Looks like the ubiquity add-on crashes beta 3 (which, I suppose, is to be expected). I had to disable it just to get Firefox to open up properly... Just an FYI in case anyone else is using ubiquity.
I know the article mentions that it's possible to downgrade to XP if the computer is going to be used in a corporate environment, but I was wondering if it would be possible for the average consumer to downgrade?
Personally, I have found it extremely difficult to recycle my own old computer parts and whatnot. Being that my father is a modder and builds himself a completely new system every 2-3 years, we have quite a few spare parts lying around. For the most part, we've kept them (and we are definitely becoming quite the computer museum!) around the house, but I'm sure that if there were some easier way to recycle our old parts, we would do that. I tried this past summer to recycle some old computer parts that I had and found it incredibly difficult to a) find a place that accepted old parts and b) find a place that would take my parts for free. No wonder people are just giving them to anyone who will get rid of the parts (even if they're just tossing them into landfills in Africa).
Also.... this is probably a stupid question, but should I be worried about the decomposition of the old parts we have lying about the house?
Kind of along the same lines as what other people have been saying about the potential for others to read through our mail...
How would we prevent our mail from being scanned and then subsequently archived? I mean, I know that Google keeps every single piece of mail that is sent to my Gmail box. Is this likely to start happening to my snail mail, too?
It's not like I really have anything to hide, but I do prefer to think that I have some semblance of privacy (yeah, ok... wishful thinking...).
Considering how long it's already taking M$ to get out new versions of their software, having to maintain legacy & no-legacy versions would bog them down even more. Certainly, M$ has a slew of programmers at its disposal, but there are many phases to putting together a product (design, implementation, testing). Having to go over these steps over and over again for two different versions of their software would be horribly time-consuming. I highly doubt that they could simply cut out parts of the code from the legacy-compliant version and have it be non-legacy-compliant.
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Looks like the ubiquity add-on crashes beta 3 (which, I suppose, is to be expected). I had to disable it just to get Firefox to open up properly... Just an FYI in case anyone else is using ubiquity.
I know the article mentions that it's possible to downgrade to XP if the computer is going to be used in a corporate environment, but I was wondering if it would be possible for the average consumer to downgrade?
Personally, I have found it extremely difficult to recycle my own old computer parts and whatnot. Being that my father is a modder and builds himself a completely new system every 2-3 years, we have quite a few spare parts lying around. For the most part, we've kept them (and we are definitely becoming quite the computer museum!) around the house, but I'm sure that if there were some easier way to recycle our old parts, we would do that. I tried this past summer to recycle some old computer parts that I had and found it incredibly difficult to a) find a place that accepted old parts and b) find a place that would take my parts for free. No wonder people are just giving them to anyone who will get rid of the parts (even if they're just tossing them into landfills in Africa). Also.... this is probably a stupid question, but should I be worried about the decomposition of the old parts we have lying about the house?
Kind of along the same lines as what other people have been saying about the potential for others to read through our mail... How would we prevent our mail from being scanned and then subsequently archived? I mean, I know that Google keeps every single piece of mail that is sent to my Gmail box. Is this likely to start happening to my snail mail, too? It's not like I really have anything to hide, but I do prefer to think that I have some semblance of privacy (yeah, ok... wishful thinking...).
Considering how long it's already taking M$ to get out new versions of their software, having to maintain legacy & no-legacy versions would bog them down even more. Certainly, M$ has a slew of programmers at its disposal, but there are many phases to putting together a product (design, implementation, testing). Having to go over these steps over and over again for two different versions of their software would be horribly time-consuming. I highly doubt that they could simply cut out parts of the code from the legacy-compliant version and have it be non-legacy-compliant.