That is NOT "pointlessness". That is abuse. To the point that some of us would like to either a) kick Microsoft in the gonads, or, b) leave the industry alltogether, or, c) both of the above.
Yet microsoft managed to sell 88 million copies of vista. 99.8% of those 88 million units where shoved down the consumers throat by Microsoft by monopolistic bundling practices.
The problem with Futurama: Bender's Big Score is that it is a 20 minute episode stretched out into an excruciating hour plus. The time could have of been better spent doing something much more satisfying, like pulling pud to pr0n. At least, at the end of that activity, there would have been a much greater feeling of satisfaction rather than then "man, that new Futurama kinda sucked".
For one, the HP Pavilion dv6235 laptop has incomplete support on their web site for XP. Without tweaking, the XP setup CD won't even see the hard drive in the unit. Then you have to dig around the 'net to find drivers for the various bits 'n bobs in the machine.
You need to install and use Vista on a 2GHz P4 with 512MB of RAM and something the equivalent of a GeForce 5000-series card. The do the same with XP. Big difference in performance.
This utopian society may soon be reality for most of us. Even 90% of a few million people is a fraction of 6 billion, so you might want to reword that to a "few, privileged, us".
In many standardization efforts there are participants whose sole purpose is to delay, confuse, or break the standard, or at least wear the active proponents down. The solution to this is simple: Kick the bums out.
For reasons of National Security So all a "Bad Guy" has to do is to drive around the target(s) and note the Longitudes/Latitudes on his GPS and extrapolate from that. Further proof that those in power are uber morons.
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Dumb users who think they know it all.
How can there be a growing interest in maglev trains when there is an overall decreasing interest in travel by train?
The consumer has no choice!
The problem with Futurama: Bender's Big Score is that it is a 20 minute episode stretched out into an excruciating hour plus. The time could have of been better spent doing something much more satisfying, like pulling pud to pr0n. At least, at the end of that activity, there would have been a much greater feeling of satisfaction rather than then "man, that new Futurama kinda sucked".
For one, the HP Pavilion dv6235 laptop has incomplete support on their web site for XP. Without tweaking, the XP setup CD won't even see the hard drive in the unit. Then you have to dig around the 'net to find drivers for the various bits 'n bobs in the machine.
And "Wii Wii" is a French Yes Man.
You need to install and use Vista on a 2GHz P4 with 512MB of RAM and something the equivalent of a GeForce 5000-series card. The do the same with XP. Big difference in performance.
No mention of speeding up the feckin' Event Viewer. Gads, what a slow Pile Of Vista Poop (c)(tm).
Only the British would name their currency after their measurement of weight.
:-p
Also note the silliness of their other measurement units such as feet, furlongs, fortnights, leagues, fathoms, grains, carots, chains, stones, etc.
It took the French to measure things in tens.
You must be new around here. Some of us have been doing this, without paying any Microsoft Tax, for years now.
And how long did it take to backup 4GB of data over a 1.5 Mbp/s ADSL line?
FWIW, locally, 500GB 16MB cache WDs can be purchased for $99.
"Great Goatse" has a better ring to it...
Ha! Long term, prices never go down. They always go up.
...and isn't she pissing away about $850K a month?
Yeah, great, "Toronto", ON, Canada is labeled "Steinbach" on openstreetmap.org - WTF?
"WTF" and "This guy is an idiot".
The problem is they built the Internet with tubes. They should have used pipes. Everyone knows pipes are bigger than tubes.
We should be calling it what it is, i.e. "The Pile of Poop Known as Vista".