First, the chunk of the federal budget that NASA "eats up" is minuscule. $16.8 out of $2656.0 Billion in 2007. I don't think handing that money over to Congress will lead to anything tangible for you or I.
Second, think about the peripheral benefits of everything NASA has done, not just the pretty pictures. Subtract the Voyager probes. The science section at Barnes and Noble is a whole lot thinner ehh? How many books have been published, how many scientists have been educated, how many television shows have been produced based on what those two probes discovered? Suddenly, we know virtually nothing about the moons of Saturn and I don't get to wonder if there is life under the seas of Europa.
Subtract some rocket science that was pioneered by NASA and the Soviets during the space race. Perhaps your cell phone can't call Australia anymore, hurricanes give us less warning and HBO does not have quite as many options. I doubt private industry would be quite so far along in communication satellite technology were it not for the feasibility of such demonstrated by NASA.
Subtract some planetary and atmospheric science regarding Venus. The Global Warming theory suddenly has holes in it's foundation and we couldn't have half the arguments we do on Slashdot.
Subtract Hubble. Suddenly the official stance of the Vatican's is that we are at the center of the universe, we have a few million less interesting web pages and my desire to learn more and educate myself regarding astronomy are greatly diminished.
Despite NASA's budget being slashed and despite their priorities being subject to the whims of politicians, they've done quite well in educating and inspiring all of us who care to pay attention.
A few years ago one warm summer day, I got fuming mad at some woman who was going rather slow, worrying about something inside her station wagon and could not decide on a lane. I remember this vividly. Latter, honest to god, I saw her checking out at K-Mart. She was buying gatoraide for some reason and chatting with the clerk. She started crying. It turns out she had just moved to the city where I live, someone had stolen her pocket book, she could not find it in here car and she was having a really bad day. I made it a point to apologize for my behavior when we were both driving, cause you see, I was the real asshole.
You don't walk in these peoples shoes, please don't arbitrarily demonize them. Nobody ever gets to know anyone these days. I guess we are to busy hiding behind our gadgets. Really, how well do you know your neighbor? It's easy to judge someone badly, it's a little harder to get to know your fellow humans and see them for what the are, human. People are not just an inconvenience in your self-absorbed little world. Yea, I know, it's scary to say "hello, how are you, I'm such-and-such..." but you'll feel better if you truly live and let live.
Your right. I work for a smallish ISP and notice that spam-bots usually prefer the backup MX record.
For smaller domains and people with fewer resources having one MX record is impractical. For larger systems, like say an ISP, their is typically only one MX record, which really points to a virtual server that exists in a Foundry switch or some such. This is then load balanced round-robin style to a group of identically configured servers, preferably that are geographically distributed. This is a little more straight forward then the ring of servers, but has it's own issues.
The one headache that I have with this set up is the tedious log searches that you end up doing trying to find out what happened to customer x's email, or just troubleshooting in general.
It's a pain shelling into 4 different servers and greping through each maillog. I'd like to find a solution to this.
It would stand to reason that most civilizations that develop flight will eventually develop radar. Radar is very simple and reliable. Yeah, I know that there are stealth technologies, but commercial jetliners aren't using them. We'll probably be using radar for a very long time. Plus, radio is our current means of communicating with our spacecraft(isn't it? I may be wrong).
Assuming their atmosphere and it's weather patterns are similar to Earth's. Assuming they are not aquatic, or live in liquid methane. Assuming their sensory capacity is similar to our own, maybe they can perceive gravity waves or something. Assuming they have the resources and materials to construct electronics that give them the capacity to use a radar type system. Assuming they don't have an incredible sense of smell and have not developed all their communications technology based on that paradigm.
We can't even communicate predictably with Humpback Whales. And, despite the best efforts of lots of creative people, most of the made up aliens that I see in science fiction are less interesting than a Platypus. So not to sound pessimistic, but making any reasonable predictions about a civilization that developed on another world is kind of silly. There are to many unknowns.
The more and more we learn about space, the more amazing I find it. We always knew it was mostly empty, so that's not news.
But here is some news,
You don't find exoplanets captivating? 182 of them.. don't you wonder what they look like? You don't find sub-terrain oceans with who knows what below the surface of Jupiter's icy moons or water flowing on the surface of Mars not so long ago the slightest bit interesting? How about the ever changing notions of the shape and nature of the Universe and it's origins?
Frankly, our own ideas of space aliens, and perhaps our expectations of finding them as we expect are boring. If we find Klingons tomorrow.. yawn..
If recent planetary and deep space science has taught us anything, it is that we have no idea what to expect.
Availability of PowerPC hardware suitable for operation with Amiga OS 4.0 will be announced by third parties early 2007.
Which, the folks at Amiga.org are guessing, means a system based on the SAM board. Prototypes of this have been shown. But, knowing everything Amiga, I'll believe that when I see it. It would be nice, as it's a small simple motherboard that runs without the need for active cooling. It would make a unique and interesting web / internet / Amiga applications machine with a snappy OS.
I, myself have a nice PPC Amiga 1200, which I use occasionally for fun. It's a horrible over extended, upgraded collection of cables and add on cards though. We never got substantive replacement hardware, and we just kept expanding the old stuff.
It will probably never see OS4 and I'll have to spend $1200 on a new system with the Eyetech board, or this SAM thing... maybe..
And lastly, yes we know it's basically orphaned and practically useless and modern replacements do things much much better and more cheaply, so I'll kindly ask all of you to save your breath, I don't care. It's just interesting how it won't die isn't it?
Good grief we live in a culture of fear... How many young people have been damaged on Myspace? I know a few teens that spend lots of hours on the site, and I must say, they are pretty normal. But you know if one girl gets abducted out of the gazillion like her that are registered on Myspace it will be bloody HEADLINE NEWS!!!! How long have we had these stories of the big bad Internet? I feel like the producers at (major cable news network) are just hoping that there will be some sort of weird sexual predator mania with a million victims across the USA that propagates from the dark corners of Myspace just so they can say, "I told you so!"
The young people on this country that are in trouble are from impoverished households, have abusive parents or suffered some real life trauma that did not involve a website. They have problems not because of myspace.
Yea, spending your life on-line gabbing is probably not healthy, obviously, but relax folks. Tech-savvy, pop culture suburbanite kids are not the troubled delinquents of society.
If you're following the same steps (you know, Windows Update, alternate browser and Avast! or similar) with your 2000 machines as you are with your XP machines, I find it highly unlikely that one gets "zombied" while the other does not.
Windows 2000 may have it's advantages but I don't think security is one of them.
I'm a big fat Unix geek, but in reality I've never had a virus with XP or 2000 in 6 years of on again off again usage. Honest. I stay behind a firewall, use Avast or AVG, used Netscape and now Firefox, and check my Windows Updates every week or two.
I know this is a lot of stuff that the typical user might not be privy to, but I'm guessing the slashdot crowd has the common sense to follow the above rules... or maybe not.
I imagine a University is the type of organization that kind of flies under the radar. Banks, hospitals, credit card companies, these are obvious repositories of personal information. UCLA, not so much. Factor that in with a large, old, complex computer network with volumes of historical data (Those of you that graduated 20 years ago can probably still get your transcript) and you are bound to have quite a bit of low hanging fruit.
NASA definitely suffers from dogma. The current dogma had been for a dry Mars.
This, of course, is why the focus of every recent mission has been to find the water they suspect exists??!!?
I'm not sure they support either a "dry Mars" or a wet one. It seems to me, they support good science, or at least try to in this instant gratification, pseudo-scientific alien abduction craving society. You don't publish your theory until there is damn good evidence to support it.
Newton really was wrong about physics, even though the evidence to support his theory piled up for a few hundred years more then the evidence to support the water on Mars theory. Don't believe something because you wish it to be. I think Carl Sagan said something like that, and it's good advice.
I could waste a lot of time ripping your comments to shreads, but I won't because I have better things to do.
I'll just leave you with this: The demise of the Amiga had nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with a thoroughly corrupt and incompetent management that was utterly incapable of marketing the one product that made them money (the Amiga line) and instead focused on their craptastic PC-compatible offerings at lousy prices. I know killer.
I try to make funny. And, yea, why did you guys mod it insightfull!
Well, it takes normally 3 crappy consoles to kill a gaming juggernaut. The last one is usually a desperate effort harnessing some completely obtuse miracles of complex technology.
With Sony, since they are so diversified, it would probably take at least 7 crappy consoles before the games division tanks. So, I guess what I'm saying is that the PlayStation X should be friggin spectacular.
So, who did all the things NASA has done before NASA, exactally? What do you want them to innovate? It's not sci-fi, you know it's real life.
I hate to tell you this, but space is bleeding edge. Simply getting there requires knowledge, technology and materials never developed before.
Christ, browse to NASA's webpage and look at a few current and proposedmissions. Or, look at the science secion in Barns & Noble. 90% of what we know about the outer solar system is thanks to Voyager. A whole lot of what we know about deep space is thanks to Hubble. If it were not for NASA's equipment and research (by them and others) we might still be pouring CFC's into the atmosphere. So, there, NASA has gotten you less skin cancer.
Baby steps. We'd better learn how to get off this rock, one way or another, cause it's not gonna last forever.
You're right.
Maybe I'm just starting to pay attention. Let's hope that others follow suit (I think the Internet really helps), which would only be good for humanity.
For those interested, unmannedspaceflight has active discussions on well.. unmanned space flight, and in particular, this mission.
Cassini is another successful unmanned mission. Space is really starting to get exciting again.
The article is meaningful in that it shows what politicians are wasting their time and our tax dollars trying to legislate video games. I'd rather they focus on the issues you mentioned.
So, invert your thinking a little.
So, they made the software so it does not kill anyone. Who needs fancy features like precise yearly timing?
Seriously, though, it's worked fine. The software has not killed anyone. They can either fix it and modify a very critical system on an enormously complex vehicle, or they can move the launch date around a few days, which they seem to do for every launch anyway. B is probably safer and more predictable.
The cost of a shuttle mission, from Wikipedia. is between $60M and $1.5B.. let the debate ensue. Not to be rude, but I'm ignoring the slight potential for human loss. So many more people die in Iraq or Alaskan Crab Fishing or.. well.. you get the point. I'm sure there will be other missions and shuttle maintenance and general program costs in 2007 whether we fix the Hubble or not. So, it's logical to factor the cost of this mission kind of inversely, thinking rather, how much will we save if we do not repair the Hubble? Probably not a whole $1.3B estimated one way in the link above, much less.
Regardless of how you intemperate the numbers, I think this is a good idea because:
The Hubble works, and we have experience servicing and fixing it, so it's much more likely that all of this will go smoothly. We can get this done soon, whereas development of a another new telescope will undoubtedly take many times longer. The Hubble is very meaningful. It's still returning good science and inspirational pictures. It's functioning keeps a quite few scientists employed, and that's a good thing. It's good press. NASA needs to flourish. I think the "new NASA" is just starting to hit it's stride, despite an otherwise depressed national consciousness. We've had lots of enormously meaningful and successful unmanned missions lately, so yay NASA.
Your tax dollars also pay for the publication of volumes of information available at NASA's website.
Here is some very relevant information on the science instraments attached to the STEREO probe.
You'll notice that each of the vehicle's instruments has it's own page, and some pretty good information on what it is supposed to do and why. It sounds pretty relevent to me. NASA's website is pretty great actually. You paid for it, go check it out.
Microsoft's tools are very good, DirectX has just about caught up to OpenGL and.NET is a pleasure to develop with. IMO they are really care about their DirectX and X-Box SDKs. So it's almost there, really. It's almost possible to develop a great game from your bedroom, but it's still a ton of work. And you can't code art.
What usually kills most projects is the art. Interestingly there is this stigma that is attached to artists, you know, will work for free. They take quite a bit of offense to this, and generally, won't work for free. What's ironic, is that most of us bedroom programmers are working our ass off for free, yet artist working on the same project expect monetary compensation. Art seems to kill more projects then any other issue. Art is about as much work as coding, so I'm not belittling it,
but guys, were all in the same boat ok?
A lot of current developers are also re-making games that were innovative, and generas that have kind of disappeared in the mainstream. Adventure games, text adventures, edutainment, hard SCI-FI, etc..
But, utimately, I think their has to be a real reward for the bedroom coder. I do it for the love, but that's getting old.
Maybe more incentive and recognition from Microsoft will move some of us off the PC on onto the XBox 360 instead.
I've added ram, changed hard drives, video cards, sound cards, pretty much anything short of the MB (which usually hoses your installation anyway unless you're very carefull), and not had to do any reactivating. Not just my system either, but several others.
So, the folks here that have not used Windows XP, probabbly fell for your bit of FUD and modded you +4 informative. Congrats.
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First, the chunk of the federal budget that NASA "eats up" is minuscule. $16.8 out of $2656.0 Billion in 2007.
I don't think handing that money over to Congress will lead to anything tangible for you or I.
Second, think about the peripheral benefits of everything NASA has done, not just the pretty pictures. Subtract the Voyager probes. The science section at Barnes and Noble is a whole lot thinner ehh? How many books have been published, how many scientists have been educated, how many television shows have been produced based on what those two probes discovered? Suddenly, we know virtually nothing about the moons of Saturn and I don't get to wonder if there is life under the seas of Europa.
Subtract some rocket science that was pioneered by NASA and the Soviets during the space race. Perhaps your cell phone can't call Australia anymore, hurricanes give us less warning and HBO does not have quite as many options. I doubt private industry would be quite so far along in communication satellite technology were it not for the feasibility of such demonstrated by NASA.
Subtract some planetary and atmospheric science regarding Venus. The Global Warming theory suddenly has holes in it's foundation and we couldn't have half the arguments we do on Slashdot.
Subtract Hubble. Suddenly the official stance of the Vatican's is that we are at the center of the universe, we have a few million less interesting web pages and my desire to learn more and educate myself regarding astronomy are greatly diminished.
Despite NASA's budget being slashed and despite their priorities being subject to the whims of politicians, they've done quite well in educating and inspiring all of us who care to pay attention.
I guess I don't think like you, not anymore.
A few years ago one warm summer day, I got fuming mad at some woman who was going rather slow, worrying about something inside her station wagon and could not decide on a lane. I remember this vividly. Latter, honest to god, I saw her checking out at K-Mart. She was buying gatoraide for some reason and chatting with the clerk. She started crying. It turns out she had just moved to the city where I live, someone had stolen her pocket book, she could not find it in here car and she was having a really bad day. I made it a point to apologize for my behavior when we were both driving, cause you see, I was the real asshole.
You don't walk in these peoples shoes, please don't arbitrarily demonize them. Nobody ever gets to know anyone these days. I guess we are to busy hiding behind our gadgets. Really, how well do you know your neighbor? It's easy to judge someone badly, it's a little harder to get to know your fellow humans and see them for what the are, human. People are not just an inconvenience in your self-absorbed little world. Yea, I know, it's scary to say "hello, how are you, I'm such-and-such..." but you'll feel better if you truly live and let live.
Your right. I work for a smallish ISP and notice that spam-bots usually prefer the backup MX record.
For smaller domains and people with fewer resources having one MX record is impractical. For larger systems, like say an ISP, their is typically only one MX record, which really points to a virtual server that exists in a Foundry switch or some such. This is then load balanced round-robin style to a group of identically configured servers, preferably that are geographically distributed. This is a little more straight forward then the ring of servers, but has it's own issues.
The one headache that I have with this set up is the tedious log searches that you end up doing trying to find out what happened to customer x's email, or just troubleshooting in general.
It's a pain shelling into 4 different servers and greping through each maillog. I'd like to find a solution to this.
Assuming their atmosphere and it's weather patterns are similar to Earth's. Assuming they are not aquatic, or live in liquid methane. Assuming their sensory capacity is similar to our own, maybe they can perceive gravity waves or something. Assuming they have the resources and materials to construct electronics that give them the capacity to use a radar type system. Assuming they don't have an incredible sense of smell and have not developed all their communications technology based on that paradigm.
We can't even communicate predictably with Humpback Whales. And, despite the best efforts of lots of creative people, most of the made up aliens that I see in science fiction are less interesting than a Platypus. So not to sound pessimistic, but making any reasonable predictions about a civilization that developed on another world is kind of silly. There are to many unknowns.
That's completely opposed to my experience.
The more and more we learn about space, the more amazing I find it. We always knew it was mostly empty, so that's not news. But here is some news,
You don't find exoplanets captivating? 182 of them.. don't you wonder what they look like? You don't find sub-terrain oceans with who knows what below the surface of Jupiter's icy moons or water flowing on the surface of Mars not so long ago the slightest bit interesting? How about the ever changing notions of the shape and nature of the Universe and it's origins?Frankly, our own ideas of space aliens, and perhaps our expectations of finding them as we expect are boring. If we find Klingons tomorrow.. yawn..
If recent planetary and deep space science has taught us anything, it is that we have no idea what to expect.Which, the folks at Amiga.org are guessing, means a system based on the SAM board. Prototypes of this have been shown. But, knowing everything Amiga, I'll believe that when I see it. It would be nice, as it's a small simple motherboard that runs without the need for active cooling. It would make a unique and interesting web / internet / Amiga applications machine with a snappy OS.
I, myself have a nice PPC Amiga 1200, which I use occasionally for fun. It's a horrible over extended, upgraded collection of cables and add on cards though. We never got substantive replacement hardware, and we just kept expanding the old stuff. It will probably never see OS4 and I'll have to spend $1200 on a new system with the Eyetech board, or this SAM thing... maybe..
And lastly, yes we know it's basically orphaned and practically useless and modern replacements do things much much better and more cheaply, so I'll kindly ask all of you to save your breath, I don't care. It's just interesting how it won't die isn't it?Good grief we live in a culture of fear... How many young people have been damaged on Myspace? I know a few teens that spend lots of hours on the site, and I must say, they are pretty normal. But you know if one girl gets abducted out of the gazillion like her that are registered on Myspace it will be bloody HEADLINE NEWS!!!! How long have we had these stories of the big bad Internet? I feel like the producers at (major cable news network) are just hoping that there will be some sort of weird sexual predator mania with a million victims across the USA that propagates from the dark corners of Myspace just so they can say, "I told you so!"
The young people on this country that are in trouble are from impoverished households, have abusive parents or suffered some real life trauma that did not involve a website. They have problems not because of myspace.
Yea, spending your life on-line gabbing is probably not healthy, obviously, but relax folks. Tech-savvy, pop culture suburbanite kids are not the troubled delinquents of society.
If you're following the same steps (you know, Windows Update, alternate browser and Avast! or similar) with your 2000 machines as you are with your XP machines, I find it highly unlikely that one gets "zombied" while the other does not.
Windows 2000 may have it's advantages but I don't think security is one of them.
I'm a big fat Unix geek, but in reality I've never had a virus with XP or 2000 in 6 years of on again off again usage. Honest.
I stay behind a firewall, use Avast or AVG, used Netscape and now Firefox, and check my Windows Updates every week or two.
I know this is a lot of stuff that the typical user might not be privy to, but I'm guessing the slashdot crowd has the common sense to follow the above rules... or maybe not.
I imagine a University is the type of organization that kind of flies under the radar. Banks, hospitals, credit card companies, these are obvious repositories of personal information. UCLA, not so much. Factor that in with a large, old, complex computer network with volumes of historical data (Those of you that graduated 20 years ago can probably still get your transcript) and you are bound to have quite a bit of low hanging fruit.
Al Gore had an idea to orbit a satellite that provides a continual view of the Earth.
Shame, I would have like to have seen that publicized and championed by the media. A little cultural enlightenment might have gone a long way.
This, of course, is why the focus of every recent mission has been to find the water they suspect exists??!!?
I'm not sure they support either a "dry Mars" or a wet one. It seems to me, they support good science, or at least try to in this instant gratification, pseudo-scientific alien abduction craving society. You don't publish your theory until there is damn good evidence to support it.
Newton really was wrong about physics, even though the evidence to support his theory piled up for a few hundred years more then the evidence to support the water on Mars theory. Don't believe something because you wish it to be. I think Carl Sagan said something like that, and it's good advice.
Well, it takes normally 3 crappy consoles to kill a gaming juggernaut. The last one is usually a desperate effort harnessing some completely obtuse miracles of complex technology.
See: Atari 7600, Lynx, Jaguar
See: CD32, Saturn, Dreamcast
See: Amiga 500, 3000, 4000T
With Sony, since they are so diversified, it would probably take at least 7 crappy consoles before the games division tanks.
So, I guess what I'm saying is that the PlayStation X should be friggin spectacular.
What a dumb number 1. Both figuratively and actually.
Can we replace Paris Hilton with Jerri Ellsworth, please?
So, who did all the things NASA has done before NASA, exactally? What do you want them to innovate? It's not sci-fi, you know it's real life.
I hate to tell you this, but space is bleeding edge. Simply getting there requires knowledge, technology and materials never developed before.
Christ, browse to NASA's webpage and look at a few current and proposedmissions. Or, look at the science secion in Barns & Noble. 90% of what we know about the outer solar system is thanks to Voyager. A whole lot of what we know about deep space is thanks to Hubble.
If it were not for NASA's equipment and research (by them and others) we might still be pouring CFC's into the atmosphere. So, there, NASA has gotten you less skin cancer.
Baby steps. We'd better learn how to get off this rock, one way or another, cause it's not gonna last forever.
The ENIAC was the first real computer, you know.
:-)
Of course, I'm kidding. Everyone should know this.
Watch the video's. Amazing. Infinity
You're right. Maybe I'm just starting to pay attention. Let's hope that others follow suit (I think the Internet really helps), which would only be good for humanity.
For those interested, unmannedspaceflight has active discussions on well.. unmanned space flight, and in particular, this mission. Cassini is another successful unmanned mission. Space is really starting to get exciting again.
The article is meaningful in that it shows what politicians are wasting their time and our tax dollars trying to legislate video games. I'd rather they focus on the issues you mentioned. So, invert your thinking a little.
So, they made the software so it does not kill anyone. Who needs fancy features like precise yearly timing?
Seriously, though, it's worked fine. The software has not killed anyone. They can either fix it and modify a very critical system on an enormously complex vehicle, or they can move the launch date around a few days, which they seem to do for every launch anyway. B is probably safer and more predictable.
The cost of a shuttle mission, from Wikipedia.
is between $60M and $1.5B.. let the debate ensue. Not to be rude, but I'm ignoring the slight potential for human loss.
So many more people die in Iraq or Alaskan Crab Fishing or.. well.. you get the point.
I'm sure there will be other missions and shuttle maintenance and general program costs in 2007 whether we fix the Hubble or not. So, it's logical to factor the cost of this mission kind of inversely, thinking rather, how much will we save if we do not repair the Hubble? Probably not a whole $1.3B estimated one way in the link above, much less.
Regardless of how you intemperate the numbers, I think this is a good idea because:
The Hubble works, and we have experience servicing and fixing it, so it's much more likely that all of this will go smoothly.
We can get this done soon, whereas development of a another new telescope will undoubtedly take many times longer.
The Hubble is very meaningful. It's still returning good science and inspirational pictures.
It's functioning keeps a quite few scientists employed, and that's a good thing.
It's good press. NASA needs to flourish. I think the "new NASA" is just starting to hit it's stride, despite an
otherwise depressed national consciousness. We've had lots of enormously meaningful and successful unmanned missions lately, so yay NASA.
Your tax dollars also pay for the publication of volumes of information available at NASA's website.
Here is some very relevant information on the science instraments attached to the STEREO probe.
You'll notice that each of the vehicle's instruments has it's own page, and some pretty good information on what it is supposed to do and why. It sounds pretty relevent to me. NASA's website is pretty great actually. You paid for it, go check it out.
Microsoft's tools are very good, DirectX has just about caught up to OpenGL and .NET is a pleasure to develop with. IMO they are really care about their DirectX and X-Box SDKs. So it's almost there, really. It's almost possible to develop a great game from your bedroom, but it's still a ton of work. And you can't code art.
What usually kills most projects is the art. Interestingly there is this stigma that is attached to artists, you know, will work for free. They take quite a bit of offense to this, and generally, won't work for free. What's ironic, is that most of us bedroom programmers are working our ass off for free, yet artist working on the same project expect monetary compensation. Art seems to kill more projects then any other issue. Art is about as much work as coding, so I'm not belittling it, but guys, were all in the same boat ok?
A lot of current developers are also re-making games that were innovative, and generas that have kind of disappeared in the mainstream. Adventure games, text adventures, edutainment, hard SCI-FI, etc..
But, utimately, I think their has to be a real reward for the bedroom coder. I do it for the love, but that's getting old. Maybe more incentive and recognition from Microsoft will move some of us off the PC on onto the XBox 360 instead.
I've added ram, changed hard drives, video cards, sound cards, pretty much anything short of the MB (which usually hoses your installation anyway unless you're very carefull), and not had to do any reactivating. Not just my system either, but several others.
So, the folks here that have not used Windows XP, probabbly fell for your bit of FUD and modded you +4 informative. Congrats.