Comment Re:Sure! (Score 1) 122
Suddenly, everyone uses a lame straw-man argument!
Suddenly, everyone uses a lame straw-man argument!
I can't think of the word for this, but...
I believe the word you're looking for is "bullshit".
Yep, and the Microsoft PR army has always listed a ton of "new features" for every one of their OS's... that is... until they actually shipped.
In the olden days, it was because someone walked on the punch cards in golf shoes
The liver is evil. It must be punished.
...In reality the BSA doesnt care about some small company thats using its photoshop license two or three times or that it has two windows 2003 servers it didnt pay for....
Ernie Ball would beg to differ.
This is assuming NICs represent a major driver problem in Vista/7. They don't. Virtually all NICs (I'm willing to say 99%) will WORK (that is FUNCTION) "out of the box" with Windows 7. There are a number of generic fallback drivers. There might be some issues, like jumbo frame support on gigabit cards, and some settings you can't tweak, but they will almost always work. This has been the case since Windows 98.
Find another straw man.
I take it you've never had a machine with an onboard nvidia NIC. No, they do not work out of the box.
...Can you imagine NASA spending 1/5th of it's annual budget on a deep space probe at this point in history?...
WTF else are they spending it on? Management salaries? Swimsuit models? PR?
Seriously.
I'd actually be pleased to see them spend 1/5 of their budget on ACTUAL SPACE TRAVEL.
Sarge really was the source of these endless jokes. Almost three years, on a Linux that was considerably less mature than it is today was forever...
Sure, the release time from Woody to Sarge was funny until you realized that even with the umpteen thousands of packages included with Sarge, the Debian team still beat release times between Microsoft's bare-bones desktop OSes Windows XP and Vista.
Yes. A friend purchased a laptop while he was in the Phillipines that came with Vista Limited Edition(TM). What a pain in the ass it was to use.
He's running Kubuntu now.
...Even at the most expensive prices in the US (20 cents per Kwh), this is roughly two dollars a month.
So yes, roughly $25 per year. Per device.
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.