I already registered it as a word. Funny how these things tend to work out.
Same with the ipods back when they hit 1 mil.
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I could've said the same thing for the iPod back when they hit their first million. It's still less than 1% of the total US population, let alone the world.
I actually see many Zunes in use in the D.C. area (most of them are used for watching missed episodes of Lost, 24, and Heroes)
"Vista has proven itself to be as big a mistake as Windows ME. Nothing works with it, it is full of DRM crap that keeps you from doing anything and there is really no reason to "upgrade" to it anyway."
1) How did it prove itself to be as big a mistake as Windows ME? No one knew how bad ME was until a year after it when Microsoft was already almost done with XP. ME was an intermediate OS, which was why it sucked. Vista is far more stable than XP or even 2000 on a machine meeting its recommended specs with hardware on the HCL. 3 machines in my house run Vista without a problem, and two of them have the dreaded "Vista Capable" logo.
2) DRM crap? I bet you don't even have a bluray or HDDVD drive in the first place. Hell, I bet you torrent all of your movies, so you shouldn't be complaining. Vista doesn't DRM everything. You can still watch your torrented movies (it's the only way to get decent HD rips anyhow)
3) no real reason to upgrade. Right, well I found BitLocker to be a perfect reason. To each his own; I can see where you're coming from but there are people that disagree with you.
Microsoft and Toshiba screwed this up on purpose to undermine the AACS. Defective by Design, sure, but this is probably one of the few times that it ROCKS.
Unfortunately, since cursors pwn you in the US, the statement must be revised (rather ironically) to:
In Soviet Russia, you pwn cursors!
See, since that doesn't exactly work with the other Soviet Russia jokes, there's no reason to post it here. You pwn cursors and cursors pwn you in the US. Now, if we replaced cursors with mice and you with your food, then we have a more appropriate USSR joke.
"Earlier today the California Attorney General's office issued an incorrect press release stating that defendants would enter guilty pleas to the wire fraud charges."
That was fixed in Vista (for Minimize and move, anyway), but only while running Glass. It's because the actual application is no more than a texture thrown onto a frame (the glass). Killing an app is also a tad easier than before: if an app isn't responding and you try to kill it, Windows asks you if you'd like to wait for it to come back to the light or if you'd like to hack it to bits. I haven't had an issue with it so far.
we could do that, but the odds of us being screwed over by either a gamma ray burst or some other dangerous interstellar space event would be pretty high.
but then again, the resulting mutations might come in handy.
Vista received a huge marketing campaign, but most people who kept track of what Microsoft was doing for the past 5 years know that Vista could've been much better than what it turned out to be due to the development crash in August 2004.
Office, on the other hand, was praised as something which would make life much easier for people because of the new ribbon. There's even a home and student version for people who can't afford paying for standard edition.
Ma Bell had to swear to uphold net neutrality for a certain duration of time (two years?) when they merged with Bell South. If they didn't agree to that, the merger would've been shot down.
I'm willing to bet that that time frame was set because it would give the dems enough time to pass Net Neutrality legislation. Yay for the FCC.
I'm running an E1705 (manufactured in May of last year) and I'm not seeing this. Maybe his unit just sucks at grounding. (They're called manufacturing defects for a reason, and last I checked, they're covered by warranty and by law.)
Take it from me, I came up with the idea (August 22nd in the Windows Anytime Upgrade beta chat. I won Best Suggestion for it). They never beta tested this. It was a surprise to me when it was actually implemented.
I tried this out as a test. The family plan activated Ultimate Edition just fine, though I think Microsoft might invalidate it (ew, WGA) once they read this post.
"PS3: Releasing one year after the lower priced Xbox 360, lauded for its great games, ease of development, and superior online service."
Really? Great games? Not at launch.
ease of development? One reason why it has barely any launch titles is because it's so hard to develop for the console. Superior online service? Does it even have an online service?
No, I'm not anyone's fanboy. I still want to play MGS4.
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I already registered it as a word. Funny how these things tend to work out.
I could've said the same thing for the iPod back when they hit their first million. It's still less than 1% of the total US population, let alone the world.
I actually see many Zunes in use in the D.C. area (most of them are used for watching missed episodes of Lost, 24, and Heroes)
NASA might start overbidding on eBay for weird crap...
Think they'll buy my old pokemon cards?
Laugh.
"Vista has proven itself to be as big a mistake as Windows ME. Nothing works with it, it is full of DRM crap that keeps you from doing anything and there is really no reason to "upgrade" to it anyway."
1) How did it prove itself to be as big a mistake as Windows ME? No one knew how bad ME was until a year after it when Microsoft was already almost done with XP. ME was an intermediate OS, which was why it sucked. Vista is far more stable than XP or even 2000 on a machine meeting its recommended specs with hardware on the HCL. 3 machines in my house run Vista without a problem, and two of them have the dreaded "Vista Capable" logo.
2) DRM crap? I bet you don't even have a bluray or HDDVD drive in the first place. Hell, I bet you torrent all of your movies, so you shouldn't be complaining. Vista doesn't DRM everything. You can still watch your torrented movies (it's the only way to get decent HD rips anyhow)
3) no real reason to upgrade. Right, well I found BitLocker to be a perfect reason. To each his own; I can see where you're coming from but there are people that disagree with you.
Here's an outlandish idea:
Microsoft and Toshiba screwed this up on purpose to undermine the AACS. Defective by Design, sure, but this is probably one of the few times that it ROCKS.
Unfortunately, since cursors pwn you in the US, the statement must be revised (rather ironically) to:
In Soviet Russia, you pwn cursors!
See, since that doesn't exactly work with the other Soviet Russia jokes, there's no reason to post it here. You pwn cursors and cursors pwn you in the US. Now, if we replaced cursors with mice and you with your food, then we have a more appropriate USSR joke.
It just hasn't happened in humans yet.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6196225
Hate to be the party pooper, but do you have a link?
http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/technology/hpq/ind ex.htm?cnn=yes
"Earlier today the California Attorney General's office issued an incorrect press release stating that defendants would enter guilty pleas to the wire fraud charges."
It's probably just a way to reduces losses which Microsoft might incur as a result of this huge discount.
losses... lol
That was fixed in Vista (for Minimize and move, anyway), but only while running Glass. It's because the actual application is no more than a texture thrown onto a frame (the glass). Killing an app is also a tad easier than before: if an app isn't responding and you try to kill it, Windows asks you if you'd like to wait for it to come back to the light or if you'd like to hack it to bits. I haven't had an issue with it so far.
http://www.martianbuddy.com/ I won that contest.
we could do that, but the odds of us being screwed over by either a gamma ray burst or some other dangerous interstellar space event would be pretty high.
but then again, the resulting mutations might come in handy.
Vista received a huge marketing campaign, but most people who kept track of what Microsoft was doing for the past 5 years know that Vista could've been much better than what it turned out to be due to the development crash in August 2004.
Office, on the other hand, was praised as something which would make life much easier for people because of the new ribbon. There's even a home and student version for people who can't afford paying for standard edition.
Yay! Now I can get 10,000 songs without having to spend $9,999 dollars!
Oh wait
I know.
Ma Bell had to swear to uphold net neutrality for a certain duration of time (two years?) when they merged with Bell South. If they didn't agree to that, the merger would've been shot down.
I'm willing to bet that that time frame was set because it would give the dems enough time to pass Net Neutrality legislation. Yay for the FCC.
I'm running an E1705 (manufactured in May of last year) and I'm not seeing this. Maybe his unit just sucks at grounding. (They're called manufacturing defects for a reason, and last I checked, they're covered by warranty and by law.)
Take it from me, I came up with the idea (August 22nd in the Windows Anytime Upgrade beta chat. I won Best Suggestion for it). They never beta tested this. It was a surprise to me when it was actually implemented.
I tried this out as a test. The family plan activated Ultimate Edition just fine, though I think Microsoft might invalidate it (ew, WGA) once they read this post.
"NASA Needs Fake Moon Dust"
Again?
Zimmerman? A person named Zimmermann made PGP?
As in Zimmermann with the same spelling as this Zimmerman who was tied to this event?
"PS3: Releasing one year after the lower priced Xbox 360, lauded for its great games, ease of development, and superior online service."
Really? Great games? Not at launch.
ease of development? One reason why it has barely any launch titles is because it's so hard to develop for the console. Superior online service? Does it even have an online service?
No, I'm not anyone's fanboy. I still want to play MGS4.
Microsoft released a portable, handheld Myspace, but did anyone care?
Actually, according to some people, it hasn't been decided yet.