Microsoft Announces Vista Family Discount, Windows Anytime Upgrade Pricing

yes they were losta!

i was playing Sierra games that were installed on a 20MB INTERNAL hard drive in 16 colours, while you were playing Shufflepuck (a pong ripoff) in black & white on a smaller screen with a system priced twice as much!

AHAHAHAHAHA!

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ya i saw those ones before and i like them too.

remember that "Linux" is not a complete OS - it's just an OS kernel. it's source code is supposed to be completely original, but Minix was used for "inspiration" (whatever that means - there are only so many ways to code something). all these Linux dists ie. Fedora Core, OpenSUSE, Debian, etc. are all based around that kernel. the other OS's i mentioned ie. the BSD variants, Solaris, OSX, etc. have their own distinct kernel that is NOT the Linux kernel so they can never really me called Linux. Linux is often referred to as "Unix on x86 hardware", but this is a grossly inaccurate discription because not all of the x86 Unix's use a Linux kernel.

of the source code licenses, the reason i like the BSD license is because it is NOT perpetually royalty-free. what this means is that you can take source code that was previously free and then charge for it. there are also less people involved in the "community" in terms of kernel development, so compatibility and development cycles are far more efficient and ideal on it. with Linux, i find that development has too many hoops to jump through to get changes made and the GPL seems designed from the ground up so that nobody can make money.

still, developing is far easier using something like .Net managed code and Visual C#.

speaking of which, i got my Action Pack update finally and Expression Web came with it! of course, Vista and Office 2007 did too, among several other things.

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"my own experiences with Linux and Unix variants (yes, they are NOT all Linux's, remember) have been a total disappointment from start to finish...because the command-line reminds me of my days with DOS on very low-end machines."

LOL...which you probably insisted were superior to the Macs of that time.

You crack me up, Waethorn.

here it is :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAJDbV9Vfs

I've tried pretty much every flavour of Linux out there and *****around with a couple of distros at least twice a year.

It's not too bad at first but I end up getting frustrated with it after a month and removinf it from my system. I can tell you exactly why it's never going take over Windows or OS X: Ease of use and available applications.

I know I don't have the patience to compile source code when I want to install a program or drivers so what makes anyone think that the average user is? What user wants to go digging four hours and hours on the net to find a photo management program when Microsoft and Apple already include these things in their OS's?

I personally haven't found any reason at all to move to Linux full time.

Solaris I use at work. We have three Solaris servers up and running and let me tell you I love them. The key word here is "work". As servers, the Solaris boxes rock and roll. I can't see any good reason at all to run something like Solaris at home though. It seems to be designed as a server OS and nothing more.

BSD. ha. That reminds me of this Get a Mac spoof where this dude with a backpack shows up and PC says "Hey Linux".

Linux: "ARGH! I'm Free BSD. Why do you guys always f*ck that up?"

Mac: "Sorry BSD. You just look like Linux"

hehe - as soon as I find the links to them in youtube I'll put them here. Funny stuff :-)