Bah, that's all that needs to be said. It's easy to see why this is an AC poster.
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MS does indeed have a store. It's next to the MS Museum now. Software there is roughly 10% of retail cost. IE Windows XP Pro OEM is $35, as opposed to $400. They also carry XBox stuff and MS games. Lots of companies have company stores, MS, Nintendo, Sierra.
Norton Ghost does the job, and so does Nero Burning Rom. With that you can burn your HD to CDs/DVDs and they boot and rewrite the files. The backup program that I spoke of will backup *any* file on the HD, even ones in use. Of course if you take care of your machine, you shouldn't have to backup the OS, no matter what it is. Expose scares me... But I'd like to play around with it.
Trolling, I don't see that one.. And I'm not the one posting as AC. The guy said Finder was a nice aspect of it, and I asked what it is. It's an honest question.
Well maybe it was just the CPU then. My roommate had an old Mac that he got a new CPU for. Had to scour the internet finding a hacked BIOS to get it to boot up.
No, I mean updates. Like the first version of OSX not having DVD burning but it would "be released in the future", which of course means it's in the next $130 update. Again, it's kinda like apples to oranges, but the Apple stuff is still more of an update. If you want to be more specific, the OSX 10.2 & 10.3 are kinda like service packs.
Now for how I obtained Windows XP. I happen to know some people that work at MS, so I got XP Pro OEM for $35 from the company store. Had I of been like the average joe I would have opted for the $100 WinXP Home Upgrade, as money does not grow on trees. Note that I already had Windows 98, as most people already had OS9, and that I only paid for it once and not thrice. Windows XP still gets updated, and OSX 10.1 has been retired from what I read.
Many Macs didn't let you change the parts that are in them. You get the dead Mac symbol on boot. It was something in the bios, you had to download a hacked one and run on that. Newer Macs are sealed like they are going into space. I wouldn't be surprised if similar tactics are used.
I have an IBM XT from 1984 that still works. All my other computers I've had throughout my life still work... Perhaps if you treated the computers better they'd live longer. Kinda like plants, need to clean them and take care of them.
But we must consider, IE is technically always loaded;)
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It all started one day when young Joe Bloe Linux user signed onto the web and started reading Slashdot... There was a news story on Microsoft and he just couldn't resist.................
VB is a programming language and not a program itself... If you compiled the VB script into an application, it still works today as long as you have the appropriate DLL's.
HAHAHAHAHA, you're one to speak. Now on the issue of breaking compatibility, that would decrease the number of people using any system. One thing large companies want is to be able to use all their old software from the 80's so that they don't have to buy anything new or get used to something different.
This is somewhat incorrect... You see, the law says that you have to make the backup yourself. Very few people have that equipment. At least outside of China.
I'm sure there are some people who are happy about this project, but showing off screenshots of you 'illegally' playing a Nintendo title on an emulator probably isn't the right thing to do.
Apple decided that they didn't want to support WMA... So how is this MS's fault again? MS has dozens of competitors for the OS market with the millions of *nix distros and even Apple themself. How are they a monopoly again?
Maybe you were off on Mars when MP3 Pro and WMA9 were released, but there is a better compression scheme. The spectrum is divided into two parts, so that they can be compressed seperately and it requires *get this* roughly half the number of bits to store! So you'll see, WMA9 can compress better than standard MP3 (what all players support), but it compresses the same as MP3 Pro.
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Bah, that's all that needs to be said. It's easy to see why this is an AC poster.
MS does indeed have a store. It's next to the MS Museum now. Software there is roughly 10% of retail cost. IE Windows XP Pro OEM is $35, as opposed to $400. They also carry XBox stuff and MS games. Lots of companies have company stores, MS, Nintendo, Sierra.
Norton Ghost does the job, and so does Nero Burning Rom. With that you can burn your HD to CDs/DVDs and they boot and rewrite the files. The backup program that I spoke of will backup *any* file on the HD, even ones in use. Of course if you take care of your machine, you shouldn't have to backup the OS, no matter what it is. Expose scares me... But I'd like to play around with it.
Trolling, I don't see that one.. And I'm not the one posting as AC. The guy said Finder was a nice aspect of it, and I asked what it is. It's an honest question.
Well maybe it was just the CPU then. My roommate had an old Mac that he got a new CPU for. Had to scour the internet finding a hacked BIOS to get it to boot up.
No, I mean updates. Like the first version of OSX not having DVD burning but it would "be released in the future", which of course means it's in the next $130 update. Again, it's kinda like apples to oranges, but the Apple stuff is still more of an update. If you want to be more specific, the OSX 10.2 & 10.3 are kinda like service packs.
Now for how I obtained Windows XP. I happen to know some people that work at MS, so I got XP Pro OEM for $35 from the company store. Had I of been like the average joe I would have opted for the $100 WinXP Home Upgrade, as money does not grow on trees. Note that I already had Windows 98, as most people already had OS9, and that I only paid for it once and not thrice. Windows XP still gets updated, and OSX 10.1 has been retired from what I read.
I don't really understand Finder and how it works. What does it do exactly and how is it different from the Start menu?
Many Macs didn't let you change the parts that are in them. You get the dead Mac symbol on boot. It was something in the bios, you had to download a hacked one and run on that. Newer Macs are sealed like they are going into space. I wouldn't be surprised if similar tactics are used.
Windows: Product Activation
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The e-mail client for Windows is easily uninstallable. Just goto add/remove programs and look under the Windows components section.
Backup is simple, Windows even comes with a utility to help in doing so.
You definitely come off as a zealot, there seem to be a few things you are completely ignoring or never took the time to find.
I also have an XT that works. In roughly '86 we gave it a hard drive, which is also still in working order.
I have an IBM XT from 1984 that still works. All my other computers I've had throughout my life still work... Perhaps if you treated the computers better they'd live longer. Kinda like plants, need to clean them and take care of them.
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But we must consider, IE is technically always loaded
It all started one day when young Joe Bloe Linux user signed onto the web and started reading Slashdot... There was a news story on Microsoft and he just couldn't resist.................
I'd agree with you if 1) Firebird rendered faster, 2) it was able to view all pages IE could, 3) It wasn't slow to start up.
VB is a programming language and not a program itself... If you compiled the VB script into an application, it still works today as long as you have the appropriate DLL's.
I'm sure BSD's market is really big, too. ;)
My guess is on replacement. They'll replace just about anything else if you send it to them.
This is somewhat incorrect... You see, the law says that you have to make the backup yourself. Very few people have that equipment. At least outside of China.
I tried the NetBSD Live distribution... What a waste, it wouldn't detect my network and it had trouble with my video card.
The P4 2.6C verses a P4 3.0a is faster because of the 800mHz vs 533mHz FSB.
I'm sure there are some people who are happy about this project, but showing off screenshots of you 'illegally' playing a Nintendo title on an emulator probably isn't the right thing to do.
Apple decided that they didn't want to support WMA... So how is this MS's fault again? MS has dozens of competitors for the OS market with the millions of *nix distros and even Apple themself. How are they a monopoly again?
Maybe you were off on Mars when MP3 Pro and WMA9 were released, but there is a better compression scheme. The spectrum is divided into two parts, so that they can be compressed seperately and it requires *get this* roughly half the number of bits to store! So you'll see, WMA9 can compress better than standard MP3 (what all players support), but it compresses the same as MP3 Pro.