Having 100+ Gigs is fairly common. Will Longhorn take 20G to install??? Every 'new' windows version has made my 'current' computer seem slow. I expect the same again....
Todd: I thought we'd never ship XP SP2. I just wasn't sure if we could get to the quality level that we need to be at in time.
Paul: In time... ?
Todd: Before the next [round of dangerous exploits].
Sometimes the message is more important than the man. I guess the BSOD joke hit a nerve? Now that you have corrected my error, do you feel superior? Does it help you to sleep knowing that I am not mispelling a dead persons name? Perhaps it boosts your ego to post profanity on a public forum? You have saved generations to come, you have done your duty as a spelling teacher.
That's scary.
Imagine...turning to port, target the enemy and BSOD!!! Your weapon fails to fire but the enemys does not. All hands lost. BSOD takes on a whole new meaning. Better optimize those bootup routines. In battle, the last thing you'll want to do is lose control of your vessel while your systems reboot.
Why? There will still be plenty of XP boxes for linux users like me to fix. What you call ecosystem, I call monopoly. Yes, take econ 101, why pay big for a product that is INFERIOR to one that is FREE??? Name someone else that puts out a product that is broken right out of the box? That has fixes for the fixes?
I'm not advocating a "nanny-state," but there are certain decisions that must be made for us, by the government.
The trouble with that is that if we cede this, then some busybody always comes along and adds more things that 'the government should decide' for us. So it starts by restricting our cognitive liberty. Perhaps we should not be allowed to think certain things. It is a slippery slope that leads to total tyrrany. You are in fact advocating a nanny state and suggesting that somehow are leaders are so perfect that they can decide for us. It's ok GWB to snort mountains of coke and he went on to be President. If you or I do it, we are heinous criminals, the enemy that deserves no mercy and years in prison to be the sexual plaything of someone bigger.
The only difference is that illegal drug dealers don't contribute to politicians
I wouldn't be so sure. It is prohibition that keeps the profits high for illicit drug dealers. Ending prohibition would decrease the value of illicit drugs 10 fold. Herion would only be worth pennies per dose, not much profit for anyone.
They would simply charge an unreasonable amount of money to implant the chip in the hand. Free (and mandatory) implantation in the forehead. That way all but the wealthiest would have to bow to the banks to withdraw their money.
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Having 100+ Gigs is fairly common. Will Longhorn take 20G to install??? Every 'new' windows version has made my 'current' computer seem slow. I expect the same again....
Sometimes the message is more important than the man. I guess the BSOD joke hit a nerve? Now that you have corrected my error, do you feel superior? Does it help you to sleep knowing that I am not mispelling a dead persons name? Perhaps it boosts your ego to post profanity on a public forum? You have saved generations to come, you have done your duty as a spelling teacher.
That's scary. Imagine...turning to port, target the enemy and BSOD!!! Your weapon fails to fire but the enemys does not. All hands lost. BSOD takes on a whole new meaning. Better optimize those bootup routines. In battle, the last thing you'll want to do is lose control of your vessel while your systems reboot.
Why? There will still be plenty of XP boxes for linux users like me to fix. What you call ecosystem, I call monopoly. Yes, take econ 101, why pay big for a product that is INFERIOR to one that is FREE??? Name someone else that puts out a product that is broken right out of the box? That has fixes for the fixes?
The trouble with that is that if we cede this, then some busybody always comes along and adds more things that 'the government should decide' for us. So it starts by restricting our cognitive liberty. Perhaps we should not be allowed to think certain things. It is a slippery slope that leads to total tyrrany. You are in fact advocating a nanny state and suggesting that somehow are leaders are so perfect that they can decide for us. It's ok GWB to snort mountains of coke and he went on to be President. If you or I do it, we are heinous criminals, the enemy that deserves no mercy and years in prison to be the sexual plaything of someone bigger.
I wouldn't be so sure. It is prohibition that keeps the profits high for illicit drug dealers. Ending prohibition would decrease the value of illicit drugs 10 fold. Herion would only be worth pennies per dose, not much profit for anyone.
If you check the stats you would see that somethling like 75% of US drug arrests are for cannabis. The drug war is really a war on pot.
They would simply charge an unreasonable amount of money to implant the chip in the hand. Free (and mandatory) implantation in the forehead. That way all but the wealthiest would have to bow to the banks to withdraw their money.