...In reality the BSA doesnt care about some small company thats using its photoshop license two or three times or that it has two windows 2003 servers it didnt pay for....
This is assuming NICs represent a major driver problem in Vista/7. They don't. Virtually all NICs (I'm willing to say 99%) will WORK (that is FUNCTION) "out of the box" with Windows 7. There are a number of generic fallback drivers. There might be some issues, like jumbo frame support on gigabit cards, and some settings you can't tweak, but they will almost always work. This has been the case since Windows 98.
Find another straw man.
I take it you've never had a machine with an onboard nvidia NIC. No, they do not work out of the box.
...Can you imagine NASA spending 1/5th of it's annual budget on a deep space probe at this point in history?...
WTF else are they spending it on? Management salaries? Swimsuit models? PR? Seriously. I'd actually be pleased to see them spend 1/5 of their budget on ACTUAL SPACE TRAVEL.
Sarge really was the source of these endless jokes. Almost three years, on a Linux that was considerably less mature than it is today was forever...
Sure, the release time from Woody to Sarge was funny until you realized that even with the umpteen thousands of packages included with Sarge, the Debian team still beat release times between Microsoft's bare-bones desktop OSes Windows XP and Vista.
Yes. A friend purchased a laptop while he was in the Phillipines that came with Vista Limited Edition(TM). What a pain in the ass it was to use. He's running Kubuntu now.
As others have mentioned, Avast is excellent. I haven't yet played with the Comodo AV. I used Antivir a while back, but wasn't fond of the nag screens.
Try using it with a dial-up, even worse, dial-up AOL. The damn thing can't seem to figure out that some people don't have an 'always-on' connection and will continuously bitch that it's update has failed. We're not talking about users like you and me who know to disable an extension in a 3rd party program, we're talking your Mom and your Grandma - with whom the previous versions of AVG worked perfectly. How the hell would they know to run some bizarre command line deal to remove the link scanner, or dive deep into the advanced configs to attempt to turn off nag screens (wow, where have we heard this before...). AVG has become a godawful, bloated, nagging piece of junk. Whether it works well at detection or not, I don't care. I won't install it for clients or family again.
I don't disagree. Version 8 of their product is the most bloated thing I've seen in ages. Almost moreso than the consumer Norton/McAffee stuff. And to top it off, it's so naggy it's ridiculous.
He was so much more than the '7 words' skit, but it was an important part of the struggle for freedom of speech back in the day. I'll reiterate, the man taught me more love of language than any English teacher was ever able. This is my favorite example: "You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth. I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't like words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms or euphemistic language. And American English is loaded with euphemisms. Because Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent a kind of a soft language to protect themselves from it. And it gets worse with every generation. For some reason it just keeps getting worse.
I'll give you an example of that. There's a condition in combat. Most people know about it. It's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to it's absolute peak and maximum, can't take any more input. The nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap. In the first world war that condition was called shell shock. Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables. Shell shock. Almost sounds like the guns themselves. That was 70 years ago. Then a whole generation went by. And the second world war came along and the very same combat condition was called battle fatigue. Four syllables now. Takes a little longer to say. Doesn't seem to be as hard to say. Fatigue is a nicer word than shock. Shell shock...battle fatigue.
Then we had the war in Korea in 1950. Madison Avenue was riding high by that time. And the very same combat condition was called Operational Exhaustion. Hey we're up to 8 syllables now! And the humanity has been squeezed completely out of the phrase now. It's totally sterile now. Operational Exhaustion: sounds like something that might happen to your car. Then of course came the war in Vietnam, which has only been over for about 16 or 17 years. And thanks to the lies and deceit surrounding that war, I guess it's no surprise that the very same condition was called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Still 8 syllables, but we've added a hyphen. And the pain is completely buried under jargon. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I bet you, if we'd still been calling it shell shock, some of those Vietnam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time. I bet you that.
But it didn't happen. And one of the reasons is because we were using that soft language, that language that takes out the life out of life. And it is a function of time it does keep getting worse.
Give you another example. Sometime during my life toilet paper became bathroom tissue. I wasn't notified of this. No one asked me if I agreed with it. It just happened. Toilet paper became bathroom tissue. Sneakers became running shoes. False teeth became dental appliances. Medicine became medication. Information became directory assistance. The dump became the land fill. Car crashes became automobile accidents. Partly cloudy became partly sunny. Motels became motor lodges. House trailers became mobile homes. Used cars became previously owned transportation. Room service became guest room dining. Constipation became occasional irregularity.
When I was a little kid if I got sick they wanted me to go to a hospital and see the doctor. Now they want me to go to a health maintenance organization. Or a wellness center to consult a health care delivery professional. Poor people used to live in slums. Now the economically disadvantaged occupy sub-standard housing in the inner cities. And they're broke! They're broke. They don't have a negative cash flow position. They're f--kin' broke! Because a lot of them were fired. You know, fired. Management wanted to curtail redundancies in the human resources area. So many people are no longer viable members of the work force.
Smug, greedy well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It's as simple as that. The CIA doesn't kill people anymo
Windows has had trouble with AMD since at least Win2k. It would stop responding when you used an AGP card, namely Nvidia GeForce 256's and Matrox G400's (not that they were popular or anything...) with an AMD Athlon processor, due to the memory allocated by the video adapter driver becoming corrupted. It took a manual registry edit plus reboot to fix it.
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I believe the word you're looking for is "bullshit".
Yep, and the Microsoft PR army has always listed a ton of "new features" for every one of their OS's... that is... until they actually shipped.
In the olden days, it was because someone walked on the punch cards in golf shoes
Ernie Ball would beg to differ.
I take it you've never had a machine with an onboard nvidia NIC. No, they do not work out of the box.
WTF else are they spending it on? Management salaries? Swimsuit models? PR?
Seriously.
I'd actually be pleased to see them spend 1/5 of their budget on ACTUAL SPACE TRAVEL.
Sure, the release time from Woody to Sarge was funny until you realized that even with the umpteen thousands of packages included with Sarge, the Debian team still beat release times between Microsoft's bare-bones desktop OSes Windows XP and Vista.
Yes. A friend purchased a laptop while he was in the Phillipines that came with Vista Limited Edition(TM). What a pain in the ass it was to use.
He's running Kubuntu now.
So yes, roughly $25 per year. Per device.
Sure, then he'll have to buy another XP license just for the test.
Is that you Steve?
Congrats. You are not 99.9999% of computer users.
I still have an Omnibook 6000. I'd have snagged yours for parts!
Like chicken, of course.
Foil-lined goalie masks for everyone!
As others have mentioned, Avast is excellent.
I haven't yet played with the Comodo AV. I used Antivir a while back, but wasn't fond of the nag screens.
Try using it with a dial-up, even worse, dial-up AOL. The damn thing can't seem to figure out that some people don't have an 'always-on' connection and will continuously bitch that it's update has failed.
We're not talking about users like you and me who know to disable an extension in a 3rd party program, we're talking your Mom and your Grandma - with whom the previous versions of AVG worked perfectly. How the hell would they know to run some bizarre command line deal to remove the link scanner, or dive deep into the advanced configs to attempt to turn off nag screens (wow, where have we heard this before...). AVG has become a godawful, bloated, nagging piece of junk. Whether it works well at detection or not, I don't care. I won't install it for clients or family again.
I don't disagree. Version 8 of their product is the most bloated thing I've seen in ages. Almost moreso than the consumer Norton/McAffee stuff. And to top it off, it's so naggy it's ridiculous.
He was so much more than the '7 words' skit, but it was an important part of the struggle for freedom of speech back in the day. I'll reiterate, the man taught me more love of language than any English teacher was ever able. This is my favorite example:
"You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth. I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't like words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms or euphemistic language. And American English is loaded with euphemisms. Because Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent a kind of a soft language to protect themselves from it. And it gets worse with every generation. For some reason it just keeps getting worse.
I'll give you an example of that. There's a condition in combat. Most people know about it. It's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to it's absolute peak and maximum, can't take any more input. The nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap. In the first world war that condition was called shell shock. Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables. Shell shock. Almost sounds like the guns themselves. That was 70 years ago. Then a whole generation went by. And the second world war came along and the very same combat condition was called battle fatigue. Four syllables now. Takes a little longer to say. Doesn't seem to be as hard to say. Fatigue is a nicer word than shock. Shell shock...battle fatigue.
Then we had the war in Korea in 1950. Madison Avenue was riding high by that time. And the very same combat condition was called Operational Exhaustion. Hey we're up to 8 syllables now! And the humanity has been squeezed completely out of the phrase now. It's totally sterile now. Operational Exhaustion: sounds like something that might happen to your car. Then of course came the war in Vietnam, which has only been over for about 16 or 17 years. And thanks to the lies and deceit surrounding that war, I guess it's no surprise that the very same condition was called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Still 8 syllables, but we've added a hyphen. And the pain is completely buried under jargon. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I bet you, if we'd still been calling it shell shock, some of those Vietnam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time. I bet you that.
But it didn't happen. And one of the reasons is because we were using that soft language, that language that takes out the life out of life. And it is a function of time it does keep getting worse.
Give you another example. Sometime during my life toilet paper became bathroom tissue. I wasn't notified of this. No one asked me if I agreed with it. It just happened. Toilet paper became bathroom tissue. Sneakers became running shoes. False teeth became dental appliances. Medicine became medication. Information became directory assistance. The dump became the land fill. Car crashes became automobile accidents. Partly cloudy became partly sunny. Motels became motor lodges. House trailers became mobile homes. Used cars became previously owned transportation. Room service became guest room dining. Constipation became occasional irregularity.
When I was a little kid if I got sick they wanted me to go to a hospital and see the doctor. Now they want me to go to a health maintenance organization. Or a wellness center to consult a health care delivery professional. Poor people used to live in slums. Now the economically disadvantaged occupy sub-standard housing in the inner cities. And they're broke! They're broke. They don't have a negative cash flow position. They're f--kin' broke! Because a lot of them were fired. You know, fired. Management wanted to curtail redundancies in the human resources area. So many people are no longer viable members of the work force.
Smug, greedy well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It's as simple as that. The CIA doesn't kill people anymo
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The man taught me more love of language than any English teacher was ever able.
If you really believe that, perhaps you should talk to Richard Jewell.
Are you interested in adopting a 38 year old?
Big Buddy!
Windows has had trouble with AMD since at least Win2k. It would stop responding when you used an AGP card, namely Nvidia GeForce 256's and Matrox G400's (not that they were popular or anything...) with an AMD Athlon processor, due to the memory allocated by the video adapter driver becoming corrupted. It took a manual registry edit plus reboot to fix it.
So my Cyrix 166+ is good to go?
"We know the picture... ends in an .exe, which is not shown"
And yet, still to this day, Microsoft has the godawful stupid default of hiding the damn file extensions.