I find it difficult to believ that broadcasters aren't already required to keep records permenently for historical purposes
Just think of the millions of hours of TV that no one will be able to research. Admittedly most of it isn't of the highest quality, but still, some historian might well be interested in the future.
The cost is nowadays minimal anyway. DivX, 400GB HDDs and backup tapes have made it simple to record everything that gets broadcast. Perhaps an archive of broadcasts should be recorded from all stations. I hardly think this affects anyones rights as we could all view it anyway.
This was a problem with the BBC, due to the cost of tapes and storage space they re used it and lost alot of classic shows. These days they keep everything it also meens something that could be a future classic won't be lost and instead can be released on video raising more money from the show.
When did i say did see the boob? it was the lowlight and most known part of the show hence the reference
Wow, your parents had way more time to devote to screening your TV watching than I. Besides a major sporting event should not include such debasing content. You really don't half or whole hour in the evening? but i should have mentioned that they screened none childrens programes and yes sports would have been one of them because it's not childrens viewing, have you ever seen cheerleaders or race queens? there the ones at every football or motorsport event in the ultra short skirt's very tight tops and shorts so tight that the camel toe is there for all to see. It's not just Superbowl that has half time shows most sport event has something similer.
If you want to see naughty crap on TV get cable or sattelite or go rent porn.
Well i certainley wouldn't watch superbowl for "naughty" crap but i wouldn't presume it to be family viewing and let a child watch it unscreened either.
If you want to know what you children will see on TV watch it first, don't expect others to do it for you.
If i had seen the show and my parents didn't like it it would have been my parents fault not the TV compaines.
Uh huh. Thats why we've got a welfare system, thats why we've got drug control programs, thats why we've got social strife out of control... because 'people should be allowed to do what they want'. Hey, you wanna turn that once-fine establishment into a crack house go right ahead. Its got 'nothing to do with society', who should 'just mind its own business' after all.
so all the worlds problems are to do with people being allowed to watch as much TV as they like, so what about all the drugs and crime in places like sierra Leon or Sudan or Afghanistan places where it's hard to get TV set let alone the electricity to run it. And what fine establishment are you referring to?
You are being spoon-fed an opinion, being given a life full of fallacies, one that you aren't actually formulating yourself. Spend 16 hours in front of a Television, if you want to... but don't ever rise above it, slave, and see it for what it truly is.
The irony you say this as you spout of rubbish spoon fed to you by the bush admistration and other puritan organisations.
I mean, sure. Go ahead and shoot up... I'm only a guy trying to tell you how much time you're wasting. I don't think I have to be more than that, to do just that. I'm not trying to be your messiah, if thats what you mean by "who are you to tell me?"... just a passing member of the social order of humans in the world, who care enough about things to want to talk about them, rather than just 'watch all about it on TV'.
and finally you invalidate everything you said with a stupid and ignorant generality of go ahead and shoot up you are ignorant intolerant un-social elitist bigot with a limited understanding and experience of the world at large, there are not drug takers on every corner Shooting up (presumably whilst watching TV).
you do realize the irony, right? You'd rather have a Television, an inanimate object, determine for you what it is you'll be watching and perceiving for hours a day, than have a living human being, with whom you can discuss the issue, suggest that you do something better with your time?
or perhaps I have enough brain power to make my own decision about what I do and when rather than be influenced by others. No that would be too sensible and normal this is/. After all. Why do you feel the need to evangelise about how you live you life. Were all different individuals were not clones of you and have different ideas from you different values from you and enjoy spending our time differently. Oh and before you spout of on one I do spend time with others, I do watch TV, I also read books, play guitar, various sports, clay pigeon shooting but never once have I felt the need to tell someone they should be doing the same things as me or different from what they are doing (providing there not hurting someone else of course) but maybe were diffrent.
They should be doing something more productive such as: reading educational books, socializing with other people, picking up a hobby such as wood carving, going out for hikes, bicycling, going out to vote, home improvement, researching investment opportunities, volunteer work in the community, etc.
You could have suggested interesting alternatives that won't cause my brain to kill itself with boredom (except the book but even reading all day is boring)or perhaps you could realise that different people like different things and consider different things productive. I consider watching a TV programme about music to be very productive and helps improve my creativity in playing or what about a fitness programme that encourages an unfit person to do a little bit of exercise a day rather than none. whereas wood carving is a waste of time and makes a mess, my opinion of course but that's the point everybody is productive and creative in there own way.
I'm not suggesting that people give up television completely, but just don't watch it for more than two hours a day at max.
It seems to me that in exchange for the privilege of exclusive use of part of the airwaves the programming must be acceptable to the vast majority of people
But what is acceptable to the majority? Despite the loud fuss made about the Jackson nipple by some, it does seem to be a minority who where offended. Most people seem to think of it as a cheap and tacky stunt by a failing "artist" and I don't think there are many who would go out of there way to find pictures of her nipple.
When you say as a parent I have to monitor my children's viewing, fine, I already do but when supposedly mainstream programming shows crap like the half time show then I can't rely on any rating scheme. Just cut my efforts off at the knees
you could record and watch programmes before hand to check there suitable this is something allot of parents do here in the UK I even remember my parents doing it, why? Because different people have different opinions on what there children should see so they take and accept that responsibility themselves and don't devolve it to others like the TV stations and expect them to think the same as them. To quote South Park Horrific deplorable violence is OK so long as you don't say any naughty words. (or show "gasp" a nipple)i saw some whe i was 1 hour old because i was breast feed.
Most people would say 'both' and most people on here would say they shouldnt be able to do it at all, which brings us to the question: just how much is software worth? You cant do it on the standard basis of how much it costs to manufacture the item you purchase as once you have one its easy to make a million more.
how about the price they normally charge, do you think that might be a sensible basis?
I'm just pissed off with the long standing rhetoric on this site that its OK to punish MS to the ends of the earth
seriously When has Ms received more than a slap on the wrists?
overlooking the fact that most of that view comes from jealousy, and most of the recent lawsuits against MS seem to be cash grabs and little else.
What pisses me of is stupid generalisation, dismissing real concerns as jealousy or cash grabs and worst of all ranting at those who complain about a company breaking the law. I suppose according to you it would be wrong to complain if all life in the sea where exterminated and any attempt to bring the person or company to justice is just jealousy that we didn't kill it first. If I see a bank being robbed I will remember that I don't feel angry at them for breaking the law instead it's because I'm jealous and any attempt to stop them or contact the police is a cash grab. I must remember not to say bad things about muggers its jealousy making me do it.
So why do you thing Microsoft are justified in breaking anti competition laws?
borrow my PC for a night whilst his was being fixed, comes back with porn diallers galore tons of spyware and my cache full of the roughest (as in ugly people) possible porn. He managed to get a years worth of crap from the internet in one day he must have been surfing the real arse of the internet.
not necessarily there are complicated laws that manage to do nothing and simple ones that do a lot.
Lawyers understand these complexities. there supposed to but most cases are an argument as to who has interpreted the law correctly, get 2 lawyers together and you will probably have 2 opinions on what the law actually says usually because there overcomplicated and not clear.
Lawyers are suited to writing these complexities. only because they benefit for the complexities, complex laws only benefit those who decipherer them.
Legal language was something invented by lawyers so only they can understand what the law says. Similar to the way that only the priests where able to read the Latin bible and as a result could make it say what they want so can the lawyers do this with laws. If laws where written plain and simple the reaction would be similar to when the bible was first printed in English, people would not be happy about what "interpretations" of the law lawyers have made and how badly written these laws are.
since when did up time matter on a desk top/non server system?
Whenever anyone is using it very annoying to have it crash half way through something your doing. How can you sleep at night with a blanket statement like that?
Little do I know the place I bought it from put in a 1.8 GHz chip and overclocked it to 2.4. Intel just lost a future sale through no fault of its own - well maybe cuz they didn't have this overclocking protection in sooner...
That can't happen Here (UK) well legally any way because they can't take 1.8GHZ clock it to 2.4 GHZ and sell it as a 2.4 GHZ because it's not a 2.4GHZ. Had a situation similar to this about a year ago a friend bought a Time PC (I had strong words with him out that mistake) and it was the situation you described overclocked CPU being sold as higher spec model and it kept crashing. Anyway simply pointed out that they where selling CPU's wrongly labelled and that they where not fit for purpose as it rarely worked for more the 20 minutes. They refunded it without argument they knew they where breaking the law.
Incidentally Intel used to be perfectly happy for these companies to over clock the CPU's as they would rather sell a batch of cheaper chips that might fail when overclocked than not sell chips at all. This happened to Tiny Pc's they started out with reliable and cheap AMD's but got Persuaded to Overclock slightly cheaper lower spec Intel's up to the same spec as the AMD's, with all the problems that brings.
You're leaving out the fact that some will simply buy the faster (read: higher margin) Intel processor, which I'm sure is what they intend.
Who will? the overclocker won't because they will buy AMD and those that don't overclock are not going to buy a more powerful Processesor than they planned to because it can't be overclocked as the post above said Sure, very few people will "not buy into" Intel because of this, but ZERO people will buy Intel just because of this. few > ZERO, thus it's a net loss for Intel.
I imagine if we had tech support in the early 19th century there'd be some really funny car stories out there too.
they did they where called Mechanics my Dads one he has some funny stories here's a few
1. Customer comes complaining that it took a couple of hours to fill there oil up! asked where they had put the oil in customer pointed confidently to the dipstick holder no wonder it took a couple of hours.
2. Another one, customer has car towed in with one rim completely tireless she been stopped driving up the main street of to local town on her rim asked why she couldn't hear the noise she replied "I did hear something but I turned the radio up"
3. Customer who had been conned into thinking they where buying a car with power steering seller blew the tyres up to dangerous levels making them firmer and reducing the rolling resistance especially at speed. Customer was most upset when told that it was impossible for a car to have power steering if it wasn't fitted with the necessary pumps etc.
4. User complained that CD player didn't work well it would because it was a tape player and she been inserting CD's in the gap between the dash and the radio there 5 in there, that must rank along side cup holders.
5. Customer who put water in the oil filler and oil in the radiator Lots of people do that.
6. Lots of people still fill up there car with the wrong fuel and need the tank pumped and flushed.
Despite them having been around for years the average person is still doing dumb things with cars you only have to look on FARK for your daily dose of dumbass in a car, it will be same with computer as well with these people becoming "look how stupid they are" news stories.
the last thing I want is to have to my CPU and motherboard and other components engaged in electronic warfare with one another.
Maybe the Mobo manufacturers will say stuff it we don't want to fight and AMD give us what we want anyway and ignore Intel, I would imagine that it's a bit of a pain when the Major mobo manufacturers ignore your chip.
I'm really really tired of people trying to protect the 'stupid people'. Let natural selection eat these morons (or at least their money). Please. For the good of the human race.
we defiantly need to get a bit of Darwinism back in to our lives.
I find that about 50% of the time the back button takes me back to the top of the article rather than the point I left It happens in both IE at work and Firefox at home, i blame the slashcode,
A: That depends on what your doing if you want windows installed the way Microsoft Want it is easy, but try something like installing a raid drive and you better have a second machine on the internet to get all the drivers that Windows doesn't have because the manufactures didn't pay to have there driver to be "signed" E.G. Windows would not install to Raid drive without help, this took 1 hour to find a driver and then remove unnecessary files so said driver would fit on disk for installation Red hat Linux was installed and configured in the time it took to find the driver.
1.2 Q: What's the point of all these options during install?
A: A lot of these options are not necessary or useful to you but you don't have to use them. Windows allows you to easily pick and chose what you want as only an idiot would install everything that came with there OS and your not and idiot are you?
1.3 Q: It's installed now what.
A: If you are connected to the internet then you will have to reformat and start again without the internet connected due to the amount of malicious software targeted at windows, my record is 2 minutes from start-up to first infection. Now you install as many firewalls, anti virus and spy ware removal programmes as you can now reconnect to the internet and download the latest updates for said software this will take a long time as there is a lot out there. Remember NEVER connect to the internet until you have installed every type of AV and firewall possible.
1.4 Q: What happens if I'm in the middle of an install and the installation freezes or just stops?
A: You get to reboot and start all over again. This happens
very so often with Windows. It seems like its buggy install
routines or something. Isn't Windows grand?
SECTION TWO - CONFIGURATION
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2.1 Q: Wasn't it supposed to be easy to setup a home network.
A: It is when the software doing it doesn't crash are even break another network connection already setup. Learn how to do it manually it is more reliable more flexible and once you know what your doing quicker
2.2 Q: Why is the Command line so week.
A: Microsoft believes its users are idiots with little understanding of how an OS works so have taken away your ability to do any damage. The fact that you where in a position to do damage by being root straight from start-up is nothing to do with Microsoft honest!
2.3 Q: What is this driver signing all about?
A: This is a scheme. were a manufacturer pays a fee and gets there driver signed the advantage of this is that when a user try to install your driver windows doesn't advice against this thus rendering your device useless if you follow this "advice".
SECTION THREE - APPLICATIONS
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3.1 Q: What happens if my Application doesn't work?
That's it your stuffed most shops will not refund the goods blaming Windows for the failure Microsoft will blame the Application maker and you end up in Catch 22. They don't care they have your money now.
3.2 Q: What about all my old Applications from previous versions of Windows will they Work?
A: Rarely a handful will but most will not especially 9x programmes on XP. Where as compared to Linux you have some handy programmes that can get around this but with windows all you have is double click when that fails you no other options.
3.3 Q: Why does this blue screen come up so often
A: That's Windows crashing don't worry it happens so often you get used to it.
SECTION FOUR - SPEED ISSUES
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4.1 Q: Why is Windows so slow?
A: Windows is built on the Grounds of it's good enough so long as it sort of works It doesn't have to be fast, doesn't have to be effective, doesn't have to do it very well, They just have to be able to claim it as a feature and move onto the next "feature". Also Windows contains some hangovers from MS
Also, JPM himself admitted you can't get too close to MS at these times because of the fact that MS does such things. MS's brake lockup though, is inexcpliciple. (I just butched that word, I know)
But why do think he does this ? it is precisley so the car behind has to back of just before the pace leaves. Schumi tries to bend the rules as much as possible, even to the point of ramming someone off the course twice to preserve his lead and win in the chamionship.
The most fun was watching Nigel Mansell leave F-1 and go to Cart where he trounced everybody. Now that was some racing.......
He's on of the true greats and probably the most entertaining driver as well. He wouldn't back down. He would either and often ending up blowing something up, giving to much throttle in the corners and crashing or wining (the amount of races he lead and lost for these reasons is unbelievable) But he learnt his profession and ended up being to only person to win F1 CART back to back.
Yes I am a Mansell Fan still think he was the Fastest, maddest driver ever (not counting the older generations of drivers as I don't know from personal experience) but definitely not the most refined one.
The uneveness in F1 is now appauling, I've seen only two of the races this year whereas in 2002 I didn't miss any of them. Having a sport so unbalanced like this can't be any good for the people who run it as they will be losing viewers and therefore money from sponsors. Hopefully the FIA will restrict the use of computers and telemetry and give lower teams a chance.
Also take of the wings slap on big grippy tyres instead and get some driver skill back into it.
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Just think of the millions of hours of TV that no one will be able to research. Admittedly most of it isn't of the highest quality, but still, some historian might well be interested in the future. The cost is nowadays minimal anyway. DivX, 400GB HDDs and backup tapes have made it simple to record everything that gets broadcast. Perhaps an archive of broadcasts should be recorded from all stations. I hardly think this affects anyones rights as we could all view it anyway.
This was a problem with the BBC, due to the cost of tapes and storage space they re used it and lost alot of classic shows. These days they keep everything it also meens something that could be a future classic won't be lost and instead can be released on video raising more money from the show.
When did i say did see the boob? it was the lowlight and most known part of the show hence the reference
Wow, your parents had way more time to devote to screening your TV watching than I. Besides a major sporting event should not include such debasing content. You really don't half or whole hour in the evening? but i should have mentioned that they screened none childrens programes and yes sports would have been one of them because it's not childrens viewing, have you ever seen cheerleaders or race queens? there the ones at every football or motorsport event in the ultra short skirt's very tight tops and shorts so tight that the camel toe is there for all to see. It's not just Superbowl that has half time shows most sport event has something similer.
If you want to see naughty crap on TV get cable or sattelite or go rent porn.
Well i certainley wouldn't watch superbowl for "naughty" crap but i wouldn't presume it to be family viewing and let a child watch it unscreened either.
If you want to know what you children will see on TV watch it first, don't expect others to do it for you.
If i had seen the show and my parents didn't like it it would have been my parents fault not the TV compaines.
so all the worlds problems are to do with people being allowed to watch as much TV as they like, so what about all the drugs and crime in places like sierra Leon or Sudan or Afghanistan places where it's hard to get TV set let alone the electricity to run it. And what fine establishment are you referring to?
You are being spoon-fed an opinion, being given a life full of fallacies, one that you aren't actually formulating yourself. Spend 16 hours in front of a Television, if you want to ... but don't ever rise above it, slave, and see it for what it truly is.
The irony you say this as you spout of rubbish spoon fed to you by the bush admistration and other puritan organisations.
I mean, sure. Go ahead and shoot up ... I'm only a guy trying to tell you how much time you're wasting. I don't think I have to be more than that, to do just that. I'm not trying to be your messiah, if thats what you mean by "who are you to tell me?" ... just a passing member of the social order of humans in the world, who care enough about things to want to talk about them, rather than just 'watch all about it on TV'.
and finally you invalidate everything you said with a stupid and ignorant generality of go ahead and shoot up you are ignorant intolerant un-social elitist bigot with a limited understanding and experience of the world at large, there are not drug takers on every corner Shooting up (presumably whilst watching TV).
Don't believe everything the church tells you.
or perhaps I have enough brain power to make my own decision about what I do and when rather than be influenced by others. No that would be too sensible and normal this is /. After all. Why do you feel the need to evangelise about how you live you life. Were all different individuals were not clones of you and have different ideas from you different values from you and enjoy spending our time differently. Oh and before you spout of on one I do spend time with others, I do watch TV, I also read books, play guitar, various sports, clay pigeon shooting but never once have I felt the need to tell someone they should be doing the same things as me or different from what they are doing (providing there not hurting someone else of course) but maybe were diffrent.
You could have suggested interesting alternatives that won't cause my brain to kill itself with boredom (except the book but even reading all day is boring)or perhaps you could realise that different people like different things and consider different things productive. I consider watching a TV programme about music to be very productive and helps improve my creativity in playing or what about a fitness programme that encourages an unfit person to do a little bit of exercise a day rather than none. whereas wood carving is a waste of time and makes a mess, my opinion of course but that's the point everybody is productive and creative in there own way.
I'm not suggesting that people give up television completely, but just don't watch it for more than two hours a day at max.
really who are you to dictate to others? well?
But what is acceptable to the majority? Despite the loud fuss made about the Jackson nipple by some, it does seem to be a minority who where offended. Most people seem to think of it as a cheap and tacky stunt by a failing "artist" and I don't think there are many who would go out of there way to find pictures of her nipple.
When you say as a parent I have to monitor my children's viewing, fine, I already do but when supposedly mainstream programming shows crap like the half time show then I can't rely on any rating scheme. Just cut my efforts off at the knees
you could record and watch programmes before hand to check there suitable this is something allot of parents do here in the UK I even remember my parents doing it, why? Because different people have different opinions on what there children should see so they take and accept that responsibility themselves and don't devolve it to others like the TV stations and expect them to think the same as them. To quote South Park Horrific deplorable violence is OK so long as you don't say any naughty words. (or show "gasp" a nipple)i saw some whe i was 1 hour old because i was breast feed.
how about the price they normally charge, do you think that might be a sensible basis?
I'm just pissed off with the long standing rhetoric on this site that its OK to punish MS to the ends of the earth
seriously When has Ms received more than a slap on the wrists?
overlooking the fact that most of that view comes from jealousy, and most of the recent lawsuits against MS seem to be cash grabs and little else.
What pisses me of is stupid generalisation, dismissing real concerns as jealousy or cash grabs and worst of all ranting at those who complain about a company breaking the law. I suppose according to you it would be wrong to complain if all life in the sea where exterminated and any attempt to bring the person or company to justice is just jealousy that we didn't kill it first. If I see a bank being robbed I will remember that I don't feel angry at them for breaking the law instead it's because I'm jealous and any attempt to stop them or contact the police is a cash grab. I must remember not to say bad things about muggers its jealousy making me do it.
So why do you thing Microsoft are justified in breaking anti competition laws?
borrow my PC for a night whilst his was being fixed, comes back with porn diallers galore tons of spyware and my cache full of the roughest (as in ugly people) possible porn. He managed to get a years worth of crap from the internet in one day he must have been surfing the real arse of the internet.
You wouldn't say that if you saw mine
One hand on mouse the other.... somwhere else
To true. First copy of 3.1 my dad got he fried it in 30 minutes deleted autoexec.bat & config.sys
Yep.
Laws must be complicated to cover all exigencies.
not necessarily there are complicated laws that manage to do nothing and simple ones that do a lot.
Lawyers understand these complexities. there supposed to but most cases are an argument as to who has interpreted the law correctly, get 2 lawyers together and you will probably have 2 opinions on what the law actually says usually because there overcomplicated and not clear.
Lawyers are suited to writing these complexities. only because they benefit for the complexities, complex laws only benefit those who decipherer them.
Legal language was something invented by lawyers so only they can understand what the law says. Similar to the way that only the priests where able to read the Latin bible and as a result could make it say what they want so can the lawyers do this with laws. If laws where written plain and simple the reaction would be similar to when the bible was first printed in English, people would not be happy about what "interpretations" of the law lawyers have made and how badly written these laws are.
Probably MI6 they work on extenal threats MI5 work in internal threats. Your not supposed to know about MI42 now turn around this won't hurt much.
Whenever anyone is using it very annoying to have it crash half way through something your doing. How can you sleep at night with a blanket statement like that?
That can't happen Here (UK) well legally any way because they can't take 1.8GHZ clock it to 2.4 GHZ and sell it as a 2.4 GHZ because it's not a 2.4GHZ. Had a situation similar to this about a year ago a friend bought a Time PC (I had strong words with him out that mistake) and it was the situation you described overclocked CPU being sold as higher spec model and it kept crashing. Anyway simply pointed out that they where selling CPU's wrongly labelled and that they where not fit for purpose as it rarely worked for more the 20 minutes. They refunded it without argument they knew they where breaking the law.
Incidentally Intel used to be perfectly happy for these companies to over clock the CPU's as they would rather sell a batch of cheaper chips that might fail when overclocked than not sell chips at all. This happened to Tiny Pc's they started out with reliable and cheap AMD's but got Persuaded to Overclock slightly cheaper lower spec Intel's up to the same spec as the AMD's, with all the problems that brings.
Who will? the overclocker won't because they will buy AMD and those that don't overclock are not going to buy a more powerful Processesor than they planned to because it can't be overclocked as the post above said Sure, very few people will "not buy into" Intel because of this, but ZERO people will buy Intel just because of this. few > ZERO, thus it's a net loss for Intel.
they did they where called Mechanics my Dads one he has some funny stories here's a few
1. Customer comes complaining that it took a couple of hours to fill there oil up! asked where they had put the oil in customer pointed confidently to the dipstick holder no wonder it took a couple of hours.
2. Another one, customer has car towed in with one rim completely tireless she been stopped driving up the main street of to local town on her rim asked why she couldn't hear the noise she replied "I did hear something but I turned the radio up"
3. Customer who had been conned into thinking they where buying a car with power steering seller blew the tyres up to dangerous levels making them firmer and reducing the rolling resistance especially at speed. Customer was most upset when told that it was impossible for a car to have power steering if it wasn't fitted with the necessary pumps etc.
4. User complained that CD player didn't work well it would because it was a tape player and she been inserting CD's in the gap between the dash and the radio there 5 in there, that must rank along side cup holders.
5. Customer who put water in the oil filler and oil in the radiator Lots of people do that.
6. Lots of people still fill up there car with the wrong fuel and need the tank pumped and flushed.
Despite them having been around for years the average person is still doing dumb things with cars you only have to look on FARK for your daily dose of dumbass in a car, it will be same with computer as well with these people becoming "look how stupid they are" news stories.
Maybe the Mobo manufacturers will say stuff it we don't want to fight and AMD give us what we want anyway and ignore Intel, I would imagine that it's a bit of a pain when the Major mobo manufacturers ignore your chip.
I'm really really tired of people trying to protect the 'stupid people'. Let natural selection eat these morons (or at least their money). Please. For the good of the human race.
we defiantly need to get a bit of Darwinism back in to our lives.
I find that about 50% of the time the back button takes me back to the top of the article rather than the point I left It happens in both IE at work and Firefox at home, i blame the slashcode,
The Messenger service is now disabled by default. They..... they have done somthing right!! "faints"
A: That depends on what your doing if you want windows installed the way Microsoft Want it is easy, but try something like installing a raid drive and you better have a second machine on the internet to get all the drivers that Windows doesn't have because the manufactures didn't pay to have there driver to be "signed" E.G. Windows would not install to Raid drive without help, this took 1 hour to find a driver and then remove unnecessary files so said driver would fit on disk for installation Red hat Linux was installed and configured in the time it took to find the driver.
1.2 Q: What's the point of all these options during install?
A: A lot of these options are not necessary or useful to you but you don't have to use them. Windows allows you to easily pick and chose what you want as only an idiot would install everything that came with there OS and your not and idiot are you?
1.3 Q: It's installed now what.
A: If you are connected to the internet then you will have to reformat and start again without the internet connected due to the amount of malicious software targeted at windows, my record is 2 minutes from start-up to first infection. Now you install as many firewalls, anti virus and spy ware removal programmes as you can now reconnect to the internet and download the latest updates for said software this will take a long time as there is a lot out there. Remember NEVER connect to the internet until you have installed every type of AV and firewall possible.
1.4 Q: What happens if I'm in the middle of an install and the installation freezes or just stops? A: You get to reboot and start all over again. This happens very so often with Windows. It seems like its buggy install routines or something. Isn't Windows grand?
SECTION TWO - CONFIGURATION --
2.1 Q: Wasn't it supposed to be easy to setup a home network.
A: It is when the software doing it doesn't crash are even break another network connection already setup. Learn how to do it manually it is more reliable more flexible and once you know what your doing quicker
2.2 Q: Why is the Command line so week.
A: Microsoft believes its users are idiots with little understanding of how an OS works so have taken away your ability to do any damage. The fact that you where in a position to do damage by being root straight from start-up is nothing to do with Microsoft honest!
2.3 Q: What is this driver signing all about?
A: This is a scheme. were a manufacturer pays a fee and gets there driver signed the advantage of this is that when a user try to install your driver windows doesn't advice against this thus rendering your device useless if you follow this "advice".
SECTION THREE - APPLICATIONS --
3.1 Q: What happens if my Application doesn't work?
That's it your stuffed most shops will not refund the goods blaming Windows for the failure Microsoft will blame the Application maker and you end up in Catch 22. They don't care they have your money now.
3.2 Q: What about all my old Applications from previous versions of Windows will they Work?
A: Rarely a handful will but most will not especially 9x programmes on XP. Where as compared to Linux you have some handy programmes that can get around this but with windows all you have is double click when that fails you no other options.
3.3 Q: Why does this blue screen come up so often
A: That's Windows crashing don't worry it happens so often you get used to it.
SECTION FOUR - SPEED ISSUES --
4.1 Q: Why is Windows so slow?
A: Windows is built on the Grounds of it's good enough so long as it sort of works It doesn't have to be fast, doesn't have to be effective, doesn't have to do it very well, They just have to be able to claim it as a feature and move onto the next "feature". Also Windows contains some hangovers from MS
But why do think he does this ? it is precisley so the car behind has to back of just before the pace leaves. Schumi tries to bend the rules as much as possible, even to the point of ramming someone off the course twice to preserve his lead and win in the chamionship.
He's on of the true greats and probably the most entertaining driver as well. He wouldn't back down. He would either and often ending up blowing something up, giving to much throttle in the corners and crashing or wining (the amount of races he lead and lost for these reasons is unbelievable) But he learnt his profession and ended up being to only person to win F1 CART back to back.
Yes I am a Mansell Fan still think he was the Fastest, maddest driver ever (not counting the older generations of drivers as I don't know from personal experience) but definitely not the most refined one.
How sad, what else Insightful as Flamebait Offtopic as funny Trolls as Informative?
Also take of the wings slap on big grippy tyres instead and get some driver skill back into it.