Been a long day-Rants are good, I just did a nice little one myself. I noticed one reply to your posting about the MS/sucks comments being 80% Fad-which is true. But to reply to your posting (without sarcasm)-MS could be a usable OS, and it is "good enough" for some people-My main meaning for the three points was that it is all about money with them. All three points have nothing to do with durability-being "good enough"-or being useful in any way whatsoever-they are all about money. Microsoft has made it easy for us to become criminals (and I am sure we have all violated at least one of the mentioned). Hopefully the larger companies like Redhat and Caldera won't fall to the same fate as MS. If you remember it wasn't all that bad in the beginning-has anyone ever had a crash in DOS? I have maybe only once. It starts to get into the factor of quantity instead of quality. Linux is the better OS-you have to admit, even though most programming is running on a budget of $0. It blows my mind that they make so much money-yet apparently cannot find decent programmers to spend it on (must have promoted them from upper management). I had an NT4 machine at my home once also-for learning purposes. It actually did run OK for a while (with a one user load). But after I installed SP3-things were never the same after that-after having to reinstall in a couple of times, class was out-and so was NT4. People are probably always going to follow the FAD-you are right however-maybe we should try to focus more on how good Linux is-rather than how bad MS sucks-definately couldn't hurt.
(Please let me know when I finish what category I fall under.)
I can definatley see your point of being a "moderate"-enjoying the advantages of MS as well as Linux. You are right about one thing-Linux is struggling right now with decent 3D support, although that is something that will be conquered soon-without a service pack, or special driver that will make you re-install a pre-existing service pack (but that's a different story right?)
By reading your great success story with dealing with MS-I can only come to a few conclusions.
1. You purchased the OS for the full price from a certified MS vendor or other reseller.
2. You have never violated ANY MS licensing agreements-such as installing an MS product on someone elses machine without purchasing a valid MS license, or making copies of the software with the intent of personal use.
3. You have followed all guidelines of shareware policies, and either purchased the products or deleted them after the evaluation period was up.
If all of the above is true-then you truly are an advocate of MS-someone that Bill would be truly proud of. My OS of choice (Linux) has only one golden rule: Give credit where credit is due. Not too hard of a rule to follow.
It truly is a good thing that we always have people such as yourself to remind us that we are all trolls or lamers if we voice our opinions.
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I noticed the Red Herring also has a nice article on Google
I personally own a microsoft ergo-got it at a good price, and so far it has been a good quality keyboard, maybe they should just stick to hardware.
I saw this a few days ago-pretty cool.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.ed u/creatures/pages/calr12K.html
Been a long day-Rants are good, I just did a nice little one myself. I noticed one reply to your posting about the MS/sucks comments being 80% Fad-which is true. But to reply to your posting (without sarcasm)-MS could be a usable OS, and it is "good enough" for some people-My main meaning for the three points was that it is all about money with them. All three points have nothing to do with durability-being "good enough"-or being useful in any way whatsoever-they are all about money. Microsoft has made it easy for us to become criminals (and I am sure we have all violated at least one of the mentioned). Hopefully the larger companies like Redhat and Caldera won't fall to the same fate as MS. If you remember it wasn't all that bad in the beginning-has anyone ever had a crash in DOS? I have maybe only once. It starts to get into the factor of quantity instead of quality. Linux is the better OS-you have to admit, even though most programming is running on a budget of $0. It blows my mind that they make so much money-yet apparently cannot find decent programmers to spend it on (must have promoted them from upper management). I had an NT4 machine at my home once also-for learning purposes. It actually did run OK for a while (with a one user load). But after I installed SP3-things were never the same after that-after having to reinstall in a couple of times, class was out-and so was NT4. People are probably always going to follow the FAD-you are right however-maybe we should try to focus more on how good Linux is-rather than how bad MS sucks-definately couldn't hurt.
(Please let me know when I finish what category I fall under.)
I can definatley see your point of being a "moderate"-enjoying the advantages of MS as well as Linux. You are right about one thing-Linux is struggling right now with decent 3D support, although that is something that will be conquered soon-without a service pack, or special driver that will make you re-install a pre-existing service pack (but that's a different story right?)
By reading your great success story with dealing with MS-I can only come to a few conclusions.
1. You purchased the OS for the full price from a certified MS vendor or other reseller.
2. You have never violated ANY MS licensing agreements-such as installing an MS product on someone elses machine without purchasing a valid MS license, or making copies of the software with the intent of personal use.
3. You have followed all guidelines of shareware policies, and either purchased the products or deleted them after the evaluation period was up.
If all of the above is true-then you truly are an advocate of MS-someone that Bill would be truly proud of. My OS of choice (Linux) has only one golden rule: Give credit where credit is due. Not too hard of a rule to follow.
It truly is a good thing that we always have people such as yourself to remind us that we are all trolls or lamers if we voice our opinions.