Sorry I just had to post this ...
LMAO
on the up
Sorry I just had to post this ...
LMAO
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
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That's just plain unfeasible. Risible almost.
Silly people.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Vacuum packed Vamp
Why was this dumped in PD forum?, it's topical and interesting.
Homer you shot the zombie Flanders !
He was a Zombie?
+est
"craplets" haha nice!
i can see where they are coming from tho...
it's like putting "chikety china" brand bike parts on a Suzuki and wondering why they don't work properly lol
"Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity"
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It's an "Operating System" not a motorcycle.
"Operating System" is supposed to imply something you use to run your stuff on. So long as they app talks to the O/S why should I care who wrote the app? Why should the O/S?
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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Any half way decent OS should ring fence applications so that no matter what happens to the application , the OS and other apps won't be affected. So a crappy program may not run properly, but it won't affect the rest of the system
Sounds like they already know they have potential issues and are softening up the public to an expectation that it's someone else's fault.
(BTW , the obvious corollary of manufacturers only being able to load MS approved progranms is that users would also only be able to install MS approved programs. And I bet that MS approval for non MS programs (especially those that compete with MS ones ) would be remarkably hard to obtain. They're not called the Evil Empire for nothing)
Originally Posted by skidmark
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Except that lots of these craplets are things like antivirus and backup utilities etc, right? Which would have to have privileged access to do their job.
I thought they only cared about apps installed by the manufacturer? I've never liked those damn things when I've had to deal with windows.(BTW , the obvious corollary of manufacturers only being able to load MS approved progranms is that users would also only be able to install MS approved programs. And I bet that MS approval for non MS programs (especially those that compete with MS ones ) would be remarkably hard to obtain. They're not called the Evil Empire for nothing)
Anyway, I'll stick with my system with no MS software.
Richard
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On the contrary, I believe our lives would be a whole lot better without MS at all.
Vacuum packed Vamp
This just smacks of compatibility issues to me. Why does it matter when the software is installed?, it still has to interface with the OS no matter what, and if it can't then that's pretty sucky imo.
I don't see how MS can bleat about this, when their very own Internet Explorer and Windows media Player fall into the same category. For virtually everyone I know with a PC, they want these two programs off thier PC, because IE has 8 mega squillion exploits out there waiting to hijack it, and WMP is raw, and only plays a handful of formats.
You can not remove IE from Windows, its tied into, and intergral to the core operating system. You can even try to tell Windows that you want your Firefox browser to be the default browser, but when you install some third party software, that requires an online registration, or similar, it will activate IE, and use it.
There is a court case pending in the US over this issue, and here is MS having a sooky lala over some small preinstalled apps.
Homer you shot the zombie Flanders !
He was a Zombie?
Hardcore Biker
I can actually understand MS having a hissy over this, because my new compaq laptop came with so much shite on it it was rediculous.. I spent the first 30 minutes installing crap I didnt need/want.. Like I shit you not _60_ diffrent game trials which all had to be uninstalled seperately. Not to mention assorted adware and advertising material.
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e mare libertas
Part of the problem here is that casual computer users tend not to draw a distinction between software from different manufacturers.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
Hardcore Biker
Microsoft have the view that Windows is a perfect operating system with not one single bug and that it is everyone elses software and drivers that cause corruptions not Windows........feel another Tui ad coming along
Beware the psychosis llama...
This all seems to be part of the ever-expanding can of worms that grows ever more nasty and complex with every new windoze release.
I'm no geek, but there are some interesting quotes in this blog post by Russel Brown pointing to '...the utility of computers ... being sacrificed on the altar of content protection.'
More security nasties to come with Vista by the looks of it...
By no means is OSX immune - look at the nasty perpetrated by Sony last year adding a kernel extension to the OS in a technological protection measure that led to an embarrassing back-down.
I'm only sad that I'm not quite geeky enough to use an OS that doesn't perpetuate this cycle. Looks like I'm stuck with the lesser of the two great evils for now...
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VISTA.....pfffft, MS still trying to play catch up - but an APPLE MAC you'll live longer - the current OSX Tiger is streets ahead of Vista and its a couple of years old already......the new OSX will be stellar
Beware the psychosis llama...
Yep - the lesser ofthe 2 great evils is a lot less evil
That said, I'm still pissed with Apple for a number of reasons...I'm under no illusions that they are all as shiny, happy, and nice as they'd have us believe...
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