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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(FaTTzZO @ Jul 6 2006, 06:24 PM) [snapback]178794[/snapback]</div>No, that's just your fault. Stop bitching about something when you have no idea what you're talking about. You can't program in Windows, huh? Puhleeeze!Quote:
you can't open your web browser without getting a virus.
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Man it's marketing, it's just the way to bring the product to stupid people. We (the users of winOS) know what's good, and what's bad, and how the things are in computer world... We don't have to see an ad to realize something about us... ;)
BFG, so your saying someone with a £100 budget can get a better PC than someone with a £1000 budget just because they are smart?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sublime @ Jul 7 2006, 03:26 AM) [snapback]178894[/snapback]</div>Quote:
No, that's just your fault. Stop bitching about something when you have no idea what you're talking about. You can't program in Windows, huh? Puhleeeze!
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i didnt mean that literal, everyone knows you can make a program on windows, is dumb to take that literal. what i mean is, that if you are making a real good program, and you just have been working for 10 hours in a row, and then w00t... blue screen of death, you lost some of your work... great deal with windows!!
Security?
Incredibly, MS has failed to include a virus scanner in spite of its recent public humiliations by means of Code Red and Sircam and its sudden interest in security. Outlook is still one of the finest worm and virus propagation mechanisms known to man, though the IE6 package now includes a version of Outlook Express which no longer launches executables. But you still can't force OE or Outlook to display HTML message bodies as plain text, to avoid malicious links, AxtiveX controls, JavaScript and 'Web bugs'. No, the advertising lobby wouldn't like that. The spam industry would object. 'Functionality' (bloody illiterate word) has got to take precedence over common sense.
Viruses, worms and Trojans make their way onto your machine because of Outlook's default insecurity, or because you are an idiot and you'll download anything off the Web that sounds interesting and launch it, or because your teenage kids take what they think are porn and music files from their 'friends' in IRC and ICQ without question. The solution is a virus scanner and a more secure Outlook -- and we'd have both if MS was actually serious about security, which it obviously isn't.
There's a firewall in XP, which is installed by default whenever you make a new Internet or networking connection. It's also turned full-on by default. This covers the clueless newbies who'll be making their first forays onto the Net from XP.
But if, by some miracle, your device drivers are all up to XP's demanding standards and you successfully carry over an existing connection from a previous version of Windows, the firewall has to be enabled manually. Not the best situation, but clearly better than nothing.
and besides that you have an electronic babysitter
However, if you're a basic PC user thinking about buying XP, don't. It's basically malware. It harangues you with nagging, fake-friendly reminders to obtain a Passport and submit to product activation, and treats you like a child when you try to do anything heretical, like install a device driver of which it disapproves.
You get your first hint of its 'you're an idiot; let Daddy help' posture during the install, where the progress summary informs you that Windows is "analyzing your computer". Yeah, right. Analyze this....
Got a suspicious piece of hardware on that box of yours? You might be out of luck if XP doesn't like the drivers it needs to function. MS has a new scheme of 'preferring' signed drivers which it will distribute, automatically, no less, via its support Web site.
That wouldn't be quite so bad if the digital hand of Daddy wasn't programmed deep within XP to keep us all from harm. In the old days, when you went to install a driver manually, you could search through a list of those you'd installed previously and stuff around until you got one going to your satisfaction. No more.
If you've already installed one that XP 'likes' but then attempt to choose one it 'dislikes', you won't be given the chance to defy the Wisdom of Redmond. You'll get a little message telling you that 'Windows has determined that the driver already loaded better suits your hardware.' And that's it. Gone is the little query allowing you to 'install your choice anyway.' Let Daddy help.
you want me to keep writing?
I dont have the time to read that whole post because I am doing some Physics coursework but Im just going to say; You downloaded a shiat load of angry emu porn did'nt you? :P
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(FaTTzZO @ Jul 7 2006, 06:24 AM) [snapback]178794[/snapback]</div>:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:Quote:
windows stands because it is a bad copy of linux. you cant program with windows, you can't open your web browser without getting a virus.
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Windows was developed in 1989 and linux was in 1991.
so how can windows be a copy of linux?
If I were allowed to flame him like in RPG Codex, I would.
bah :P
im just gonna say this..
..|.. :P
j/k
its all up to you all
i dont care if you use windows, or mac, or linux, i was just posting my point of view about windows!
as you can see, i dont like it at all :D
however, i respect Bill Gates, but i dont follow him. he is a pretty smart guy, not because he developed windows, but because he is still selling it :P he is the richest man on the world, and i admire that
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BlackOut @ Jul 7 2006, 09:32 AM) [snapback]178923[/snapback]</div>What?!Quote:
BFG, so your saying someone with a £100 budget can get a better PC than someone with a £1000 budget just because they are smart?
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I said nothing of the sorts. But yes, that can be true. If you make your own PC, its a million times cheaper then buying one.
I was talking how a smarter person with computers is less likely to get a virus or trojan. Thats all I said. =P
And dude, just give it up. Windows is the most used OS for a reason. I love linux, and would be glad to use it. I'm unable to do that, unfortanely.
So, in conclusion: Windows isn't the greatest OS... but it surely is most compatible these days =P
