Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

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I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the others
here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.

I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a bit
of nostalgia.

Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?

"XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"

"How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"

"What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"

....I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's
 
ZensGreedyFly said:
I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the others
here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.

I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a
bit of nostalgia.

Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?

"XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"

"How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"

"What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"

...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's
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How about 98se / Why do you want more then 8 Meg of memory?
 
What do you mean I remember when we got the first 512k of ram for a
mainframe computer.
 
John Lee Brown said:
What do you mean I remember when we got the first 512k of ram for a
mainframe computer.
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Ok how about late 70's Data General 1200 4 Meg Core Memory.
Now those were the days.
 
Vista User said:
How about 98se / Why do you want more then 8 Meg of memory?
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Your memory has been corrupted. 64MB of RAM was common by the time Win98se
came out.

ss.
 
I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the others
here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.

I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a bit
of nostalgia.
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Translation: Vista Haters: anyone that makes a fanboy look like the
idiots they are.
...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's
Click to expand...

If anything is true about this goofy newsgroup it is fanboys don't
want to hear the truth. That's why I keep linking to a "see no evil"
picture of three monkeys determined not to see, hear or speak anything
bad, just like Vista fanboys never ever want to see, hear or speak
badly of Vista. They're too busy praising Microsoft and lining up to
kiss Microsoft butt. While quite a show, such poor conduct helps
nobody actually having problems.

Reality check: In the hundreds of posts I made to this newsgroup not
ONCE have I said I hate Vista or suggested anybody use Linux or a Mac
instead or anything like that. Not once. Yet I get labeled a Vista
hater because I have the tenacity to stubbornly document what's wrong
with Vista. Idiots like Frank, the moronic newsgroup fool constantly
tries to lie I can't get Vista to work, the furtherest thing from the
truth. Vista has "worked" for me from day one. That does not mean it
works all the time for all users like some foaming from the mouth
baboon like Frank loves to pretend.

This newsgroup is a poor source of "help". Few people visiting here
are actually helped. They're lectured, scolded, told they've posted
their question to the wrong group, told nobody made them upgrade, told
they should go back to XP and of course sooner or later anyone having
any issues with Vista gets painted as a dummy, is told they didn't do
enough research or it must be a hardware vendor issue or any of the
other lame excuses fanboys throw out constantly. Help? Hardly, just
the same suspects trying to hold court, pontificating and desperately
trying to act like they know more than the next guy and that they're
in charge while of course denying that's what they want at the same
time. Priceless!
 
Feel better?

Adam Albright said:
Translation: Vista Haters: anyone that makes a fanboy look like the
idiots they are.


If anything is true about this goofy newsgroup it is fanboys don't
want to hear the truth. That's why I keep linking to a "see no evil"
picture of three monkeys determined not to see, hear or speak anything
bad, just like Vista fanboys never ever want to see, hear or speak
badly of Vista. They're too busy praising Microsoft and lining up to
kiss Microsoft butt. While quite a show, such poor conduct helps
nobody actually having problems.

Reality check: In the hundreds of posts I made to this newsgroup not
ONCE have I said I hate Vista or suggested anybody use Linux or a Mac
instead or anything like that. Not once. Yet I get labeled a Vista
hater because I have the tenacity to stubbornly document what's wrong
with Vista. Idiots like Frank, the moronic newsgroup fool constantly
tries to lie I can't get Vista to work, the furtherest thing from the
truth. Vista has "worked" for me from day one. That does not mean it
works all the time for all users like some foaming from the mouth
baboon like Frank loves to pretend.

This newsgroup is a poor source of "help". Few people visiting here
are actually helped. They're lectured, scolded, told they've posted
their question to the wrong group, told nobody made them upgrade, told
they should go back to XP and of course sooner or later anyone having
any issues with Vista gets painted as a dummy, is told they didn't do
enough research or it must be a hardware vendor issue or any of the
other lame excuses fanboys throw out constantly. Help? Hardly, just
the same suspects trying to hold court, pontificating and desperately
trying to act like they know more than the next guy and that they're
in charge while of course denying that's what they want at the same
time. Priceless!
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What do you mean I remember when we got the first 512k of ram for a
mainframe computer.
Click to expand...


My first mainframe computer, in 1962, had 4K of memory. And that was
decimal 4K--4000, not 4096.
 
Adam Albright wrote:


--as a public service, aa's drunken diatribe was deleted--

Sober up ok?
Frank
 
Yup and teletypes with paper tape punches you were cool if you had mylar
tape.
 
ZensGreedyFly said:
I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the others
here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.

I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a
bit of nostalgia.

Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?

"XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"

"How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"

"What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"

...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's
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Fun topic! :)

I believe it was Bill Gates who said, "No one will ever need more than 64K
of RAM."

My first 20 Meg (that's Meg, not Gig) hard drive (in an original IBM XT):
"Wow, I'll never fill that up!"

My computer with a floppy drive: "Wow, that's so much faster than the
cassette tape!"

My first home computer (a Sinclair ZX80 - 4k of RAM, expanded to 16k): "Wow,
it's a miracle that they can pack so much computing power into such a small
box!"

And . . .

My first interaction with Windows 3.0: "Ugh! Who wants a Graphics User
Interface, anyway? This thing is for idiots. Give me a comman-line
interface any day!"
 
PTravel said:
Fun topic! :)

I believe it was Bill Gates who said, "No one will ever need more than 64K
of RAM."

My first 20 Meg (that's Meg, not Gig) hard drive (in an original IBM XT):
"Wow, I'll never fill that up!"

My computer with a floppy drive: "Wow, that's so much faster than the
cassette tape!"

My first home computer (a Sinclair ZX80 - 4k of RAM, expanded to 16k):
"Wow, it's a miracle that they can pack so much computing power into such
a small box!"

And . . .

My first interaction with Windows 3.0: "Ugh! Who wants a Graphics User
Interface, anyway? This thing is for idiots. Give me a comman-line
interface any day!"
Click to expand...

I gotta admit, though, sometimes I long for one of those 3-mile long pkzip
command lines...or even an ATDT modem string or two...lots of job security
back then, huh?
 
ZensGreedyFly said:
right on! that was the old punch card reader eh?
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I learnt to program using a porta punch with 40 column cards using a
cdc3300.
I was as school though so I am not that old.
 
I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the
others here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.

I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a
bit of nostalgia.

Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?

"XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"

"How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"

"What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"

...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's
Click to expand...

I understand your point, but I think you're missing part of the big
picture. A Cartesian graph of technology improvements and user benefits
would not be linear. It would be more like x^2=y where x is the benefit
of an incremental improvement and y is the incremental improvement.

In real-world terms, consider the difference between a PC new in 1992 vs.
one that was new in 1997 in terms of power and ease of use. Then
consider the difference between a computer new in 2002 vs. one new in
2007... the difference is minimal for most users, and significant only
for gamers or video editors or others who really make full use of
hardware resources.

The OS still needs to change to make use of more, faster and better
hardware... but does it make sense to introduce a radically new and
different OS at this point in time? Given the relative maturity of the
desktop environment in 2007, user interests would be better served by
incremental changes and improvements. But that approach is inconsistent
with Microsoft's business interests, because it doesn't push people to
upgrade and buy a new license unless they really have a reason to do so.
Hence we get Vista, and we're supposed to say "wow!" as though it's such
an obvious leap forward, like moving from DOS to Windows 95. But it's
not.

Charlie
 
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