Comment Re:Surpassing Vista (Score 4, Informative) 285
I've got lots of perfectly good hardware (scanners, printers...etc) that never received a Windows 7 driver. I have to keep at least one XP machine around just for that reason.
I've got lots of perfectly good hardware (scanners, printers...etc) that never received a Windows 7 driver. I have to keep at least one XP machine around just for that reason.
learning Metro was no big deal compared to someone who has only seen the Start button all their computer life.
Um, the problem isn't learning it, the problem is liking it.
My ChromeBook is fast, my older HP running Ubuntu is fast. My new high-end HP running Win 7-64 with 32GB RAM takes 5 minutes to boot...
Try turning off the "Run RAM diagnostic on startup" option...
game companies follow their sheeple.
what kind of an insane madman would do a high budget game and only publish it on windows 8.1 and not 7 at all?
Nobody.
But
I'll bet you're forgetting that Microsoft (and other platform makers) pay game makers for "exclusive" titles which draw more players to their platform.
pfft. he is not forgetting that. the scenario already didn't happen. the exact same scenario with vista and dx10.
With Linux Steam on the horizon, it would be a risky move.
This is just a marketing announcement for the gullible. There'll be a percentage of people who'll go out and upgrade after this, and that's the point.
call Microsoft Activation and advise you have downgraded to Windows 7 as allowed as part of the OEM licensing agreement and would like their assistance in activating.
Have you read the OEM licensing agreement?
You can only 'downgrade' if you purchase Windows 8 Pro, which is, a) Not always an option on consumer machines, b) Much more expensive.
Ref: http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/licensing/sblicensing/Pages/downgrade_rights.aspx
Apple's special-cable and SD-card-adapter business is very lucrative...
I've read it a dozen times and I still don't see a different meaning. At best you called them semi-benign traits.
All of those traits are desired by somebody out there so I'd say it was just natural selection doing its job, no need to 'correct' anything.
big eyes, long fingers,big hips, small breasts etc will start to be pinpointed to a single gene, protein or step malfunctioning
Those things are a "malfunction"?
(But not your small dick, right? That's 'normal'...)
... makes the world black and white in clear code...
This word "clear", I don't think it means what you think it means.
The real LOL is that the department heads think spammers/scammers "do homework".
Most binary data will sound like white noise if you listen to it (zip files, video, mp3...etc)
What is the logic for making that illegal?
Don't apply for a job in government...
there is no reason you have to be without children to make some money
But it definitely helps.
Keeping them employed until retirement age.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
