"Not to rain on your rose-colored parade, but I bet 180 of those 200 CDs go straight to the trash or sit on a shelf and never get looked at again. Of the remaining 20, maybe half of those result in any one of those apps being actually being installed and maybe half of that end up being used on a regular basis. Maybe one of them actually sends the kid some money, but I think I'm being a bit generous with my numbers here."
In other news, 87% of all statistics are made up.
Obviously people are starting to think seriously about OSS and firefox since their numbers ARE going up.
Just a comment on your sig.
What do we want? Justice!
When do we want it? Now!
What are our chanes? Negotiable! I think you mean Negligible.
Negligible:
That may be neglected, disregarded, or left out of
consideration; too small or unimportant to be worthy of
notice.
Maybe not...
I believe the point of the article is not to point out any performance deficiency in windows but rather how "fast on their feet" MS is when it comes to innovation in windows.
I'm not so sure this is correct. Google always seems to give me relevent links to what I am looking for. Very seldom do I get a page trying to sell me something. Do you use windows? Do you perhaps have a browser hijack installed? This will give you results like you said. Mostly ads.
"I don't get food stamps, a welfare check, my kids don't go to public schools (I don't have any), but I pay taxes that go into these programs."
While technically true, this is not remotely the same thing. Just imagine if you had to pay a tax to support the car dealership down the block from losing money.
Taxes should not go to private companies to put off them having to get their shit together and actually modify their obsolete business model.
I put these people lower than Microsoft in the "get rich without having to do anything" category.
It is a unit of distance, however, to be able to see something that far away, would require the light to make it here, which would take, Anyone? TIME!!! Even though this was observed a few days ago, it happened 440 million years ago, it just took the light this long to make it here.
"Besides, just because you like to go out and waste a few hundred bucks on a POS doesn't mean everyone else will. I myself would rather spend a few hundred more and get something that will do what I want without having to tweak the UI so much it looks like Windows 3.1."
I never said anyone LIKED to go out and spend a few hundred bucks on a POS. Some of us don't have a few hundred extra to spend on more. So we learn to get by with what we can afford.
By the way, I wasn't calling novices stupid. That is just how I interpreted your previous comment. I may have misread what you were trying to say.
All I'm saying is that for people like me who really don't have alot of money spend but still want a PC will take what they can get and learn to make it work as efficiently as possible.
"Run of the mill bargain basement shoppers aren't going to know how to turn off the UI enhancements, and therefore will be stuck with a computer that is too slow. They also won't know enough about the system in most cases to undertake a RAM upgrade either."
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. So you are assuming because someone cannot afford a top of the line PC that they are also stupid?
I have seen alot of computer illiterate people walk into a computer store and let the salesman sell them anything. Having more knowledge about PC's is what will allow you to buy a less powerful PC because you will know what you need for what you are going to do with it and also, you will not be 'conned' into the useless upgrades that the salesman might recommend.
"From what the RIAA is saying right now, it's like buying a printer. It doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with the printer. You still can't print out counterfeit currency."
Not necessarily true.
If I have a color laser printer and I decide to scan a $100 bill for personal use (for instance, to make wrapping paper or something), I have not broken the law. Ripping a CD copies the content to a smaller format. Copying a $100 bill to a "smaller format" say, half size, will not get me in trouble.
Now if I copies that bill and gave it to my friend to actually USE, that would be illegal.
Same with copying CD's. As long as I am still the only person USING it, I've done nothing wrong.
If the RIAA argues that point, they can kiss my ass.
How old are you? about 14? Girls not like you much? New years eve is for spending time with your friends and loved ones. Apparently you have none of those. So go ahead and work. I work hard for 5 or 6 days a week. I think I will celebrate with my friends on NYE.
"Should we spend the money and get it done? Yes. Is it wisely spent? No. There was a mandatory evacuation in most parts. Those people should not have been there. That's why so many are dying. Maybe next time they'll heed the warnings."
You must be the most ignorant fuck I've ever seen. Just because YOU have a means to get 400 miles away from your home (which would be the minimum safe distance to move from Katrina) doesn't mean everyone does. Are you saying that people with no cars should have walked? What about the elderly? Or people in the hospital? Don't say they should have jumped a bus because most buses and planes were either shut down or full. Not to mention that the only freeways out were completely gridlocked.
What the fuck are you talking about? Do you listen to yourself when you talk or do you just drift in and out?
Exactly what "bug" are you talking about. My LINUX box would like to know since it must be out of the loop because it's been running without reboot for over 4 months.
I've heard of this bug existing in WinNT but not in LINUX.
This is really stupid. So by this logic I am also violating a social contract when I decide to get up during a TV commercial and take a shit.
I have no obligation to look at advertizing. Anyone who things otherwise can kiss my ass.
Am I also violating a social contract if I decide to surf the web with links or some other text only web browser?
If you're running GNOME, a KDE app, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice, you've got at least four major libraries now sitting in your memory, all doing the same things but with different code, implementing their own GUI widgets.
And... If you are running Windows 2000, Office XP, Opera and Anything written with C# and.Net, you've got at least four major libraries now sitting in your memory, all doing the same things but with different code, implementing their own GUI widgets.
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"Not to rain on your rose-colored parade, but I bet 180 of those 200 CDs go straight to the trash or sit on a shelf and never get looked at again. Of the remaining 20, maybe half of those result in any one of those apps being actually being installed and maybe half of that end up being used on a regular basis. Maybe one of them actually sends the kid some money, but I think I'm being a bit generous with my numbers here."
In other news, 87% of all statistics are made up.
Obviously people are starting to think seriously about OSS and firefox since their numbers ARE going up.
Just a comment on your sig. What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! What are our chanes? Negotiable! I think you mean Negligible. Negligible: That may be neglected, disregarded, or left out of consideration; too small or unimportant to be worthy of notice. Maybe not...
Shouldn't it read "In Soviet Russia, Windows patches YOU!"
I believe the point of the article is not to point out any performance deficiency in windows but rather how "fast on their feet" MS is when it comes to innovation in windows.
I'm not so sure this is correct. Google always seems to give me relevent links to what I am looking for. Very seldom do I get a page trying to sell me something. Do you use windows? Do you perhaps have a browser hijack installed? This will give you results like you said. Mostly ads.
Exactly.... Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
"I don't get food stamps, a welfare check, my kids don't go to public schools (I don't have any), but I pay taxes that go into these programs."
While technically true, this is not remotely the same thing. Just imagine if you had to pay a tax to support the car dealership down the block from losing money.
Taxes should not go to private companies to put off them having to get their shit together and actually modify their obsolete business model.
I put these people lower than Microsoft in the "get rich without having to do anything" category.
It is a unit of distance, however, to be able to see something that far away, would require the light to make it here, which would take, Anyone? TIME!!! Even though this was observed a few days ago, it happened 440 million years ago, it just took the light this long to make it here.
"Besides, just because you like to go out and waste a few hundred bucks on a POS doesn't mean everyone else will. I myself would rather spend a few hundred more and get something that will do what I want without having to tweak the UI so much it looks like Windows 3.1." I never said anyone LIKED to go out and spend a few hundred bucks on a POS. Some of us don't have a few hundred extra to spend on more. So we learn to get by with what we can afford. By the way, I wasn't calling novices stupid. That is just how I interpreted your previous comment. I may have misread what you were trying to say. All I'm saying is that for people like me who really don't have alot of money spend but still want a PC will take what they can get and learn to make it work as efficiently as possible.
"Run of the mill bargain basement shoppers aren't going to know how to turn off the UI enhancements, and therefore will be stuck with a computer that is too slow. They also won't know enough about the system in most cases to undertake a RAM upgrade either." This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. So you are assuming because someone cannot afford a top of the line PC that they are also stupid? I have seen alot of computer illiterate people walk into a computer store and let the salesman sell them anything. Having more knowledge about PC's is what will allow you to buy a less powerful PC because you will know what you need for what you are going to do with it and also, you will not be 'conned' into the useless upgrades that the salesman might recommend.
"From what the RIAA is saying right now, it's like buying a printer. It doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with the printer. You still can't print out counterfeit currency." Not necessarily true. If I have a color laser printer and I decide to scan a $100 bill for personal use (for instance, to make wrapping paper or something), I have not broken the law. Ripping a CD copies the content to a smaller format. Copying a $100 bill to a "smaller format" say, half size, will not get me in trouble. Now if I copies that bill and gave it to my friend to actually USE, that would be illegal. Same with copying CD's. As long as I am still the only person USING it, I've done nothing wrong. If the RIAA argues that point, they can kiss my ass.
Limited functionality. Why do you think it "Just works"? Because you really can't do much beyond what Apple decided it wants to let you do.
I disagree. For it to be a service pack for XP means it would be free. There will be nothing free about Vista.
Just overclock the CPU to about 9ghz and might as well do the video card too....
How old are you? about 14? Girls not like you much? New years eve is for spending time with your friends and loved ones. Apparently you have none of those. So go ahead and work. I work hard for 5 or 6 days a week. I think I will celebrate with my friends on NYE.
There was a feature similar to that in Nautilus when it first came out. No one used it so it was taken out.
as Chris Rock would say...
"Should we spend the money and get it done? Yes. Is it wisely spent? No. There was a mandatory evacuation in most parts. Those people should not have been there. That's why so many are dying. Maybe next time they'll heed the warnings."
You must be the most ignorant fuck I've ever seen. Just because YOU have a means to get 400 miles away from your home (which would be the minimum safe distance to move from Katrina) doesn't mean everyone does. Are you saying that people with no cars should have walked? What about the elderly? Or people in the hospital? Don't say they should have jumped a bus because most buses and planes were either shut down or full. Not to mention that the only freeways out were completely gridlocked.
Stupid fuck
AAAAAAggghhh!!!!! Read the fucking article!!!!!
OMFG!!!! Doesn't ANYONE read the fucking article anymore????
SCORE!!!
What the fuck are you talking about? Do you listen to yourself when you talk or do you just drift in and out? Exactly what "bug" are you talking about. My LINUX box would like to know since it must be out of the loop because it's been running without reboot for over 4 months. I've heard of this bug existing in WinNT but not in LINUX.
First Post?
This is really stupid. So by this logic I am also violating a social contract when I decide to get up during a TV commercial and take a shit. I have no obligation to look at advertizing. Anyone who things otherwise can kiss my ass. Am I also violating a social contract if I decide to surf the web with links or some other text only web browser?
If you're running GNOME, a KDE app, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice, you've got at least four major libraries now sitting in your memory, all doing the same things but with different code, implementing their own GUI widgets. And... If you are running Windows 2000, Office XP, Opera and Anything written with C# and .Net, you've got at least four major libraries now sitting in your memory, all doing the same things but with different code, implementing their own GUI widgets.