Windows 7 is faster than Vista on the same hardware. It was written to run on Netbooks, which Vista could not have run on. Win 8/8.1 is faster still. It's you who are being dishonest or lazy by claiming otherwise, there is lots of evidence to bear this out, you just refuse to find it or test for yourself.
Just because you don't understand women do not make them worse drivers, all you've really stated with your anecdote is that YOU can't predict what women will do while driving.
at 9 bucks a month, you could have had xbox live gold for 22 months. Add in the extra power, and your supposed savings seem pretty small, a few cents a day, at most.
- Provision of real, available, phone-based technical support
And who is to do this? Can you call Microsoft to get help with your problems, without being IT head of a big company having big contracts? I have never heard of anyone being able to do so. Support always comes from the community: friends, family, and even the shop they bought the computer from. But not from the maker.
- Real, complete documentation
Admittedly I have never really dived into Windows documentation, but the "trouble shooting" wizards have never been helpful for me.
And if you're thinking of documentation of applications... I bet it's as bad for Windows as it is for Linux as it's the developer (person or company) that has to make it!
anybody can phone Microsoft for support, and have been able to for decades. You get 2 free support calls for Windows XP/Vista/Seven, after that, I think it's 49 bucks per incident. If you did not know that MS has vast technical support via phone, chat and email, you have no right to be even posting. That's one of the reasons businesses like MS, the support options.
As far as documentation is concerned, MSDN and technet are massive, searchable and filled with with more documentation than anyone would ever need.
my AMD 3650 suspends just fine, and is very functional under Linux. I'm not sure how they can have "no functional support at all". On my laptop, with an Intel gpu, it suspends and hibernates just fine, so I'm not sure how that is primitive.
Feel free to explain what you mean.
The Israelis lost that country 3000 years ago, that would be like giving the US back to the Natives. Are you willing to give up your home for the same principles? Thought not.
I'm not advocating killing any Jews, I'm wondering the wisdom of putting several million of them in a place where everybody hates them, then arming them to the teeth, further antagonizing their neighbours. It would have been far more intelligent to give them say a piece of Canada (I live in Canada, so unlike the UN, I am not offering something I don't own).
Oh, and right back at you.
I find it amazing that you don't understand why. The US and it's allies have been fucking around in Middle eastern affairs for decades. I mean really, what in god's name made the UN believe that it was ok to throw a few million Jews in the middle of several different groups of people that hate them? Then the US helps arm them to the teeth, and supports israeli incursions into Palestine.
The US also supported Iraq during the 10 year long war with Iran, and then at the end, Iraq needs help to rebuild, and what does the US do? Go fuck yourself Iraq. They did the same thing in Afghanistan, supplied the rebels with arms and training against the USSR, then dropped them like a hot potato after the war. The US then unilaterally invades Iraq in 2003, lied about the reasons, and proceeded to try to force their beliefs on the Iraqis, with no problem using torture to achieve their goals.
I'd hate "the Freedom Loving People" too, if I was them. You're like the ultimate douchebags, take what you want, do what you want in the name of "National Security" and then leave your targets hanging, just like the douche that drops roofies in a girls drink.
They already do this, it's called the malicious software removal tool. Too bad you can't force people to run Windows updates, because that's really where the problem lies.
Windows NT has always been cross platform. NT 4 ran on MIPS, Alpha, PPC and i386. No the apps on the other hand, is a problem. but Windows? It is designed from the ground up to be ported to anything.
The Itanium didn't pan out for Windows because of slow i386 emulation for APPLICATIONS, not the OS, as well as poor performance in early iterations. Good research though.
You're blaming MS for 3rd parties not being able to write apps that can scale properly? MS does not write "most win32 apps" ISVs do.
But go ahead, blame MS, sometimes it even is their fault, but this time, it's not.
They can be activated by phone. If you don't have a phone, go to a payphone and write the code the nice lady gives you, then go to your house, and enter it into the computer, using the keyboard. You can check that the numbers are correct by looking at the television like object in front of you.
Really, that's the lamest excuse in the book. My XP system was installed so many times that I have to call EVERY TIME, and it always works, and never takes more than 5 minutes.
But if you read TFA, it states that MS is not charging consumers for the downgrade, the OEMs are. Therefore they are not being paid to "not deliver the good" As always, don't let inconvenient facts get in the way of a good anti-MS rant.
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It certainly isn't just a matter of willpower. If you have never smoked, then you have no idea.
Shut up
Windows 7 is faster than Vista on the same hardware. It was written to run on Netbooks, which Vista could not have run on. Win 8/8.1 is faster still. It's you who are being dishonest or lazy by claiming otherwise, there is lots of evidence to bear this out, you just refuse to find it or test for yourself.
Just because you don't understand women do not make them worse drivers, all you've really stated with your anecdote is that YOU can't predict what women will do while driving.
at 9 bucks a month, you could have had xbox live gold for 22 months. Add in the extra power, and your supposed savings seem pretty small, a few cents a day, at most.
Justin Bieber isn't American either, he's Canadian. So you're wrong and a bigot to boot
Compared to the constantly moving target that is the Linux ABI (or lack thereof). Give me a break
Because we are comparing Windows to Linux:
- Provision of real, available, phone-based technical support
And who is to do this? Can you call Microsoft to get help with your problems, without being IT head of a big company having big contracts? I have never heard of anyone being able to do so. Support always comes from the community: friends, family, and even the shop they bought the computer from. But not from the maker.
- Real, complete documentation
Admittedly I have never really dived into Windows documentation, but the "trouble shooting" wizards have never been helpful for me.
And if you're thinking of documentation of applications... I bet it's as bad for Windows as it is for Linux as it's the developer (person or company) that has to make it!
anybody can phone Microsoft for support, and have been able to for decades. You get 2 free support calls for Windows XP/Vista/Seven, after that, I think it's 49 bucks per incident. If you did not know that MS has vast technical support via phone, chat and email, you have no right to be even posting. That's one of the reasons businesses like MS, the support options. As far as documentation is concerned, MSDN and technet are massive, searchable and filled with with more documentation than anyone would ever need.
Have you used SQL Server? I thought not.
my AMD 3650 suspends just fine, and is very functional under Linux. I'm not sure how they can have "no functional support at all". On my laptop, with an Intel gpu, it suspends and hibernates just fine, so I'm not sure how that is primitive. Feel free to explain what you mean.
Uh, wtf are you going on about?
The Israelis lost that country 3000 years ago, that would be like giving the US back to the Natives. Are you willing to give up your home for the same principles? Thought not.
I'm not advocating killing any Jews, I'm wondering the wisdom of putting several million of them in a place where everybody hates them, then arming them to the teeth, further antagonizing their neighbours. It would have been far more intelligent to give them say a piece of Canada (I live in Canada, so unlike the UN, I am not offering something I don't own). Oh, and right back at you.
I find it amazing that you don't understand why. The US and it's allies have been fucking around in Middle eastern affairs for decades. I mean really, what in god's name made the UN believe that it was ok to throw a few million Jews in the middle of several different groups of people that hate them? Then the US helps arm them to the teeth, and supports israeli incursions into Palestine. The US also supported Iraq during the 10 year long war with Iran, and then at the end, Iraq needs help to rebuild, and what does the US do? Go fuck yourself Iraq. They did the same thing in Afghanistan, supplied the rebels with arms and training against the USSR, then dropped them like a hot potato after the war. The US then unilaterally invades Iraq in 2003, lied about the reasons, and proceeded to try to force their beliefs on the Iraqis, with no problem using torture to achieve their goals. I'd hate "the Freedom Loving People" too, if I was them. You're like the ultimate douchebags, take what you want, do what you want in the name of "National Security" and then leave your targets hanging, just like the douche that drops roofies in a girls drink.
They already do this, it's called the malicious software removal tool. Too bad you can't force people to run Windows updates, because that's really where the problem lies.
The iphone is the number 3 smartphone, in the world. I think it has %14. Please google.
I'm pretty sure most other malware scanners are in use in the world, and they don't seem to be detecting either, but feel free to ignore the facts
They can just fuck right off, I like my country the way it is, thank you very much
A shell I can get behind, but Gnome? That dumbed down baby GUI? Get serious
Windows NT has always been cross platform. NT 4 ran on MIPS, Alpha, PPC and i386. No the apps on the other hand, is a problem. but Windows? It is designed from the ground up to be ported to anything. The Itanium didn't pan out for Windows because of slow i386 emulation for APPLICATIONS, not the OS, as well as poor performance in early iterations. Good research though.
You're blaming MS for 3rd parties not being able to write apps that can scale properly? MS does not write "most win32 apps" ISVs do. But go ahead, blame MS, sometimes it even is their fault, but this time, it's not.
I do get letterboxing, in both Windows Media player, and in mplayer or xine on debian. Not sure why you don't
I've had enough of elections, thank you very much, I have participated in 3 in the last 4 years, and that is sufficient.
They can be activated by phone. If you don't have a phone, go to a payphone and write the code the nice lady gives you, then go to your house, and enter it into the computer, using the keyboard. You can check that the numbers are correct by looking at the television like object in front of you. Really, that's the lamest excuse in the book. My XP system was installed so many times that I have to call EVERY TIME, and it always works, and never takes more than 5 minutes.
But if you read TFA, it states that MS is not charging consumers for the downgrade, the OEMs are. Therefore they are not being paid to "not deliver the good" As always, don't let inconvenient facts get in the way of a good anti-MS rant.