Vista will make billions. XP would continue to make billions if Vista were never created. Considering how little new features Vista introduces, its development has been a complete waste. Nobody will shell out the money to "upgrade" to it. They'll only spend money that would otherwise have been spent on XP. I don't know the business term to describe this, but if a new product only cannibalizes sales of an existing product and doesn't bring in new sales, whatever money was spent developing it was completely wasted.
You are certainly correct about that. Which is why no federal agency will ever release a report that even hints at the dangers of marijuana being previously overstated. If such evidence were ever discovered it would be promptly destroyed in order to keep from undermining the highly lucrative drug war. This kind of information control for political purposes is nothing new and has either officially or unofficially been part of pretty much every large bureaucratic organization, as the organization must sustain itself in as large of a form as possible.
Considering how Vista doesn't really have all that much to offer over XP anyway, I'm surprised by how many software packages are incompatible with it. Did Microsoft take a copy of XP, tweak it just enough to break compatibility along with system stability, throw in some trivial new features, then call it Vista?
I'd be very surprised if anyone can make a business case for "upgrading" to Vista. Other than a small handful of situations, I can't imagine it would be worth the trouble.
Like anyone believes that some Tool at Microsoft thought of this first. Seriously, does any Microsoft patent get an automatic stamp of approval by the bored patent examiner?
I've had worse experiences with landlines. And cable TV for that matter. At least no one company has a monopoly on cell phones, even though none of them are at all concerned about customer service. Maybe if cellphone providers make just a little effort to please their existing customers they wouldn't have to spend so much on advertising.
I sure hope its different than fast user switching currently found in XP, which doesn't work. I've never been able to do this without some sort of problem, usually requiring a reboot.
DLP better than LCD or Plasma? Not any that I've seen. I have seen numerous DLP screens in stores and the picture looks wierd on every one of them. The only advantage that DLP has is lower cost, and that's rapidly disappearing as LCDs and Plasmas get cheaper. When watching a football game on DLP, you can see the pixellation on the black colors and the motion really lags. Colors in general just don't appear correctly.
This is why HDTV discussions ignore DLP. The marketplace will ignore it too within about a year.
The only one of those ads that is even remotely discriminatory is number 2. I'd say these lawyers are just looking for some low hanging fruit, to see who they can quickly shake down. Craigslist decided it wouldn't be them. I'm all in favor of outlawing both blatant and implied discrimination in housing, but this is clearly going too far.
It was never really time to buy Yahoo. Sure it had some incredible gains, just as long as you sold before one of their multiple 50% drops in earnings. Yahoo would no doubt be a cool place to work and has done some amazing things with the internet, but business minded they are not.
I've been asking this question for months now and have gotten no real response. Vista appears to have not one single feature that I can't get on XP with minimal trouble. Other than being harder to use, I don't see what the difference is. And why would any IT department even consider downgrading to Vista from XP?
These are the type of IT departments that deserve to be outsourced to Bangalore. And they're always so surprised when it happens.
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They don't have to settle, and certainly have no reason to change their name. This tire maker or whatever is just looking for some publicity. The real YouTube can just stall the lawsuit by filing endless motions and continuances, until the tire maker finally gives up. Standard legal procedures for a big company. This really isn't an unusual case at all.
If you want to be rude, just keep them on the phone for half an hour and kill their call time averages. This will likely get them fired if it happens too often. If you want to be nice to the stooge, who probably doesn't really want to be working there anyway, just hang up and the computer will then connect him to the next victim it has already dialed up. There's a difference between hanging up on a human being and hanging up on a computerized telemarketing center.
Considering the average callcenter employee has the intelligence of a retarded monkey, incapable of doing more than reading a script, software like this is probably necessary.
Taking it to the next level, wouldn't that mean your in-game characters get to vote for representatives? That could get interesting. Also, will the government be making infrastructure investments in the virtual world, such as streets and sewers? I would think the citizens would expect something in return for their tax money. I'm sure politicians haven't thought this far ahead, as their only concern is getting their greedy paws on yet another pile of money.
Of course there is free speech in China. You can say whatever you want, so long as it doesn't reflect poorly on the government, or impede any agenda of theirs. I guess it all just depends on how you define free and speech.
I didn't know they gave internet access to inmates in teh insane asylum. Seriously, this is the most disjointed paranoid rant of a post I've seen in a long time. Put the tin foil hat back on.
I don't think its meant to make it into the hands of real users. I think its meant to sucker some content provider into buying it to protect their "IP". The joke will be on them when it fails in the market.
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Vista will make billions. XP would continue to make billions if Vista were never created. Considering how little new features Vista introduces, its development has been a complete waste. Nobody will shell out the money to "upgrade" to it. They'll only spend money that would otherwise have been spent on XP. I don't know the business term to describe this, but if a new product only cannibalizes sales of an existing product and doesn't bring in new sales, whatever money was spent developing it was completely wasted.
You are certainly correct about that. Which is why no federal agency will ever release a report that even hints at the dangers of marijuana being previously overstated. If such evidence were ever discovered it would be promptly destroyed in order to keep from undermining the highly lucrative drug war. This kind of information control for political purposes is nothing new and has either officially or unofficially been part of pretty much every large bureaucratic organization, as the organization must sustain itself in as large of a form as possible.
Considering how Vista doesn't really have all that much to offer over XP anyway, I'm surprised by how many software packages are incompatible with it. Did Microsoft take a copy of XP, tweak it just enough to break compatibility along with system stability, throw in some trivial new features, then call it Vista?
I'd be very surprised if anyone can make a business case for "upgrading" to Vista. Other than a small handful of situations, I can't imagine it would be worth the trouble.
Like anyone believes that some Tool at Microsoft thought of this first. Seriously, does any Microsoft patent get an automatic stamp of approval by the bored patent examiner?
Maybe they're just tired of hearing it for the 45765th time on slashdot, therefore making it redundant.
I've had worse experiences with landlines. And cable TV for that matter. At least no one company has a monopoly on cell phones, even though none of them are at all concerned about customer service. Maybe if cellphone providers make just a little effort to please their existing customers they wouldn't have to spend so much on advertising.
I sure hope its different than fast user switching currently found in XP, which doesn't work. I've never been able to do this without some sort of problem, usually requiring a reboot.
DLP better than LCD or Plasma? Not any that I've seen. I have seen numerous DLP screens in stores and the picture looks wierd on every one of them. The only advantage that DLP has is lower cost, and that's rapidly disappearing as LCDs and Plasmas get cheaper. When watching a football game on DLP, you can see the pixellation on the black colors and the motion really lags. Colors in general just don't appear correctly.
This is why HDTV discussions ignore DLP. The marketplace will ignore it too within about a year.
The only one of those ads that is even remotely discriminatory is number 2. I'd say these lawyers are just looking for some low hanging fruit, to see who they can quickly shake down. Craigslist decided it wouldn't be them. I'm all in favor of outlawing both blatant and implied discrimination in housing, but this is clearly going too far.
It was never really time to buy Yahoo. Sure it had some incredible gains, just as long as you sold before one of their multiple 50% drops in earnings. Yahoo would no doubt be a cool place to work and has done some amazing things with the internet, but business minded they are not.
I've been asking this question for months now and have gotten no real response. Vista appears to have not one single feature that I can't get on XP with minimal trouble. Other than being harder to use, I don't see what the difference is. And why would any IT department even consider downgrading to Vista from XP?
These are the type of IT departments that deserve to be outsourced to Bangalore. And they're always so surprised when it happens.
They don't have to settle, and certainly have no reason to change their name. This tire maker or whatever is just looking for some publicity. The real YouTube can just stall the lawsuit by filing endless motions and continuances, until the tire maker finally gives up. Standard legal procedures for a big company. This really isn't an unusual case at all.
I'm pretty sure somebody has patented the art of getting up every morning.
Maybe they'll just strip out what few new features they were planning to add to Vista in order to ship it on time. Here comes Windows XP 2.0
so you made the machines 100% useless?
Be warned, this poster is a Muslim troll. How do you know a Muslim is lying? His lips are moving (or in this case his fingers are typing).
If you want to be rude, just keep them on the phone for half an hour and kill their call time averages. This will likely get them fired if it happens too often. If you want to be nice to the stooge, who probably doesn't really want to be working there anyway, just hang up and the computer will then connect him to the next victim it has already dialed up. There's a difference between hanging up on a human being and hanging up on a computerized telemarketing center.
Considering the average callcenter employee has the intelligence of a retarded monkey, incapable of doing more than reading a script, software like this is probably necessary.
Taking it to the next level, wouldn't that mean your in-game characters get to vote for representatives? That could get interesting. Also, will the government be making infrastructure investments in the virtual world, such as streets and sewers? I would think the citizens would expect something in return for their tax money. I'm sure politicians haven't thought this far ahead, as their only concern is getting their greedy paws on yet another pile of money.
Of course there is free speech in China. You can say whatever you want, so long as it doesn't reflect poorly on the government, or impede any agenda of theirs. I guess it all just depends on how you define free and speech.
I didn't know they gave internet access to inmates in teh insane asylum. Seriously, this is the most disjointed paranoid rant of a post I've seen in a long time. Put the tin foil hat back on.
I don't think its meant to make it into the hands of real users. I think its meant to sucker some content provider into buying it to protect their "IP". The joke will be on them when it fails in the market.
These kids will turn into very fragile adults.
Its always funny listening to Americans and Europeans argue about who has more rights. Its kind of like debating whether Stalin or Hitler was worse.