So he'll take that PC home, fire it up, and be pretty much instantly pissed. Not only is it slow and sluggish as hell, but this time he has to contend with a lot of new features that he has no clue or experience about. Depending on his patience, he'll plug away for a day or a few, but eventually he'll call me, or someone like me.
This is an often repeated lie on slashdot. While certain FPS games may experienc lower framerates on Vista, almost all normal end user experiences are faster, in many case significantly faster. Every computer I've upgraded to Vista sees a significant performance boost, although every one of those computers has at least 1 gig of ram. No one will call you because Vista is a huge improvement for the average user. The average user LIKES Vista. And you, unfortunately, are just a loser.
Oh, and before I get modded into oblivion by the MS fanboys, look into your hearts. You know I'm right.
Umm, this is slashdot. There are no MS fanboys. MS doesn't inspire irrational enthusiasm. Vista may not be as revolutionary as MS would like people to believe, but it is a huge step in the right direction and will assuredly be with us for at least the next 5 years.
not least the many indignities they've inflicted upon their customers over the last several months.
It's funny, you always hear stories about the fans of the chariot racing teams forming gangs and battling in the streets after games back in Constantinople (that's Istanbul for you fanbois)... It's just so hard to believe.
At the root of it must be however an extreme desire to apply hyperbole to something that is at most trivial. If anything, you can see how this is a tool of social control. Our world is filled with countless REAL and SERIOUS indignities - but this poster is more concerned with Sony including an HDMI jack than say, the 10 million people dying in Darfur, or the oppressive lawlessness of Latin America and the millions of refugees fleeing into the United States.
The borders of the Byzantine Empire kept shrinking, but the mobs on the street lived and died for nothing but bread and games.
The only indignity here is the reality that fools like this, the so-called consumers, are allowed to even exist. You fanboi, are a tribute to everything that is wrong with the world.
So if you ask me, lets get the Feds out of the business of handouts to the states, and let each state pays it's own way.
You can't do that. This is actually a major reason for the political conflict of the US. The coastal cities have tens of millions of non-white people who survive on government assistance, while the interior of the country produces everything of value that people consume and that the nation trades for other goods.
If we were to implement your system, the entire poltical structure would collapse, and we would have outright revolution. Millions would starve.
I hate to tell you this, but Florida is in a way part of this as well. Florida has some agriculture, and is a major financial hub of Latin America, but otherwise - retirees and welfare provides much of spending income.
Your attitude was appropriate 100 years ago, before politicians learned they could both bribe voters and import them by the millions.
Now, it's too late.
Sorry. This is the way of things. The question now isn't "Can you take care of yourself?" but "can you fight to preserve what you have?".
Ditch the extreme individualism - Ayn Rand could never raise an army. Unfortunately, you will have to.
No, not really. There are many Hispanic neighborhoods that have similar income demographics but are generally safer.
The materialistic view of crime worked well in the 1960s when the US was 90% white and 5% black with everyone else mixed in.
Today, it's a different story. The story of the criminality of the American Negro is unique and irrespective of wealth. There are many hispanic neighborhoods which are significantly more safe, despite having similar income demographics. The same is true for many asian neighborhoods, whether they be orientals, south asians, or even slavs/turkic peoples.
What I'm saying is that you're clearly a suburban white boy who has been taught by teachers who grew up in the 1960s. You've never really spent time in a multiethnic city in the US and noticed how EVERYONE avoids black neighborhoods, except for black people themselves.
XP made big strides in making the interface less sucky.
I wish I gave a shit enough to bother digging up old slashdot posts.
When XP came out, there must have been 100 posts a day (slashdot was actually popular then) complaining about how stupid and childish the XP interface was. It was relentless. Unlike Vista, XP really DIDN'T offer anything Windows 2000 didn't already have, except for the improved interface and related APIs. Ok, it had system restore too - but that was pretty much it.
Personally, I think the Vista interface is far better than XP, which I hated.
Umm, no. Chicago has something called racial divide. It appears to suburban residents like the OP that Chicago is safe because they only stray into very small nearly exclusively white enclaves like Lincoln Park or the Gold Coast. They never go to the south side, which has 75 square miles of land entirely filled with Negroes. The reality, which is masked by the difficulty in finding race based crime stats, is that the vast majority of crimes in Chicago involve Negroes as both criminal and victim. It is mostly ghettoized.
Flash Hard Drives are designed to work within the warranty period. Like modern hard drives, there is a limited number of writes available, and the actual capacity of the drives is greater than the accessible capacity. Your 320 gig hard drive is really more like 400 gigs, and the 64 gig flash drive is more like 80 gigs. The drive intelligently spreads the writes around as there is no seek time, but reports the usable amount to you.
Plan on using the drive for 3 years and you'll be fine. If you want to use a drive longer, which in and of itself is probably not very wise, get another kind of drive.
I can't even begin to count how many worthless posts I've read like this on slashdot since I started reading this site in 2000. Mod this post down! The same can be said of every technological advancement since the wheel. Who gives a fuck what people think who don't see the need for a technological advancement? No one with a brain, that's for sure.
Flash drives are designed to operate with the same level of reliability as mechanical hard drives during the warranty period. After the maximum writes is reached, there will be irrevocable data loss - but that will occur after the warranty period, which is at least 3 years.
Only a fool runs anything of importance, without a backup, on a hard drive that is over 3 years old.
So the answer to your question is simple: Who cares? For the near future, flash drives are marketed towards people with money who want a lower power, fast hard drive. It is not marketed towards cheap geeks who want to keep their hard drive for a decade.
Probably adding fuel to the fire was the fact that the memory limitations held for so long. I've always been into graphics and animation and the early memory issues were a major hassle. Even today shortsightedness about memory has been a major hassle for Windows. Win 2000 had a 2 gig cap and XP had a 4 gig. With the average person being able to aford 4 gig of ram and graphics people needing all the ram they can get it's bizzare with cheap ram to have such limitations. Vista is an improvement but there is a major system ram charge to get it and there still a cap that will be soon reached. He may not say Win 2000 users will never need more than 2 gig of ram but it's the way the company approaches it. Back when Amiga was around it always ran circles around Windows machines for memory. I always loved the fact that a lot of components came with extra ram slots. The Amiga 3000 had a ram limit in range of modern machines and that was 17 years ago. He may not have declared 640k was enough but he's hardly a visionary where memory is concerned.
Is this a joke? Do you know that 32-bit processors have a maximum memory size of 4 gigs? When Windows XP came out, there were no consumer level x86 64-bit processors. Why would Microsoft have developed for a non-existent hardware architecture?
And what, pray tell, do you know of my musical training? Or my understanding of aesthetics? I happen to know several of the most prominent aesthetic philosophers alive today, and I assure you none of them listen to any crap identified as "rock" music.
I've seen that many PSP users in Montreal, and that was just during a week in January when I was there on business. I saw 2 people on the metro and 1 at the airport.
I mean, the point here is there is a certain kind of person - I've never met them - who get portable gaming systems, but drive to work, don't really travel, etc. I don't really know WHY anyone would do that, but that may be your social circle. I don't think that is widespread, at least amongst adults.
I've considered this - but I don't think there are many posters on slashdot from those cities. As most posters are American, I would expect that the city with the most public transportation options would have the highest per capita ownership of portable systems, at least amongst adults.
There also isn't anything else I can think of that it uniquely regional in New York City, besides perhaps the aforementioned extensive public transportation system. Why would a portable gaming system lend itself to such a regional difference?
I think your example would perhaps make sense if you could name a similar peculiar product that is unusually popular in your own locale.
You don't understand however that the music of these artists is not why people buy the music. Since the 1960's, music has been an accessory to a lifestyle. Despite what you may think, the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, etc will be forgotton in 50 years. Hell, most kids today easily would never recognize a single Fleetwood Mac or Beatles song... they'd recognize Beethoven's Fifth however.
We long ago lost an appreciation for true musicianship - what these scoundrals push upon the masses is degenerate filth that caters to the most base desires. It's no wonder these artists have to become addicted to vice - they know deep inside their lives are worthless and they have abused their Apollian gifts to corrupt the masses instead of improving them.
From the very beginning, institutionalized "popular" music has always been overt propaganda, pushed upon the people by a wealthy elite in control of the mass media infrastructure. They clammor endlessly on slashdot against Payola, but that is how the system has always worked. THe Beatles became famous because record company executives bribed radio stations around the world to play the crap constantly. The drug culture aspect was in addition to a panacia to the despair of these artists, an inducement to the nihilistic children of the post-war world. They two were filled with the despair of impotence, as they adopted without question the pacifistic, materialistic ethos of that new era.
In short - the artists can never be proteted. They are used like the animals they are, and always have been.
This is very true. Here in New York City, I see 10-20x as many adults playing PSP units on the subway every morning as compared to DSs. In fact, when I DO see a DS on the subway, it's usually a high school kid commuting (high schools are specialized in NYC - people commute to them from all over the city).
If it wasn't for slashdot, I'd honestly think the DS was as much of a failure as the Gamecube was. The games don't seem that good, the entire concept seems kinda ridiculous, and the graphics - you nailed it.
Somehow, I believe Nintendo is fudging the numbers or the entire online world is corrupt.
Never before have I noticed such an incredible disconnect between reality and the online world.
Windows is find for geeks who know it, but the average users is better off with something that works out of the box like MacOS or Ubuntu.
This has to be one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever read. Did you even read the article? Are you just a moron?
This is an article about UPGRADING to Windows Vista. Joe Sixpack is not going to find upgrading to Ubuntu easier than upgrading to Vista - maybe that's because Ubuntu isn't an upgrade, its a whole other frickin' OS?
And MacOS? Yeah, serve me up the link where I can get that upgrade edition to throw on my XP box.
MS has lost this round of the search match, they're not able to compete.
Umm, it's 2007 dude. I've been using google for almost a decade - and you know what? Compared to 1998 and 1999, google today sucks. It's almost worthless. I've tried using Microsoft's search engine, and it really doesn't seem any better or worse.
Spam has killed the internet, and google's search engine is simply based on a tired model. Microsoft and Google have both failed to adapt to a changing world.
But vista brings forth features that I've had in linux for years.
Ahh yes, you're just a linux troll - go have fun with open office.
I'm sorry that it was, apparently, too subtle for you to see it. The point is that our fiction is very, very rarely about anything but validating the same traditional moral power structures that privilege some and disadvantage others. Science fiction, in general, isn't about developing "the morality of the future", it's generally about promoting the morality of the past.
We aren't debating the quality of what has been written, we are debating the value of fiction in the exploration of ethical conundrums - particularly science fiction in regards to the ethical conundrums of new scientific discoveries.
It sounds to me like you've just started reading some post-structuralism drivel. If you haven't been happy with the quality of fiction writing that meets your particular political agenda (I loathe to call anything you've written here something as high and mighty as "moral"), sit your lazy ass down and get to writing something that portrays your grand vision of the future.
In the meantime, you're just another whining college student who is pissed the rest of the world refused to recognize your desire to penetrate other men's anuses as a legitimate social institution.
All morality is subjective - morality is what wins the hearts and minds of men and compels them to act in a way that lays a foundation for the future. You talk about wanting a morality for the future, but the truth of the matter is you will never get anyone to follow you and those who do certainly will not be very interested in passing on your views to their children.
Your on a fanatical fringe, whose vision for the future is repugnant to the vast majority of the world's people. Good luck with your writing pursuits.
Someone is obviously a very anger filled college student. Hell, you might even be a lesbian.
What does your rant have to do with the value of fiction?
And, by the way, there are several billion people on this earth who don't agree with you on a lot of this - what you consider 19th century is in fact very much 21st century. Good luck trying to convince them that egalitarianism is true and anal penetration is normal behavior.
Ok, I haven't checked in a couple of weeks - but this was newly added. Check out the support.microsoft.com forums yourself. There are many posts there. There are also all of the retail boxes out there which proudly proclaim support for Windows Vista, without regard to the version.
It's quite amusing when a person installs Vista 64-bit edition, and is prompted to install an antivirus product like OneCare. There is a link to the site right on startup where you can order. It actually lets you purchase it and everything, then you go to install it - and it tells you it's on an unsupported platform.
I don't know, I use the maps on local.live.com much more frequently than maps.google.com. They are also way better than google earth.
I like gmail, but it's bee 3 years since I started using it and its still "beta". I'm a bit concerned google isn't very committed to their products.
And let's face it - this isn't 1998. The google search model sucks these days, and only worked great for the first few years because no one was exploiting their pagerank methodology. I get the same crap on Microsoft's search engine I do on Google. It doesn't matter which one I use, and for the 90% of people who juse use IE's defaults, it doesn't matter to them either.
Google has been riding on their successes from nearly a decade ago. I think google is in a much more difficult place than you imagine. If anything, their hiring fanatacism is a desperate attempt to find a diamond in the pile of coal. They are hoping that of the hundreds of turkeys they hire, one will think of something big, and they will be saved.
I'd say if google doesn't come up with something real fast, like in the next 3-5 years - they will be finished.
Why don't you read my posts again. I could give a flaming fuck what you or anyone else thinks. You miserable wretches are sources of cheap entertainment.
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So he'll take that PC home, fire it up, and be pretty much instantly pissed. Not only is it slow and sluggish as hell, but this time he has to contend with a lot of new features that he has no clue or experience about. Depending on his patience, he'll plug away for a day or a few, but eventually he'll call me, or someone like me.
This is an often repeated lie on slashdot. While certain FPS games may experienc lower framerates on Vista, almost all normal end user experiences are faster, in many case significantly faster. Every computer I've upgraded to Vista sees a significant performance boost, although every one of those computers has at least 1 gig of ram. No one will call you because Vista is a huge improvement for the average user. The average user LIKES Vista. And you, unfortunately, are just a loser.
Oh, and before I get modded into oblivion by the MS fanboys, look into your hearts. You know I'm right.
Umm, this is slashdot. There are no MS fanboys. MS doesn't inspire irrational enthusiasm. Vista may not be as revolutionary as MS would like people to believe, but it is a huge step in the right direction and will assuredly be with us for at least the next 5 years.
not least the many indignities they've inflicted upon their customers over the last several months.
It's funny, you always hear stories about the fans of the chariot racing teams forming gangs and battling in the streets after games back in Constantinople (that's Istanbul for you fanbois)... It's just so hard to believe.
At the root of it must be however an extreme desire to apply hyperbole to something that is at most trivial. If anything, you can see how this is a tool of social control. Our world is filled with countless REAL and SERIOUS indignities - but this poster is more concerned with Sony including an HDMI jack than say, the 10 million people dying in Darfur, or the oppressive lawlessness of Latin America and the millions of refugees fleeing into the United States.
The borders of the Byzantine Empire kept shrinking, but the mobs on the street lived and died for nothing but bread and games.
The only indignity here is the reality that fools like this, the so-called consumers, are allowed to even exist. You fanboi, are a tribute to everything that is wrong with the world.
So if you ask me, lets get the Feds out of the business of handouts to the states, and let each state pays it's own way.
You can't do that. This is actually a major reason for the political conflict of the US. The coastal cities have tens of millions of non-white people who survive on government assistance, while the interior of the country produces everything of value that people consume and that the nation trades for other goods.
If we were to implement your system, the entire poltical structure would collapse, and we would have outright revolution. Millions would starve.
I hate to tell you this, but Florida is in a way part of this as well. Florida has some agriculture, and is a major financial hub of Latin America, but otherwise - retirees and welfare provides much of spending income.
Your attitude was appropriate 100 years ago, before politicians learned they could both bribe voters and import them by the millions.
Now, it's too late.
Sorry. This is the way of things. The question now isn't "Can you take care of yourself?" but "can you fight to preserve what you have?".
Ditch the extreme individualism - Ayn Rand could never raise an army. Unfortunately, you will have to.
No, not really. There are many Hispanic neighborhoods that have similar income demographics but are generally safer.
The materialistic view of crime worked well in the 1960s when the US was 90% white and 5% black with everyone else mixed in.
Today, it's a different story. The story of the criminality of the American Negro is unique and irrespective of wealth. There are many hispanic neighborhoods which are significantly more safe, despite having similar income demographics. The same is true for many asian neighborhoods, whether they be orientals, south asians, or even slavs/turkic peoples.
What I'm saying is that you're clearly a suburban white boy who has been taught by teachers who grew up in the 1960s. You've never really spent time in a multiethnic city in the US and noticed how EVERYONE avoids black neighborhoods, except for black people themselves.
XP made big strides in making the interface less sucky.
I wish I gave a shit enough to bother digging up old slashdot posts.
When XP came out, there must have been 100 posts a day (slashdot was actually popular then) complaining about how stupid and childish the XP interface was. It was relentless. Unlike Vista, XP really DIDN'T offer anything Windows 2000 didn't already have, except for the improved interface and related APIs. Ok, it had system restore too - but that was pretty much it.
Personally, I think the Vista interface is far better than XP, which I hated.
Umm, no. Chicago has something called racial divide. It appears to suburban residents like the OP that Chicago is safe because they only stray into very small nearly exclusively white enclaves like Lincoln Park or the Gold Coast. They never go to the south side, which has 75 square miles of land entirely filled with Negroes. The reality, which is masked by the difficulty in finding race based crime stats, is that the vast majority of crimes in Chicago involve Negroes as both criminal and victim. It is mostly ghettoized.
Are they not going to release a version for the PC at the same time? I thought console exclusivity was finished...
I keep wondering when Sony is going to let you take video from the PS/3 and put it on your PSP.
You can already do this.
Flash Hard Drives are designed to work within the warranty period. Like modern hard drives, there is a limited number of writes available, and the actual capacity of the drives is greater than the accessible capacity. Your 320 gig hard drive is really more like 400 gigs, and the 64 gig flash drive is more like 80 gigs. The drive intelligently spreads the writes around as there is no seek time, but reports the usable amount to you.
Plan on using the drive for 3 years and you'll be fine. If you want to use a drive longer, which in and of itself is probably not very wise, get another kind of drive.
I can't even begin to count how many worthless posts I've read like this on slashdot since I started reading this site in 2000. Mod this post down! The same can be said of every technological advancement since the wheel. Who gives a fuck what people think who don't see the need for a technological advancement? No one with a brain, that's for sure.
Flash drives are designed to operate with the same level of reliability as mechanical hard drives during the warranty period. After the maximum writes is reached, there will be irrevocable data loss - but that will occur after the warranty period, which is at least 3 years.
Only a fool runs anything of importance, without a backup, on a hard drive that is over 3 years old.
So the answer to your question is simple: Who cares? For the near future, flash drives are marketed towards people with money who want a lower power, fast hard drive. It is not marketed towards cheap geeks who want to keep their hard drive for a decade.
Probably adding fuel to the fire was the fact that the memory limitations held for so long. I've always been into graphics and animation and the early memory issues were a major hassle. Even today shortsightedness about memory has been a major hassle for Windows. Win 2000 had a 2 gig cap and XP had a 4 gig. With the average person being able to aford 4 gig of ram and graphics people needing all the ram they can get it's bizzare with cheap ram to have such limitations. Vista is an improvement but there is a major system ram charge to get it and there still a cap that will be soon reached. He may not say Win 2000 users will never need more than 2 gig of ram but it's the way the company approaches it. Back when Amiga was around it always ran circles around Windows machines for memory. I always loved the fact that a lot of components came with extra ram slots. The Amiga 3000 had a ram limit in range of modern machines and that was 17 years ago. He may not have declared 640k was enough but he's hardly a visionary where memory is concerned.
Is this a joke? Do you know that 32-bit processors have a maximum memory size of 4 gigs? When Windows XP came out, there were no consumer level x86 64-bit processors. Why would Microsoft have developed for a non-existent hardware architecture?
And what, pray tell, do you know of my musical training? Or my understanding of aesthetics? I happen to know several of the most prominent aesthetic philosophers alive today, and I assure you none of them listen to any crap identified as "rock" music.
Do you take public transportation?
I've seen that many PSP users in Montreal, and that was just during a week in January when I was there on business. I saw 2 people on the metro and 1 at the airport.
I mean, the point here is there is a certain kind of person - I've never met them - who get portable gaming systems, but drive to work, don't really travel, etc. I don't really know WHY anyone would do that, but that may be your social circle. I don't think that is widespread, at least amongst adults.
I've considered this - but I don't think there are many posters on slashdot from those cities. As most posters are American, I would expect that the city with the most public transportation options would have the highest per capita ownership of portable systems, at least amongst adults.
There also isn't anything else I can think of that it uniquely regional in New York City, besides perhaps the aforementioned extensive public transportation system. Why would a portable gaming system lend itself to such a regional difference?
I think your example would perhaps make sense if you could name a similar peculiar product that is unusually popular in your own locale.
You don't understand however that the music of these artists is not why people buy the music. Since the 1960's, music has been an accessory to a lifestyle. Despite what you may think, the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, etc will be forgotton in 50 years. Hell, most kids today easily would never recognize a single Fleetwood Mac or Beatles song... they'd recognize Beethoven's Fifth however.
We long ago lost an appreciation for true musicianship - what these scoundrals push upon the masses is degenerate filth that caters to the most base desires. It's no wonder these artists have to become addicted to vice - they know deep inside their lives are worthless and they have abused their Apollian gifts to corrupt the masses instead of improving them.
From the very beginning, institutionalized "popular" music has always been overt propaganda, pushed upon the people by a wealthy elite in control of the mass media infrastructure. They clammor endlessly on slashdot against Payola, but that is how the system has always worked. THe Beatles became famous because record company executives bribed radio stations around the world to play the crap constantly. The drug culture aspect was in addition to a panacia to the despair of these artists, an inducement to the nihilistic children of the post-war world. They two were filled with the despair of impotence, as they adopted without question the pacifistic, materialistic ethos of that new era.
In short - the artists can never be proteted. They are used like the animals they are, and always have been.
This is very true. Here in New York City, I see 10-20x as many adults playing PSP units on the subway every morning as compared to DSs. In fact, when I DO see a DS on the subway, it's usually a high school kid commuting (high schools are specialized in NYC - people commute to them from all over the city).
If it wasn't for slashdot, I'd honestly think the DS was as much of a failure as the Gamecube was. The games don't seem that good, the entire concept seems kinda ridiculous, and the graphics - you nailed it.
Somehow, I believe Nintendo is fudging the numbers or the entire online world is corrupt.
Never before have I noticed such an incredible disconnect between reality and the online world.
Windows is find for geeks who know it, but the average users is better off with something that works out of the box like MacOS or Ubuntu.
This has to be one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever read. Did you even read the article? Are you just a moron?
This is an article about UPGRADING to Windows Vista. Joe Sixpack is not going to find upgrading to Ubuntu easier than upgrading to Vista - maybe that's because Ubuntu isn't an upgrade, its a whole other frickin' OS?
And MacOS? Yeah, serve me up the link where I can get that upgrade edition to throw on my XP box.
MS has lost this round of the search match, they're not able to compete.
Umm, it's 2007 dude. I've been using google for almost a decade - and you know what? Compared to 1998 and 1999, google today sucks. It's almost worthless. I've tried using Microsoft's search engine, and it really doesn't seem any better or worse.
Spam has killed the internet, and google's search engine is simply based on a tired model. Microsoft and Google have both failed to adapt to a changing world.
But vista brings forth features that I've had in linux for years.
Ahh yes, you're just a linux troll - go have fun with open office.
I'm sorry that it was, apparently, too subtle for you to see it. The point is that our fiction is very, very rarely about anything but validating the same traditional moral power structures that privilege some and disadvantage others. Science fiction, in general, isn't about developing "the morality of the future", it's generally about promoting the morality of the past.
We aren't debating the quality of what has been written, we are debating the value of fiction in the exploration of ethical conundrums - particularly science fiction in regards to the ethical conundrums of new scientific discoveries.
It sounds to me like you've just started reading some post-structuralism drivel. If you haven't been happy with the quality of fiction writing that meets your particular political agenda (I loathe to call anything you've written here something as high and mighty as "moral"), sit your lazy ass down and get to writing something that portrays your grand vision of the future.
In the meantime, you're just another whining college student who is pissed the rest of the world refused to recognize your desire to penetrate other men's anuses as a legitimate social institution.
All morality is subjective - morality is what wins the hearts and minds of men and compels them to act in a way that lays a foundation for the future. You talk about wanting a morality for the future, but the truth of the matter is you will never get anyone to follow you and those who do certainly will not be very interested in passing on your views to their children.
Your on a fanatical fringe, whose vision for the future is repugnant to the vast majority of the world's people. Good luck with your writing pursuits.
Someone is obviously a very anger filled college student. Hell, you might even be a lesbian.
What does your rant have to do with the value of fiction?
And, by the way, there are several billion people on this earth who don't agree with you on a lot of this - what you consider 19th century is in fact very much 21st century. Good luck trying to convince them that egalitarianism is true and anal penetration is normal behavior.
Ok, I haven't checked in a couple of weeks - but this was newly added. Check out the support.microsoft.com forums yourself. There are many posts there. There are also all of the retail boxes out there which proudly proclaim support for Windows Vista, without regard to the version.
It's quite amusing when a person installs Vista 64-bit edition, and is prompted to install an antivirus product like OneCare. There is a link to the site right on startup where you can order. It actually lets you purchase it and everything, then you go to install it - and it tells you it's on an unsupported platform.
Whoever runs the OneCare group should be fired!
I don't know, I use the maps on local.live.com much more frequently than maps.google.com. They are also way better than google earth.
I like gmail, but it's bee 3 years since I started using it and its still "beta". I'm a bit concerned google isn't very committed to their products.
And let's face it - this isn't 1998. The google search model sucks these days, and only worked great for the first few years because no one was exploiting their pagerank methodology. I get the same crap on Microsoft's search engine I do on Google. It doesn't matter which one I use, and for the 90% of people who juse use IE's defaults, it doesn't matter to them either.
Google has been riding on their successes from nearly a decade ago. I think google is in a much more difficult place than you imagine. If anything, their hiring fanatacism is a desperate attempt to find a diamond in the pile of coal. They are hoping that of the hundreds of turkeys they hire, one will think of something big, and they will be saved.
I'd say if google doesn't come up with something real fast, like in the next 3-5 years - they will be finished.
Why don't you read my posts again. I could give a flaming fuck what you or anyone else thinks. You miserable wretches are sources of cheap entertainment.