"...Microsoft is only offering patches for Windows XP and beyond"
They are offering support for Windows 2000, free with the right volume license, $$$ without, or they have made a manual registry hack available (which I don't have handy because I'm posting from home).
And before you ask, there are companies that still specify Win2K server and workstation to run their software, Thompson/Prometric being one of them, which is how I came to find this out.
Frankly it's an indication of the rot permeating Washington that reprobates are permitted to continue darkening the halls of power, as well as garnering public attention, long after their time has gone.
A post-Watergate Nixon returned as an elder statesman, conferring with four or more sitting presidents before his death. Did anyone else sense a disconnect there?
Newt is a toad, a disgraced has-been, reincarnated as a political pundit / talking head, uttering idiocies at the behest of the media cartels.
Anyone tainted by scandal in the course of public office deserves be ridden out of town on a rail, or at least made to crawl back under the rock from whence they came.
First of all, go with something *you* are comfortable with, because you're going to be the first person she calls in the event of an emergency.
Otherwise, considering going Apple. Sure some will decry the proprietary aspects, but it's an *easy* system to use, and with Applecare she will have a years worth of tech support from someone who is inside the US of A if you're not availabe.
My 76 yo Mom has a Powerbook for her internet related stuff, and a Winbook, because she was a long time Windows user and her embroidery stuff runs only on Windows (it's tied to a Bernina, who offers no Mac port of their software).
I think if she hadn't been into the sewing thing we could have gone straight Mac. She understands too, that if she needs to go on the internet for any reason with the WB, she uses "that other account you set up for me" (i.e. non-Admin), cause it's safer.
FWIW, the PB has been just fine for 3 years, the WB has had problems within 3 months of purchase, YMMV.
At the rate we are going I would not be surprised to see that level of push polling being done in the next few years. If it hasn't started already.
It has, thanks in part to Promark Research of Houston. I was phoned by them and experienced first hand the travesty of underhanded electioneering masquerading as a "poll". There's more commentary about the phenomenon at Promark Means Pro-Republican.
Repugnant as it seems, if those taking the high road could bring themselves to stoop to this level, we might stand a chance of salvaging a great many things from being savaged into oblivion (Net Neutrality, National Parks, and civil liberties among them).
"...it has also released its own security product known as OneCare. The all in one package is designed to look after your computer and all your data,..."
Let's hope that all they are looking at is *security* related. Blind trust so often being a really Bad Thing®.
Interesting statistics there. In Vietnam we were at a roughly 10:1 kill ratio. In Iraq we're way over that at 171:1
And this is something we should be proud of?
This isn't a video game, and many of those dead (like the Viet Namese before them) are nothing more than collateral damage in the eyes of the military.
Besides, it's not your tax dollars, or mine, paying for this. It'll be the taxes of our sons and daughters, and likely their sons and daughters, that will pay for this ill conceived and poorly executed attempt at redefining a regions political and cultural landscape.
"Apple said in June that one of the stock option grants was to chief executive Steve Jobs, but it was subsequently canceled and resulted in no financial gain to Jobs."
So why is there some statement quoted questioning the continued status of Jobs as CEO?
Seems like someone is playing fast and loose with the article.
Because PC's are marketed as appliances, and appliances (as we all know) "just work" for years without our having to think about, most users are incapable of grasping the facts that any geek takes for granted (and which I won't recap here).
Your path is clear, unless you *want* to be a Windows support specialist, or have a secret masochistic streak; the next time your sister's box goes on the fritz give her the 800 number to Dell...and let them deal with her.
At the very least, after a Bangalore call center experience she *should* come back to you with a better attitude.
But as the article states, it was the pre-Diablo/Warcraft/Starcraft games that were referred to as "B-Grade". Titles such as "Battle Chess II (1990)" & " The Death and Return of Superman (1994)".
'cause just like a drug dealer, that $50/year will get the unwary a taste of what using your computer on the internet *should* be, and then the price will rise to 'what the market can bear'.
A better solution would be for consumers (and this is who this is being pitched to) to withold their dollars and demand that MS fix what was so obviously broken to begin with, even if PHB and backdoor deals in the corporate world keep MS afloat.
It's amazing that the most widely used product on the planet is the only one that enjoys absolute, iron clad, protection from repercussions of any kind (but that's another thread)
When select realms (10 or more) are experiencing intermittent outages, database corruption, and other problems starting at about 01:50 AM and expected to be resolved sometime around 20:00 PDT tonight as of the last posting.
Preemptive PR, bad timing or sychronicity? All I can say is: "Way to go Blizz!"
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BSOD taking on a whole new meaning.
"...Microsoft is only offering patches for Windows XP and beyond"
They are offering support for Windows 2000, free with the right volume license, $$$ without, or they have made a manual registry hack available (which I don't have handy because I'm posting from home).
And before you ask, there are companies that still specify Win2K server and workstation to run their software, Thompson/Prometric being one of them, which is how I came to find this out.
Was prepared to see a story about Macintosh.
[ducks flying shoe]
Frankly it's an indication of the rot permeating Washington that reprobates are permitted to continue darkening the halls of power, as well as garnering public attention, long after their time has gone.
A post-Watergate Nixon returned as an elder statesman, conferring with four or more sitting presidents before his death. Did anyone else sense a disconnect there?
Newt is a toad, a disgraced has-been, reincarnated as a political pundit / talking head, uttering idiocies at the behest of the media cartels.
Anyone tainted by scandal in the course of public office deserves be ridden out of town on a rail, or at least made to crawl back under the rock from whence they came.
First of all, go with something *you* are comfortable with, because you're going to be the first person she calls in the event of an emergency.
Otherwise, considering going Apple. Sure some will decry the proprietary aspects, but it's an *easy* system to use, and with Applecare she will have a years worth of tech support from someone who is inside the US of A if you're not availabe.
My 76 yo Mom has a Powerbook for her internet related stuff, and a Winbook, because she was a long time Windows user and her embroidery stuff runs only on Windows (it's tied to a Bernina, who offers no Mac port of their software).
I think if she hadn't been into the sewing thing we could have gone straight Mac. She understands too, that if she needs to go on the internet for any reason with the WB, she uses "that other account you set up for me" (i.e. non-Admin), cause it's safer.
FWIW, the PB has been just fine for 3 years, the WB has had problems within 3 months of purchase, YMMV.
Good luck, whatever you do.
As reported in the Register, the machines are already taking care of their masters.
Pity the electorate, sheeple though they are.
"Who're we going to sue today Mr. Shyster?"
"I dunno Mr. Pettifogger, how about we find something to annoy all those Apple iPod fanboys?"
"Might be hard Mr. Shyster...the RIAA already has a lock on the easy stuff."
"Ooo! Ooo! I know! We'll sue the podcasters for IP infringment and copyright hijacking! That'll do it!"
"Brilliant Mr. Shyster! Simply *brilliant*! Who says we have skulls filled with mush?"
"Aye! We're thinking like lawyers now!"
But what the hey, it's the thought that counts, right?
At the rate we are going I would not be surprised to see that level of push polling being done in the next few years. If it hasn't started already.
It has, thanks in part to Promark Research of Houston. I was phoned by them and experienced first hand the travesty of underhanded electioneering masquerading as a "poll". There's more commentary about the phenomenon at Promark Means Pro-Republican.
Repugnant as it seems, if those taking the high road could bring themselves to stoop to this level, we might stand a chance of salvaging a great many things from being savaged into oblivion (Net Neutrality, National Parks, and civil liberties among them).
"...it has also released its own security product known as OneCare. The all in one package is designed to look after your computer and all your data, ..."
Let's hope that all they are looking at is *security* related. Blind trust so often being a really Bad Thing®.
Interesting statistics there. In Vietnam we were at a roughly 10:1 kill ratio. In Iraq we're way over that at 171:1
And this is something we should be proud of?
This isn't a video game, and many of those dead (like the Viet Namese before them) are nothing more than collateral damage in the eyes of the military.
Besides, it's not your tax dollars, or mine, paying for this. It'll be the taxes of our sons and daughters, and likely their sons and daughters, that will pay for this ill conceived and poorly executed attempt at redefining a regions political and cultural landscape.
That has done nothing save expand and enshrine the prison "industry".
Feh!
MS will buy out, and/or support, a given software strategy.
The second an iron clad lock in is no longer guaranteed it will either be ashcanned or rolled into Windows as a "feature".
Welcome to the other side of the "Embrace and Extend" business philosophy: "Assimilate then Abandon".
The only mention in the article of Jobs is:
"Apple said in June that one of the stock option grants was to chief executive Steve Jobs, but it was subsequently canceled and resulted in no financial gain to Jobs."
So why is there some statement quoted questioning the continued status of Jobs as CEO?
Seems like someone is playing fast and loose with the article.
The Catholic church purportedly has a saying, something to the effect of, "Give me a child for instruction and by age six they are mine for life".
Apparently law enforcment agencies in the US are subscribing to the same model.
By enforcing draconian measures at increasingly young ages, it will be ever so much easier to get the sheep to slaughter in the future police state.
Pardon me, I must go now....I hear the helicopters.....
Because PC's are marketed as appliances, and appliances (as we all know) "just work" for years without our having to think about, most users are incapable of grasping the facts that any geek takes for granted (and which I won't recap here).
Your path is clear, unless you *want* to be a Windows support specialist, or have a secret masochistic streak; the next time your sister's box goes on the fritz give her the 800 number to Dell...and let them deal with her.
At the very least, after a Bangalore call center experience she *should* come back to you with a better attitude.
In all honesty, how do people have time to play MMO games and do anything fulfilling with their lives?
The same way they have time for any activity that captures their fancy, to the exclusion of something else.
Before, there were golf widows; now there are WoW widows.
(start)flounder
Grasp desperately for any revenue stream available
Terminally annoy target market
Stifle growth
(end)flounder
(start)death knell
and let the lawyers sort it out.
But as the article states, it was the pre-Diablo/Warcraft/Starcraft games that were referred to as "B-Grade". Titles such as "Battle Chess II (1990)" & " The Death and Return of Superman (1994)".
'cause just like a drug dealer, that $50/year will get the unwary a taste of what using your computer on the internet *should* be, and then the price will rise to 'what the market can bear'.
A better solution would be for consumers (and this is who this is being pitched to) to withold their dollars and demand that MS fix what was so obviously broken to begin with, even if PHB and backdoor deals in the corporate world keep MS afloat.
It's amazing that the most widely used product on the planet is the only one that enjoys absolute, iron clad, protection from repercussions of any kind (but that's another thread)
My phone bluescreening at random intervals.
At least until they legislate *that* out of existence.
When select realms (10 or more) are experiencing intermittent outages, database corruption, and other problems starting at about 01:50 AM and expected to be resolved sometime around 20:00 PDT tonight as of the last posting.
Preemptive PR, bad timing or sychronicity? All I can say is: "Way to go Blizz!"
a Texan, with a marvelous record of supporting what's right for the people, Rep. Joe Barton?
In which case, why do I feel worried?