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Shenan Stanley
AliceZ said:I've heard that MS will be releasing SP3 for WinXPsp2, in a month
or so. I searched but did not find any info about it, other than it
will be abour 328MB.
Is this SP3 "coming out" soon? Will everyone who has SP2 be
required to download (?) and install it?
At the moment it appears to me that this SP3 will make many changes
to our computers and possibly cause problems with other programs we
now have installed.
Huh?
The world has not yet gotten to the point where one is forced to
apply as new service pack. The decision is up to you.
I suspect that once SP3 is officially released...the instances of
problems will be minimal...
hovever you may want to clone your drive prior to applying SP3 just
in-case of problems.
I did test out the pre-release of sp3 and found it made some nice
improvements to my system.
Wrong
they force you indirectly, expecially MSFT
there are so many programs that require sp 1 or 2 or else they will
not install
so unless you want to live in a batcave with old ancient non updated
programs you need the service packs.
Shenan said:Many people choose to do this.
Again - you are NOT *forced* to change - especially not by any one
entity.
I still know people running Windows 95 happily - as all they want is
something to pop their email with or play an old game they enjoy.
If you change it is because you have decided to 'keep up' with the
rest of the world that is changing around you. You make that
decision. Sure - if you plan on being in a career that utilizes
computers in some major way - you will have to choose whether or
not to change because the world you deal with changes. Again -
your choice. There are still many places on the planet that do not
utilize computers and have changed very little in many many years
overall.
Also - the whole thing about blaming one entity for forcing the
CHOICE to change or not is ludicrous. A computer is not comprised
of one single component nor do the factors leading to the change in
any product usually based on one entities choices. It's usually
done per requests and or other factors that influence the product
in question to also change - which likely in turn causes many other
products to change and the cycle goes on like it always has.
What you are saying contradicts itself. You say you have to change
(apply a given service pack to a specific OS), but you add an
"unless" - which means you don't have to change(apply a given
service pack to a specific OS). So what you have done is say you
agree that no one forces you to do anything - but they do... ? Or
you have agreed saying that someone does force you to change - but
they don't...? heh
Everything is a choice. You don't even have to use Windows XP -
much less apply said service pack in discussion. You don't have to
have a computer even. Anything else is an assumption.
As for the original poster - it will be out soon enough, you can
choose whether or not you want to install it (taking into factor
security reasons, new software, new hardware, etc) and you should -
when doing anything to your computer, even just using it - ensure
you have a decent backup plan so you at least do not lose the data
important to you and quite possibly a more advanced plan to make it
easy to revert back to a state you were in prior to any bad
incidents.
there is nothing that biologically forces you to wear clothes..
you could remain in doors if its cold outside,
and get in your car that has heating to go from place to place in
the winter..
but you do wear clothes although no one is forcing you to do it
why? lol
Shenan said:You are assuming quite a bit.
That's what got you into this in the first place.
You have no idea if I own/utilize a car. You can't even be sure
that I wear clothes. There are many people throughout the world
that do not subscribe to either of those things (cars or clothes.)
It is natural to try to warm oneself *if* it is cold *to them* -
but each person and situation is different for that as well. That
is survival instinct - not necessarily a conscience choice. Although there
are many examples where people have made the
conscience choice to die in the cold.
We are talking about a conscience choice that has nothing to do
with your continued survival. Getting indoors to warm up or into a
car to go someplace is a conscience choice (when available.) Someone could
just as easily choose to walk/run, use a seg-way,
roller skate, ice skate, pogo-stick, crawl or not leave/go/get warm
- or even die (although they have to have a decent amount of will
power.)
Comparing those items to installing a service pack on a certain
operating system and relating it to EVERYONE is just not going to
happen in the real world. ;-)
I am not assuming anything, and I am very comfortable and not stuck
in any way.
You could be an alien posting from a ufo in orbit, or an
experimental AI computer and not a human.
The thing is that I am taking what is most probable.
Probability is the very nature of our universe going down to basis
of all existance.
Its most probable that you would want to wear clothes even though
you don't have to. And you would want to do this for various
reasons. Now, the same applies to service packs, you don't HAVE to
do it, but you would most likely want to do it for various reasons.
However - until now - you never mentioned probability and you assumed much
in that act alone.
You said "they force you indirectly" not "odds are, you will have to
anyway"...
Comfortable and correct are not necessarily interchangeable. ;-)