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scheme to make the SP pack make your computer a little limited,
and to get the full power of your machine you'd have to buy Vista.
Granted, this would all be a <hush, hush> conspiracy, and it would
make the machine slowly get limited over time... and then once
Vista is installed everyone would clamor for it, not realizing it's
where they used to be a few months ago! LOL.
Sillie wind0ze (l)users, LOLOL!!111! you have to p4tch uR machine. And you smell bad, live below the poverty line, eat babies, get touched in your bathing suit area by Bill Gates, spend 70 hours a week fighting spyware, have cousins for parents, live in waste.....
I don't have XP. I'm still using Win 98 when I HAVE nothing else that will work. Xandros works great for me.
protection nonsense.....get a MAC. I made the switch after
almost 15 years of windows use and I couldn't be happier. Yes, I
still keep a windows box around for essoteric stuff like copying
DVD's from Netflix, but most of my everyday computing is now
done on the MAC. I don't have to worry about this or that patch
hosing an important app.....it just keeps working as it should.
OK....yes....I had to pay more up front for my MAC. But its like
paying more for a Lexus vs a Chevy. And let's not forget that OS
X is based on Unix....one of the most stable OS's that ever
existed. Hey.....I loved dinking around with Windows over the
years. God knows the continual debugging and reformating of
my PC taught me a lot of valuable problem solving skills. But as
time went by.....I just grew tired of doing MS's dirty work for
them. Actually, Windows reminds me of those silly used cars you
see on the road. You know, the $1500 chevy Chevette with the
$2000 set of rims, front and rear spoiller and grey primer paint
job. The kid who built it thinks he's got some "Hot Wheels" and
maybe some of his friends agree. But those who can afford a
new Lexus just shake their heads.
Besides, if you keep a Windows machine, you still have to patch it, right? So now instead of having to patch one machine (that has automatic patching), you have to patch two? How's that an improvement?
protection nonsense.....get a MAC. I made the switch after
almost 15 years of windows use and I couldn't be happier. Yes, I
still keep a windows box around for essoteric stuff like copying
DVD's from Netflix, but most of my everyday computing is now
done on the MAC. I don't have to worry about this or that patch
hosing an important app.....it just keeps working as it should.
OK....yes....I had to pay more up front for my MAC. But its like
paying more for a Lexus vs a Chevy. And let's not forget that OS
X is based on Unix....one of the most stable OS's that ever
existed. Hey.....I loved dinking around with Windows over the
years. God knows the continual debugging and reformating of
my PC taught me a lot of valuable problem solving skills. But as
time went by.....I just grew tired of doing MS's dirty work for
them. Actually, Windows reminds me of those silly used cars you
see on the road. You know, the $1500 chevy Chevette with the
$2000 set of rims, front and rear spoiller and grey primer paint
job. The kid who built it thinks he's got some "Hot Wheels" and
maybe some of his friends agree. But those who can afford a
new Lexus just shake their heads.
reason to have Windows around is to copy your movies... well,
you know you can do that with a Mac right? Infact it's cheaper.
MactheRipper = Freeware
Roxio Popcorn = $19.99
Thats all ya need my friend.
Out
reason to have Windows around is to copy your movies... well,
you know you can do that with a Mac right? Infact it's cheaper.
MactheRipper = Freeware
Roxio Popcorn = $19.99
Thats all ya need my friend.
Out.
- 2 years later and no SP3 Grrrrr!!!!!!
- by inachu May 11, 2007 12:58 PM PDT
- Billy Gates is soooo slow!
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