Right.
I have a laptop with Vista on it now. Works fine.
It basically does everthing that XP or W2000 does. (and I still use these two on other PCs at home.)
Vista is just the latest incantation of W2K.
And it is SUPPORTED. The most important point!
Think of it as W2k SP7, Win2007 or whatever.
And get on with your damn life, you weenie M$ hater/loser... (Sorry- not you, but the previous poster somewhere)
(Applesoft BASIC, for instance, was written by MS and bundled in Apple ][ sales, even though Apple had their own Integer BASIC).
Impossible!
From everything I have read in in this revealing thread so far, Microsoft could have NEVER been able to do this!
They (oops- I mean the evil Bill Gates) were only capable of stealing code , and throttling the innocent competition!
Please, Smashdot weenies! Say it ain't so!!
So? Why didn't your particular "hero" - "Steve"? "Linus"? Have HIS dear li'l mommy on the board that that you hate with so much passion?
In fact.. where was YOU "mommy"?
Out selling copies of CP/M?
Geez.. go give yer mommy a kick in the ass, Loser!
It's the face of it. Migod redux.
I didn't change it to WORK, but to LOOK like an 8 year old version.
I never DID like that crappy confusing Start menu of XP and Vista, those fade-in fade out menu items etc... But hey- that's just me. I'm an old guy. I don't like sugar in my cornflakes.
WHAAAT! Next you'll be asking me why I got a new car with a standard transmission, instead those weenie automatics!
Grrrr....!;-)
I have Vista (now SP1) on my laptop and it runs perfectly well.
Of course one of the first things I did was remove all that sickly blue marshmellow eye-candy, and reverted to the Classic "Win2k" GUI.
If you didn't know any better, you'd think it was W2K.
It NEVER crashes. It boots quickly, and oh yes- I even have Linux on the PC.
But guess which OS I have defaulted my GRUB to boot into?
"fucking" "RUTHLESS" "Cut-throats" "gangsters".. etc..
What, in goodness sakes did MS ever do to you? And, oops- You forgot to include the obligatory M$ in your diatribe.
You must be real fun to talk to in a bar after a few beers, hmmm?
Why didnt you just pay $50 to have WIN2000 installed instead?
In my capacity as a senior techie, at Cleyn&Tinker (a textile company) I once ordered several Dell PCs with Win2000, and the manager (choke!) overruled me and had his junior flunkie reinstall Win98 over the Win2K.
That's when I started to pay more attention to Dilbert.
Later on, the manager and an idiot-Luddite VP agreed that Compaq was much more a "Professional's PC" and the "cheap" Dells were slowly replaced with REAL AMERICAN BUSNISSMAN'S Compaqs!
Needless to say, the textile company is now out of business.
Say- is Compaq still in business?
I have (choke) Dial-up.
Alas I live in the deep woods, with a 35-year-old underground telecom wire. And can barely pull 35 Kbs if I'm lucky.
If I need an SPx upgrade or whatever, I go to a friend's in the town nearby and DL it onto my thumb-drive.
I do not understand these people who use THE INTERNET to download live action!
It slows down even MY pathetic bandwidth!
Fer goodness sakes guys, get a satellite dish. And if it's some illegal movie? Hell- go rent the damn video at your local store! It's faster. And cheaper.
And - it's ILLEGAL? So go get an FTA sat receiver. They are easy enuf to find!
You idiots are destroying the internet!
I use the internet for internet-specific tasks (wotever that means; I'm still in WEB-1)
A pox upon your movie torrents!
I wuz workin' with windows, DOS and Unix AND MAINFRAMES before you were probably even born.
I'm almost as old as McCain, and I bet I could easily beat you in a 10K run, or debug a PHP program faster than you.
I may not have seen silent movies fist hand, but I've seen most movies from the 40s and 50s (except those shitty musicals) and well... probably read more books than you.
Grrr..
Faggy li'l pantywaist!
Fuck all this "anti-hydrogen" shit!
I await the creation of "anti-lead" or at least "anti-iron"!
Then we shall see which way the atom falls!
1. Create a big story about how you have created Anti-hydrogen.
- then -Claim it works great in the latest GM SUV hybrid, and you figured out a satisfactory containment vessel!
2. Start issuing your IPO.
3. Profit!
How can something travel backwards in time? That doesn't even begin to make sense to me.
I remember this equation about an electron travelling backwards in time from many MANY years ago in Atomic physics. When the prof explained that it was simply a heuristic solution, we all started speculating in class as to what it really meant, and proceeded to waste the rest of the period, while the prof grew increasingly frustrated.
Simple answer: the square root of minus one. Does this make sense either? And geez.. don't get me started on the 4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire...
I THINK it was a hammer. And it was Alan Shepard.
And it was marvelous basic high-school lecture, that sadly, everyone seems to have forgotten.
But sadly, the hoi-polloi all seem to remember his idiotic golf-drive on the moon.
(sorry- I'm not a golfer)
A "hole" is simply a virtual object. It is not matter, but simply a construct to help us understand/ explain things better.
Think about a hole in the ground. Can you pick it up and throw it? Which way does it fall?
I'm reminded of a VERY old Beatles song here, but I digress....
Come to think of it, the 286 may have had a meg or two of extended memory.
But I DID run Win 3.1 on a one-meg 386.
And it just may have run a bit faster than my current Vista on a 2GHz system with 2Gig RAM...
>> I don't know a single person who's actually installed and used every version of Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, and Vista.
Not only all of the above, but Windows 3.0, Windows 2 and...(gasp!) Windows 1!
On a 640Kb PC-Limited ("Dell") 80286!
(BTW.. Win 1 and 2 sucked, compared to the old Apple-II... Come to think of it so did Win 3.0, and, umm... 'nuf said.)
Did I mention IBM's OS/2? Well, that's another (sad) story.
Oh, wait- I'm not "an American".
I have recently seen new 8-track (remember Lear's old Mobius strip?) recording that when digitally encoded, can carry up to 412 Terabytes of info!
At blazingly fast loops!
AND-
it is backward compatible with the old 8-track loop! And even AVI, WMV and MP4a stuff.
DVD (incl. Blu-ray) is finished!
Slashdot Mirror
YES!
And Flickr GUARANTEE that they will be around in 75 years!
Or your money back!
TRUST US!
Right.
I have a laptop with Vista on it now. Works fine.
It basically does everthing that XP or W2000 does. (and I still use these two on other PCs at home.)
Vista is just the latest incantation of W2K.
And it is SUPPORTED. The most important point!
Think of it as W2k SP7, Win2007 or whatever.
And get on with your damn life, you weenie M$ hater/loser...
(Sorry- not you, but the previous poster somewhere)
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
(Applesoft BASIC, for instance, was written by MS and bundled in Apple ][ sales, even though Apple had their own Integer BASIC).
Impossible!
From everything I have read in in this revealing thread so far, Microsoft could have NEVER been able to do this!
They (oops- I mean the evil Bill Gates) were only capable of stealing code , and throttling the innocent competition!
Please, Smashdot weenies! Say it ain't so!!
So? Why didn't your particular "hero" - "Steve"? "Linus"? Have HIS dear li'l mommy on the board that that you hate with so much passion?
In fact.. where was YOU "mommy"?
Out selling copies of CP/M?
Geez.. go give yer mommy a kick in the ass, Loser!
It's the face of it. Migod redux.
;-)
I didn't change it to WORK, but to LOOK like an 8 year old version. I never DID like that crappy confusing Start menu of XP and Vista, those fade-in fade out menu items etc...
But hey- that's just me. I'm an old guy. I don't like sugar in my cornflakes.
WHAAAT! Next you'll be asking me why I got a new car with a standard transmission, instead those weenie automatics!
Grrrr....!
>I think you may very well be the only person I have ever seen state that Microsoft Windows "just works," or that Mac is unfriendly.
No. I'm one also.
Sure, a lot of OS's had bugs; actually they ALL did.
I have Vista (now SP1) on my laptop and it runs perfectly well.
Of course one of the first things I did was remove all that sickly blue marshmellow eye-candy, and reverted to the Classic "Win2k" GUI.
If you didn't know any better, you'd think it was W2K.
It NEVER crashes. It boots quickly, and oh yes- I even have Linux on the PC.
But guess which OS I have defaulted my GRUB to boot into?
Well, there it is again...(sigh)
"fucking" "RUTHLESS" "Cut-throats" "gangsters".. etc..
What, in goodness sakes did MS ever do to you? And, oops- You forgot to include the obligatory M$ in your diatribe.
You must be real fun to talk to in a bar after a few beers, hmmm?
Why didnt you just pay $50 to have WIN2000 installed instead?
In my capacity as a senior techie, at Cleyn&Tinker (a textile company) I once ordered several Dell PCs with Win2000, and the manager (choke!) overruled me and had his junior flunkie reinstall Win98 over the Win2K.
That's when I started to pay more attention to Dilbert.
Later on, the manager and an idiot-Luddite VP agreed that Compaq was much more a "Professional's PC" and the "cheap" Dells were slowly replaced with REAL AMERICAN BUSNISSMAN'S Compaqs!
Needless to say, the textile company is now out of business.
Say- is Compaq still in business?
Did he ever visit Nigeria?
He seems to have a lot of offspring there.
(And apparently in Canada too)
My CV is at
CV
But no one is impressed. Perhaps because there's no French translation...
Phoque YOU! Yer momma wears army boots!
Richard, o Richard! Where are you?
OK... so it ain't Mars. (yet)
But at least it's a start!
Brin takes my bait!
Richard! You gonna let him do this to you? And me?
I have (choke) Dial-up.
Alas I live in the deep woods, with a 35-year-old underground telecom wire. And can barely pull 35 Kbs if I'm lucky.
If I need an SPx upgrade or whatever, I go to a friend's in the town nearby and DL it onto my thumb-drive.
I do not understand these people who use THE INTERNET to download live action! It slows down even MY pathetic bandwidth!
Fer goodness sakes guys, get a satellite dish. And if it's some illegal movie? Hell- go rent the damn video at your local store! It's faster. And cheaper.
And - it's ILLEGAL? So go get an FTA sat receiver. They are easy enuf to find!
You idiots are destroying the internet! I use the internet for internet-specific tasks (wotever that means; I'm still in WEB-1)
A pox upon your movie torrents!
HEYYY! You fukin' ageist!
I wuz workin' with windows, DOS and Unix AND MAINFRAMES before you were probably even born.
I'm almost as old as McCain, and I bet I could easily beat you in a 10K run, or debug a PHP program faster than you.
I may not have seen silent movies fist hand, but I've seen most movies from the 40s and 50s (except those shitty musicals) and well... probably read more books than you.
Grrr..
Faggy li'l pantywaist!
Fuck all this "anti-hydrogen" shit! I await the creation of "anti-lead" or at least "anti-iron"!
Then we shall see which way the atom falls!
1. Create a big story about how you have created Anti-hydrogen. - then -Claim it works great in the latest GM SUV hybrid, and you figured out a satisfactory containment vessel!
2. Start issuing your IPO.
3. Profit!
I remember this equation about an electron travelling backwards in time from many MANY years ago in Atomic physics. When the prof explained that it was simply a heuristic solution, we all started speculating in class as to what it really meant, and proceeded to waste the rest of the period, while the prof grew increasingly frustrated.
Simple answer: the square root of minus one. Does this make sense either?
And geez.. don't get me started on the 4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire...
I THINK it was a hammer. And it was Alan Shepard.
And it was marvelous basic high-school lecture, that sadly, everyone seems to have forgotten.
But sadly, the hoi-polloi all seem to remember his idiotic golf-drive on the moon.
(sorry- I'm not a golfer)
Re "holes" fall up.
A "hole" is simply a virtual object. It is not matter, but simply a construct to help us understand/ explain things better.
Think about a hole in the ground. Can you pick it up and throw it? Which way does it fall?
I'm reminded of a VERY old Beatles song here, but I digress....
"what is holding the vacuum in?"
I like it! Never heard of a vacuum referenced in this this way before!
And if that vacuum were to ever escape... well, heaven help us.
Is that what all this CERN "End of the world - black-hole particle" business is about?
Besides the MAGENTIC fields, we most also consider the red shift
But absolutely, not relatively, as had earlier been pointed out.
LOL!
Of course I meant just Windows 1 & 2...
Come to think of it, the 286 may have had a meg or two of extended memory.
But I DID run Win 3.1 on a one-meg 386.
And it just may have run a bit faster than my current Vista on a 2GHz system with 2Gig RAM...
>> I don't know a single person who's actually installed and used every version of Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, and Vista.
Not only all of the above, but Windows 3.0, Windows 2 and...(gasp!) Windows 1!
On a 640Kb PC-Limited ("Dell") 80286!
(BTW.. Win 1 and 2 sucked, compared to the old Apple-II... Come to think of it so did Win 3.0, and, umm... 'nuf said.)
Did I mention IBM's OS/2? Well, that's another (sad) story.
Oh, wait- I'm not "an American".
Pshaw! Nonsense, my good fellow!
I have recently seen new 8-track (remember Lear's old Mobius strip?) recording that when digitally encoded, can carry up to 412 Terabytes of info!
At blazingly fast loops! AND-
it is backward compatible with the old 8-track loop! And even AVI, WMV and MP4a stuff.
DVD (incl. Blu-ray) is finished!