Then as you weed out the last apps that require Windows, switch to Linux Mint, and never pay for software or get locked into a corporations dying gasps ever again.
All the gamers I know (pretty much every man, woman, and child under 40) are still on XP.
Granted, a couple hacker friends and myself loves us some Ubuntu Compiz, but honestly, nearly EVERYONE that is serious about computers, games, or life in general still uses XP.
Or they grudgingly use Vista cause it came on a new machine and they don't know what to do about it.
Now if only we could get decent performance in GTA IV on Ubuntu....
Windows 7 may be a service pack for Vista, but what Vista SHOULD BE is an improvement in stability, speed, efficiency and features to XP. It is none of that. It is inferior to XP on every level, save eye candy, where it is solidly beat across the board by Linux and Mac anyway.
Windows 7 should die, just like Vista is dying. I refuse to use either and only use XP or Linux Mint.
There isn't one good reason to use anything else. Macs cost way too much fucking money, and every other version of Windows is inferior.
In particular I use MicroXP quite a bit. Search for it on btjunkie.org. I have a valid XP license, but I prefer the smaller foot print and faster speed of MicroXP hands down, for everything but Microsoft Office, which I don't use anyway: http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
The hype is ludicrous. XP DOMINATES Win 7 in every way. I've tried it out on a host of machines, and XP is superior performance wise across the board.
If you're running a business you're much better off with Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Why are you paying for a buggy OS that causes extra IT headaches in virus and malware?
Stop the 7 Hype. It's crap. It's pretty, like a mac, but slow and bloated and unnecessary. Like a Mac.
XP is best for games or legacy apps. Linux is best for real business. Same as last year, the year before.....
Light speed has already been surpassed. Please visit "Spooky action at a distance".
Our understanding of the Universe, the laws of physics, and our place in the universe is all severely lacking.
Over half the population is still speaking to invisible men in the sky for salvation, even though the anachronistic texts those fictitious characters are based on have been proven to be derivative from previous civilizations that ceased to exist in prehistory.
There is NO WAY I'm paying the exorbitant fees for at&t/apple.
I KNOW I'm not alone. Most of my friends/family/coworkers are all agreed: They're waiting for an iPhone killer that isn't encumbered by DRM and the lock in. Plus the monthly plans are way too high.
The moment there's a good iPhone killer and cheaper monthly plans (I'm looking at what the G1 SHOULD have been), everyone will get that.
My dream phone: Looks like an iphone, but it has: a full FOSS stack, including media viewing/listening, an SDHC slot, a headphone jack, a standard USB jack, GPS, a SNES emulator, and a camera on both sides so I can skype where wifi is available.
It's not rocket science, you could have this phone out in numbers for $100 at volume.
It's ludicrous that none of the apple competitors have put one out yet.
Provided Microsoft builds a time machine, goes back in time, and deletes Windows ME, and Vista, I totally think they should get government money. Until they develop that technology, FUCK MICROSOFT.
I've never understood why we couldn't have a wifi mesh network that was completely free. If every home in the US had a wireless router set up to act as a free and open peer to peer network server, couldn't we just have all our internet and phone for free? Almost every house in my neighborhood has wifi already. Can't we just unlock them all and get wifi phones?
Don't install java. On anything. Ever. Every time I've installed java in the past, I've been instantly and immediately reprimanded by poor performance, extra processes, random slow downs, and other general crap.
I won't install java.
I won't install apps that require java.
People keep telling me "It's gotten better!" and some such nonsense, but so? It sucked so bad in the past, I'll give it another shot in say, five years, when it's been completely open sourced and fixed. I only use FOSS because it's good, not because I'm a zealot.:) Java is not good, no matter it's current state of source code availability or not.
I played in a band last year that went on Warped Tour. We broke down and got stuck in St. George, Utah. It was June, and approximately 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit for the duration of our stay there (we were stuck about a week). There was a total of one bars in St. George, and it was beer only (It's called "The One and Only". In addition, the beers were not full strength. They have to have custom brewed Guinness that tastes completely horrible and has less than the expected alcohol content of regular Guinness. We negotiated a deal to play at the one bar in town every night we were there, hoping to at least get free crappy beer since we were stuck in arguably the worst state of the union.
I have Mormon friends. The Mormon lifestyle is healthy and wise in numerous ways. But the religion is clearly based on horse shit. There is no way a known charlatan found golden plates from a missing Jewish tribe that got wiped out in the Americas. It's OBVIOUSLY poppy cock.
Further, their religion is based on Christianity, which is also full of holes scientifically, and they've further edited that down.
Their opposition to alcohol comes from a section of "The Pearl of Great Price" wherein they refer to a church members body as a temple that must be respected. Fine, but what about Jesus making more wine at the wedding? Well, they claim it was "New Wine" (grape juice).
I play violin. I've played probably 2,000 weddings over the last 20 years. I have seen them run out of:
Beer Champagne Wine Vodka Rum Tequila Whiskey Bailey's Kahlua Midori
I have literally seen every type of alcohol run out of at least once at one wedding. I have NEVER seen a wedding run out of grape juice. Not once.
The obvious affront to the right to privacy that is in the constitution should be the main issue here, but there are many, many other reasons why Utah sucks, the Mormon religion sucks, and prohibition did not work, and WILL not work.
For the rest of us, we can rest easy knowing that we don't have to live in Utah, and can avoid it altogether, so long as we don't get called again for Warped Tour next year.
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God created man in his image.
Damn! God must have a HUGE DICK!
and almost everyone I know is an Atheist, or at least agnostic.
But then again, I don't hang out with fucking morons.
But they do get to pick the president. Well, so long as Fox and Diebold approve that is....
Cause I swear to god I'm not even on a train right now.
And until I can play Grand Theft Auto reliably on Linux, I'll probably be sticking with XP.
.... a Mac is worth the extra $600 you will pay for identical hardware.....
Or is it? I can get TWO computers for $600 that will run Ubuntu great.
Granted, Mac has it's audience: People with too much money who don't know dick about computers.
Good for them.
MicroXP as an OS. Blazingly fast, runs on old hardware, is backwards compatible with 99% of your current application needs.
Then replace all your applications with:
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
and the like.
Then as you weed out the last apps that require Windows, switch to Linux Mint, and never pay for software or get locked into a corporations dying gasps ever again.
All the gamers I know (pretty much every man, woman, and child under 40) are still on XP.
Granted, a couple hacker friends and myself loves us some Ubuntu Compiz, but honestly, nearly EVERYONE that is serious about computers, games, or life in general still uses XP.
Or they grudgingly use Vista cause it came on a new machine and they don't know what to do about it.
Now if only we could get decent performance in GTA IV on Ubuntu....
Anybody singing Windows 7 praises either is getting paid or never used XP.
It's inferior to XP and almost every flavor of Linux right out of the box.
Because the day it is as fast and lightweight as XP it will be totally worth it.
Except that shit ain't never gonna happen....
Oh that's right, everyone with half a brain is staying on XP indefinitely, or has already switched to Linux.....
Windows 7 may be a service pack for Vista, but what Vista SHOULD BE is an improvement in stability, speed, efficiency and features to XP. It is none of that. It is inferior to XP on every level, save eye candy, where it is solidly beat across the board by Linux and Mac anyway.
Windows 7 should die, just like Vista is dying. I refuse to use either and only use XP or Linux Mint.
There isn't one good reason to use anything else. Macs cost way too much fucking money, and every other version of Windows is inferior.
In particular I use MicroXP quite a bit. Search for it on btjunkie.org. I have a valid XP license, but I prefer the smaller foot print and faster speed of MicroXP hands down, for everything but Microsoft Office, which I don't use anyway:
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
True: Vista blows.
False: Windows 7 solves it.
The hype is ludicrous. XP DOMINATES Win 7 in every way. I've tried it out on a host of machines, and XP is superior performance wise across the board.
If you're running a business you're much better off with Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Why are you paying for a buggy OS that causes extra IT headaches in virus and malware?
Stop the 7 Hype. It's crap. It's pretty, like a mac, but slow and bloated and unnecessary. Like a Mac.
XP is best for games or legacy apps. Linux is best for real business. Same as last year, the year before.....
Let me predict the future!
That's why I keep IMPORTANT torrents alive on Shareaza. And I keep my outgoing encryption on in Deluge.
Light speed has already been surpassed. Please visit "Spooky action at a distance".
Our understanding of the Universe, the laws of physics, and our place in the universe is all severely lacking.
Over half the population is still speaking to invisible men in the sky for salvation, even though the anachronistic texts those fictitious characters are based on have been proven to be derivative from previous civilizations that ceased to exist in prehistory.
People just aren't that smart.
There is NO WAY I'm paying the exorbitant fees for at&t/apple.
I KNOW I'm not alone. Most of my friends/family/coworkers are all agreed: They're waiting for an iPhone killer that isn't encumbered by DRM and the lock in. Plus the monthly plans are way too high.
The moment there's a good iPhone killer and cheaper monthly plans (I'm looking at what the G1 SHOULD have been), everyone will get that.
My dream phone:
Looks like an iphone, but it has:
a full FOSS stack, including media viewing/listening, an SDHC slot, a headphone jack, a standard USB jack, GPS, a SNES emulator, and a camera on both sides so I can skype where wifi is available.
It's not rocket science, you could have this phone out in numbers for $100 at volume.
It's ludicrous that none of the apple competitors have put one out yet.
Fat ass cops can't make it much farther than a block, so of course most of the (known) crime is less than a block away!!
Provided Microsoft builds a time machine, goes back in time, and deletes Windows ME, and Vista, I totally think they should get government money. Until they develop that technology, FUCK MICROSOFT.
With a fucking PITCH FORK!
This is why I've been chiseling reddit headlines into the concrete in my driveway. And the neighbors call me crazy!!!
I've never understood why we couldn't have a wifi mesh network that was completely free. If every home in the US had a wireless router set up to act as a free and open peer to peer network server, couldn't we just have all our internet and phone for free? Almost every house in my neighborhood has wifi already. Can't we just unlock them all and get wifi phones?
Don't install java. On anything. Ever. Every time I've installed java in the past, I've been instantly and immediately reprimanded by poor performance, extra processes, random slow downs, and other general crap.
I won't install java.
I won't install apps that require java.
People keep telling me "It's gotten better!" and some such nonsense, but so? It sucked so bad in the past, I'll give it another shot in say, five years, when it's been completely open sourced and fixed. I only use FOSS because it's good, not because I'm a zealot. :) Java is not good, no matter it's current state of source code availability or not.
They're really ditching the brown?!?!? Can I announce year of desktop Linux yet?!?
So is THIS the year of Linux on the desktop?
Miro no longer requires Java! I'm all about it! This is day one though, so this is no endorsement.
I played in a band last year that went on Warped Tour. We broke down and got stuck in St. George, Utah. It was June, and approximately 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit for the duration of our stay there (we were stuck about a week). There was a total of one bars in St. George, and it was beer only (It's called "The One and Only". In addition, the beers were not full strength. They have to have custom brewed Guinness that tastes completely horrible and has less than the expected alcohol content of regular Guinness. We negotiated a deal to play at the one bar in town every night we were there, hoping to at least get free crappy beer since we were stuck in arguably the worst state of the union.
I have Mormon friends. The Mormon lifestyle is healthy and wise in numerous ways. But the religion is clearly based on horse shit. There is no way a known charlatan found golden plates from a missing Jewish tribe that got wiped out in the Americas. It's OBVIOUSLY poppy cock.
Further, their religion is based on Christianity, which is also full of holes scientifically, and they've further edited that down.
Their opposition to alcohol comes from a section of "The Pearl of Great Price" wherein they refer to a church members body as a temple that must be respected. Fine, but what about Jesus making more wine at the wedding? Well, they claim it was "New Wine" (grape juice).
I play violin. I've played probably 2,000 weddings over the last 20 years. I have seen them run out of:
Beer
Champagne
Wine
Vodka
Rum
Tequila
Whiskey
Bailey's
Kahlua
Midori
I have literally seen every type of alcohol run out of at least once at one wedding. I have NEVER seen a wedding run out of grape juice. Not once.
The obvious affront to the right to privacy that is in the constitution should be the main issue here, but there are many, many other reasons why Utah sucks, the Mormon religion sucks, and prohibition did not work, and WILL not work.
For the rest of us, we can rest easy knowing that we don't have to live in Utah, and can avoid it altogether, so long as we don't get called again for Warped Tour next year.
So you're saying I'm going to continue to use XP and Ubuntu? OK!
Well there's too many dudes in this version.