Rubbish, my PC (built for the equivalent of about $500 (over 2 years ago - granted I upgraded the GPU last year but that would have only added another $100 after replacing the old one) and it runs Vista perfectly fine including all the latest games.
This whole thing about having to spend a fortune on hardware for vista is BS. You do NOT need to a 'killer' machine to run a 'killer' OS as you so put it.
Granted it took a while for the graphics drivers for games to mature properly to the point of being similar to XP, but that happened a while ago, and on any modern (and not necessarily expensive PC), the performance difference will be minimal between Vista/7 and XP.
Well considering XP came out several YEARS before these laptops and desktops you downgraded, it's hardly surprising is it?
You can't really compare installing the latest copy of Ubuntu (which has probably the latest hardware drivers included) with software that is running on hardware 5-6 years newer it was first built to run on.
Google provides a search mechanism for internet content, some of which infringes copyright. TPB provides a search mechanism for downloadable content, some of which infringes copyright.
As much as it pains me to say it, that last sentence should be more like.
TPB provides a search mechanism for downloadable content, most of which infringes copyright.
Except unless it was there you wouldn't be able to play any media that required it, and unless it's needed it will never affect you if you play media that doesn't require it, so it's not really a big issue anyway.
Except in the UK (and perhaps elsewhere as well), most people DON'T have water meters they simply pay a fixed rate dependent on the size of their home. So water they don't use still costs them.
Except in the case of WWI and WWII, the US didn't enter until 3 years after it started (1 year before it ended) and 2 years after it started (4 years before it ended) respectively, so those numbers, especially of WWI would have been much higher had they been in the war from the start.
No they don't all burn fuel 24x7, the electric ones can use off-peak electricity (which is generally considerably cheaper) and so store the heat for use during the day (and only draw extra if they need to).
The heat given off by the AGA also saves the kitchen from needing separate heating (and more so depending on the size of the house).
Erm no, it isn't. Windows 2k will be 10 YEARS old and by this time next year will at the point where it is no longer EVER supported by Microsoft from then on.
You realise right, Windows 2000 goes out of EXTENDED support next year (i.e. the same support status that XP has just entered into). This means no more updates (including security) for 2000 EVER from the middle of next year onwards.
Mozilla supporting it or in people fact using it from then on simply is not the best idea.
Because it is essentially just like any other con or scam (which also happen to be illegal). There is really no big difference between a con artist and someone running a pyramid scheme.
Either way they are promising something which simply will never happen.
There are still a few good ISPs out there, but yeah they are very few and far between.
http://www.bethere.co.uk/ is probably the best I know of and from experience, it's truly unlimited in pretty much every way, and it's not ridiculously overpriced unlike others which may offer similar services.
The problem is Most ISPs in the UK don't have an easy way to check your usage, especially some of the bigger ones like VM and BT etc.
VM is also extremely guilty of advertising "unlimited" services, when in reality they hit you with traffic shaping as soon as you go over a pathetically small limit (1.2GB is the limit in the evening on the 10Mb tariff and knock you down to a much smaller 2.5Mb for 5 hours). I'm pretty sure other ISPs in the UK do exactly the same still.
Except that still doesn't solve the issue of what if something goes wrong (rocket launches are still not perfect) and when it launches, a mass of radioactive material gets released into the atmosphere due to an on-board explosion or something.
Well it is definitely in Vista SP1, I can't see any possible reason why they would remove it, and am pretty sure it is in the 7057 build of 7 (although will need to check).
No the option is still there and always has been, you simply run through the process of putting disc in drive and booting from it and you will see an option of repairing. I've had done it loads of times for instance when installing XP as a dual boot and accidentally overwriting the Vista boot software.
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Rubbish, my PC (built for the equivalent of about $500 (over 2 years ago - granted I upgraded the GPU last year but that would have only added another $100 after replacing the old one) and it runs Vista perfectly fine including all the latest games.
This whole thing about having to spend a fortune on hardware for vista is BS. You do NOT need to a 'killer' machine to run a 'killer' OS as you so put it.
Granted it took a while for the graphics drivers for games to mature properly to the point of being similar to XP, but that happened a while ago, and on any modern (and not necessarily expensive PC), the performance difference will be minimal between Vista/7 and XP.
whoosh!
Well considering XP came out several YEARS before these laptops and desktops you downgraded, it's hardly surprising is it?
You can't really compare installing the latest copy of Ubuntu (which has probably the latest hardware drivers included) with software that is running on hardware 5-6 years newer it was first built to run on.
Except it says BREAK-EVEN, so unless you know for sure they are using additional tax money to run the business, then what exactly is the issue??
Not everything in flash is low/poor quality. Just because YouTube's quality is crap, doesn't mean it has to be.
The high quality version of iPlayer looks surprisingly good on my 42".
Google provides a search mechanism for internet content, some of which infringes copyright.
TPB provides a search mechanism for downloadable content, some of which infringes copyright.
As much as it pains me to say it, that last sentence should be more like.
TPB provides a search mechanism for downloadable content, most of which infringes copyright.
oops and Vista does too, although 7 seems a bit easier to use, I'd still use Acronis though as I don't think it support incremental backups.
Actually 7 DOES have a proper image based backup system built in, not tried it myself, but it is there.
Except unless it was there you wouldn't be able to play any media that required it, and unless it's needed it will never affect you if you play media that doesn't require it, so it's not really a big issue anyway.
Except in the UK (and perhaps elsewhere as well), most people DON'T have water meters they simply pay a fixed rate dependent on the size of their home. So water they don't use still costs them.
Except in the case of WWI and WWII, the US didn't enter until 3 years after it started (1 year before it ended) and 2 years after it started (4 years before it ended) respectively, so those numbers, especially of WWI would have been much higher had they been in the war from the start.
No they don't all burn fuel 24x7, the electric ones can use off-peak electricity (which is generally considerably cheaper) and so store the heat for use during the day (and only draw extra if they need to).
The heat given off by the AGA also saves the kitchen from needing separate heating (and more so depending on the size of the house).
No, SPAM is NOT necessarily commercial email. SPAM can be commercial, but it does not have to be so to be classed as SPAM.
I could email you 100 times with a blank email, that would not be commercial (and yet it would still be SPAM).
Well yeah but of course, it's making sure everything you use is PAE compatible, which is the main problem.
Unfortunately XP32 cannot take advantage of 4GB+ of RAM, so its days are numbered.
Neither can any other 32-bit based OS.
Erm no, it isn't. Windows 2k will be 10 YEARS old and by this time next year will at the point where it is no longer EVER supported by Microsoft from then on.
You realise right, Windows 2000 goes out of EXTENDED support next year (i.e. the same support status that XP has just entered into). This means no more updates (including security) for 2000 EVER from the middle of next year onwards.
Mozilla supporting it or in people fact using it from then on simply is not the best idea.
Except Win2K goes out of extended support next year, so it will not be supported at all by microsoft from then on.
That's not true, the UK has the same problem, anyone call themselves one (unlike in Europe).
It's only when you get to Chartered/Integrated Engineer that you have to officially registered to call yourself one.
Because it is essentially just like any other con or scam (which also happen to be illegal). There is really no big difference between a con artist and someone running a pyramid scheme.
Either way they are promising something which simply will never happen.
There are still a few good ISPs out there, but yeah they are very few and far between.
http://www.bethere.co.uk/ is probably the best I know of and from experience, it's truly unlimited in pretty much every way, and it's not ridiculously overpriced unlike others which may offer similar services.
The problem is Most ISPs in the UK don't have an easy way to check your usage, especially some of the bigger ones like VM and BT etc.
VM is also extremely guilty of advertising "unlimited" services, when in reality they hit you with traffic shaping as soon as you go over a pathetically small limit (1.2GB is the limit in the evening on the 10Mb tariff and knock you down to a much smaller 2.5Mb for 5 hours). I'm pretty sure other ISPs in the UK do exactly the same still.
Except that still doesn't solve the issue of what if something goes wrong (rocket launches are still not perfect) and when it launches, a mass of radioactive material gets released into the atmosphere due to an on-board explosion or something.
Well it is definitely in Vista SP1, I can't see any possible reason why they would remove it, and am pretty sure it is in the 7057 build of 7 (although will need to check).
No the option is still there and always has been, you simply run through the process of putting disc in drive and booting from it and you will see an option of repairing. I've had done it loads of times for instance when installing XP as a dual boot and accidentally overwriting the Vista boot software.