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Charlie Wilkes
You can bullshit yourself if you want, but I was around when XP launched,
and I remember.
Charlie
You can bullshit yourself if you want, but I was around when XP launched,
and I remember.
Charlie
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Peter Köhlmann
Bob said:
Xp was never a great OS, much less the greatest ever.
I was just a tiny little bit less smelly shit than WinME
People resist Vista because they want to keep their perfectly working
printers, scanners etc etc etc.
They also resist Vista because they want to keep their dearly paid for
software
Vista will never be any "standard". Except for setting the "standard" for
how not to do things
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Ezekiel
Charlie Wilkes said:
You have a selective memory. Look back at some of the posts made here in
COLA about the time that XP came out. By most accounts XP was going to be
the end of Microsoft. Linux was surely going to win because XP was so bad.
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Bobmitmen
What's the old addage:
Burn me once...shame on you
Burn me twice...shame on me
Burn me thrice...to Hell with you...
Burn me once...shame on you
Burn me twice...shame on me
Burn me thrice...to Hell with you...
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the wharf rat
Well, I don't quite remember it that way. I do remember the same
things being said about...Millenium.
Why was it that XP didn't have to take over from Windows ME, again?
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Moshe Goldfarb
Kind of like how Linux has become a status symbol for the cheap and
downtrodden.
"Hey, I found this 486/33 with 16k in the garbage and I installed Linux on
it and now I'm playing Quake. It's a little slow, but I did get it for
free.
Let's see Vista do that!"
T
the wharf rat
Like Google. Or Boeing. Or Northrup-Grumman. Or Daimler.
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Michel Doucet
Bonjour/soir, le Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:10:56 -0400, *Bob Campbell* a caressé
son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
.... due to compulsory sale ... !
son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
.... due to compulsory sale ... !
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charlie_wilkes
Your thinking is complacent. It relies on a closed and static
predictive model, as follows:
Vista is the new XP. Eventually it will gain the same acceptance in
the marketplace that XP has gained. And then, in a few years,
Microsoft will replace Vista with something new, and it, too, will
gain acceptance after some period of time. Outside events will have
no affect on Microsoft's market share. People will continue,
indefinitely, to pay roughly $100 per PC every 2 to 4 years so they
can use the latest version of the Windows operating system.
I don't believe it. I wouldn't have used Linux a few years ago
because it would have been too much of a hassle. But now I use it
every day and it's fine. Things have changed.
Also, I never had a problem with Windows until Vista came along. I
was content to pay a license fee and join the herd. But I'm not
willing to pay a license fee to lease an OS that must remain
permanently tethered to a license server, with Microsoft periodically
checking the legal status of whatever is on my hard drive, and
replacing me as the final decision maker with respect to patches and
upgrades. I understand that Microsoft doesn't trust me. That's
fine. But I don't trust Microsoft either. And so I will NEVER use
Vista or anything like it. Things have changed.
Charlie
predictive model, as follows:
Vista is the new XP. Eventually it will gain the same acceptance in
the marketplace that XP has gained. And then, in a few years,
Microsoft will replace Vista with something new, and it, too, will
gain acceptance after some period of time. Outside events will have
no affect on Microsoft's market share. People will continue,
indefinitely, to pay roughly $100 per PC every 2 to 4 years so they
can use the latest version of the Windows operating system.
I don't believe it. I wouldn't have used Linux a few years ago
because it would have been too much of a hassle. But now I use it
every day and it's fine. Things have changed.
Also, I never had a problem with Windows until Vista came along. I
was content to pay a license fee and join the herd. But I'm not
willing to pay a license fee to lease an OS that must remain
permanently tethered to a license server, with Microsoft periodically
checking the legal status of whatever is on my hard drive, and
replacing me as the final decision maker with respect to patches and
upgrades. I understand that Microsoft doesn't trust me. That's
fine. But I don't trust Microsoft either. And so I will NEVER use
Vista or anything like it. Things have changed.
Charlie
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Michel Doucet
Bonjour/soir, le Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:09:42 -0400, *Bob Campbell* a caressé
son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
People are really idiot ... they prefer to pay an OS which is bad rather
than using a free OS that works !
son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
People are really idiot ... they prefer to pay an OS which is bad rather
than using a free OS that works !
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Frank
Michel said:
No, you're the idiot.
they prefer to pay an OS which is bad rather
No, Vista is the very best OS available today.
Frank
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charlie_wilkes
It tells me that Linux has not gained a significant market share over
the past 15 years. And, if one adopts a closed and static predictive
model, one may assume Linux will not gain significant market share
over the next 15 years. Clearly that is the mode of thinking you are
most comfortable with, and I will leave you to enjoy it.
Charlie
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Averell
Michel Doucet a écrit :
trolleur international bouffi de suffisance ?
Vous n'en avez pas marre de prendre les gens pour des cons monsieur le
trolleur international bouffi de suffisance ?
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Michel Doucet
Bonjour/soir, le Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:38:48 +0100, *Hadron* a caressé son
clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
Free and open source programs are making the same stuff than these
expensive programs
clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
Free and open source programs are making the same stuff than these
expensive programs
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Michel Doucet
Bonjour/soir, le Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:49:56 +0100, *Averell <"Averell* a
caressé son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
Allez vous occupez de vos amis qui *essayent* d'installer le SP1 qui
n'est selon les premiers retours d'expériences qu'un emplâtre sur une
jambe de bois au lieu de faire des attaques ad hominem !!!
caressé son clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
Allez vous occupez de vos amis qui *essayent* d'installer le SP1 qui
n'est selon les premiers retours d'expériences qu'un emplâtre sur une
jambe de bois au lieu de faire des attaques ad hominem !!!
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Michel Doucet
Bonjour/soir, le Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:59:00 +0100, *Hadron* a caressé son
clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
I'm telling the truth !
clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
I'm telling the truth !
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Michel Doucet
Bonjour/soir, le Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:02:57 +0000, *AZ Nomad* a caressé son
clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
For sure
clavier pour nous dire dans le message suivant:
For sure
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Matt
Hadron said:
Excellent point. There are tens or hundreds of millions of people who
don't need the apps you mention---and have never even heard of them.
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the wharf rat
Haven't bought much software in your life, huh? Anyone
who *has* can come up with a dozen examples of very expensive pieces
of software that didn't work worth a damn. If you got what your software
dollar paid for then the 500 million dollar software system supposed to
route luggage at the Denver airport would be a textbook staple for very
different reasons than it is.
Which is why most of them run sendmail, apache, and perl, hmmm?
Your critical mistake is equating cost and quality, a particularly
egregious mistake when you're dealing with the product of what even today
are more artists and craftsmen than technicians.
Anyway, the best things in life are free. Didn't you know that?
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Averell
Michel Doucet a écrit :
distinction. Vos oreilles d'âne obsédé vous aveugle.
Vous pleurnichez alors que vous insultez tous les utilisateurs sans
distinction. Vos oreilles d'âne obsédé vous aveugle.