Yet again, Gupta, you need to go crawl in a hole and die. You're not even bothering to disguise or justify the fact that you're reposting your old trolls now.
Anyone who doesn't know this idiot yet, read his post history or check here. Known troll from the semi-olden days of Usenet that always falsely claims to be working at Nintendo, Sega, etc.
No, it's an insight into the behaviour of people in general. Who actually buys "good enough"? If you do, you find in about 3 years time that it isn't. It was only good enough for then, but eveything else moved on.
Maybe you've just been lucky or are choosing to ignore it, but what he mentioned does happen quite often, actually.
One good example would be the constant disbelief by many Linux zealots here that there's any reason to use Windows, forgetting the whole gaming aspect.
Or maybe when a new version of KDE or something comes out, and the whining begins about how there's too much eye candy, everyone should just stick to bare-bones or the command line, etc.
Heck, just read the comments on the recent story about standardized plugins - more than a few "I don't want any animation or rich content, therefore this project is a waste of time" comments from more people that can't understand why anyone would want more than a simple and/or bare-bones experience.
I'd be curious to know which version/platform you're running - i'm running Win XP, tried using 0.8 to load the page, displayed perfectly with no crash. Just updated to 0.9, tried again, still worked with no problems.
I'm not trying to say that volunteering is worthless by any means, but when you're fresh out of school, with bills and loans to pay, is working for free really a viable option?
Maybe if you've got some decent savings stashed away, but otherwise I can't really see it at that point in someone's life.
Ummm, clean yes, fast no. It's a buggy piece of shit so far, and I'm not the only one that's noticed. It times out a LOT, and I'm already tired of the "Oops, there's been an error, try again in 30 seconds" messages. And I get this from multiple locations, and I'm getting similar reports from other friends that use it.
Goes both ways, I suppose - during about 2 weeks so far, apart from 2 or 3 times lasting maybe 15 mins, it's been nice and speedy for me. Same with the error message, which i've only seen twice and which cleared up after a couple minutes.
I've sent out 10 invites so far, and nobody has said anything about having problems with it, so...I dunno. Like you said, it's still beta, so don't condem it quite yet:)
You've obviously not actually used or looked into GMail very much, if at all - as has already been said, the real treat is not the 1GB storage.
The real good stuff comes in the form of a clean and fast interface, being able to use Google search on your mail, threaded display of your messages, having webmail that doesn't blast you with intrusive ads, and so on.
Killing an errant process which is stealing RAM and cycles from the system is rarely successful in XP et al; if it does die eventually, don't expect to be able to run a new instance of it until you've rebooted!
Uhmm, I don't really know what else to say to this besides - you are completely wrong. I have been using Windows XP on my main machines and a multitude of others when doing troubleshooting for almost 3 years now (and 98 for years before that), and never had to reboot to be able to restart a program after killing a process. Whatever you're referring to was either an extremely specific problem, or you managed to mess something up pretty horribly.
A simple system running software and hardware put together by Dell, for example, runs XP very nicely thank you. Try pushing the enevelope a little and it all starts to fall apart.
Heh...The system i'm typing this on would probably disagree with you. Pushing 5 years old now, P3 667 , mishmash of hardware from upgrading over the years, all different brand hardware than what was originally in here, runs XP fine. Even when I only had 128 megs of RAM in here instead of 512, it still ran passably, if a little slow.
But what I want you to think about is this kid who has the intellectual steadfastness not to cheat, in an environment where it was standard to cheat.
Good for him. The point remains, though, that short of being on a full scholarship you can't afford to give up, or something along those lines - why stay in such an environment when there are so many other quality options for getting an education?
I think you should put yourself in that position and view his environment from that perspective.
I already have. Were I in that same situation, I would get my ass out ASAP and not waste any more of my money.
Might you not be simply viscerally repulsed by your college.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. As I said before, though, I am somewhat "viscerally repulsed" by my college's glorious leader, but I have still had plenty of positive experiences.
And being the kid, how did you respond to highschool.
Again, i'm not sure what you're getting at here. The whole focus of this article and the responses has been college, not high school.
Or your baby boomer parents, who go along to get along.
Yet again, you've lost me. My parents are part of that generation, and they get along very well, thank you.
People who don't like it when others bash college always have the same refrain "you are a know-it-all kid...." I love it when this comes from people who never even went to college themselves or from people who majored in bullshit.
Fine, then you can hear it from someone that has gone to college in an Information Technology program and is about to finish (16 credit-hours left) - generally, people that claim college is a waste of time/boring/etc. are those that think they learned everything they need to know by the end of high school, and sound like damned know-it-alls.
One of the few classes I failed was the result of being the only one in the class who did not blatantly cheat. The professor left the room during exams and it was lets compare answer time.
Professors are almost all part-timers and TA's at most schools and the former get paid about the same rate as a highschool teacher in a poor district and the TA's barely get anything at all.
Sounds like you went to/are going to a pretty shoddy school. Definately reminds one of why research is so important before making a final choice to attend anywhere.
Did you visit the school beforehand, research it online, talk to current students, anything? You sound like you stayed wherever you were for at least a couple years...Why did you hang around and waste money if the conditions were poor like that?
Why is it that everyone who feels they do not like college has to be wrong?
You personally are not the worst example i've seen of such behavior, but usually, it's because people that think college is a waste feel the need to pop into discussions with people that DO think college is useful, and spout as much negativity as possible.
Just because college was not right for you, does not mean it wouldn't be right for the rest of the world as well.
Do you think colleges are run by ancient bearded men in robes who have already thought of everything?
Actually, the president of the university I attend is really not all that popular among the student body, and regularly satired and criticized in campus publications along with other members of the administration. That doesn't stop most people here from getting something out of their time spent, though.
The undergraduate technicians get 7 bucks an hour to drive their own cars around campus at their own expense and fix whiny girl's computers.
Unless you're doing something specialized or at a higher level, I don't see why this is out of the ordinary at all. Not everyone goes to schools near the giant cities that pay their regular student employees $10+ per hour.
Well, this was only a matter of time. Most people I know listen to Internet Radio more then their own libraries anymore especially on iTunes.
Please correct me if i'm wrong, but I don't think this current battle is about internet radio (yet), but more satellite radio and radio stations that send out digital versions of their normal broadcasts.
Half of the symptoms you said were rubbish appear on MANY windows computers.
Sure, some do have problems. However, the vast majority do not.
You are just one of the lucky peope apparently.
Uh, yeah....I guess the thousands of people happily playing without problems Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft, Counterstrike, Everquest, the rest of the MMO games, and pretty much every other Windows game in existence on a recently updated Windows system...All just lucky, eh? Damn, that's got to violate a law of the universe or something.
I'm sorry the original poster ( or anyone else ) had such problems. However, that's not a reason to start ranting about how much Windows sucks just because you couldn't personally get something working.
SHit happens. Just because its a computer and you gave it a specific set of instructions doesn't mean it performs that way 100% of the time. Sometimes something is not right on the computer that gets in the way. This can happen with linux too, I just see it more in windows.
Indeed. Though as I wrote in another reply, you may want to consider that in the case of Windows, often the users deserve just as much blame as the OS.
Mate, this is many people's reality. You don't need to believe, the evidence is there right infornt of us.
You seem to be thinking that I believe Windows to be without fault. I do not. I merely think that it's not as bad as many of the "M$ sux!!!11" types here would have you believe. Further, as I will explain below, there comes a point where the OS is only doing what the hapless user is telling it to do.
Good that you get +4 for being able to suspend your belief, however.
Though you'll probably say i'm lying or deluding myself about this, I will qualify what i've said:
Besides my own experience starting with Windows 3.1, then 95 -> 98 -> brief stint with 2000 -> XP Pro, i've been doing tech support in a college/public lab environment for around 3 years now ( i'm only 23, sorry ). In my experience, most of the Windows-related problems that come up can be reduced to:
A) As the original poster said, Windows sucks. Bad UI, security model, and/or feedback, etc. conspire to keep the user from getting their work done. Generally, this seems to happen more among power user and student types, who get into areas most "normal" users will barely touch.
B) The user screwed up. Usually by deliberately opening an e-mail attachment from someone they've never heard of before, downloading cute-looking stuff like Gator or Hotbar, believing the wild claims on banner ads, and generally being completely trusting of anything they find. Again - at some point, you can no longer blame the OS, and it must be placed on the shoulders of the users that blissfully ignore any inkling of common sense.
C) Somewhat like the above. The user is at work, they do not own the computer they're using, but insist on going to sites that have nothing to do with work, installing any little neato bits of software they find, and generally doing things they shouldn't be. Nothing beats the fun of trying to clean someone's work computer that has 30 running spyware processes, 350-odd other malicious files and registry entries, bogging the system down so badly that it took 20 minutes just to download Ad-Aware on a campus served by dual OC-3 lines during the summer.
Sadly, the vast majority of Windows problems I have seen fall into the second and third categories - "Whee, i'll open this attachment from the person with a randomized name and different writing style from anyone I know!", "Yay, if the flashy shiney banner ad says I won a prize, it must be true!", "Golly gee, that gator icon is cute, and I always have trouble remembering my shopping info at work, so what the heck!".
I suppose you could argue that there should be more safeguards built in - and maybe there should be. But when it comes down to it, probably 90% of the daily problems with Windows can be cured simply by, frankly, not being so damn gullible and taking some responsibility. One way or another, that's got to be driven home to the general populace.
At any rate, you'd think the people that post around here would have a bit more motivation, especially the supposed Linux devotees like the original poster.
Then I made the mistake of connecting to windows update... Suddenly all my programs started crashing,
Perhaps there was a specific issue with one of the patches and another piece of software you had installed? I find it extremely hard to believe that your entire system would begin to constantly crash for some unknown reason.
If you're savvy enough to use SSH and VNC and all that, why didn't you at least educate yourself about the updates a bit before installing them?
Yes, some of the patches have caused problems that were not disclosed or known beforehand, but this is relatively rare, and you can generally either uninstall the patch or fix whatever issue it has caused.
the windows on the desktop would pick a stacking order and not be convinced to alter it,
This is so inane, it's funny. What, you couldn't figure out how to move through/around your various program windows? Give me a break...You sound like one of those people that equates everything they don't understand about computers to ghosts or magic or something.
Windows may have some odd quirks, but unless you're infected with a virus or trojan or have some extremely rare issue that i'm not aware of, your program windows do not pick screen positions and refuse to move.
and the new and improved active-X made all of my favorite games (diablo) unusable.
Utter rubbish.
First of all, what you're referring to in this context would be DirectX, not "active-X".
Secondly, your claim that it suddenly made all your games stop working is even more laughable. More specifically, i've been using Diablo, Diablo II, and Lord of Destruction under 3 different versions of DirectX (including the most current) over the years with absolutely no problems at all. So have thousands and thousands of other people.
I cannot recall more than one or two old non-DOS-based games that do not work now, and several that new DirectX versions actually improved.
Oh yeah, I occasionally boot windows to see how crappy my various websites render under IE.
God, could you be any more determined to ignore and twist the facts to suit your ranting?
I'll help you out on this one - if you don't like IE, try this. Works as good or better than IE for pretty much everything except Shockwave and Flash. There's a Windows version of Mozilla, too. And Opera.
So final answer: I keep off windows because it sucks. Also I do not want to support an abusive monopoly.
Judging from the complaints you bring up, I find it extremely hard to believe you have used Windows recently, if at all.
Feel free to respond, I have a feeling i'd enjoy it.
Is really a need to have the last toy in hardware?
If one has the money to aquire whatever the "last toy in hardware" is at the moment without (much) negative impact to the rest of their life, then yes.
If you don't want the latest and greatest, then leave it alone. More power to ya. Hell, it's fine even if you just want to pretend you don't want it, to (as I suspect here) feel superior to those that think advances like this are neato.
I don't think anything like that really gives you the right to tell other people how to spend their money, though:)
Don't delude yourself. If ever Linux gets anywhere near the marketshare and desktop userbase that Windows has, somebody will exploit it.
And that's to say nothing of the fact that switching from Windows to Linux to avoid spyware would be massive overkill. Plenty of easy to use, effective, and free anti-spyware Windows tools out there.
Hey, i'm all for the oil supply starting to undeniably run out.
I have a feeling that somehow a lot of the false or exaggerated problems associated with many alternative energy sources will suddenly seem a lot less important.
Gupta, fsck off and go spew your false info somewhere else.
Anyone who doesn't know this guy yet, read his post history, or check here. Known troll who always falsely claims to be working at Nintendo, Sega, etc.
Either way, it's just a little bug. I'm not sure this is worth a news header.
Sorry, I beg to differ - for people that actually use Windows or any dual boot configuration for useful/fun stuff, this is a big deal.
It's also yet another example of why Linux (users) may not be ready for mass desktop usage - the attitude that such a major problem is not even worth a news header is unacceptable.
It's simply a list of some legitimate problems mixed in with probably the most anti-American cliches and misconceptions i've ever seen gathered in one post.
If you haven't already left the country (or aren't American in the first place), Mr. AC, maybe you should. I suspect you'd be much happier, and we'd be better off with less people like you, who, instead of working to try and fix what's wrong with the country, choose to sit back and whine about everything that's gone wrong.
At any rate, you have given America a hearty "Fuck you". Now what are you going to do?
Gupta, buddy! How ya been? Better practice the trolling a bit more often, as you're getting a bit rusty.
Anyone who doesn't know this guy yet, read his post history, or check here. Known troll who always falsely claims to be working at Nintendo, Sega, etc.
Even if they are being scammed, aren't this person and his/her accomplices committing mail/wire fraud?
IANAL, but while I think they are, technically...Somehow I doubt the scammer would have much of a leg to stand on to complain.
I just wouldn't want to be on the other end if the scammer tried to fight back.
It's not that hard to protect yourself...Just be careful about exactly what you give out in the way of personal info, and be creative. Look at some of the scam baiters that play with Nigerian emailers to see what I mean.
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Yet again, Gupta, you need to go crawl in a hole and die. You're not even bothering to disguise or justify the fact that you're reposting your old trolls now.
Anyone who doesn't know this idiot yet, read his post history or check here. Known troll from the semi-olden days of Usenet that always falsely claims to be working at Nintendo, Sega, etc.
No, it's an insight into the behaviour of people in general. Who actually buys "good enough"? If you do, you find in about 3 years time that it isn't. It was only good enough for then, but eveything else moved on.
Maybe you've just been lucky or are choosing to ignore it, but what he mentioned does happen quite often, actually.
One good example would be the constant disbelief by many Linux zealots here that there's any reason to use Windows, forgetting the whole gaming aspect.
Or maybe when a new version of KDE or something comes out, and the whining begins about how there's too much eye candy, everyone should just stick to bare-bones or the command line, etc.
Heck, just read the comments on the recent story about standardized plugins - more than a few "I don't want any animation or rich content, therefore this project is a waste of time" comments from more people that can't understand why anyone would want more than a simple and/or bare-bones experience.
I'd be curious to know which version/platform you're running - i'm running Win XP, tried using 0.8 to load the page, displayed perfectly with no crash. Just updated to 0.9, tried again, still worked with no problems.
I'm not trying to say that volunteering is worthless by any means, but when you're fresh out of school, with bills and loans to pay, is working for free really a viable option?
Maybe if you've got some decent savings stashed away, but otherwise I can't really see it at that point in someone's life.
Ummm, clean yes, fast no. It's a buggy piece of shit so far, and I'm not the only one that's noticed. It times out a LOT, and I'm already tired of the "Oops, there's been an error, try again in 30 seconds" messages. And I get this from multiple locations, and I'm getting similar reports from other friends that use it.
:)
Goes both ways, I suppose - during about 2 weeks so far, apart from 2 or 3 times lasting maybe 15 mins, it's been nice and speedy for me. Same with the error message, which i've only seen twice and which cleared up after a couple minutes.
I've sent out 10 invites so far, and nobody has said anything about having problems with it, so...I dunno. Like you said, it's still beta, so don't condem it quite yet
You've obviously not actually used or looked into GMail very much, if at all - as has already been said, the real treat is not the 1GB storage.
The real good stuff comes in the form of a clean and fast interface, being able to use Google search on your mail, threaded display of your messages, having webmail that doesn't blast you with intrusive ads, and so on.
GMail refreshes every 2 minutes or so, so unless you absolutely must have instant notification, I think it will serve well.
Customizable filters and (as far as I know) decent spam-blocking as well. Time will tell, I suppose.
If any kind souls out there still have an invite to spare, i'd love one - email tmr4488@ritvax.rit.edu
Thanks!
Killing an errant process which is stealing RAM and cycles from the system is rarely successful in XP et al; if it does die eventually, don't expect to be able to run a new instance of it until you've rebooted!
Uhmm, I don't really know what else to say to this besides - you are completely wrong. I have been using Windows XP on my main machines and a multitude of others when doing troubleshooting for almost 3 years now (and 98 for years before that), and never had to reboot to be able to restart a program after killing a process. Whatever you're referring to was either an extremely specific problem, or you managed to mess something up pretty horribly.
A simple system running software and hardware put together by Dell, for example, runs XP very nicely thank you. Try pushing the enevelope a little and it all starts to fall apart.
Heh...The system i'm typing this on would probably disagree with you. Pushing 5 years old now, P3 667 , mishmash of hardware from upgrading over the years, all different brand hardware than what was originally in here, runs XP fine. Even when I only had 128 megs of RAM in here instead of 512, it still ran passably, if a little slow.
But what I want you to think about is this kid who has the intellectual steadfastness not to cheat, in an environment where it was standard to cheat.
Good for him. The point remains, though, that short of being on a full scholarship you can't afford to give up, or something along those lines - why stay in such an environment when there are so many other quality options for getting an education?
I think you should put yourself in that position and view his environment from that perspective.
I already have. Were I in that same situation, I would get my ass out ASAP and not waste any more of my money.
Might you not be simply viscerally repulsed by your college.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. As I said before, though, I am somewhat "viscerally repulsed" by my college's glorious leader, but I have still had plenty of positive experiences.
And being the kid, how did you respond to highschool.
Again, i'm not sure what you're getting at here. The whole focus of this article and the responses has been college, not high school.
Or your baby boomer parents, who go along to get along.
Yet again, you've lost me. My parents are part of that generation, and they get along very well, thank you.
But do you know that we know that we don't need to know what you want us to know?
People who don't like it when others bash college always have the same refrain "you are a know-it-all kid...." I love it when this comes from people who never even went to college themselves or from people who majored in bullshit.
Fine, then you can hear it from someone that has gone to college in an Information Technology program and is about to finish (16 credit-hours left) - generally, people that claim college is a waste of time/boring/etc. are those that think they learned everything they need to know by the end of high school, and sound like damned know-it-alls.
One of the few classes I failed was the result of being the only one in the class who did not blatantly cheat. The professor left the room during exams and it was lets compare answer time.
Professors are almost all part-timers and TA's at most schools and the former get paid about the same rate as a highschool teacher in a poor district and the TA's barely get anything at all.
Sounds like you went to/are going to a pretty shoddy school. Definately reminds one of why research is so important before making a final choice to attend anywhere.
Did you visit the school beforehand, research it online, talk to current students, anything? You sound like you stayed wherever you were for at least a couple years...Why did you hang around and waste money if the conditions were poor like that?
Why is it that everyone who feels they do not like college has to be wrong?
You personally are not the worst example i've seen of such behavior, but usually, it's because people that think college is a waste feel the need to pop into discussions with people that DO think college is useful, and spout as much negativity as possible.
Just because college was not right for you, does not mean it wouldn't be right for the rest of the world as well.
Do you think colleges are run by ancient bearded men in robes who have already thought of everything?
Actually, the president of the university I attend is really not all that popular among the student body, and regularly satired and criticized in campus publications along with other members of the administration. That doesn't stop most people here from getting something out of their time spent, though.
The undergraduate technicians get 7 bucks an hour to drive their own cars around campus at their own expense and fix whiny girl's computers.
Unless you're doing something specialized or at a higher level, I don't see why this is out of the ordinary at all. Not everyone goes to schools near the giant cities that pay their regular student employees $10+ per hour.
Howard Stern Gone.. Internet Radio Gone...
Well, this was only a matter of time. Most people I know listen to Internet Radio more then their own libraries anymore especially on iTunes.
Please correct me if i'm wrong, but I don't think this current battle is about internet radio (yet), but more satellite radio and radio stations that send out digital versions of their normal broadcasts.
Half of the symptoms you said were rubbish appear on MANY windows computers.
Sure, some do have problems. However, the vast majority do not.
You are just one of the lucky peope apparently.
Uh, yeah....I guess the thousands of people happily playing without problems Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft, Counterstrike, Everquest, the rest of the MMO games, and pretty much every other Windows game in existence on a recently updated Windows system...All just lucky, eh? Damn, that's got to violate a law of the universe or something.
I'm sorry the original poster ( or anyone else ) had such problems. However, that's not a reason to start ranting about how much Windows sucks just because you couldn't personally get something working.
SHit happens. Just because its a computer and you gave it a specific set of instructions doesn't mean it performs that way 100% of the time. Sometimes something is not right on the computer that gets in the way. This can happen with linux too, I just see it more in windows.
Indeed. Though as I wrote in another reply, you may want to consider that in the case of Windows, often the users deserve just as much blame as the OS.
Mate, this is many people's reality. You don't need to believe, the evidence is there right infornt of us.
You seem to be thinking that I believe Windows to be without fault. I do not. I merely think that it's not as bad as many of the "M$ sux!!!11" types here would have you believe. Further, as I will explain below, there comes a point where the OS is only doing what the hapless user is telling it to do.
Good that you get +4 for being able to suspend your belief, however.
Though you'll probably say i'm lying or deluding myself about this, I will qualify what i've said:
Besides my own experience starting with Windows 3.1, then 95 -> 98 -> brief stint with 2000 -> XP Pro, i've been doing tech support in a college/public lab environment for around 3 years now ( i'm only 23, sorry ). In my experience, most of the Windows-related problems that come up can be reduced to:
A) As the original poster said, Windows sucks. Bad UI, security model, and/or feedback, etc. conspire to keep the user from getting their work done. Generally, this seems to happen more among power user and student types, who get into areas most "normal" users will barely touch.
B) The user screwed up. Usually by deliberately opening an e-mail attachment from someone they've never heard of before, downloading cute-looking stuff like Gator or Hotbar, believing the wild claims on banner ads, and generally being completely trusting of anything they find. Again - at some point, you can no longer blame the OS, and it must be placed on the shoulders of the users that blissfully ignore any inkling of common sense.
C) Somewhat like the above. The user is at work, they do not own the computer they're using, but insist on going to sites that have nothing to do with work, installing any little neato bits of software they find, and generally doing things they shouldn't be. Nothing beats the fun of trying to clean someone's work computer that has 30 running spyware processes, 350-odd other malicious files and registry entries, bogging the system down so badly that it took 20 minutes just to download Ad-Aware on a campus served by dual OC-3 lines during the summer.
Sadly, the vast majority of Windows problems I have seen fall into the second and third categories - "Whee, i'll open this attachment from the person with a randomized name and different writing style from anyone I know!", "Yay, if the flashy shiney banner ad says I won a prize, it must be true!", "Golly gee, that gator icon is cute, and I always have trouble remembering my shopping info at work, so what the heck!".
I suppose you could argue that there should be more safeguards built in - and maybe there should be. But when it comes down to it, probably 90% of the daily problems with Windows can be cured simply by, frankly, not being so damn gullible and taking some responsibility. One way or another, that's got to be driven home to the general populace.
At any rate, you'd think the people that post around here would have a bit more motivation, especially the supposed Linux devotees like the original poster.
Then I made the mistake of connecting to windows update... Suddenly all my programs started crashing,
Perhaps there was a specific issue with one of the patches and another piece of software you had installed? I find it extremely hard to believe that your entire system would begin to constantly crash for some unknown reason.
If you're savvy enough to use SSH and VNC and all that, why didn't you at least educate yourself about the updates a bit before installing them?
Yes, some of the patches have caused problems that were not disclosed or known beforehand, but this is relatively rare, and you can generally either uninstall the patch or fix whatever issue it has caused.
the windows on the desktop would pick a stacking order and not be convinced to alter it,
This is so inane, it's funny. What, you couldn't figure out how to move through/around your various program windows? Give me a break...You sound like one of those people that equates everything they don't understand about computers to ghosts or magic or something.
Windows may have some odd quirks, but unless you're infected with a virus or trojan or have some extremely rare issue that i'm not aware of, your program windows do not pick screen positions and refuse to move.
and the new and improved active-X made all of my favorite games (diablo) unusable.
Utter rubbish.
First of all, what you're referring to in this context would be DirectX, not "active-X".
Secondly, your claim that it suddenly made all your games stop working is even more laughable. More specifically, i've been using Diablo, Diablo II, and Lord of Destruction under 3 different versions of DirectX (including the most current) over the years with absolutely no problems at all. So have thousands and thousands of other people.
I cannot recall more than one or two old non-DOS-based games that do not work now, and several that new DirectX versions actually improved.
Oh yeah, I occasionally boot windows to see how crappy my various websites render under IE.
God, could you be any more determined to ignore and twist the facts to suit your ranting?
I'll help you out on this one - if you don't like IE, try this. Works as good or better than IE for pretty much everything except Shockwave and Flash. There's a Windows version of Mozilla, too. And Opera.
So final answer: I keep off windows because it sucks. Also I do not want to support an abusive monopoly.
Judging from the complaints you bring up, I find it extremely hard to believe you have used Windows recently, if at all.
Feel free to respond, I have a feeling i'd enjoy it.
Why this is insightful, I don't know.
:)
Is really a need to have the last toy in hardware?
If one has the money to aquire whatever the "last toy in hardware" is at the moment without (much) negative impact to the rest of their life, then yes.
If you don't want the latest and greatest, then leave it alone. More power to ya. Hell, it's fine even if you just want to pretend you don't want it, to (as I suspect here) feel superior to those that think advances like this are neato.
I don't think anything like that really gives you the right to tell other people how to spend their money, though
Don't delude yourself. If ever Linux gets anywhere near the marketshare and desktop userbase that Windows has, somebody will exploit it.
And that's to say nothing of the fact that switching from Windows to Linux to avoid spyware would be massive overkill. Plenty of easy to use, effective, and free anti-spyware Windows tools out there.
Hey, i'm all for the oil supply starting to undeniably run out.
I have a feeling that somehow a lot of the false or exaggerated problems associated with many alternative energy sources will suddenly seem a lot less important.
Gupta, fsck off and go spew your false info somewhere else.
Anyone who doesn't know this guy yet, read his post history, or check here. Known troll who always falsely claims to be working at Nintendo, Sega, etc.
Either way, it's just a little bug. I'm not sure this is worth a news header.
Sorry, I beg to differ - for people that actually use Windows or any dual boot configuration for useful/fun stuff, this is a big deal.
It's also yet another example of why Linux (users) may not be ready for mass desktop usage - the attitude that such a major problem is not even worth a news header is unacceptable.
How this is insightful, I don't know.
It's simply a list of some legitimate problems mixed in with probably the most anti-American cliches and misconceptions i've ever seen gathered in one post.
If you haven't already left the country (or aren't American in the first place), Mr. AC, maybe you should. I suspect you'd be much happier, and we'd be better off with less people like you, who, instead of working to try and fix what's wrong with the country, choose to sit back and whine about everything that's gone wrong.
At any rate, you have given America a hearty "Fuck you". Now what are you going to do?
Gupta, buddy! How ya been? Better practice the trolling a bit more often, as you're getting a bit rusty.
Anyone who doesn't know this guy yet, read his post history, or check here. Known troll who always falsely claims to be working at Nintendo, Sega, etc.
Bzzt wrong. There is no such thing as a 'cola nut'. Cola is an artificial flavor made of various citrus and fruit flavors.
Funny, sure looks like it exists to me. Took about 2 minutes with Google to find that, i'm sure you can find more detailed info if you work at it.
Soda makers often use a synthetic mixture to simulate the nut extract these days, but the nut itself certainly is out there.
Even if they are being scammed, aren't this person and his/her accomplices committing mail/wire fraud?
IANAL, but while I think they are, technically...Somehow I doubt the scammer would have much of a leg to stand on to complain.
I just wouldn't want to be on the other end if the scammer tried to fight back.
It's not that hard to protect yourself...Just be careful about exactly what you give out in the way of personal info, and be creative. Look at some of the scam baiters that play with Nigerian emailers to see what I mean.