issues on small screens, increased power consumption and need for more powerful GPU to drive it.
The problem is the cheap consumer laptop market and the rise of chromebooks which is attributed to the fact that people walk into the store looking to buy a cheap laptop, ask for windows, get told that cheap laptops only come with 8, ask for options, get shown chromebook and buy that as it actually is more usable than w8 laptop to them.
First time I hear of this. I've had several HP laptops and they are absolute trucks in terms of reliability. Better than anything I've had to date.
My current 350€ cheapo HP laptop has to endure high humidity, extreme cold (it's -20C right now as I'm typing this) and so on. It has fallen to the floor from the table several times while working, and it has once actually gotten hit by a shower (as in in the bathroom, don't ask) for about half a minute before I got to it to take it from under the stream. I got about 1/3 litre of water out of its insides when I turned it upside down to see if some water got in. It was working during this process. I drag it everywhere with me - that's why I bought a cheap HP laptop. I needed reliability even in harsh conditions, and I needed it to be cheap enough in case where if it's stolen, it won't be a significant financial hit.
But flaws typically outweigh benefits significantly. You still have to use classic shell on win7 start menu to get to be as accessible as XP's start menu. Search in it is nice and it's certainly better than old "start > click search > type" (and win7 indexing service is linked to it and it works a whole lot better than XP's indexing service), but they did mangle tree style start menu pretty badly in 7.
I can't help but think that muted reaction to mangling of start menu in 7 was one of the main reasons why MS thought they could get away with gutting it entirely in 8.
Good luck with that. The only thing I can do that maxes out CPU is encoding video. I have a G15/G13 on my desk, and one of them typically runs the cpu load/ram consumption applet, and I usually don't see CPU go over 50%, pretty much ever.
You sure work hard trying to defend the indefensible. Unfortunately I have bad news for you - you can scream "windows 8 is awesome and everyone who doesn't like it is a moron" until your throat bleeds - and no one here will care. Because they experienced it for themselves and they know it's a turd.
And sadly, people like you are the major cause of the problem. The louder PR people like you scream, the less people at microsoft feel pressured to actually deliver something people would want to use. And so, crappy thin clients like Chrome OS actually grab a significant market share.
If you're a MS shill, you're exceptionally dumb. If you're a google shill, you're exceptionally devious.
Pretty much this, except that even gamers don't actually need to upgrade as often as before, due to hilarious situation with most games being coded for lowest common denominator of three main gaming machines, two of which are horrendously out of date consoles. Next generation of consoles will probably trigger a limited need to upgrade the older gaming rigs some time late this year as games that are actually designed for those consoles at the very least may be too much to run well on older gaming machines.
That said, don't expect much of a change. The new consoles are horrifyingly behind mid range gaming PCs released two-three years ago and this time their architecture is the same x86/amd64 as modern PCs. There's not going to be much need for overhead due to lack of PC optimizations this time.
It: 1. Fits too much crap on your screen at once disorienting you. 2. Doesn't function as a logical tree-style menu. 3. Covers the whole screen.
So you pretty much reworded all the bad things about it to sorta kinda make them appear to not be horrible. Well done. You will have a good career in either advertising or politics.
It's obviously correct. I can maintain XP just fine. I have maintained XP just fine for years with no updates. Reading the god damn thread you're answering to helps. Since you are utterly incapable of this feat, I think I'm done trying to write stuff in hopes that you would read it. You obviously either don't bother, or are incapable of it.
So yes, YOU should upgrade whenever microsoft tells you to. Always.
And those of us capable of connecting words and forming sentences that they are then able to comprehend will stick to things that actually work, instead of what we're told is the newest awesome, and that the strong smell of manure coming from it should be ignored. Good luck.
This is actually a real solution. Internet access is important nowadays. People move for a lot less, like to appear to have better life to their family or get their children into what looks to be a better school.
One would think that for someone who views reliable and fast internet access as an important factor in quality of life, moving to get better internet would be up with those reasons to move in terms of importance.
(I live what I preach. I moved into the house that gets 21mbps connection on ADSL2+ which theoretically maxes out on 24mpbs back when adsl2+ was newest of the new in internet over POTS lines).
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The problem with Swiss model, is that to work rather than cause the country to sink even further into opposition, is that such a democracy has to come from within.
All former SSRs, including Russia, had democracy effectively forced upon them at economic gunpoint in 1990s. As a result, it became something dramatically different from what it is in the West. Similar effect is seen in almost all countries where such a democratic transformation has happened - it takes a very much local flavour. Japan is a good example of this, there is effectively no democracy there to speak of. Same party has ruled the country for half a century with only one period of not being the ruler. Effective governance is done in a very japanese way, which is through personal connections, massive nepotism and very little of consultation with populace over actual points of importance. It's not even allowed to have proper campaigning in Japan - most campaigns even for high level posts are effectively vans with loudspeakers driving around blasting the election greetings of the candidate.
This is the issue that has doomed essentially all attempts of "democratization" in known history. The issue appears that even our own governments started to believe their own propaganda that democracy is some kind of universal panacea to political problems, and started exporting it as such, completely ignoring decades of utter failures. Another good example of this failure happening in a much more dramatic fashion is the state of Arab states after their Arab spring. Democracy merely brought out the massive internal problems and within a few years, most of the countries are far worse off than they were under dictatorships, both for the upper echelons of society and ordinary people.
Democracy cannot be exported. It must be allowed to grow from within. Countries such as Switzerland are a good example of just how stable and functional democracy is when it is allowed to do so.
The problem, as it often is, that arguments tend to polarize people over time if they are not solved. Most people in Ukraine view themselves as Ukrainians, not Russians, or Poles, or Jews, or Lviv residents or whatever. They're Ukrainians.
But their trio of leaders, in their desperate struggle for power focused on dividing rather than uniting people, which is actually a Western model of gathering votes. Focus on your own group and those who doubt and show them how strongly you defend them against "those others who vote for the other guy and are actually your enemies".
In a way, it's a pretty big warning sign for that kind of political approach and it's recent wide adoption in the West. When it blows in your face eventually, explosion is spectacular and deadly. We need more emphasis on consensus in politics rather than adversarial approach.
You appear to misunderstand. I'm quoting the general split along the linguistic lines, which is about 55/45 as stated above. I also note that "high tech exports such as", which means "one of the many types of exports". It was a good example because of the recent progress with laying down new plants making similar/same product has happened recently.
The main issue for Ukraine's high tech exports is that vast majority of them are designed for USSR-era technology and its follow-up which is mainly needed in Russia, and there's very little demand for same products in the EU.
I don't buy the "polish and german leadership" argument. One thing about extreme nationalists that doesn't change from country to country is that they abhor foreigners of any kind. They may accept assistance to drive their goals from abroad, but they would never cede leadership. EU and US are very likely to be financing the opposition, but they are highly unlikely to be in position to control it. Otherwise they would never have allowed the situation to go as bad as it is today - it's massively against EU's interests to have Ukraine sink into a civil conflict and that's where it's headed now.
On the last note, I live in Finland, and I have been seeing East European products (which due to our small market size relative to rest of Europe are generally not repackaged, but simply have stickers with description in our state languages, finnish and swedish glued onto the original East European package) show up in increasing amounts on market shelves, typically displacing the spanish, french, italian and other south European produce. So while they're definitely not "instantly there", they are slowly edging in and taking their share of the market.
So, can you tell us about that machine that lets you send messages across parallel worlds? It's much more interesting than the strange retelling of history from our world's stand point that you're engaging in.
I'm am... astounded by the sheer ignorance before me.
Truly, I do not think I can argue against this. To do so would require me typing out pages of material because the sheer depth of ignorance requires going to the basics of our financial system.
Who do you think developed the software and hardware?
What did you think they would do with it once it's done?
Or are you one of these people that like to pretend that modern West is about freedom of people, rather than freedom of money?
It's been so for a while. People stalk researchers working on life-savng drugs, threaten to kill a woman with cancer who thanks the people who work on saving her life and so on.
Being a crazy lunatic is fashionable in certain circles. It's quite sad really.
If you seriously think that economic disasters in Greece and Spain were caused by their governments and banks have no parts in it, I only have one question for you.
What are the base principles behind that device that allows creation of tunnel that lets you post on slashdot from a different universe and how can I build one?
For a government intelligence agency that does that sort of thing as a part of their mission? Easy. It's what they do. You can likely bring one in a truck/several trucks for better coverage.
The mess started with Ukraine basically being forced to choose between economic deal with EU, or economic deal with Russia. Right now, they have a deal with Russia. Problem is that if they also make a deal with EU, it would allow exporters to basically push their EU>Russia exports which are extremely lucrative though Ukraine to avoid tariffs.
A very large part of Russia's budget comes from these tariffs, so Russia explicitly stated that it will not allow for such an obvious loophole, and that if Ukraine does make a deal with EU, current deal with Russia is off.
At the same time, Ukraine is effectively divided along the linguistic lines. About half the country speaks russian, and another half speaks ukrainian. Kiev is in the ukrainian-speaking region, so it's always a mess when a pro-russian speaking government is in power and does something that ukrainian speaking leaders don't like.
There are some other rather nasty issues, like the nature of current protests. Lviv, the home city of the current waves of protests is the home of extreme right movement in Ukraine, borderline nazi movement that wants to purge everyone ranging from russian-speaking minority to jewish and polish minorities. They have about 8% popular support across Ukraine but well in excess of 20% in their hometown of Lviv. They have been a very important power behind mobilizing the current protests, and they also appear to be the ones turning them violent.
Majority of those protesting just want a more EU-like rule. Less corruption, more wealth to the citizens. This is actually one thing that likely unites both the part of the nation protesting and one that is not - they all agree that government is corrupt and want better rule. It's just that pro-Western leaders that were in power for years before showed to be even more corrupt then current leadership, so options are pretty slim.
Also Eastern russian speaking part of the country is calm - it's actually industrialized and manufactures a lot of high tech things such as military helicopter engines for Russia's Mil helicopters. They have a very healthy export economy and they need good relations with Russia - Russia proposed an economic union similar to EU which would bring massive economic boon to that region. This is also why most of the Ukraine's oligarchs who own the heavy industries support the moves to approach Russia, and why they are against the EU deal - they need the current deal with Russia so that their heavy industry exports can continue. In light of the mess in Ukraine, Russia has already made some steps to isolate itself from potential fallout and parts shortage that breaking of their trade agreements with Ukraine would cause, such as laying down a new helicopter engine factory near St. Petersburg. This is very worrying for Ukrainian exporters located in the East for the obvious reasons.
On the other hand Western ukrainian speaking half is mainly agricultural, and of those exports, they want to send as much as possible to EU as it's a very lucrative market. Right now, tariffs keep that trade low, while on Russian market they have to compete with EU companies AND Asian ones. Russian agricultural market is very lucrative, but also extremely competitive and Ukraine doesn't really have the ultra-efficiency of EU competitors, nor extremely cheap labour of the Asian countries. The deal with EU would bring at least some potential prosperity to that part of the country as Ukraine would be able to supply cheap labour-based agricultural products to EU. It's highly unlikely that any of the high-tech exports would be allowed in EU however.
So there you have it. A country split among the linguistic, economic and ideological lines. And split is fairly even, right now it's something around 55% pro West and 45% pro East. No matter who wins in the current political struggle, half of the country will feel it lost. It's a mess. And in addition to that, no matter who it chooses economically, half of the country will likely get economically hit.
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1. I'm not an American.
2. That is called "technological progress". Issue is, that in spite of it massively pushing forward even today, quality of life is actually going down.
That suggests we have hit the saturation point where parasitic corporatism is so powerful, that even technological progress can no longer hide its inefficiency.
I keep hearing this excuse, yet I never saw a period when this was true. Unless you are looking for utter high end laptop ONLY, meaning extreme internals, in which case price doesn't come from the screen but from the internals.
All my laptops were 768p except for one back in very early 2000s, which was 4:3 1024p because I needed vertical space at the time and judged 4:3 1200p to be uncomfortable to use. Every time I was buying and I do mean every single time, there was an affordable 1080p laptop or two in my selection list, which I always dropped because GPU was too weak to drive it for my usage pattern. They still are, because a laptop with 1080p screen would need a much bigger battery and much more powerful GPU than 786p. Approximately twice as powerful GPU alone that is.
And being actually mobile, that means that whereas I can live with integrated solutions on 786p, 1080p would require a discreet GPU, which is just unaffordable in terms of power consumption and increased cost. My laptop also needs to be fairly disposable as I tend to drag them through rather harsh environments.
That's one hell of a twisted version of it.
Considering that about the only problem I did see was the discrimination against certain people, and everything else you mention is pretty much imaginary or not a problem, I would take it over not getting a job, or getting fired over getting sick, or because company wants to hire someone from China to do your job, or just not being liked by the boss any day, yes.
And mind you, single people didn't get discriminated against. They got fast tracked since they could travel freely and could do the job that required quick response (i.e. moving when necessary).
As for getting cheated on pensions, you are utterly clueless. My generation, we will get cheated on pensions due to current situation with population and the fact that there won't be anyone to pay for mine. The generation currently on pension on the other hand is living off their pensions in Thailand and Spain like kings.
But hey, if you want to think that if you're talented, you're somehow better off today than you were a few decades ago, keep on living that dream. Reality is, nepotism is much stronger today and advancing purely on talent was much easier a few decades ago, unless you are absolutely exceptional.
There is a huge choice of 1080p laptops available. Grab one of those.
Many people on the other hand do not want 1080p, with all the scaling issues on small screens, increased power consumption and need for more powerful GPU to drive it.
The problem is the cheap consumer laptop market and the rise of chromebooks which is attributed to the fact that people walk into the store looking to buy a cheap laptop, ask for windows, get told that cheap laptops only come with 8, ask for options, get shown chromebook and buy that as it actually is more usable than w8 laptop to them.
First time I hear of this. I've had several HP laptops and they are absolute trucks in terms of reliability. Better than anything I've had to date.
My current 350€ cheapo HP laptop has to endure high humidity, extreme cold (it's -20C right now as I'm typing this) and so on. It has fallen to the floor from the table several times while working, and it has once actually gotten hit by a shower (as in in the bathroom, don't ask) for about half a minute before I got to it to take it from under the stream. I got about 1/3 litre of water out of its insides when I turned it upside down to see if some water got in. It was working during this process. I drag it everywhere with me - that's why I bought a cheap HP laptop. I needed reliability even in harsh conditions, and I needed it to be cheap enough in case where if it's stolen, it won't be a significant financial hit.
It's still trucking along just fine.
But flaws typically outweigh benefits significantly. You still have to use classic shell on win7 start menu to get to be as accessible as XP's start menu. Search in it is nice and it's certainly better than old "start > click search > type" (and win7 indexing service is linked to it and it works a whole lot better than XP's indexing service), but they did mangle tree style start menu pretty badly in 7.
I can't help but think that muted reaction to mangling of start menu in 7 was one of the main reasons why MS thought they could get away with gutting it entirely in 8.
Good luck with that. The only thing I can do that maxes out CPU is encoding video. I have a G15/G13 on my desk, and one of them typically runs the cpu load/ram consumption applet, and I usually don't see CPU go over 50%, pretty much ever.
You sure work hard trying to defend the indefensible. Unfortunately I have bad news for you - you can scream "windows 8 is awesome and everyone who doesn't like it is a moron" until your throat bleeds - and no one here will care. Because they experienced it for themselves and they know it's a turd.
And sadly, people like you are the major cause of the problem. The louder PR people like you scream, the less people at microsoft feel pressured to actually deliver something people would want to use. And so, crappy thin clients like Chrome OS actually grab a significant market share.
If you're a MS shill, you're exceptionally dumb. If you're a google shill, you're exceptionally devious.
Pretty much this, except that even gamers don't actually need to upgrade as often as before, due to hilarious situation with most games being coded for lowest common denominator of three main gaming machines, two of which are horrendously out of date consoles. Next generation of consoles will probably trigger a limited need to upgrade the older gaming rigs some time late this year as games that are actually designed for those consoles at the very least may be too much to run well on older gaming machines.
That said, don't expect much of a change. The new consoles are horrifyingly behind mid range gaming PCs released two-three years ago and this time their architecture is the same x86/amd64 as modern PCs. There's not going to be much need for overhead due to lack of PC optimizations this time.
It:
1. Fits too much crap on your screen at once disorienting you.
2. Doesn't function as a logical tree-style menu.
3. Covers the whole screen.
So you pretty much reworded all the bad things about it to sorta kinda make them appear to not be horrible. Well done. You will have a good career in either advertising or politics.
Better in a way that people felt that they had a stable life with stable income, and were able to plan their lives tens of years ahead.
Read the thread. It's all in here. I'm done regurgitating the same points that you will not read anyway.
It's obviously correct. I can maintain XP just fine. I have maintained XP just fine for years with no updates. Reading the god damn thread you're answering to helps. Since you are utterly incapable of this feat, I think I'm done trying to write stuff in hopes that you would read it. You obviously either don't bother, or are incapable of it.
So yes, YOU should upgrade whenever microsoft tells you to. Always.
And those of us capable of connecting words and forming sentences that they are then able to comprehend will stick to things that actually work, instead of what we're told is the newest awesome, and that the strong smell of manure coming from it should be ignored. Good luck.
This is actually a real solution. Internet access is important nowadays. People move for a lot less, like to appear to have better life to their family or get their children into what looks to be a better school.
One would think that for someone who views reliable and fast internet access as an important factor in quality of life, moving to get better internet would be up with those reasons to move in terms of importance.
(I live what I preach. I moved into the house that gets 21mbps connection on ADSL2+ which theoretically maxes out on 24mpbs back when adsl2+ was newest of the new in internet over POTS lines).