Just wait until Spanish is the second official language of the US of A (instead of being the un-official second language). Of course, around the Toronto and Vancouver areas, the second most spoken language is Chinese...
Microsoft wants you to throw out all of your old stuff and buy new stuff. This is, after all, their business model. Don't use Windows 2000 with Office 2000 anymore! Throw it out and buy Windows XP and Office XP instead. Then throw all that out and buy Office 2003 and run it on, oh wait, we have no Windows 2003 for the desktop - doh! Just missed an opportunity to sell a new round of OS upgrades - cr*p!
> "Software should be as easy to edit as a PowerPoint presentation"
Allrighty then. Hide the complexity at the surface level. Put the complexity where it can't be seen - behind the scenes. And just how have we improved things? All we have done is move the complexity to somewhere else. Don't fix that hole in the wall, just paper and paint over it. Idiot.
To the contrary, it is a conspiracy between Microsoft and the hardware industry. Microsoft produces slower, more bloated crap so that the hardware industry can produce faster hardware, so that Microsoft can produce more slower, bloated crap, and so on.
Damn right! You will have to buy a brand new 10GHz Pentium V with 4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive, and the latest $900 video card just to boot the damn thing.
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But will it make Format C: go any faster???
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of iPods...
They are in California. Man, are they ever going to get bent over for this one...
Cowpies! It's all Longhorn cowpies I tell you!!
At one point, selling short will be a very good idea...
#7: It doesn't run Linux!!!
Just wait until Spanish is the second official language of the US of A (instead of being the un-official second language). Of course, around the Toronto and Vancouver areas, the second most spoken language is Chinese...
~fubar~snafu~fu u~
Microsoft wants you to throw out all of your old stuff and buy new stuff. This is, after all, their business model. Don't use Windows 2000 with Office 2000 anymore! Throw it out and buy Windows XP and Office XP instead. Then throw all that out and buy Office 2003 and run it on, oh wait, we have no Windows 2003 for the desktop - doh! Just missed an opportunity to sell a new round of OS upgrades - cr*p!
Humpfh!
Us Real "Old timers" used FreeBSD - which existed before the Linux kernel was a wet fart that Linus let go.
And Minix before that.
...and this, that and the other...
...until Gentoo goes titties up...
One word: FreeBSD.
What a sad day indeed. Linux is dying. But all is not lost. *BSD is still alive...!!!
> "Software should be as easy to edit as a PowerPoint presentation"
Allrighty then. Hide the complexity at the surface level. Put the complexity where it can't be seen - behind the scenes. And just how have we improved things? All we have done is move the complexity to somewhere else. Don't fix that hole in the wall, just paper and paint over it. Idiot.
> High tech jobs were supposed to replace the lost factory jobs. Ironically, they may be going the same way.
Yes. Offshore.
You haven't seen the near-term effects of the GWB policies yet - when you do, you will change your tune...
To the contrary, it is a conspiracy between Microsoft and the hardware industry. Microsoft produces slower, more bloated crap so that the hardware industry can produce faster hardware, so that Microsoft can produce more slower, bloated crap, and so on.
Have you been reading, and beliving, all that crap in Wired?
I'm going to 'patent gaseous rectal explusions'. Once I get that patent, Wind will be next...
You still be at the mercy of marketing tits...
Only after tweaking a registry entry...
> Will people still bitch?
Damn right! You will have to buy a brand new 10GHz Pentium V with 4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive, and the latest $900 video card just to boot the damn thing.
You mean like Longhorn (as in cows, sources of cow farts and cow pies) being the code name for the next generation of Windows?
When is the Kde User Network Tool module going to be finished???
And when Sun is no more, what is the Financial industry going to do then? Hmmm???
I had a PHB get all miffy on me when I suggested commodity Intel-based hardware in a server farm - more bang fer yer (weakening Yankee) buck...