Titanium is a good choice also because it is hypoallergenic. Believe it or not, a person can become sensitive to metals as they grow older -- even gold or platinum.
Every woman dreams of the perfect "fairy princes" wedding.
No we don't! I'm so tired of seeing that stereotype in every movie or tv series that so much mentions a wedding. If I were to get married again, I'd prefer a simple wedding ceremony outdoors (with buglights, of course). No annoying and expensive wedding gown, no juggling a list of invites, no big reception, no BS. Just something nice.
Ok, ya got me there. But I remember when everyone was oh-so-shocked when it was revealed that WGA checked your machine every time it started up. Before then MS claimed that wasn't the case. My point here is that you don't know for certain what it is doing -- MS has lied about it before. (I'd link you to the/. threads but I'd need to be a subscriber to search back that far; I'd bet you could find them with a search engine though).
Incidentally... none of those systems have ever had issues, performance or otherwise, with WGA.
Modded troll or not, I have to agree. Smart users don't even have WGA installed on their legal copies of XP (yes, I like to think I'm one of those). I don't want a background process eating my machine's resources just so Microsoft can do the electronic equivalent of a strip-search every 10 minutes. If it doesn't actually benefit me it gets the hell off of my computer, fast.
No, it's not. They have the right to advertise, but they don't have the right to force me to look at their ads. I'm still free to ignore them all I want.
In the middle of the shopping mall, there is someone in front of a kiosk who asks you if he can record what stores you visit while you're there as part of a survey.
Not a great analogy, MS; you should mention that tracking cookies never ask permission.
such as *gasp* having Mom stay home and actually raise them
Why can't the father stay home and raise them? Oh, right, because you're sexist -- if you weren't, you'd have said "a parent", not necessarily the mom.
I think you would have a stronger case about "choice" if they were remotely disabling old versions of FireFox.
Bullcrap. If they nag you intermittently until you either upgrade or uninstall FF altogether, they're trying hard to not give you a choice. Saying the user still has a choice in those circumstances is like saying you still have a choice of whether or not to surrender your money while a robber's knife is at your throat. Does that seem too melodramatic? The point still stands. They're going to nag you until you do what they want, which is decidedly not freedom of choice for the user.
You do have a right to subject yourself to security vulnerabilities, but by no means is the software vendor obligated to design their software in a manner that caters to this behavior.
Excuse me, but what? That doesn't make sense. How is it asking them to design their software in any way at all to not be nagged? The user in this equation is asking them to not to do something, not to do something.
It's a good thing that you post as AC then, huh? That way you can't be penalized for innocently posting the same thing someone else did at pretty much the same time. As to the guy who takes the hit in moderation, it just sucks to be him, right?
Sounds more to me like he is making excuses for the fraudsters. "Hey, they're only scamming greedy people! Since they're greedy anyway, how is it wrong to scam them?" That's pretty much the spiel scammers spout, rationalizing their crimes by saying that the victims were just as bad they are themselves.
Your plan would make us even more vulnerable to diseases such as cancer, diabetes and many more, along with birth defects and an even lower average IQ. Homo sapiens already has a limited gene pool; you remember those articles about a population bottleneck from 70,000 years ago? Another would make it much worse. Genetic diversity is good for the species even if it does include undesirable characteristic, or at least it's better than a far more limited gene pool. Indeed, some would argue that perhaps that is why these problems are so common now.
The genetic science aside, who decided you were so much better? Your plan would create terrible problems for our entire species through inbreeding, so it doesn't sound like you're so much smarter than the people you think shouldn't have the right to breed.
You for got to mention the constant freezing up. And the five-times-longer-than-98 scandisk it ran after a forced restart. Or that it was so slow on startup that you could be already be editing a document on Win 2k by the time Win Me finished starting up (on the same computer). Or that you had re-enable active desktop after a forced restart -- who the hell thought active desktop would have something to do with it screwing up when coding Win Me anyway? Or.....sorry, got lost in bad memories there for a moment.:shudder: I'm okay now. Really.
I see you got modded troll, but I must agree when it comes to the interface. Explorer is years behind other GUIs when it comes to both usability and stability. Sure, they added the breadcrumb bar and a slightly better search but then they removed all of the optional features I've been using since Windows 98. What the hell did they do that for?
Which is exactly why I shouldn't be required to pay do damn much for it since I already have XP. Vista is ridiculously expensive and there are too many versions, with the cheapest versions not even being the equal of XP Home.
And what about what the game industry does to its paying customers? Remember Starforce? What about DRM so bad that you can't even play the game you paid for? Yes, that happened to me. I bought Neverwinter Nights 2, paid over $40 for it and it won't load in my DVD drive. I can't return it to get my money back either. (My co-worker, who pirated the game, didn't have that problem.) I can say with absolute certainty that will be the last money Atari ever gets from me, which shows you how stupid their draconian DRM is because I would have probably bought 10 more games in the future otherwise.
The games industry will screw you up one side and down the other any time they think they can't get away with it; they proved that with Starforce, which they kept using until the pressure from their customers got very heavy. In short, I understand that they have higher development costs, but from their treatment of their actual customers I don't see how they're any better than the RIAA. To Hell with them too, I say.
Get real, this is/., no female posts here. Except, um, me. And the woman earlier who claimed to be a lesbian. But other than us, everyone knows that there are no women on/.!
I don't know your dating status and don't care, but those sound like the words of someone who has been and will remain alone. Loss of privacy is at the very core of becoming unsingle. Read his/her emails too.
I feel sorry for you. I've been married eighteen years as of this month and I've never read my husband's email. I also never read his mail unless he tells me to go ahead and open it over the phone. I expect the same the respect for my privacy from him.
....that if my husband tries to have another wife he most certainly will not live longer. He might very well not live to see another sunrise. Now, when is the study starting to see how long women with multiple male partners live?
I'm pretty sure that they do have to stop calling you if you request it. You can find the relevant info at the Consumerist. Just try a search on "debt collector" or "collection agency". I'm sorry but I don't have time to look it up for you today.
I think he must be saying that Kubuntu's default KDE settings aren't the ones he wants. I'm not sure what stops him exporting his settings from a "good KDE" and importing them to a "bad KDE".
Try another major KDE-based distro for a while and I think you will see the difference. IT is quite apparent that Kubuntu is second-rate to the Ubuntu dev team despite any protests to the contrary, so one major problem is that glitches and issues in Kubuntu get fixed slower than they do on Ubuntu. Its second-rate status shows in other ways too. I used Kubuntu for months, thought it was cool, but then I tried Saboyan. The latter is definitely KDE-based and the the difference shows.
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Titanium is a good choice also because it is hypoallergenic. Believe it or not, a person can become sensitive to metals as they grow older -- even gold or platinum.
No we don't! I'm so tired of seeing that stereotype in every movie or tv series that so much mentions a wedding. If I were to get married again, I'd prefer a simple wedding ceremony outdoors (with buglights, of course). No annoying and expensive wedding gown, no juggling a list of invites, no big reception, no BS. Just something nice.
Ok, ya got me there. But I remember when everyone was oh-so-shocked when it was revealed that WGA checked your machine every time it started up. Before then MS claimed that wasn't the case. My point here is that you don't know for certain what it is doing -- MS has lied about it before. (I'd link you to the /. threads but I'd need to be a subscriber to search back that far; I'd bet you could find them with a search engine though).
Yet. Hopefully you never will.
Modded troll or not, I have to agree. Smart users don't even have WGA installed on their legal copies of XP (yes, I like to think I'm one of those). I don't want a background process eating my machine's resources just so Microsoft can do the electronic equivalent of a strip-search every 10 minutes. If it doesn't actually benefit me it gets the hell off of my computer, fast.
No, it's not. They have the right to advertise, but they don't have the right to force me to look at their ads. I'm still free to ignore them all I want.
Not a great analogy, MS; you should mention that tracking cookies never ask permission.
Why can't the father stay home and raise them? Oh, right, because you're sexist -- if you weren't, you'd have said "a parent", not necessarily the mom.
Bullcrap. If they nag you intermittently until you either upgrade or uninstall FF altogether, they're trying hard to not give you a choice. Saying the user still has a choice in those circumstances is like saying you still have a choice of whether or not to surrender your money while a robber's knife is at your throat. Does that seem too melodramatic? The point still stands. They're going to nag you until you do what they want, which is decidedly not freedom of choice for the user.
Excuse me, but what? That doesn't make sense. How is it asking them to design their software in any way at all to not be nagged? The user in this equation is asking them to not to do something, not to do something.
It's a good thing that you post as AC then, huh? That way you can't be penalized for innocently posting the same thing someone else did at pretty much the same time. As to the guy who takes the hit in moderation, it just sucks to be him, right?
Sounds more to me like he is making excuses for the fraudsters. "Hey, they're only scamming greedy people! Since they're greedy anyway, how is it wrong to scam them?" That's pretty much the spiel scammers spout, rationalizing their crimes by saying that the victims were just as bad they are themselves.
Your plan would make us even more vulnerable to diseases such as cancer, diabetes and many more, along with birth defects and an even lower average IQ. Homo sapiens already has a limited gene pool; you remember those articles about a population bottleneck from 70,000 years ago? Another would make it much worse. Genetic diversity is good for the species even if it does include undesirable characteristic, or at least it's better than a far more limited gene pool. Indeed, some would argue that perhaps that is why these problems are so common now.
The genetic science aside, who decided you were so much better? Your plan would create terrible problems for our entire species through inbreeding, so it doesn't sound like you're so much smarter than the people you think shouldn't have the right to breed.
You for got to mention the constant freezing up. And the five-times-longer-than-98 scandisk it ran after a forced restart. Or that it was so slow on startup that you could be already be editing a document on Win 2k by the time Win Me finished starting up (on the same computer). Or that you had re-enable active desktop after a forced restart -- who the hell thought active desktop would have something to do with it screwing up when coding Win Me anyway? Or.... .sorry, got lost in bad memories there for a moment. :shudder: I'm okay now. Really.
I see you got modded troll, but I must agree when it comes to the interface. Explorer is years behind other GUIs when it comes to both usability and stability. Sure, they added the breadcrumb bar and a slightly better search but then they removed all of the optional features I've been using since Windows 98. What the hell did they do that for?
Which is exactly why I shouldn't be required to pay do damn much for it since I already have XP. Vista is ridiculously expensive and there are too many versions, with the cheapest versions not even being the equal of XP Home.
And what about what the game industry does to its paying customers? Remember Starforce? What about DRM so bad that you can't even play the game you paid for? Yes, that happened to me. I bought Neverwinter Nights 2, paid over $40 for it and it won't load in my DVD drive. I can't return it to get my money back either. (My co-worker, who pirated the game, didn't have that problem.) I can say with absolute certainty that will be the last money Atari ever gets from me, which shows you how stupid their draconian DRM is because I would have probably bought 10 more games in the future otherwise.
The games industry will screw you up one side and down the other any time they think they can't get away with it; they proved that with Starforce, which they kept using until the pressure from their customers got very heavy. In short, I understand that they have higher development costs, but from their treatment of their actual customers I don't see how they're any better than the RIAA. To Hell with them too, I say.
Get real, this is /., no female posts here. Except, um, me. And the woman earlier who claimed to be a lesbian. But other than us, everyone knows that there are no women on /.!
I feel sorry for you. I've been married eighteen years as of this month and I've never read my husband's email. I also never read his mail unless he tells me to go ahead and open it over the phone. I expect the same the respect for my privacy from him.
That's the attitude that made IE what it is today.
....that if my husband tries to have another wife he most certainly will not live longer. He might very well not live to see another sunrise. Now, when is the study starting to see how long women with multiple male partners live?
I'm pretty sure that they do have to stop calling you if you request it. You can find the relevant info at the Consumerist. Just try a search on "debt collector" or "collection agency". I'm sorry but I don't have time to look it up for you today.
Try another major KDE-based distro for a while and I think you will see the difference. IT is quite apparent that Kubuntu is second-rate to the Ubuntu dev team despite any protests to the contrary, so one major problem is that glitches and issues in Kubuntu get fixed slower than they do on Ubuntu. Its second-rate status shows in other ways too. I used Kubuntu for months, thought it was cool, but then I tried Saboyan. The latter is definitely KDE-based and the the difference shows.
You're forgetting that the ordinary user, while generally clueless about computers, still knows how to use Google and other search engines.
Which raises the question, if Superfetch is supposed to be speeding up loading times, then why is Vista so slow? It should be the opposite but isn't.
Yeah, but for what? Having used Vista I have to say that I can't see that I was getting much in return for all that extra memory being used.
I have to agree. Come on, all that in a simple box with a black font on a pale gray background would be so much easier on the eyes.