Yeah, but did you see how many times he smacked the screen up against the tank with a lot of force? I have owned lots of phones in my day, but ALL of them would have had a smashed screen with just one hit lighter than the force he was using. The iPhone has a more rugged screen than lots of others, but I will bet anything that one smack against the tank like that, and the screen would be done for. Even though he cracked the screen, that thing held up like a tank! After seeing that, I would have confidence that if that phone fell out of my pocket and fell in the rocks, it would survive in tact. I can't see how a fall out of a pocket could exert that much pressure repeatedly.
So in normal circumstances, yes I would still consider this phone unbreakable.
What? It isn't about how expensive the phone is. I love to have everything at my fingertips. I love the efficiency at which I get to my information. I bet your are using a broadband connection aren't you? Most people who started with modems thought that 56k was fast enough until you go broadband. Once that move happens, 56k is no longer good enough, it is downright painful.
People who live in rural country areas who get around with bikes and walking may think cars are useless status symbols. I bet you own a car don't you? So.. you just purchased your vehicle as a status symbol?
I've used the brushes app before. This was not edited outside of the iPhone. That application really does a good job simulating paint and brushes. And yes, you can do this with a WinMo device. The difference is the interface of this application, the accuracy of a capacitive screen, and the multitouch make the combination of this app and this phone seem natural. Zooming in and out is effortless by pinching in and out. And the speed and sensitivity is perfect. I have used paint applications on my Winmo, and they don't feel very natural. Doing multiple strokes with textured brushes with transparency set on a winmo device doesn't feel very good... not as fluid.
What are you talking about? Browsers and their plugins have access to everything. Do something as simple as post a picture in myspace and you will see that it has access to let you browse the entire system to find your picture. Any number of sites will let you browse for files through said browser. How is this limiting browser access to the temp directory? If a simple scriptlet can do that, its not like you say. Anyone who has ever used Internet explorer to install a printer through IIS will tell you it happens. I connect to the web page at my work, and IE lets me not only connect, but it also downloads and installs print drivers. Something like that has access to system areas and even registry. One could exploit that to create a faux driver and do malicious activity with it.
The Pirate Bay bought Sealand I thought. They are the first on Sealand, because they own it! They even changed the name of their site to The Pirates of Sealand.
Whats funny is that the speed limit on the 60 is 65 mph, so people drive around 75-80 even the cops. I HATE it when there are snowbirds that drive 55 mph because that is the freeway speed in their state. THOSE people cause accidents. Like you say... its survival. Going 65 on a day when EVERYONE is doing 80+ is pretty dangerous too. Heck, often I race a cop going 90 mph all the way home on the US60 in Mesa.
Microsoft has been screwing us with the price for years. I mean... follow the price of every new version of Windows and it doubles in price each release for very little. The only reason they raise the price that much is because they KNOW people will pay the high prices for no real gain. Now, if any other business were to do the same thing people would scream price gouging and never buy... but no.... it is for some reason different because its Microsoft.
That... and bad business practices are why I do not like Microsoft. I mean, the Caldera vs Microsoft lawsuit in which microsoft caused FAKE error messages after it detected another version of dos ASIDE from MS DOS even there there was technically nothing wrong? If that does not scream crap business practice I dont know what does. It happened again recently where people complained the MSN web site looked like crap in Opera. Someone running linux found out that using wget to download the msn web site identifying itself as IE shows that the hiccups were on purpose the even THOSE web sites looked like crap in IE. Microsoft settled with Opera outside of court because of their deep pockets. Opera SHOULD have kept up the lawsuit.
Like it or not Microsoft is not the honest company you think they are and they should be fined harshly.
Lets say a company like Dodge (auto company) had a monopolistic influence over the auto industry (they dont.. but lets just pretend) and they tell all of the auto manufacturers that they will provide the Hemi engine FOR FREE to all of them. Now, because of their monopolistic presence, all of the companies dump EVERY OTHER engine manufacturer because of a) their name, and b) the free price... then you would see LOTS of people and lots of states getting ready to sue Dodge. Primarily because the states and the government have a lot to gain from LOTS of other companies making competing engines. In this hypothetical example, Dodge would put the engine making industry in danger and you would see states and even other countries sue dodge.
There are other things they can't test with this method. What about the aerodynamics of the house when being hit from different angles. If you were to look at it in a wind tunnel, im sure that you would see the winds swirl and produce lift and down force depending on how the wind hits certain angles of the house. Roof angle? How can you test the wind vortex produced in a storm with this kind of "simulator"? Pressure fluctuations on the INTERIOR of the house which can also damage substructure?
They are testing only one small portion a storm... the DIRECT effect of wind on the structure. Unfortunately I can't see how this will test the other factors.
Why are people actually debating the issue of freely allowing Mexican immigrants into the US? Have you guys/gals actually BEEN into Mexico and seen a majority of the places and people there? It is dirty, trash everywhere... crime is rampant and people don't care about anyone.
If we were to allow them to migrate into the US, wouldnt it be sad for that to happen to the southern US states? I mean... I for one would NOT want Arizona to be another Nogales or anything EVEN CLOSE. Are we to believe that just because we let them into the country... they would respect THIS COUNTRY and keep everything clean and abide by our laws when they can't do the same in THEIR country?
I'm not saying that Americans are clean for the most part... but HAVE YOU GUYS/GALS EVEN BEEN TO MEXICO?
I think that all illegal immigrants should be treated as just that... illegal. Either deport them or shoot them on the spot, but don't take my money from taxes to keep them in OUR jails.
Ahhhh now this is by far the dumbest comment I have heard. Is he joking? Or does he not know that personal computers as well as business computers are used to assist users in managing things like oh... taxes, perform banking, store financial records, act as an archive for scanned documents, so on and so forth.
Or... does this person think computers are used purely for playing games and watching a blue and red bar move as you defrag a hard drive? Or maybe people play games with folders to see how straight they can make the icons?
In my world, computers are used for far more than entertainment, toys and gimmicks. It is a way for people to manage their day to day lives, simplify complex tasks or just act as a way to get away from a paper based society. Well, they can play games just as easy too, but you get the point.
Hard drives are often a wealth of private information and it is up to the person disposing of it to ensure that it cannot be read.
And to the people getting ready to reply with "well that is the problem with computers" or "never keep personal information on a HD". It is akin to countless people (yes there are many) throwing documents like credit card bills or ANY paper information with private information in the trash. Ultimately it is up to the person to ensure he/she SHREDS the documents FIRST before trashing. This is no different than electronic media.
Now, how the heck is this different than thousands of web sites that sense for Internet Explorer and if not give you a message saying you have to use Internet Explorer? LOTS of those sites have absolutely no reason for this.
For some reason its wrong if another company uses those same tactics?
Spending lots of money on something to improve the enjoyment of life is just as worthwhile as a utility device.
If something like this gives you enjoyment day to day then its worth it.
I keep birds and lots of people think its stupid that I bought 2 caique parots for $900 each and am about to by a cape parot for $1600 and possibly an Amazon for just under that.. and this doesnt count my other birds.
Now, for my financial bracket (I work a full time job and do consulting on the side) I can afford to buy birds like this. BUT someone that makes conciderably less will think its stupid to spend more than $300 on a bird (so they buy budgies! lol)
Someone that is better financially will opt to get a good dog from a breeder for a lot of money, while someone that doesnt make us much will say getting dogs from breeders is stupid and you should just rescue one from a kennel.
You get the point... the monetary value of something is RELATIVE to your current worth. Hell, rich people spend $30,000 on jewely... and I think that is stupid. BUT I agree that the concept of buying jewelry at that price is not stupid overall... its just out of MY reach, and that is that.
You know its funny. People with certain financial status think the same of PDAs. I have known 40 year old people who work minimum wage jobs to talk down gadgets such as GPS units, PDAs and yes.. DVD players (they prefer VHS) as being worthless and stupid devices just because of their financial bracket.
If your in a financial bracket obove the people I just described, then buying a PDA is just a usefull device I can replace every year.
This is the same for people who think of these dogs as stupid. They think that because $3000 is a tough chunk of change to just spend on anything and they just dont have it.
For people in the upper income bracket $3000 is something that does not take much effort to save for and things like this are no longer so stupid because they are very much within reach. BTW there are LOTS of people in the upper end bracket I just describe and the sales of aibos have been good. The units have gone through multiple versions and various improvements over the YEARS. And no.. this is not new.. it has been a popular item for a while now.
God I hope that is the truth. My wife, who is not a computer woman prefers Linux over Windows because of its stability and sheer less BS you get in NUMEROUS places in the Windows OS.
Lots of people who take a stance against Linux do so because they lose the "superior" mentality when using Windows. You know Windows and feel good because you may have mastered it... but in another OS you lose that grip, makes you feel powerless.
In the case of my wife, who has started with Linux, she feels quite opposite... preferring Linux over Windows.
Mod me troll, but I know you're sick of it all too.
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Depending on who did the kernel, it could have been optimized for 686 instead of 386, or it could have just been installed without lots of other junk making the kernel smaller and taking less memory.
But... in either case, there is no way to get a program load instantly like the parent author wants.
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The load time of an application has NOTHING to do with the window manager you are using. IE in Windows loads very fast only because most of it is already in RAM when WindowsXP loads. Portions of MS Office are already running also. Add a large software like OpenOffice that is NOT running when Windows loads and you will see the load time.
Linux is the same way. If you have a slow computer there is no hope of you speeding up its load time just because you switched window managers. Well, if you have little RAM and the WM is taking up most of it... it would slow things down a bit due to swapping. And in that case it is not the WM slowing down the load, it is the swapping because there is not enough physical memory.
What I suggest, if your tired of waiting, is to upgrade your old processor and get more RAM.
Thats just it... random mutation. You said "you would expect that random mutations would impart the self-regeneration trait onto us"
The fact that it is random is just that... its random! It has NOTHING to do with the fact that you think humans are more superior or are "more worthy" of such a mutation. The only argument to more complex creatures having the ability is that we have more genes and a higher probability. A random selection does not always fall on the side of probability.. that is why we call it a probability and not a certainty!
We also know that certain evolution evolves from a need for something. A guilla monster grows poison sacks on its back because of the need for defense of other creatures biting it... NOT because a random mutation caused it to grow poison bubbles.
In the wild creatures like lizards evolved the ability of regeneration from need as they are prey and have gotten lots of limbs torn off.
If this is the case, then humans are less likely to evolve such a trait because we are protected by our technology and are not technically part of the "predator and prey" aspect of nature like all other organisms are. Our natural area of evolution will most likely come from evolutions of the mind.. telepathic ability and increased capacity or the like.
So in the end it has nothing to do with complete "randomness"... but more to do with "changes creature evolution deems necessary to foster survivability of the organism."
Now, after a nuclear war if we go back to pre-civilization days and keep getting our legs bitten off or arms torn off by lions, then maybe after a hundred years evolution will give us such an ability of regeneration. OR we may grow poison sacks on our backs or the ability to shoot poison or sharp barbs from our nipples to defend ourselves! LOL:-)
As it stands, humans evolved superior intellect as our defense. I would much rather have THAT.. than regeneration any day.
Are you not including the fact that the computer industry took off because of the Americans?
The very idea of computers were scoffed at as a home appliance by everyone at the time. Four AMERICANS started it all Gary Kildall who developed CP/M, Bill Gates who bought CP/M for cheap and sold it to IBM then created Microsoft and Steve Jobs and Wozniak(?) who put a pretty face on it all with their Apple corporation.
Computers are the basis of any of the inventions that came from other countries which had its humble beginnings in the god blessed US of A.
Edwin Armstrong invented three of the basic circuits underlying all modern radio, radar and television. This is something used by all countries as well.
Matthias Baldwin and the steam engine which is inspiration for lots of things.
Among other things invented first in the US here is a short list: the transistor, vaccume tubes, PLASTIC (And how would you brits have those big funny hats without american invented PLASTIC), nylon, peanut butter and the list goes on and on and on.
Saying that the US did not invent anything aside from condensed milk just shows the lack of intelligence bestowed upon thee. We can't all be smart... and I fully understand this. So, before bashing Americans why don't you be stupid somewhere else.
Oh... I forgot to add condensed milk and LOTS of other inventions.
LOL. You know whats funny? I don't remember when ANY version of Microsoft Windows came with ANY form of partition resizing, or even a boot manager that is friendly with other operating systems.
I work at a school where students have laptops of varying types. Only once in a while have we ran into your problems.
We once installed Windows XP on a machine that only gave us 640x480 support (I didnt even know XP was capable of this.) and it blue screened when we tried anything for a couple of minutes.... so based on your mentality of applying your personal experiences to the entire genre....
"Err yeah. Windows XP for Average User. Whatevever."
"I can't get WindowsXP to load right on one crappy machine so Windows XP MUST obviously totally suck."
No, he probably read it fine. It meantions that to get IE working right with XML after the Netscape install, you need to uninstall Netscape becaue it breaks IE. If I could install one thing that can break everyone's IE installations... lets do it! LOL
Lots of us (including me) think IE is a load of crap and do not care if it can no longer load XML or render plain ol' HTML. It is a browser that has gone since the 90's without the need for any form of renovation... still the old browser with old rendering technology (slow in comparison to newer browsers) with lots of problems (guy who created active-x to let spyware get in easy should be shot) and no features. Now that other browsers like Opera and Firefox are out, MS FINALLY decides to give it new features for when it gets released soon or with longhorn. If it were not for firefox... we would have the same old crappy IE with no features like tabbed browsing.
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Yeah, but did you see how many times he smacked the screen up against the tank with a lot of force? I have owned lots of phones in my day, but ALL of them would have had a smashed screen with just one hit lighter than the force he was using. The iPhone has a more rugged screen than lots of others, but I will bet anything that one smack against the tank like that, and the screen would be done for. Even though he cracked the screen, that thing held up like a tank! After seeing that, I would have confidence that if that phone fell out of my pocket and fell in the rocks, it would survive in tact. I can't see how a fall out of a pocket could exert that much pressure repeatedly.
So in normal circumstances, yes I would still consider this phone unbreakable.
What? It isn't about how expensive the phone is. I love to have everything at my fingertips. I love the efficiency at which I get to my information. I bet your are using a broadband connection aren't you? Most people who started with modems thought that 56k was fast enough until you go broadband. Once that move happens, 56k is no longer good enough, it is downright painful.
People who live in rural country areas who get around with bikes and walking may think cars are useless status symbols. I bet you own a car don't you? So .. you just purchased your vehicle as a status symbol?
I've used the brushes app before. This was not edited outside of the iPhone. That application really does a good job simulating paint and brushes. And yes, you can do this with a WinMo device. The difference is the interface of this application, the accuracy of a capacitive screen, and the multitouch make the combination of this app and this phone seem natural. Zooming in and out is effortless by pinching in and out. And the speed and sensitivity is perfect. I have used paint applications on my Winmo, and they don't feel very natural. Doing multiple strokes with textured brushes with transparency set on a winmo device doesn't feel very good ... not as fluid.
What are you talking about? Browsers and their plugins have access to everything. Do something as simple as post a picture in myspace and you will see that it has access to let you browse the entire system to find your picture. Any number of sites will let you browse for files through said browser. How is this limiting browser access to the temp directory? If a simple scriptlet can do that, its not like you say. Anyone who has ever used Internet explorer to install a printer through IIS will tell you it happens. I connect to the web page at my work, and IE lets me not only connect, but it also downloads and installs print drivers. Something like that has access to system areas and even registry. One could exploit that to create a faux driver and do malicious activity with it.
The Pirate Bay bought Sealand I thought. They are the first on Sealand, because they own it! They even changed the name of their site to The Pirates of Sealand.
Whats funny is that the speed limit on the 60 is 65 mph, so people drive around 75-80 even the cops. I HATE it when there are snowbirds that drive 55 mph because that is the freeway speed in their state. THOSE people cause accidents. Like you say ... its survival. Going 65 on a day when EVERYONE is doing 80+ is pretty dangerous too. Heck, often I race a cop going 90 mph all the way home on the US60 in Mesa.
Ahhhhhh that is a good point and closer to the MS case.
Microsoft has been screwing us with the price for years. I mean ... follow the price of every new version of Windows and it doubles in price each release for very little. The only reason they raise the price that much is because they KNOW people will pay the high prices for no real gain. Now, if any other business were to do the same thing people would scream price gouging and never buy ... but no .... it is for some reason different because its Microsoft.
... and bad business practices are why I do not like Microsoft. I mean, the Caldera vs Microsoft lawsuit in which microsoft caused FAKE error messages after it detected another version of dos ASIDE from MS DOS even there there was technically nothing wrong? If that does not scream crap business practice I dont know what does. It happened again recently where people complained the MSN web site looked like crap in Opera. Someone running linux found out that using wget to download the msn web site identifying itself as IE shows that the hiccups were on purpose the even THOSE web sites looked like crap in IE. Microsoft settled with Opera outside of court because of their deep pockets. Opera SHOULD have kept up the lawsuit.
.. but lets just pretend) and they tell all of the auto manufacturers that they will provide the Hemi engine FOR FREE to all of them. Now, because of their monopolistic presence, all of the companies dump EVERY OTHER engine manufacturer because of a) their name, and b) the free price ... then you would see LOTS of people and lots of states getting ready to sue Dodge. Primarily because the states and the government have a lot to gain from LOTS of other companies making competing engines. In this hypothetical example, Dodge would put the engine making industry in danger and you would see states and even other countries sue dodge.
That
Like it or not Microsoft is not the honest company you think they are and they should be fined harshly.
Lets say a company like Dodge (auto company) had a monopolistic influence over the auto industry (they dont
Yes, I hate Microsoft.
No they don't. A flying elephant will do more damage .... or a flying rhinoceros.
There are other things they can't test with this method. What about the aerodynamics of the house when being hit from different angles. If you were to look at it in a wind tunnel, im sure that you would see the winds swirl and produce lift and down force depending on how the wind hits certain angles of the house. Roof angle? How can you test the wind vortex produced in a storm with this kind of "simulator"? Pressure fluctuations on the INTERIOR of the house which can also damage substructure?
... the DIRECT effect of wind on the structure. Unfortunately I can't see how this will test the other factors.
They are testing only one small portion a storm
Why are people actually debating the issue of freely allowing Mexican immigrants into the US? Have you guys/gals actually BEEN into Mexico and seen a majority of the places and people there? It is dirty, trash everywhere ... crime is rampant and people don't care about anyone.
... I for one would NOT want Arizona to be another Nogales or anything EVEN CLOSE. Are we to believe that just because we let them into the country ... they would respect THIS COUNTRY and keep everything clean and abide by our laws when they can't do the same in THEIR country?
... but HAVE YOU GUYS/GALS EVEN BEEN TO MEXICO?
... illegal. Either deport them or shoot them on the spot, but don't take my money from taxes to keep them in OUR jails.
If we were to allow them to migrate into the US, wouldnt it be sad for that to happen to the southern US states? I mean
I'm not saying that Americans are clean for the most part
I think that all illegal immigrants should be treated as just that
Ahhhh now this is by far the dumbest comment I have heard. Is he joking? Or does he not know that personal computers as well as business computers are used to assist users in managing things like oh ... taxes, perform banking, store financial records, act as an archive for scanned documents, so on and so forth.
... does this person think computers are used purely for playing games and watching a blue and red bar move as you defrag a hard drive? Or maybe people play games with folders to see how straight they can make the icons?
Or
In my world, computers are used for far more than entertainment, toys and gimmicks. It is a way for people to manage their day to day lives, simplify complex tasks or just act as a way to get away from a paper based society. Well, they can play games just as easy too, but you get the point.
Hard drives are often a wealth of private information and it is up to the person disposing of it to ensure that it cannot be read.
And to the people getting ready to reply with "well that is the problem with computers" or "never keep personal information on a HD". It is akin to countless people (yes there are many) throwing documents like credit card bills or ANY paper information with private information in the trash. Ultimately it is up to the person to ensure he/she SHREDS the documents FIRST before trashing. This is no different than electronic media.
Now, how the heck is this different than thousands of web sites that sense for Internet Explorer and if not give you a message saying you have to use Internet Explorer? LOTS of those sites have absolutely no reason for this.
For some reason its wrong if another company uses those same tactics?
Oh. I appologize then.
Spending lots of money on something to improve the enjoyment of life is just as worthwhile as a utility device.
.. and this doesnt count my other birds.
... the monetary value of something is RELATIVE to your current worth. Hell, rich people spend $30,000 on jewely ... and I think that is stupid. BUT I agree that the concept of buying jewelry at that price is not stupid overall ... its just out of MY reach, and that is that.
If something like this gives you enjoyment day to day then its worth it.
I keep birds and lots of people think its stupid that I bought 2 caique parots for $900 each and am about to by a cape parot for $1600 and possibly an Amazon for just under that
Now, for my financial bracket (I work a full time job and do consulting on the side) I can afford to buy birds like this. BUT someone that makes conciderably less will think its stupid to spend more than $300 on a bird (so they buy budgies! lol)
Someone that is better financially will opt to get a good dog from a breeder for a lot of money, while someone that doesnt make us much will say getting dogs from breeders is stupid and you should just rescue one from a kennel.
You get the point
You know its funny. People with certain financial status think the same of PDAs. I have known 40 year old people who work minimum wage jobs to talk down gadgets such as GPS units, PDAs and yes .. DVD players (they prefer VHS) as being worthless and stupid devices just because of their financial bracket.
.. this is not new .. it has been a popular item for a while now.
If your in a financial bracket obove the people I just described, then buying a PDA is just a usefull device I can replace every year.
This is the same for people who think of these dogs as stupid. They think that because $3000 is a tough chunk of change to just spend on anything and they just dont have it.
For people in the upper income bracket $3000 is something that does not take much effort to save for and things like this are no longer so stupid because they are very much within reach. BTW there are LOTS of people in the upper end bracket I just describe and the sales of aibos have been good. The units have gone through multiple versions and various improvements over the YEARS. And no
God I hope that is the truth. My wife, who is not a computer woman prefers Linux over Windows because of its stability and sheer less BS you get in NUMEROUS places in the Windows OS.
... but in another OS you lose that grip, makes you feel powerless.
... preferring Linux over Windows.
Lots of people who take a stance against Linux do so because they lose the "superior" mentality when using Windows. You know Windows and feel good because you may have mastered it
In the case of my wife, who has started with Linux, she feels quite opposite
Mod me troll, but I know you're sick of it all too.
Depending on who did the kernel, it could have been optimized for 686 instead of 386, or it could have just been installed without lots of other junk making the kernel smaller and taking less memory.
... in either case, there is no way to get a program load instantly like the parent author wants.
But
The load time of an application has NOTHING to do with the window manager you are using. IE in Windows loads very fast only because most of it is already in RAM when WindowsXP loads. Portions of MS Office are already running also. Add a large software like OpenOffice that is NOT running when Windows loads and you will see the load time.
... it would slow things down a bit due to swapping. And in that case it is not the WM slowing down the load, it is the swapping because there is not enough physical memory.
Linux is the same way. If you have a slow computer there is no hope of you speeding up its load time just because you switched window managers. Well, if you have little RAM and the WM is taking up most of it
What I suggest, if your tired of waiting, is to upgrade your old processor and get more RAM.
Thats just it ... random mutation. You said "you would expect that random mutations would impart the self-regeneration trait onto us"
... its random! It has NOTHING to do with the fact that you think humans are more superior or are "more worthy" of such a mutation. The only argument to more complex creatures having the ability is that we have more genes and a higher probability. A random selection does not always fall on the side of probability .. that is why we call it a probability and not a certainty!
... NOT because a random mutation caused it to grow poison bubbles.
.. telepathic ability and increased capacity or the like.
... but more to do with "changes creature evolution deems necessary to foster survivability of the organism."
:-)
.. than regeneration any day.
The fact that it is random is just that
We also know that certain evolution evolves from a need for something. A guilla monster grows poison sacks on its back because of the need for defense of other creatures biting it
In the wild creatures like lizards evolved the ability of regeneration from need as they are prey and have gotten lots of limbs torn off.
If this is the case, then humans are less likely to evolve such a trait because we are protected by our technology and are not technically part of the "predator and prey" aspect of nature like all other organisms are. Our natural area of evolution will most likely come from evolutions of the mind
So in the end it has nothing to do with complete "randomness"
Now, after a nuclear war if we go back to pre-civilization days and keep getting our legs bitten off or arms torn off by lions, then maybe after a hundred years evolution will give us such an ability of regeneration. OR we may grow poison sacks on our backs or the ability to shoot poison or sharp barbs from our nipples to defend ourselves! LOL
As it stands, humans evolved superior intellect as our defense. I would much rather have THAT
Because he may not know how to read well!
Are you not including the fact that the computer industry took off because of the Americans?
... and I fully understand this. So, before bashing Americans why don't you be stupid somewhere else.
... I forgot to add condensed milk and LOTS of other inventions.
The very idea of computers were scoffed at as a home appliance by everyone at the time. Four AMERICANS started it all Gary Kildall who developed CP/M, Bill Gates who bought CP/M for cheap and sold it to IBM then created Microsoft and Steve Jobs and Wozniak(?) who put a pretty face on it all with their Apple corporation.
Computers are the basis of any of the inventions that came from other countries which had its humble beginnings in the god blessed US of A.
Edwin Armstrong invented three of the basic circuits underlying all modern radio, radar and television. This is something used by all countries as well.
Matthias Baldwin and the steam engine which is inspiration for lots of things.
Among other things invented first in the US here is a short list: the transistor, vaccume tubes, PLASTIC (And how would you brits have those big funny hats without american invented PLASTIC), nylon, peanut butter and the list goes on and on and on.
Saying that the US did not invent anything aside from condensed milk just shows the lack of intelligence bestowed upon thee. We can't all be smart
Oh
LOL. You know whats funny? I don't remember when ANY version of Microsoft Windows came with ANY form of partition resizing, or even a boot manager that is friendly with other operating systems.
....
I work at a school where students have laptops of varying types. Only once in a while have we ran into your problems.
We once installed Windows XP on a machine that only gave us 640x480 support (I didnt even know XP was capable of this.) and it blue screened when we tried anything for a couple of minutes.... so based on your mentality of applying your personal experiences to the entire genre
"Err yeah. Windows XP for Average User. Whatevever."
"I can't get WindowsXP to load right on one crappy machine so Windows XP MUST obviously totally suck."
No, he probably read it fine. It meantions that to get IE working right with XML after the Netscape install, you need to uninstall Netscape becaue it breaks IE. If I could install one thing that can break everyone's IE installations ... lets do it! LOL
... still the old browser with old rendering technology (slow in comparison to newer browsers) with lots of problems (guy who created active-x to let spyware get in easy should be shot) and no features. Now that other browsers like Opera and Firefox are out, MS FINALLY decides to give it new features for when it gets released soon or with longhorn. If it were not for firefox ... we would have the same old crappy IE with no features like tabbed browsing.
Lots of us (including me) think IE is a load of crap and do not care if it can no longer load XML or render plain ol' HTML. It is a browser that has gone since the 90's without the need for any form of renovation
This is in fact no different than the way Pocket PC 2003 works. MS Windows CE is the underlying structure while Pocket PC is just an interface.