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Mike Hall - MVP
Jag Chan said:
Why do headlines have to be so misleading. This is National Enquirer or UK
Sunday newspaper crap..
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kurttrail
Mike said:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/639a0593-b990-4f53-82be-857fcea5a5061033.mspx
This is the article that was the reference for the macmod blog post.
And indeed Mahjong is one of the 7 reasons given for not going back to XP.
And people with Home Basic don't even get Mahjong!
Headlines are meant to pull readers in, whether is it the National
Enquirer or the Wall Street Journal, and I noticed that you didn't argue
about the accuracy of the Headline, just that it was sensationalistic.
IOWs, it did exactly what a headline is supposed to do.
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Mike Hall - MVP
kurttrail said:
Kurt
I don't know about you, but I think that some people (J Munro included)
should just stick with writing letters to Santa. I also think that marketing
depts should be scrapped and that people responsible for some of the
marketing hype should be gently led back to the ocean.
These people use the word 'Wow' when they should have used 'Whoa', call
things by dumb names, make ludicrous claims etc
Vista is just an OS, no more, no less. It has more security built in to it,
it looks better, it generally works better, it can recover itself better
than its predecessors.
I don't think that there should have been so many versions, and pricing is
way over the top, but having said that, there were five versions of XP..
Home, Pro, Volume, Media Center and 'pirated'
. Computers and userexpectations are way beyond the 'one size fits all' DOS days, and so I do
sympathize to some degree with MS Marketing.
The industry as a whole is 'sales' crazy and will do and say almost anything
to upstage the competition in order to get a sale. OEM manufacturers and
retail outlets take full advantage of the fact that the buying majority are
in no way technical, in much the same way as the auto and construction
industries always have. It is like their is no integrity anymore, that it is
not required or is old fashioned.
To be honest, I put most of the blame onto the OEM because they sell
underpowered garbage and they know it but don't care as long as money
changes hands.
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kurttrail
Mike said:
I agree.
Yes. Though if looks is important to an end user, they can always go
with WindowBlinds, instead of upgrade to Vista.
Not Explorer, and to me that is the most important OS interface with any
of my hardware.
It still hasn't eliminated the three-fingered salute. And then add in
the annoyance of UAC, which was meant to intentionally piss off end users
as a means to coerce software developers to code programs the way MS
mandates.
I don't think that there should have been so many versions, and pricing
is way over the top, but having said that, there were five versions of
XP.. Home, Pro, Volume, Media Center and 'pirated'
user expectations are way beyond the 'one size fits all' DOS days, and
so I do sympathize to some degree with MS Marketing.
The industry as a whole is 'sales' crazy and will do and say almost
anything to upstage the competition in order to get a sale. OEM
manufacturers and retail outlets take full advantage of the fact that
the buying majority are in no way technical, in much the same way as the
auto and construction industries always have. It is like their is no
integrity anymore, that it is not required or is old fashioned.
To be honest, I put most of the blame onto the OEM because they sell
underpowered garbage and they know it but don't care as long as money
changes hands.
Unfortunately MS is complicit in all of this. We do have the emails that
prove MS conspired with Intel over the Vista-capable marketing con-job.
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Frank
vishhiita prime loser wrote:
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You "suck', you dumb POS!
Get lost capin' crunch...we're all sick of your stupidity...LOL!
Frank
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You "suck', you dumb POS!
Get lost capin' crunch...we're all sick of your stupidity...LOL!
Frank
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kurttrail
Frank said:
Look at Franky-poo! Making an ass out of himself again.
He's like Old Faithful.
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smbdymf
You sure talk about his ass a lotkurttrail said:
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kurttrail
smbdymf said:
Speaking of asses . . . . look who shows up! Random Letter Dude!
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What?
vishhiita said:
What? You're not in your prime, you are pathetic and you should crawl
back to the outhouse and into the $hit hole where you were born. You are
most welcomed at the outhouse with the other pieces of $hit. Your $hit
dancing in the NG is just too $hitty, you're not good at it, with you
busting out of your $hit hole.
Where is the septic tank truck to suck, suck, suck yoooooooou-up and
take you to your home (the outhouse) and close thr lid.
Yes, you are a psychotic piece of $hit. You know that, right?
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Alias
What? said:
And you're writing a book called "How To Win Friends and Influence
People", right? Are you co-authoring it with Frank using the groovy new
Word 07?
Alias
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Frank
Alias said:
hehehe...I see that you still are having trouble with the truth aren't you?
You really like lying but can stand to be called the lying son of a
bitch you really are.
Go fukk yourself you stupid POS.
Frank
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What?
Alias said:
You're no one's friend Alias. The only friend you have is your Linux
powered big dilllllllll-do. That's why you love Linux so much. Come on
Alias tell the truth about it. It's you and the big Linux powered
dillllllllll-do. That's how you make your sales with Linux with a
demonstration of you and the big Linux powered dillllllll-do. And then
it's you, your Linux magazines with you and the big Linux powered
dilllllll-do action shots, missy.
Go Lassie Alias go, you make those Linux sales there missy.
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Canuck57
Hell no. Vista is a POC on a Q6600 with 8GB of RAM, hardly underpowered.
Linux copy so much faster I had to check that it worked after using Vista.
Wasn't the hardware, was the OS. Vista is going now where but the toilet.
The OEMs know the price presures are for cheaper, fast and features. None
of which are Vista traights. There is not one thing you can do on Vista
that you can't do on XP or Linux! So why change? And if you do, put Linux
in with OpenOffice and save a pile. Compiler.SQL etc. for techies, n/c.
The consumer is not going to pay $1000 for software (OS + Office +...) for a
$400 PC. Get over it. Commodity pricing is coming to the monopolistic MS
whether they like it or not. And MS software unlike the rest of the
business isn't cheaper per feature than it was with XP or W2000.
Power isn't the issue, efficiency is. While MS and other companies pay
C/C++ people like garbage, and start writting C# (hip-hype) and other
inefficient crap they have in fact bottlenecked the technology. There isn't
a system today than you can buy at any cost that makes Vista outperform a
commodity home PC with XP at less than $1000.
Lets face it, MS is doomed if they don't put the Vista on a serious diet and
Q/C check before Win7 or you can count the Linux converts by the millions.
Linux is ready, MS post XP not being sold is without an acceptable OS. And
there are those moving today as they can't afford to wait for Microsoft.
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Canuck57
kurttrail said:
Oh, forgot to mention, you could have been playing Mahjong on Linux a decade
ago. Beat Vista Chess first game, still haven't beat Linux GNU/Chess in a
decade.
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Mike Hall - MVP
Canuck57 said:
My computer is three years old, getting on for four, and I have Vista
installed, also Office 2007. It works well, better than the parallel XP
installation. It falls over way less than XP did .
Not all Vista OEM PCs cost $1000 or more, and Open Office can be installed
in place of MS Office.
Re Linux is ready.. This has been said year after year. Many would rather
pay over the odds for a Mac than switch to Linux. What does that say?
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kurttrail
What? said:
Is this a parody of Frank?
If so, you should have used "POS" and ended with "...LOL!"
Otherwise, you do a pretty good Frank imitation.
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kurttrail
What? said:
You like "dillllllllll-dos," huh?
I could strap one on and give you a good reaming, if you want.
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Alias
Frank said:
Like clockwork, Frank the Wank checks in with his usual tripe.
Alias
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DarkSentinel
Canuck57 said:
Point made. I have beat Linux GNU/Chess every time I have played it. I'm not
even going to say what else I was going to say because I am laughing too
hard.