but AROS doesn't. AROS brings the Classic AmigaDOS/Workbench and AmigaOS experience to X86 and PPC platforms.
At least AmigaOS applications are still being developed, hardly anyone develops for BeOS anymore. AROS can at least run AmigaOS 3.1 and under applications and 68K Amiga applications via AmigaBridge.
Free speech will never be 100% free. You can get punched in the nose for saying stuff like that to certain people.
Freedom is an illusion, rights double so! Someone sold you a bill of goods that free speech should be 100% free, as people are held to be responsible for what they say due to modern law. Are you saying people should be irresponsible and say things that aren't true about other people and not be sued for it? If so, what if someone said untrue things about you and most people believed it? Gossip, rumors, and untruths make up our media, newspapers, news shows, blogs, forums, and even Slashdot. Kick them when their up, kick them when their down, people love dirty laundry.
People don't even have a free will, they have a self will instead. You think you have a choice what country you are born in, or if you can leave that country and join another and give up citizenship? In the USA you cannot, and we got people who want to live and work here so bad they sneak into our nation and work off the books and are undocumented workers because the country they were born into is so bad and corrupt and the economy is so rotten, that they risk their lives to make it here to the USA.
You can say anything you want to say, but you'd better face the consequences of saying it as people will hold you accountable for saying such things.
The very definition of a troll is someone who makes false and derogatory claims of fact against others.
For example I am trolled on Slashdot here and false and derogatory claims of fact are used against me, with no verified proof or nothing true being cited. Should I file a civil lawsuit for that? If the answer is yes, please let me get a lawyer as I think I have a good case of libel against a few of the trolls here.
Microsoft has been known to use FAT file systems, FAT16, VFAT, FAT32, with NTFS I was able to allow my Windows to go on a diet.:)
No really we don't need extra features for an operating system, make them optional and don't load them up at default. Maybe make most things a kernel module that only loads when it is used.
Bloating the Operating System with uneeded features is just plain stupid. Windows 2000/XP is most anyone needs for Windows, everything else is just Fat on the operating system and slows it down with bloated features most people don't need.
Dude Microsoft is giving up on NTFS for WinFS with Windows 7.0. Get your facts straight before you start to character assassinate an operating system. WinFS was to be a part of Vista, but Microsoft removed it before the retail version in order to meet deadlines.
Did you know that Linux has limited NTFS support? I usually have to create a FAT32 partition to copy files between Windows XP and Linux. NTFS is usually read only or not available. Pfffssssttt!
Just like wine, Microsoft will not release a finished product before its time.
Free Speech is not unlimited, slander and libel laws allow people to sue in civil court and that puts a damper on free speech.
In this case the written word is libel. The only defense I know about it is if those words were written in parody or part of a joke, like Jerry Falwell vs. Hustler.
Watch what you say about others, as they can turn around and sue you for it. The only ones we can honestly say anything about are politicians in our government, and even then there are exceptions.
most trolls use free web mail accounts and use Tor or some other proxy server to hide their IP.
You'll most likely get a list of Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, and GMail accounts and fake names like John Smith and Jane Doe going to proxy server IPs.
If any of those Topix Trolls had any sense, they'd quit trolling and give up their accounts that got them into trouble and generate a new account to avoid being caught, which I suspect they will. Then change the email address of the Topix account they trolled with to biteme@dontsueme.com so when the administrator looks it up, they give that email address to the Judge.
I myself don't use Topix, but there are many other web sites like it, Kuro5hin, IWETHEY, Husi, and a few others come to mind. Trolls on those web sites better watch out and cease and desist before they get sued as well.
Yeah but one day I will get better and healthier and go back to work. I'll be able to outwork and outwit other coworkers and managers when I do, because of all of the research I have done on my off years.
Thank you, I too hope you never share my own fate.
Usually the SYSOP or Admin asks to be sent an email to verify the user is real and not a bot. Posting privileges are not given until the admin can talk to the user via email.
Once the user puts a bot on their account or the account gets hacked, you just ban by IP address so it does not happen again.
if it listed forums of moderators who already follows that advise. So we can cut out time on forums populated by trolls, astroturfers, and fascist admins who only allow their political views to be aired and censor everything else or chase away the users by becoming bullies and trolls to them.
We had a 1540 and 1541 floppy drive. Got about 170K per side. Single sided double density 5.25" floppy disks. Very slow, but you could load a game in 15 to 20 minutes. For the datasette drive you could load a game, eat dinner, and be done and it was still loading. But by the time you used the bathroom and washed the dishes the datasette game was loaded.
Well we used to have such a system when Monasteries did the peer reviews before the Universities took over. After the Universities took over they ruined and abused the scientific method so that any crackpot idea be seriously considered as long as the scientist with that crackpot idea can get a few of his/her friends to conspire to rubber stamp the paper or create aliases to peer review his/her own work. Something about a system of morals and ethics that were not based on a religion and seriously bent to allow any crackpot idea so that all scientists had a equal right to be published and become notable.
My Astronomy professor published a series of papers that said the Hubble effect was wrong and that the universe is not expanding. He argued with our text books. Somehow his papers were peer reviewed even if it was a crackpot idea.
Getting Ego out of science? Impossible! It is like trying to get God out of religion, or violence out of hockey, or get all smokers to quit smoking, or put responsibility back into the media and news programs and newspapers and force them to verify the facts before they print or publish or report on something.
What is to stop one scientist to create an "alias" with a different PGP/GPG key and publish to a different scientific journal and then use that "alias" or series of aliases to peer review his/her own work. Ward Churchill did this with his works, and I have known many who published articles under aliases in the scientific community as well.
A key sign is lack of such things as margin of error calculation to show that the data was randomly selected and not "cherry picked" to prove the hypothesis as true. Does it strike anyone as odd that many such scientifc papers get peer reviewed and skip such steps by the people doing the peer reviews just like the original scientist did?
The days of the margin of error is too hard to calculate is a poor excuse when we have spreadsheets with that function built in or statistic software that can crunch the numbers for the scientist.
This does not improve credibility, but instead improves fraud and the opportunity for fraud. People will be more easily mislead by someone who peer reviews their own works using several aliases because each alias has a trusted PGP/GPG key that signed it. Thinking that third parties and different people peer reviewed the work, when in reality it was the same person or a club of scientists who peer review each other's work like a rubber stamp as some sort of conspiracy.
First Microsoft is going to have to get rid of turkey products that cost more money to support than they bring in via revenues. Like XBox 360, the Microsoft Network, Microsoft Games, etc or spin them off into smaller companies or just sell them to the highest bidder. Yeah I know the cost of supporting Windows is high too, but somehow they manage to make a lot of money off of it to offset the tech support by charging for tech support and priority service.
With the way the economy is going, I'd expect Microsoft to get into the banking business and buy out a few failing banks and reorganize them to provide credit cards and loans to buy Microsoft products. Then make deals with the OEMs to use Microsoft's banks and credit cards to sell their PC and other things that use Windows. That should provide the growth Microsoft needs to give investors as well as help their products become more affordable.
Then buy out Geeksquad and Best Buy, and have Microsoft stores to sell technology and service Microsoft Windows systems in one swoop and take aim at the Apple stores.
IBM cannot open source OS/2 because it paid over 300 different companies to license their code to make OS/2. IBM would have to pay all 300 companies money to own their code to open source it and doubtful all of them will agree with that.
Your best bet is OSFree and people need to donate money, code, time, etc to get their project out of alpha and beta tests to develop an open sourced OS/2 compatible operating system or at least a WINE type program for Linux that runs OS/2 programs.
Actually Windows 9X is about as dead as CP/M as hardly any major software maker supports it anymore. It has to be Windows 2000 and above or Windows XP or above and soon Windows Vista and above.
Windows 7.0 is nothing like Windows 9X was, 9X was not as bloated or full of useless features and brainless eye candy copied from OSX, with 9X it actually ran fast on newer hardware until drivers stopped being written for it. It could run fast in 256M of RAM and even could run on 48M systems fast enough with some virtual memory swapping.
Retrocomputing is the wave of the future, Windows XP will continue to live after Microsoft abandons it. Pricewatch.com is full of OEM XP surplus install CDs for sale and Microsoft made so many OEM copies of XP that they cannot shut them out forever. All Microsoft can do is shut down the XP activation system and then screw all of the legit Windows XP users and force them to get a pre-activated Pirated version which even Microsoft and the BSA cannot stop file sharing networks from spreading.
Microsoft is its own worse enemy when it threw out legacy support for Windows Vista. It broke the unwritten rule that the user's old software will still be supported in the new OS version. Windows 7.0 is basically Vista with some new features and code for newer technology. At the very least Mac OSX had Carbon to run Mac OS 9 and under applications, Vista lacks that unless you count Virtual PC running a copy of Windows XP but even then the hardware it emulates is limited so no 3D graphics but that 2D video card instead, so the Gameheads are screwed if Vista won't play their old games, and the game maker didn't write a Vista version yet.
There are tons of custom written business software that breaks with Vista and businesses need 2000 or XP just to run them. Microsoft promised them that Vista would run them just as well as 2000 and XP did if not faster and better. That was a broken promise and now Microsoft's stock is suffering.
Windows is not as dead as CP/M yet, but it is slowly getting there if Microsoft keeps screwing customers so they cannot run legacy software or use legacy hardware. Windows 7.0 better have a Windows XP based legacy engine to run legacy software, if not, there will be a big rebellion against Microsoft by people who need legacy support for at least their software.
Buying all brand new software every time there is a major OS upgrade will kill off even Microsoft given enough time. In these economic times very few can afford to do that.
It will create chaos as people try to hang on to Windows XP and 2000 and earlier Windows versions, and Linux and Mac OSX and other operating systems don't have the software available yet to replace the Windows versions that haven't been ported to Linux or Mac OSX. But mark my words when the third party commercial software vendors decide to support any non-Microsoft non-Windows platform, and drop the modern Windows version support, it will mark the end of Microsoft's era as a software giant. I just hope whatever replaces Windows is open sourced like Linux, ReactOS, HaikuOS, AROS, etc.
nor will they ever. The best you can do is ask Microsoft to open up every API call that Windows XP and below uses so that WINE and ReactOS can be made to support more API calls to be more compatible with Windows XP and people can write their own open source Windows XP compatible operating system while Microsoft moves on to Windows 7.0 8.0 9.0 using new undocumented API calls.
Why Microsoft won't open source Windows, it is not in their business plan. Microsoft is experimenting with open source with smaller projects to see if they can profit from smaller open source projects.
Microsoft still wants Windows pre-loaded with most PCs sold so that they can keep their OS Monopoly via those OEM contracts. They bundle MS-Office, Internet Explorer, Media Player, MSN Network client, Windows Live services, etc with each pre-loaded PC. This is all part of Microsoft's business plan and it works so well that they dominate marketshare and got the DOJ and EU angry at them for pre-loading software and shutting out competitors.
Unless Microsoft can figure out a new business plan that makes money off open sourced Windows, I really doubt they will go that route. ReactOS is your best bet at a Windows XP/2003 compatible open source OS, or use WINE with Linux.
Agreed but the RIAA usually sues the teenage girls and grandmothers who get the IP after it is released from the music pirate that was using it to download over 12 MP3 files that are pirated versions and then reset their DSL modem to get a new IP.
It seems the RIAA doesn't care if someone downloads less than 12 songs in a row, but if they download 12 or move they get the Internet subpoena.
BitTorrent web sites are used for pirated music as well as free and open sourced music files from independent artists without a recording label or the RIAA or iTunes pushing their songs down our throats. But if the RIAA can get all BitTorrent sites down, they can screw the independent artists as well as their fans.
Just like file sharing is used to download Windows XP Pirate Edition, it also is used to download Linux, *BSD Unix, AROS, etc which are free and open source operating systems.
I think Billy Idol proved that music can be made on a personal computer just as well in a music studio when he made the Cyberpunk album on a Macintosh system in 1993.
With modern Macintosh systems I am sure they can do a better job. Maybe Apple can make an iStudio software package to interface with home studio equipment and have artists make their own music, which they can pay a fee and get published on iTunes and become their own producers.
they make? Most people will downgrade to Windows XP for $150 more, or just get an OEM XP disk from an online source like pricewatch.com for $89 and reformat the hard drive anyway?
Might as well not sell an OS with the system and let the user decide. Only give the driver disk for many OS formats.
How about Windows 7.0 Classic Edition which is based on the XP codebase instead of the Vista codebase? Now that version, I'd buy.
Put up a one-way mirror. Make sure the side that you can see through allows you to watch the screen, while the mirror side reflects the camera back on itself for an infinite loop! Whooooopie!
Having Linux as a backend server for Windows workstations is a wonderful thing for a corporation.
It saves them a lot of money. Do you know what 1000 Windows 2008 Server client and Exchange Server client licenses cost? Well use Linux with SAMBA and OpenChange for less than the cost of a bottle of water. Beat that, Microsoft, and managers who always try to justify Microsoft software over Linux software.
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but AROS doesn't. AROS brings the Classic AmigaDOS/Workbench and AmigaOS experience to X86 and PPC platforms.
At least AmigaOS applications are still being developed, hardly anyone develops for BeOS anymore. AROS can at least run AmigaOS 3.1 and under applications and 68K Amiga applications via AmigaBridge.
Free speech will never be 100% free. You can get punched in the nose for saying stuff like that to certain people.
Freedom is an illusion, rights double so! Someone sold you a bill of goods that free speech should be 100% free, as people are held to be responsible for what they say due to modern law. Are you saying people should be irresponsible and say things that aren't true about other people and not be sued for it? If so, what if someone said untrue things about you and most people believed it? Gossip, rumors, and untruths make up our media, newspapers, news shows, blogs, forums, and even Slashdot. Kick them when their up, kick them when their down, people love dirty laundry.
People don't even have a free will, they have a self will instead. You think you have a choice what country you are born in, or if you can leave that country and join another and give up citizenship? In the USA you cannot, and we got people who want to live and work here so bad they sneak into our nation and work off the books and are undocumented workers because the country they were born into is so bad and corrupt and the economy is so rotten, that they risk their lives to make it here to the USA.
You can say anything you want to say, but you'd better face the consequences of saying it as people will hold you accountable for saying such things.
The very definition of a troll is someone who makes false and derogatory claims of fact against others.
For example I am trolled on Slashdot here and false and derogatory claims of fact are used against me, with no verified proof or nothing true being cited. Should I file a civil lawsuit for that? If the answer is yes, please let me get a lawyer as I think I have a good case of libel against a few of the trolls here.
He claims he didn't do it, that it was the one armed man.
Microsoft has been known to use FAT file systems, FAT16, VFAT, FAT32, with NTFS I was able to allow my Windows to go on a diet. :)
No really we don't need extra features for an operating system, make them optional and don't load them up at default. Maybe make most things a kernel module that only loads when it is used.
Bloating the Operating System with uneeded features is just plain stupid. Windows 2000/XP is most anyone needs for Windows, everything else is just Fat on the operating system and slows it down with bloated features most people don't need.
Dude Microsoft is giving up on NTFS for WinFS with Windows 7.0. Get your facts straight before you start to character assassinate an operating system. WinFS was to be a part of Vista, but Microsoft removed it before the retail version in order to meet deadlines.
Did you know that Linux has limited NTFS support? I usually have to create a FAT32 partition to copy files between Windows XP and Linux. NTFS is usually read only or not available. Pfffssssttt!
Just like wine, Microsoft will not release a finished product before its time.
Brother Orion, you share my first name.
Free Speech is not unlimited, slander and libel laws allow people to sue in civil court and that puts a damper on free speech.
In this case the written word is libel. The only defense I know about it is if those words were written in parody or part of a joke, like Jerry Falwell vs. Hustler.
Watch what you say about others, as they can turn around and sue you for it. The only ones we can honestly say anything about are politicians in our government, and even then there are exceptions.
most trolls use free web mail accounts and use Tor or some other proxy server to hide their IP.
You'll most likely get a list of Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, and GMail accounts and fake names like John Smith and Jane Doe going to proxy server IPs.
If any of those Topix Trolls had any sense, they'd quit trolling and give up their accounts that got them into trouble and generate a new account to avoid being caught, which I suspect they will. Then change the email address of the Topix account they trolled with to biteme@dontsueme.com so when the administrator looks it up, they give that email address to the Judge.
I myself don't use Topix, but there are many other web sites like it, Kuro5hin, IWETHEY, Husi, and a few others come to mind. Trolls on those web sites better watch out and cease and desist before they get sued as well.
Yeah but one day I will get better and healthier and go back to work. I'll be able to outwork and outwit other coworkers and managers when I do, because of all of the research I have done on my off years.
Thank you, I too hope you never share my own fate.
Sorry but God just laughs at you when you say things like that.
God bless the atheists, for they set a cosmic joke with no punchline for us all.
Usually the SYSOP or Admin asks to be sent an email to verify the user is real and not a bot. Posting privileges are not given until the admin can talk to the user via email.
Once the user puts a bot on their account or the account gets hacked, you just ban by IP address so it does not happen again.
if it listed forums of moderators who already follows that advise. So we can cut out time on forums populated by trolls, astroturfers, and fascist admins who only allow their political views to be aired and censor everything else or chase away the users by becoming bullies and trolls to them.
We had a 1540 and 1541 floppy drive. Got about 170K per side. Single sided double density 5.25" floppy disks. Very slow, but you could load a game in 15 to 20 minutes. For the datasette drive you could load a game, eat dinner, and be done and it was still loading. But by the time you used the bathroom and washed the dishes the datasette game was loaded.
Well we used to have such a system when Monasteries did the peer reviews before the Universities took over. After the Universities took over they ruined and abused the scientific method so that any crackpot idea be seriously considered as long as the scientist with that crackpot idea can get a few of his/her friends to conspire to rubber stamp the paper or create aliases to peer review his/her own work. Something about a system of morals and ethics that were not based on a religion and seriously bent to allow any crackpot idea so that all scientists had a equal right to be published and become notable.
My Astronomy professor published a series of papers that said the Hubble effect was wrong and that the universe is not expanding. He argued with our text books. Somehow his papers were peer reviewed even if it was a crackpot idea.
Getting Ego out of science? Impossible! It is like trying to get God out of religion, or violence out of hockey, or get all smokers to quit smoking, or put responsibility back into the media and news programs and newspapers and force them to verify the facts before they print or publish or report on something.
sure it will show who signed it.
What is to stop one scientist to create an "alias" with a different PGP/GPG key and publish to a different scientific journal and then use that "alias" or series of aliases to peer review his/her own work. Ward Churchill did this with his works, and I have known many who published articles under aliases in the scientific community as well.
A key sign is lack of such things as margin of error calculation to show that the data was randomly selected and not "cherry picked" to prove the hypothesis as true. Does it strike anyone as odd that many such scientifc papers get peer reviewed and skip such steps by the people doing the peer reviews just like the original scientist did?
The days of the margin of error is too hard to calculate is a poor excuse when we have spreadsheets with that function built in or statistic software that can crunch the numbers for the scientist.
This does not improve credibility, but instead improves fraud and the opportunity for fraud. People will be more easily mislead by someone who peer reviews their own works using several aliases because each alias has a trusted PGP/GPG key that signed it. Thinking that third parties and different people peer reviewed the work, when in reality it was the same person or a club of scientists who peer review each other's work like a rubber stamp as some sort of conspiracy.
First Microsoft is going to have to get rid of turkey products that cost more money to support than they bring in via revenues. Like XBox 360, the Microsoft Network, Microsoft Games, etc or spin them off into smaller companies or just sell them to the highest bidder. Yeah I know the cost of supporting Windows is high too, but somehow they manage to make a lot of money off of it to offset the tech support by charging for tech support and priority service.
With the way the economy is going, I'd expect Microsoft to get into the banking business and buy out a few failing banks and reorganize them to provide credit cards and loans to buy Microsoft products. Then make deals with the OEMs to use Microsoft's banks and credit cards to sell their PC and other things that use Windows. That should provide the growth Microsoft needs to give investors as well as help their products become more affordable.
Then buy out Geeksquad and Best Buy, and have Microsoft stores to sell technology and service Microsoft Windows systems in one swoop and take aim at the Apple stores.
IBM cannot open source OS/2 because it paid over 300 different companies to license their code to make OS/2. IBM would have to pay all 300 companies money to own their code to open source it and doubtful all of them will agree with that.
Your best bet is OSFree and people need to donate money, code, time, etc to get their project out of alpha and beta tests to develop an open sourced OS/2 compatible operating system or at least a WINE type program for Linux that runs OS/2 programs.
Actually Windows 9X is about as dead as CP/M as hardly any major software maker supports it anymore. It has to be Windows 2000 and above or Windows XP or above and soon Windows Vista and above.
Windows 7.0 is nothing like Windows 9X was, 9X was not as bloated or full of useless features and brainless eye candy copied from OSX, with 9X it actually ran fast on newer hardware until drivers stopped being written for it. It could run fast in 256M of RAM and even could run on 48M systems fast enough with some virtual memory swapping.
Retrocomputing is the wave of the future, Windows XP will continue to live after Microsoft abandons it. Pricewatch.com is full of OEM XP surplus install CDs for sale and Microsoft made so many OEM copies of XP that they cannot shut them out forever. All Microsoft can do is shut down the XP activation system and then screw all of the legit Windows XP users and force them to get a pre-activated Pirated version which even Microsoft and the BSA cannot stop file sharing networks from spreading.
Microsoft is its own worse enemy when it threw out legacy support for Windows Vista. It broke the unwritten rule that the user's old software will still be supported in the new OS version. Windows 7.0 is basically Vista with some new features and code for newer technology. At the very least Mac OSX had Carbon to run Mac OS 9 and under applications, Vista lacks that unless you count Virtual PC running a copy of Windows XP but even then the hardware it emulates is limited so no 3D graphics but that 2D video card instead, so the Gameheads are screwed if Vista won't play their old games, and the game maker didn't write a Vista version yet.
There are tons of custom written business software that breaks with Vista and businesses need 2000 or XP just to run them. Microsoft promised them that Vista would run them just as well as 2000 and XP did if not faster and better. That was a broken promise and now Microsoft's stock is suffering.
Windows is not as dead as CP/M yet, but it is slowly getting there if Microsoft keeps screwing customers so they cannot run legacy software or use legacy hardware. Windows 7.0 better have a Windows XP based legacy engine to run legacy software, if not, there will be a big rebellion against Microsoft by people who need legacy support for at least their software.
Buying all brand new software every time there is a major OS upgrade will kill off even Microsoft given enough time. In these economic times very few can afford to do that.
It will create chaos as people try to hang on to Windows XP and 2000 and earlier Windows versions, and Linux and Mac OSX and other operating systems don't have the software available yet to replace the Windows versions that haven't been ported to Linux or Mac OSX. But mark my words when the third party commercial software vendors decide to support any non-Microsoft non-Windows platform, and drop the modern Windows version support, it will mark the end of Microsoft's era as a software giant. I just hope whatever replaces Windows is open sourced like Linux, ReactOS, HaikuOS, AROS, etc.
nor will they ever. The best you can do is ask Microsoft to open up every API call that Windows XP and below uses so that WINE and ReactOS can be made to support more API calls to be more compatible with Windows XP and people can write their own open source Windows XP compatible operating system while Microsoft moves on to Windows 7.0 8.0 9.0 using new undocumented API calls.
Why Microsoft won't open source Windows, it is not in their business plan. Microsoft is experimenting with open source with smaller projects to see if they can profit from smaller open source projects.
Microsoft still wants Windows pre-loaded with most PCs sold so that they can keep their OS Monopoly via those OEM contracts. They bundle MS-Office, Internet Explorer, Media Player, MSN Network client, Windows Live services, etc with each pre-loaded PC. This is all part of Microsoft's business plan and it works so well that they dominate marketshare and got the DOJ and EU angry at them for pre-loading software and shutting out competitors.
Unless Microsoft can figure out a new business plan that makes money off open sourced Windows, I really doubt they will go that route. ReactOS is your best bet at a Windows XP/2003 compatible open source OS, or use WINE with Linux.
Agreed but the RIAA usually sues the teenage girls and grandmothers who get the IP after it is released from the music pirate that was using it to download over 12 MP3 files that are pirated versions and then reset their DSL modem to get a new IP.
It seems the RIAA doesn't care if someone downloads less than 12 songs in a row, but if they download 12 or move they get the Internet subpoena.
BitTorrent web sites are used for pirated music as well as free and open sourced music files from independent artists without a recording label or the RIAA or iTunes pushing their songs down our throats. But if the RIAA can get all BitTorrent sites down, they can screw the independent artists as well as their fans.
Just like file sharing is used to download Windows XP Pirate Edition, it also is used to download Linux, *BSD Unix, AROS, etc which are free and open source operating systems.
I think Billy Idol proved that music can be made on a personal computer just as well in a music studio when he made the Cyberpunk album on a Macintosh system in 1993.
With modern Macintosh systems I am sure they can do a better job. Maybe Apple can make an iStudio software package to interface with home studio equipment and have artists make their own music, which they can pay a fee and get published on iTunes and become their own producers.
they make? Most people will downgrade to Windows XP for $150 more, or just get an OEM XP disk from an online source like pricewatch.com for $89 and reformat the hard drive anyway?
Might as well not sell an OS with the system and let the user decide. Only give the driver disk for many OS formats.
How about Windows 7.0 Classic Edition which is based on the XP codebase instead of the Vista codebase? Now that version, I'd buy.
I usually wear a pirate or ninja costume or pirate ninja costume with a mask on so they cannot see my face.
I guess that gives me infinite Captain Morgan Spiced Rum ads, and Martial Arts ads.
Put up a one-way mirror. Make sure the side that you can see through allows you to watch the screen, while the mirror side reflects the camera back on itself for an infinite loop! Whooooopie!
Having Linux as a backend server for Windows workstations is a wonderful thing for a corporation.
It saves them a lot of money. Do you know what 1000 Windows 2008 Server client and Exchange Server client licenses cost? Well use Linux with SAMBA and OpenChange for less than the cost of a bottle of water. Beat that, Microsoft, and managers who always try to justify Microsoft software over Linux software.