What did MS Windows ME provide that motivated people to migrate from MS Windows 98?
Faster boot time, which partially mitigated the "feature" of more reboots. There was no migration from Win98, it was really just Win98 Third Edition.
What does MS Windows Vista provide that will motivate people to migrate from MS Windows XP?
Why, it will be the greatest upgrade since we went from MS-DOS 3.3 to 4.0, and subsequently to 4.01.
suso wrote:
1. Testosterone drops in males.
2. More females born as a result.
3. Evolution in females to ensure survival.
4. Single gender species results.
5. ????
6....profit!
I made all my CDs into MP3s at 256 kbps (about six LPs per data CD, and I can't hear the difference when its encoded above that). Freedb saved me from getting carpal tunnel. But now I don't need it and never will again, because I haven't bought a CD since 1999 (except for Melissa auf der Maur, but I support her art). There's a little thing called USENET. Heinlein would say, "It's raining soup, get a bucket."
Ask any Chicago voter in the last 150 years - we used to dig them up to vote here, all the time!
"I dreamed that I was Jimmy Carter's lover, and I was somewhere, I guess in the White House...and there were lots of other women there, too...and they were supposed to be his lovers too...but I never even saw Jimmy Carter...and none of the other women ever saw him either...and there was this big discussion going on because Jimmy had decided to open up the presidential elections to the dead. That is, that anyone who had ever lived would have the opportunity to become President. He said he thought it would be more Democratic that way. The more choice you had the more Democratic it would be." -- Laurie Anderson
I thought the idea was that your TV could display the signal with macrovision noise added, but your VCR would lose sync and get all garbled because it was unable to make a good copy of the "noise"
If you play a Macrovision tape on one of those newfangled HD TVs that are supposed to be backward compatible with analog, doesn't that digitize the noise and thus defeat the DRM in violation of the DCMA?
And is Apache really more of an innovation than Linux?
If this list came out in a parallel universe where GUIs never developed, the complaint would
be "And is Visicalc really more of an innovation than FreeDOS?"
If you think this estimate is so wrong, why? How would so much information get from the eye to the brain? How and why would they eye generate so much information to represent a relatively limited visual field?
How come when people read a book or a monitor they have to move their eyes around? There's a sweet spot in the center of your vision were all the heavy lifting is done as far as processing the information goes. When they are talking about 100 kerjillion bits per second, it refers to feminine intuition which is massively parallel.
No singularity, but Meco did come out with that that singularly awesome Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk album back in '77. Take that, black holes!
On the contrary, the singularity from that album reached number one the week of October 1, 1977 where it stayed for two weeks. And Suzanne Ciani, electronic music babe, contributed all the cool synthesizer effects.
Gnome has "emblems" for icons that comes straight from the boy scouts and the military.
KDE is all Fischer-Price and "OMG!! Ponies!!" and apps take forever to launch because they have to put their face on.
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What did MS Windows ME provide that motivated people to migrate from MS Windows 98?
Faster boot time, which partially mitigated the "feature" of more reboots. There was no migration from Win98, it was really just Win98 Third Edition.
What does MS Windows Vista provide that will motivate people to migrate from MS Windows XP?
Why, it will be the greatest upgrade since we went from MS-DOS 3.3 to 4.0, and subsequently to 4.01.
suso wrote: 1. Testosterone drops in males. ...profit!
2. More females born as a result.
3. Evolution in females to ensure survival. 4. Single gender species results.
5. ???? 6.
Wonderful idea for the manufacturers, flash drives only get so many read/write cycles before they go T.U. Not so good for the consumers.
Here, give the USB stick to me, I'll stick it into my Debian box and let it reformat my C drive or any other NTFS/FAT32 hard disk it can find.
I made all my CDs into MP3s at 256 kbps (about six LPs per data CD, and I can't hear the difference when its encoded above that). Freedb saved me from getting carpal tunnel. But now I don't need it and never will again, because I haven't bought a CD since 1999 (except for Melissa auf der Maur, but I support her art). There's a little thing called USENET. Heinlein would say, "It's raining soup, get a bucket."
Ask any Chicago voter in the last 150 years - we used to dig them up to vote here, all the time! "I dreamed that I was Jimmy Carter's lover, and I was somewhere, I guess in the White House...and there were lots of other women there, too ...and they were supposed to be his lovers too...but I never even saw Jimmy Carter...and none of the other women ever saw him either...and there was this big discussion going on because Jimmy had decided to open up the presidential elections to the dead. That is, that anyone who had ever lived would have the opportunity to become President. He said he thought it would be more Democratic that way. The more choice you had the more Democratic it would be." -- Laurie Anderson
They're going to digitally insert "Sprint" onto all the communicators to help recoup costs.
I thought the idea was that your TV could display the signal with macrovision noise added, but your VCR would lose sync and get all garbled because it was unable to make a good copy of the "noise" If you play a Macrovision tape on one of those newfangled HD TVs that are supposed to be backward compatible with analog, doesn't that digitize the noise and thus defeat the DRM in violation of the DCMA?
Klaidas wrote:
It is possble that our universe is just a tiny piece of some huge creature's nail.
And it's closing in on the Great Cosmic Blackboard.
wootest wrote: :)
It's hard to wreck a nice beach.
Teddy Kennedy with his shirt off would certainly do it.
muftak wrote:
Wow, they figured out how to use grep!
Shhhhh! You just gave away the NSA's secret method and concept for monitoring sedition at the Gray Lady!
And is Apache really more of an innovation than Linux? If this list came out in a parallel universe where GUIs never developed, the complaint would be "And is Visicalc really more of an innovation than FreeDOS?"
Some say that having a lifeline to Windows with a dual boot set up is kind of girly.
Lots of women like Dr. Phil and he's a little gnome.
Gnome has "emblems" for icons that comes straight from the boy scouts and the military. KDE is all Fischer-Price and "OMG!! Ponies!!" and apps take forever to launch because they have to put their face on.