Unless the RC's show me something the betas don't, I'll just stick with
XP. Vista has NOT impressed me one bit. I installed beta 2, and was not
impressed. Hardware requirements aside, it was slow, and this wasn't on a
slow computer. Tried it on my home computer, P4 2.8HT, gig ram, Nvidia 6600GT
sata drives, also a new E1505 dual core laptop with gig ram, X1400 video card.
Heck, just about ANY flavor of Linux runs faster...unfortunately, I live and work in a world dominated by windows, but I'll just run XP....at least until vista
SP1, or whatever comes after vista.
I had a spare SATA drive and tossed it in my new Dell 1505, gig of ram X1400
video card. I installed 5308 of Vista, and didn't have any of the problems
he had. After install, I just popped in the drivers that vista didn't pick up
on and had it up and running with no yellow bangs(!). Other than the fact it
probably would have run better with 2 gig of ram, it ran ok right out of the
gate. Hopefully, beta2 will be a little tighter, and RC0,1, and or 2 will be
coded a little tighter for better optimization.
Unless they really screw something up between now and the RTM version, I don't
know what all the fury is all about.
If they price it right, I'll buy it, but if the prices I saw last week are even
close, I'll wait until the OEM version is offered.
Is not MS a business somewhat like any other company?
Not everyone who works at MS is a coder afterall....
I wouldn't want just anyone to have admin rights........
I didn't know webpages had ads? Really??
Every once in while one will slip through, but a nice
right click, block and bye bye ads!
I'm sure this will be the next "battleground" the ad providers
vs the ad blockers....
Then when the new fangled fancy computer controlled version breaks/locks up,
then you litterally crash. The word is r-e-d-u-n-d-a-n-c-y
Unlike a car when it breaks, you just can't pull an aircraft over to the side
of the road when something stops working...
As someone who's in his late 40's, I grew up with the space program. Sadly, I cannot say that I am a fan of NASA....as with ANY government agency, it is bloated, without foresight, overstaffed with "upper management" who has NO idea
what is going on. The old "can't see the forest because of the trees" comes to
mind. When there is a safety issue that comes up, NASA has "go fever" and launches anyway. When safety bumps into political correctness (think foam on the ET) PC wins out.
I think the future of space flight is going to be with PRIVATE industry. Government only knows how to spend money...and not very well at that!
Ok, here's how I look at it.
The RIAA/MPAA (personally,they are both the same bunch of idiots)
calculate that if they released X number of movies/CD's in a year
and sold every one of them, they should have made X number of dollars.
Now at the end of the year, they only sold Y amount, therefore, they
"lost" 6.1 billion. Of course, they don't take in consideration that
NO ONE IS BUYING THEIR CRAP because for the last few years, they haven't
produced/released anything anyone wants to buy!
MPAA can't figure out why people aren't going to movies......high prices
and ORIGINALITY have to figure in to it.
All they do anymore is eiher remake a tv show, old movie (upcoming Posidon movie
comes to mind), or part 2, part 3 etc.......movies these days are CRAP!
Oh yeah, like the New York Times, CNN,ABC,CBS,NBC are more reliable sources of
news.....LOL....They are just as "far left" as the others are "far right". It depends on your point of view.
You're quoting Newsmax as an authoritative source?!? Why not the National Enquirer or the Weekly World News, they're just about as authoritative. Are you aware that Newsmax, along with WorldNetDaily, CyberCast News Service (formerly Conservative News Service), and freerepublic.com are playgrounds where far-right conspiracy whackos trade theories?
It took them this long to figure this out?
Heck, even as kids, we knew this to be true.
Remember how hard it was after you picked your
nose to flick the glob of goop off your fingers???
hahahahahahahaha........
Sorry for grossing out those who were eating while
reading this.
Heck, I'm not a computer programmer, intellect etc....just your basic computer junkie
who's tinkered with computers for over 16 years.
I've been saying this since windows 98SE came out that the reason it is slow, is
because it still supports win3.1 apps. Same thing can be said for windows XP.
It still supports windows 98 apps.
That is one of the reasons apple OS X runs so much faster.
It ought to be that if you want to take advantage of a faster OS, then get off the
pot and run hardware/software that takes advantage of the newer technology.
Yes, it's expensive, but if you want all the whizz bang features, dump the old
stuff.
Wouldn't it be interesting to build a new windows OS, take all the legacy support
out, and see how it would run? Heck, I bet that it would sort of run like
linux....from a CPU requirement. You wouldn't need a dual core 2Ghz CPU and 2gig
of ram....it would probably run on a P3 quite well!
Once again, NASA screwed up putting all of its eggs in one basket.
The shuttle should be scrapped, dig a big hole, buried and forgotten.
The return to expendable launch vehicles will hopefully put NASA back
on some sort of track. The 15,000 foot runway is just another example
of NASA/government spending out of control.
I usually wait until the movie goes to the budget theatre....I'm not going to pay
8 bucks for a movie, + 5 bucks for drinks, + 5-6 bucks for popcorn just to see a
remake of a stupid tv show or "part 2,3,4" of some other lame movie. HollyWIERD/MPAA/RIAA wants to know why people aren't buying ticktet or CD's...It's REAL simple. People want to be E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-E-D! And the crap that is out there isn't
entertaining. You want entertainment, you have to watch TVland reruns of shows that were FUNNY without leud sex/humor and listen to the oldies channel on the radio.
I quit using symantec products back in the win98 days. I kind of feel sorry for Peter Norton for still having his name attached to a POS program like their suite.
I tried to remove NAV from a computer for a friend of mine do to problems it created.
I like to never got it removed.
People keep forgetting that the geographical area of the USA is a lot larger than
Japan, S. Korea, etc.... Try wiring all of Texas for broadband? Heck, it's larger
than Japan & S. Korea combined! Yes, I'll give you that a lot of those countries
are ahead in penetration of technology, but here, we have a lot larger area to wire
for broadband, and we are spread out over a larger area.
Not to mention that all (USA) handheld phones at MOST output 6/10 (.6) watts of
power. Now, if you were to use one of the "original" handheld phones, the motorola
brick, its output was 3 watts, but, as with the above post, the phones are not
talking "to" each other but to the cell tower.
Regarless of your political leanings, if you "give up" on these terrorist,
and let them have their way, you can kiss your butt goodbye, UNLESS, you CONVERT,
and do EXACTLY as they say. If you go back in history and read, just for example, some of the political discussion of the period, you will find an almost
EXACT mirror image of what is going on today. Talk to them, have a dialog with them, make a "peace treaty" with them. See where that got the world? 6 years of war, untold numbers of death & destruction, and the cold war for over 50 years.
Kill them now, kill them over there, and you will prevent a more violent end to
rid the world of these terrorist. When (not if, because of the useless UN) Iran
gets its hands on a nuke, watch how much the world will bend over and kiss its butt to keep them from using it. And, end the end they will use it anyway.
Just like hitler said he wouldn't invade his neighbors after Nevil Chamberlin
signed an agreement which he said "peace in our time". You cannot negociate
with these idiots, so kill them now, or suffer the death and destruction later.
I think that the only people who give a rats rear about the "celeb" lifestyles are
those that don't have a life in the first place. Look at all the idiotic cable tv shows, magazines etc... There must be a market for that crap, or they wouldn't be out there, but it is sad that people care more about the celebs than what is going on in REAL life.
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Unless the RC's show me something the betas don't, I'll just stick with XP. Vista has NOT impressed me one bit. I installed beta 2, and was not impressed. Hardware requirements aside, it was slow, and this wasn't on a slow computer. Tried it on my home computer, P4 2.8HT, gig ram, Nvidia 6600GT sata drives, also a new E1505 dual core laptop with gig ram, X1400 video card. Heck, just about ANY flavor of Linux runs faster...unfortunately, I live and work in a world dominated by windows, but I'll just run XP....at least until vista SP1, or whatever comes after vista.
I had a spare SATA drive and tossed it in my new Dell 1505, gig of ram X1400 video card. I installed 5308 of Vista, and didn't have any of the problems he had. After install, I just popped in the drivers that vista didn't pick up on and had it up and running with no yellow bangs(!). Other than the fact it probably would have run better with 2 gig of ram, it ran ok right out of the gate. Hopefully, beta2 will be a little tighter, and RC0,1, and or 2 will be coded a little tighter for better optimization. Unless they really screw something up between now and the RTM version, I don't know what all the fury is all about. If they price it right, I'll buy it, but if the prices I saw last week are even close, I'll wait until the OEM version is offered.
Is not MS a business somewhat like any other company? Not everyone who works at MS is a coder afterall.... I wouldn't want just anyone to have admin rights........
I didn't know webpages had ads? Really?? Every once in while one will slip through, but a nice right click, block and bye bye ads! I'm sure this will be the next "battleground" the ad providers vs the ad blockers....
Well, at least it's got some people THINKING about alternatives. Now, if anything pans out, that is another thing...
Then when the new fangled fancy computer controlled version breaks/locks up, then you litterally crash. The word is r-e-d-u-n-d-a-n-c-y Unlike a car when it breaks, you just can't pull an aircraft over to the side of the road when something stops working...
As someone who's in his late 40's, I grew up with the space program. Sadly, I cannot say that I am a fan of NASA....as with ANY government agency, it is bloated, without foresight, overstaffed with "upper management" who has NO idea what is going on. The old "can't see the forest because of the trees" comes to mind. When there is a safety issue that comes up, NASA has "go fever" and launches anyway. When safety bumps into political correctness (think foam on the ET) PC wins out. I think the future of space flight is going to be with PRIVATE industry. Government only knows how to spend money...and not very well at that!
then it should be a good one. I've had the 200EX running 24/7 since july 2004 No leaks, runs like a champ on a HT 2.8 ghz.
Ok, here's how I look at it. The RIAA/MPAA (personally,they are both the same bunch of idiots) calculate that if they released X number of movies/CD's in a year and sold every one of them, they should have made X number of dollars. Now at the end of the year, they only sold Y amount, therefore, they "lost" 6.1 billion. Of course, they don't take in consideration that NO ONE IS BUYING THEIR CRAP because for the last few years, they haven't produced/released anything anyone wants to buy!
MPAA can't figure out why people aren't going to movies......high prices and ORIGINALITY have to figure in to it. All they do anymore is eiher remake a tv show, old movie (upcoming Posidon movie comes to mind), or part 2, part 3 etc.......movies these days are CRAP!
Oh yeah, like the New York Times, CNN,ABC,CBS,NBC are more reliable sources of news.....LOL....They are just as "far left" as the others are "far right". It depends on your point of view. You're quoting Newsmax as an authoritative source?!? Why not the National Enquirer or the Weekly World News, they're just about as authoritative. Are you aware that Newsmax, along with WorldNetDaily, CyberCast News Service (formerly Conservative News Service), and freerepublic.com are playgrounds where far-right conspiracy whackos trade theories?
It took them this long to figure this out? Heck, even as kids, we knew this to be true. Remember how hard it was after you picked your nose to flick the glob of goop off your fingers??? hahahahahahahaha........ Sorry for grossing out those who were eating while reading this.
if ALL of NASA worked as well as the Mars rovers?
Heck, I'm not a computer programmer, intellect etc....just your basic computer junkie who's tinkered with computers for over 16 years. I've been saying this since windows 98SE came out that the reason it is slow, is because it still supports win3.1 apps. Same thing can be said for windows XP. It still supports windows 98 apps. That is one of the reasons apple OS X runs so much faster. It ought to be that if you want to take advantage of a faster OS, then get off the pot and run hardware/software that takes advantage of the newer technology. Yes, it's expensive, but if you want all the whizz bang features, dump the old stuff. Wouldn't it be interesting to build a new windows OS, take all the legacy support out, and see how it would run? Heck, I bet that it would sort of run like linux....from a CPU requirement. You wouldn't need a dual core 2Ghz CPU and 2gig of ram....it would probably run on a P3 quite well!
Standard & Poors = S&P
Simple....people are attracted to bright shiny objects...kind of like crows that collect tin foil, and bits of glass. We are easily amused
Once again, NASA screwed up putting all of its eggs in one basket. The shuttle should be scrapped, dig a big hole, buried and forgotten. The return to expendable launch vehicles will hopefully put NASA back on some sort of track. The 15,000 foot runway is just another example of NASA/government spending out of control.
I usually wait until the movie goes to the budget theatre....I'm not going to pay 8 bucks for a movie, + 5 bucks for drinks, + 5-6 bucks for popcorn just to see a remake of a stupid tv show or "part 2,3,4" of some other lame movie. HollyWIERD/MPAA/RIAA wants to know why people aren't buying ticktet or CD's...It's REAL simple. People want to be E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-E-D! And the crap that is out there isn't entertaining. You want entertainment, you have to watch TVland reruns of shows that were FUNNY without leud sex/humor and listen to the oldies channel on the radio.
I quit using symantec products back in the win98 days. I kind of feel sorry for Peter Norton for still having his name attached to a POS program like their suite. I tried to remove NAV from a computer for a friend of mine do to problems it created. I like to never got it removed.
LOL...beat me to it! I was thinking the same thing. You must be as old as I am to remember that one ;)
People keep forgetting that the geographical area of the USA is a lot larger than Japan, S. Korea, etc.... Try wiring all of Texas for broadband? Heck, it's larger than Japan & S. Korea combined! Yes, I'll give you that a lot of those countries are ahead in penetration of technology, but here, we have a lot larger area to wire for broadband, and we are spread out over a larger area.
Is that what causes some people to have a few dozen cats in their homes? Meooooooooowwwwwwwwww
Not to mention that all (USA) handheld phones at MOST output 6/10 (.6) watts of power. Now, if you were to use one of the "original" handheld phones, the motorola brick, its output was 3 watts, but, as with the above post, the phones are not talking "to" each other but to the cell tower.
Regarless of your political leanings, if you "give up" on these terrorist, and let them have their way, you can kiss your butt goodbye, UNLESS, you CONVERT, and do EXACTLY as they say. If you go back in history and read, just for example, some of the political discussion of the period, you will find an almost EXACT mirror image of what is going on today. Talk to them, have a dialog with them, make a "peace treaty" with them. See where that got the world? 6 years of war, untold numbers of death & destruction, and the cold war for over 50 years. Kill them now, kill them over there, and you will prevent a more violent end to rid the world of these terrorist. When (not if, because of the useless UN) Iran gets its hands on a nuke, watch how much the world will bend over and kiss its butt to keep them from using it. And, end the end they will use it anyway. Just like hitler said he wouldn't invade his neighbors after Nevil Chamberlin signed an agreement which he said "peace in our time". You cannot negociate with these idiots, so kill them now, or suffer the death and destruction later.
I think that the only people who give a rats rear about the "celeb" lifestyles are those that don't have a life in the first place. Look at all the idiotic cable tv shows, magazines etc... There must be a market for that crap, or they wouldn't be out there, but it is sad that people care more about the celebs than what is going on in REAL life.