[Laughs_Last]

Wow, you really have a lot to say about MS.

Check out this webpage explaining how to make your own tablet device from sratch: http://www.randyasplund.com/browse/scri ... blets.html

[strider3700]

when vista was first announced it was supposed to have about a half dozen amazingly advanced technologies in it. The one that I remember was a database based filesystem. Anyways as time went on and it became obvious that MS had serious security issues they slowly started removing those technologies from the list. In the end they basically had to release an OS or risk losing a bunch of market share because it had been so long and OS X and linus where both looking damn nice compared to XP so they released vista which basically has a new security model and shiny interface. Oh and 6 or 8 versions just to piss everyone off. The next OS is supposed to have all of those cool features that where dumped included. I haven't gone to vista yet at home. I won't be moving the company there anytime soon. It's just not worth it at this point.

[EnergyUnlimited]

I am still using Win 98 SE and occasionally Win Me on my 1GHz/80GB Gateway with Pentium 3.
I found those sufficient for most of tasks and I can live without some add-ons present in XP/Vista.
I don't store any sensitive data on my hard drive so I am not bothered much if someone manage to brake in (I am using Panda firewall to lower that risk anyway).

For business accounting purpose I am using one of latest DOS versions and simple software, which run brilliant on that.
It is all done on old computer not connected to Internet, so there is nothing to worry about.

I am not going to upgrade.
I believe, that all the shit around will start to collapse timely enough to spare me that pain.

[I_Like_Plants]

I'd say get a mac.

I saw a nice eMac at the local goodwill for $200, may have been half price like the pillow I got today. Saw a nice "toilet seat" iBook for $50 today, screen's bad, reddish, if all it is is reddish, that won't keep you from doing what you need to do.

Anything OSX is running on BSD Unix. You can get these machines cheap and they last a long time.

If you're more techie, get into linux. Me, I just want the thing to work.

[Falconoffury]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'p')erhaps until 2014 when Microsoft Officially drops all support for XP

[frankthetank]

I'll stick with XP, but i think in the next couple weeks i'm going to dual boot Ubuntu or Kubuntu depending on if i want Gnome or KDE. I actually used a version of Linux many moons ago, but at the time i had one of those sweet winmodems and i couldn't get it to connect to the internet.

Never used/seen Vista. I ordered a computer for a guy and luckily was able to choose XP instead of Vista.

I first started out using Windows for Workgroups and then moved onto 95 (which i liked) then 98SE and then ME and then 2000/XP. I still get a frozen computer from time to time, but its not too bad. I haven't had to reinstall for a few months, which is all i care about. A person should back up files to DVD from time to time....which i don't!

[strider3700]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'I')'ll stick with XP, but i think in the next couple weeks i'm going to dual boot Ubuntu or Kubuntu depending on if i want Gnome or KDE.

[jasonraymondson]

It could also be that Microsoft is flicking retarrrrded!

[frankthetank]

Spent the whole day almost playing (not the fun type) with Kubuntu and then to Ubuntu. I will say they install very easily and everything works great. Only problem i have is with Ndiswrapper and trying to get a usb wifi card to work. Not fun! Getting use to the terminal and commands! Have lots to learn yet, however.

edit
Just to add, i think i'm going back to Kubuntu or the newest version of Ubuntu. Really liked using Kubuntu web browser, and liked the layout a lot more. Still have to figure out how to get my wireless car to work (tew-445)...

[strider3700]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', ' ')Really liked using Kubuntu web browser, and liked the layout a lot more.

[Ache]

http://www.examiner.com/x-15540-New-Orl ... hurricanes

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')icrosoft founder, Bill Gates, has turned his attention and deep pockets to controlling hurricanes with a new invention.

Gates along with a team of co-inventors including climate scientist, Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, have submitted five U.S. Patent applications for a proposed device to slow hurricanes down by pumping cold, deep-ocean water in its path from barges.

If issued, the patents offer 18 years of legal rights to the idea for Gates and his co-inventors.

The patents describe a system that would place as many as 200 turbine engine barges in a path of a raging hurricane, and designed to then pump chilled water from its depth to the ocean’s surface negating the hurricane’s source of strength. The Vessels could be towed, dropped by planes or submerged in the ocean until needed.

[jbrovont]

Warm water is denser than cool water, thus the pumping to exchange them will expend energy. In order to exchange enough water to alter surface temperatures enough to remove the energy that drives a hurricane, you'd have to expend roughly the same amount of energy to overcome the difference in buoyancy...unless the atmospheric conditions were cool enough you didn't need to...in which case they wouldn't support a hurricane anyway.

How much oil would we have to burn to equal the energy released during Katrina anyway? Or is the idea to deploy nuclear powered ships to an explosive hot zone for treacherous seas?

Fault me if I'm wrong here, please. Otherwise this seems like a contender for a complete waste of time. Why not just stop building where hurricanes are apt to make landfall? Seems like that would be a lot cheaper.

[Cloud9]

I thought hurricanes were nature’s heat exchange engines. If we learn to shut them down, what happens to the heat?

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jbrovont', 'W')arm water is denser than cool water, thus the pumping to exchange them will expend energy. In order to exchange enough water to alter surface temperatures enough to remove the energy that drives a hurricane, you'd have to expend roughly the same amount of energy to overcome the difference in buoyancy...unless the atmospheric conditions were cool enough you didn't need to...in which case they wouldn't support a hurricane anyway.

How much oil would we have to burn to equal the energy released during Katrina anyway? Or is the idea to deploy nuclear powered ships to an explosive hot zone for treacherous seas?

Fault me if I'm wrong here, please. Otherwise this seems like a contender for a complete waste of time. Why not just stop building where hurricanes are apt to make landfall? Seems like that would be a lot cheaper.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'I') thought hurricanes were nature’s heat exchange engines. If we learn to shut them down, what happens to the heat?

[Ferretlover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ill Gates plans to control hurricanes.