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So instead of going with the crowd and worshiping the Great Satan you go with a smaller crowd and worship the Lesser Satan? They are both heartless abominations in the end!
Be really cool and use Linux.
Triple boot FTW! XP, OSX, and Ubuntu bitches!
XP for games, OSX for productivity, and Unbunto for nothing because it's useless but its fun to say you have? Standard faire. I dual boot vista and OSX, I'll probably end up installing win7 to decrease the OS footprint on my game partition, though they don't have mac drivers for it yet, and I'll eat a phonebook before I attempt a reverse hackingtosh.
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When I was still at school Linux was for losers. The biggest loser in our class was ace at Linux, too bad his expertise was of no use to us. All he ever did was nag, nag, nag about "using the wrong typeset" that normal computers could read but not his Linux box. UGH.
Fallen668 wrote:Is pointing out that you stole something against the rules here, or is it just frowned upon when it is GW stuff? The forum rule doc was ambiguous.
Oh now I get it. Not against the rules per se, just not the smartest thing to say...
I love that dog. He makes me smile no matter how crummy a day I have.
For now my Win7 is temporary. New laptop for Xmas will of course have Win7 on it and guess what? I'll be using the win7 disks to put win7 on my desktop so either way I will have win7.
I read an article somewhere that some M$ exec himself admits vista was fail. I like it but apparently 90% of the community did not. Win7 though has gotten nothing but rave reviews and positives.
Don't let Vista judge your decision. Win7 is what Vista should have been. Vista was a system raper and to this day the 64bit version still has compatibility issues with hardware. As it stands right now Win7 has less hardware issues upon it's final release as of a week ago (some OEM's got theirs early, so did the M$ launch parties) than Vista to this day.
Of course, per usual, if you have hardware that is pre-Vista from a more unusual vendor check the website to make sure it's compatible. Only thing of mine that is not compatible yet is my 3yo laser from Hp but that get's drivers next month according to the HP website. So I think I'll end up reinstalling XP until then just so I can print.
--The whole concept of government granted and government regulated 'permits' and the accompanying government mandate for government approved firearms 'training' prior to being blessed by government with the privilege to carry arms in a government approved and regulated manner, flies directly in the face of the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”
Vista's failure is absolutely going to be a part of my decision! If one company makes a product that is gak and then makes a second product and people are saying, this is what that first product should have been, it doesn't exactly instill confidence.
Fool me once...
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on My works, Ye Mighty, and despair.
Chris Gohlinghorst wrote:Holy Space Marine on a Stick.
This conversation has even begun to boggle my internet-hardened mind.
Ozymandias wrote:Vista's failure is absolutely going to be a part of my decision! If one company makes a product that is gak and then makes a second product and people are saying, this is what that first product should have been, it doesn't exactly instill confidence.
Fool me once...
If it helps Cnet compared Win7 to Snow Leopard, and even though snow leopard edged it out by like .2 (out of a scale of 5) any previous windows operating system would have been blown away. Cnets generally pretty good about review scores. Microsoft dropped the bs with this version and actually produced something useable and innovative.
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Sol Invictus wrote:I agree with Ozzy. Microsoft should be giving everybody free upgrades to 7 in apology for releasing Vista.
But now they want to charge me again so I can have what Vista should have been? I think not sir!
Then enjoy your decade old operating system with poor memory and multicore support? That is unless you switch over to osx or the like, in which case, good on ya.
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Yeah, sad fact of life. If you want to keep up with hardware at some point in time you need to upgrade the OS.
Granted, 64bit XP supports multi-core and over 3G RAM but I'd bet performance wise comps running Win7 x64 with all bells and whistles will outperform comps with the exact same hardware running WinXP x64.
Not saying go and buy Win7 today but I'd seriously consider it within the next 6 months. Too many people I know would rather spend $600 on a video card to gain %10 performance increase in games over their old card but scoff at paying $200 for the latest OS which might (with exception of Vista) increase OVERALL performance by double that.
Going from 30fps to 50fps in Crysis is nice but going up 20% when doing ANYTHING Windows related is nicer.
--The whole concept of government granted and government regulated 'permits' and the accompanying government mandate for government approved firearms 'training' prior to being blessed by government with the privilege to carry arms in a government approved and regulated manner, flies directly in the face of the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”
Sol Invictus wrote:No brothers! Fight the Great Satan!
The only way to for consumers to truly show their displeasure with a company is not to buy their product. You're perpetuating the Microsoft monopoly!
You don't defeat monopolies by avoiding their products. If it's actually a monopoly that should be near physically impossible for any sort of necessary good.
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Shame M$ isn't a monopoly as everytime M$ tries to do something the gov't sticks it's nose in.
If you don't like M$ than don't buy their products but not all consumers of M$ products dislike said products. I get hours of entertainment from my 360 and IMO Windows is loads better than Mac. If someone gave me the latest Mac I'd trade it for a PC, or failing that, use it to prop open my tool shed door on windy days.
--The whole concept of government granted and government regulated 'permits' and the accompanying government mandate for government approved firearms 'training' prior to being blessed by government with the privilege to carry arms in a government approved and regulated manner, flies directly in the face of the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”
If you don't like M$ than don't buy their products but not all consumers of M$ products dislike said products. I get hours of entertainment from my 360 and IMO Windows is loads better than Mac. If someone gave me the latest Mac I'd trade it for a PC, or failing that, use it to prop open my tool shed door on windy days.
You don't graciously receive gifts do you? You must suck to buy for at christmas.
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And Wrex says wow... the ketchup wasteland has blinded me, and forever tainted my view of windows 7. How many calories are in windows 7? 3 lifetimes worth exactly, and enough grease to clog a dozen mouses hearts.
greenskin lynn wrote:hm, i might back up my laptop and give 7 a try on it, cause vista eats for to much resounces.
also, i'm now convinced wrexasuar is a man with connections to get the good stuff, based on the coherency of most of his posts
Because god knows how hard it is to read nowadays .
And Wrex says wow... the ketchup wasteland has blinded me, and forever tainted my view of windows 7. How many calories are in windows 7? 3 lifetimes worth exactly, and enough grease to clog a dozen mouses hearts.
Without the fact that this is a windows 7 thread, and I posted a video talking about the BK Windows 7 burger madness... you MAY, have had an actual point.
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I only have connections to the good cookies, and I know not of this stuff that you are referring to. Now eat those cookies, eat them now.
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I built my current rig just so I could be semi-modern for once. It ran XP better than any computer I used before. I received a free copy of Vista SP1 because of (not) attending an IT seminar on Windows One Care. I installed it on the same machine but on a different hard drive (same model though). Seemed to run as well as as XP did. I liked most of the major changes except it is does too much metafile work trying to copy stuff, so it is slower copying files than it should be. I used both of the Beta and RC of Windows 7. I got the RTM as part of my TechNet account in August, much better than Vista but still has the stupid metafile copying issue. Sadly, I finally deleted the drive that had XP on it to make the current Win7 install, so I can't compare them using the same machine. I am using 64 bit so I miss out on some of the old 16 bit & DOS stuff I used to run, but everything else works as well or better than it did with XP.
I always did fresh installs for Vista and all 3 versions of Win7. My roommates did inplace upgrades from Vista to Win7. So far, none of us have had any issues or problems with Windows 7.
"This thread is made of so much unrefined awesome spice, the Harkonnens are coming." -Frazzled
"After all, the Space Marines need something to fight against, and it can't always be Chaos!" -Phil Kelly
BrookM wrote:[Oh yeah, the cool kids type twenty lines of gak code while I, the slave of M$, can just scroll over and double-click that melon-fether.
But hey, you're cool!
Spurious argument at best. What are you trying to achieve that takes "twenty lines of gak code" that can be accomplished by double clicking in windows? I'll bet you I can do the same thing double clicking on linux.
BrookM wrote:When I was still at school Linux was for losers. The biggest loser in our class was ace at Linux, too bad his expertise was of no use to us. All he ever did was nag, nag, nag about "using the wrong typeset" that normal computers could read but not his Linux box. UGH.
Again what "expertiese" did you need? Just more sound and noise.
I don't know if the situation is improved with later versions of windows, but with linux I can get from bare metal to full blown development environment right from the install, while with windows you have to install the os, hunt down drivers, pay $$$$ for a version of visual studio that has all of the capabilities I need. Never mind the fact that windows isn't anywhere near posix compliant, you can't rebuild it to optimize for your rig, can't fix broken modules, had weak user permissions (supposedly better in newer versions). Sure you can run games and Office, but for real computing I'll take something unix based any day of the week.
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