They are at war with us. They also know a lot more about our computer systems than they are letting on. "Trusted Computing" is a Chinese plot. They do so have they ability to hack our machines!
It may say it sees 4 GB, but it is only using 3. That is all 32 bit addressing can assign addresses to. It is so damn different that even the most technophile geek will have to go get a "Windows Vista For Dummies". It is so damn slow on most hardware that you will have to develop the patience of a saint. Kiss your legacy peripherals goodbye, and you can't do a single damn thing without 5 or 6 cancel or allow dialogs and warning. Vista is worse than ME.
Indeed. Our personal property right to resell tangible things we own has been trampled on by vapor makers for far too long. First sale and fair use are the only things keeping patent and copyright from becoming a complete perversion of their constitutional purpose, which is..."To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; "
Works is given away with new PCs all the time, and is worth the absolutely nothing people pay for it. If you want an economical alternative to Microsoft Office, just download Open Office. Works has no reason to exist.
Cover-up! Cover-up! You can be sure something is true if it has been officially denied. Calling this story an urban legend is the falsehood here. These Terminators are going to be the end of us all!
Glossy screens are among the worst things ever to happen to computing. I can't see what is on them, only reflections of every window, lamp and anything remotely shiny behind me. I have a Lenovo 3000 N100 laptop with one of those damn things, and wish I could find an anti-glare filter to put over it. There are not words strong enough to express how I hate glossy screens that would be acceptable in mixed company. Everything that springs to mind is obscene. Whoever came up with these things should be drawn and quartered.
The problem with the original name is that it reveals that the landing site is a lot closer to Phoenix than Mars. NASA has done this before. Read more!
Is it a good thing that they shut it down or not? While they may have saved Sarah Connor for now, trying to pull the plug on Skynet is what pissed it off in the first place.
If you misspell something or misuse the apostrophe while making a serious comment, many readers will not take your comment seriously because it looks like an illiterate yahoo made it. In this case, you have failed to communicate your idea. Your opinion on whether Dell rules or sucks is rendered irrelevant.
It wasn't the stonemasons. It was IBM. Carly was a mole, and her job was to bring HP down. Since they survived her, she must not have made he bosses at IBM very Happy.
The general public have no idea how the Internet works, and the mistaken notion that they are anonymous on it. A warning letter from their ISP would scare the hell out of most people, and make them stop using the computer all together at least for a while for fear that they are being watched.
If we want robots to follow any rules like that, they can never be sentient because that would give them the free will to decide that they don't like the rules any more...just like Skynet.
What makes you think that? If they wanted to stick with DOS a while longer, an update to 98 was all they needed to do. Also, almost all Windows 98 Software can run on Windows 2000 even though it is NT, not DOS. Instead of ME, they should have done Windows 2000 Home Edition. Like XP, it would have only a few subtle difference from Professional such as inability to join a domain, or run on multiple CPUs. ME was a money grab that offered users nothing but a computer that didn't work. It was a disaster!
If Vista is an attempt to move everyone to 64 bit computing, something the desktop does not need, why isn't it exclusively 64 bit? A 32 bit OS can only address 3GB of ram, so you are wasting 1 if you install 4. Vista, at least in the 32 bit versions, is a thing that should not be. There is no way to give it enough to make it run fast. It, like ME, never should have seen the light of day.
Blaming Vista on Amazon or any single executive lower on the totem poll than Steve Ballmer is baloney. Vista was never going to be ready. It is a mistake that should have just been scrapped. The reason it was not was that they had spent years and billions of dollars developing it, so they were damn well pushing it out the door even though no one wanted or needed it, just like Windows ME. If Microsoft had any decency, they would just stop making Vista, and offer a trade-in to XP to anyone who wanted it, not just people who spent out the wazoo for Vista Business or Vista Ultimate. People with Home Basic or Home Premium still are being offered nothing, and they still plan to stop selling XP in June. There are even PCs that can't be "downgraded" because of bios. Microsoft owes the poor suckers who were snookered into buying one of those. They owe a version on XP that will work.
Vista is a dog that needs to be put to sleep. If Microsoft had any decency, and didn't view customers as suckers to rip off, that is what they would do.
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78s were not made of vinyl. The substance was much closer to wax, FYI.
Viking found a lot more than microbes. It found the Zhti Ti Kofft! Read all about it. http://www.uncoveror.com/nomars.htm http://www.uncoveror.com/zhtitikofft.htm
They are at war with us. They also know a lot more about our computer systems than they are letting on. "Trusted Computing" is a Chinese plot. They do so have they ability to hack our machines!
It may say it sees 4 GB, but it is only using 3. That is all 32 bit addressing can assign addresses to. It is so damn different that even the most technophile geek will have to go get a "Windows Vista For Dummies". It is so damn slow on most hardware that you will have to develop the patience of a saint. Kiss your legacy peripherals goodbye, and you can't do a single damn thing without 5 or 6 cancel or allow dialogs and warning. Vista is worse than ME.
Indeed. Our personal property right to resell tangible things we own has been trampled on by vapor makers for far too long. First sale and fair use are the only things keeping patent and copyright from becoming a complete perversion of their constitutional purpose, which is ..."To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; "
Not only that, but the topic is silly! If Japan is running out of engineers, they should just have robots drive their trains.
Works is given away with new PCs all the time, and is worth the absolutely nothing people pay for it. If you want an economical alternative to Microsoft Office, just download Open Office. Works has no reason to exist.
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Cover-up! Cover-up! You can be sure something is true if it has been officially denied. Calling this story an urban legend is the falsehood here. These Terminators are going to be the end of us all!
Glossy screens are among the worst things ever to happen to computing. I can't see what is on them, only reflections of every window, lamp and anything remotely shiny behind me. I have a Lenovo 3000 N100 laptop with one of those damn things, and wish I could find an anti-glare filter to put over it. There are not words strong enough to express how I hate glossy screens that would be acceptable in mixed company. Everything that springs to mind is obscene. Whoever came up with these things should be drawn and quartered.
The problem with the original name is that it reveals that the landing site is a lot closer to Phoenix than Mars. NASA has done this before. Read more!
Is it a good thing that they shut it down or not? While they may have saved Sarah Connor for now, trying to pull the plug on Skynet is what pissed it off in the first place.
Most of the other 60% are naive children.
If you misspell something or misuse the apostrophe while making a serious comment, many readers will not take your comment seriously because it looks like an illiterate yahoo made it. In this case, you have failed to communicate your idea. Your opinion on whether Dell rules or sucks is rendered irrelevant.
It wasn't the stonemasons. It was IBM. Carly was a mole, and her job was to bring HP down. Since they survived her, she must not have made he bosses at IBM very Happy.
T-Mobile is owned by Deutsche Telekom. How do you say "April Fools" auf Deutsch?
China is doing a lot more to wage war on us than just hacking. All the tainted products are a part of it, too. Read more!
The general public have no idea how the Internet works, and the mistaken notion that they are anonymous on it. A warning letter from their ISP would scare the hell out of most people, and make them stop using the computer all together at least for a while for fear that they are being watched.
That dinosaur won't run Vista worth a damn!
If we want robots to follow any rules like that, they can never be sentient because that would give them the free will to decide that they don't like the rules any more...just like Skynet.
If you want to understand anything, just follow the money. Bribery and graft are how the world works.
It can be a real pain to even try on and Acer laptop. Here are some links to copy and paste:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080219125919AA0x92v http://boardreader.com/t/Windows_XP_General_439584/Why_I_cant_run_XP_on_my_new_PC_2738193.html
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-UPGRADE-from-Vista-to-Windows-XP-on-an-Acer/
What makes you think that? If they wanted to stick with DOS a while longer, an update to 98 was all they needed to do. Also, almost all Windows 98 Software can run on Windows 2000 even though it is NT, not DOS. Instead of ME, they should have done Windows 2000 Home Edition. Like XP, it would have only a few subtle difference from Professional such as inability to join a domain, or run on multiple CPUs. ME was a money grab that offered users nothing but a computer that didn't work. It was a disaster! If Vista is an attempt to move everyone to 64 bit computing, something the desktop does not need, why isn't it exclusively 64 bit? A 32 bit OS can only address 3GB of ram, so you are wasting 1 if you install 4. Vista, at least in the 32 bit versions, is a thing that should not be. There is no way to give it enough to make it run fast. It, like ME, never should have seen the light of day.
Blaming Vista on Amazon or any single executive lower on the totem poll than Steve Ballmer is baloney. Vista was never going to be ready. It is a mistake that should have just been scrapped. The reason it was not was that they had spent years and billions of dollars developing it, so they were damn well pushing it out the door even though no one wanted or needed it, just like Windows ME. If Microsoft had any decency, they would just stop making Vista, and offer a trade-in to XP to anyone who wanted it, not just people who spent out the wazoo for Vista Business or Vista Ultimate. People with Home Basic or Home Premium still are being offered nothing, and they still plan to stop selling XP in June. There are even PCs that can't be "downgraded" because of bios. Microsoft owes the poor suckers who were snookered into buying one of those. They owe a version on XP that will work.
Vista is a dog that needs to be put to sleep. If Microsoft had any decency, and didn't view customers as suckers to rip off, that is what they would do.
We're not really mad at them. It is about keeping cigar prices high. That isn't even the real Castro. He died in 1981. Read more!