First (?) call for Micro$oft to abandon Vista.

[arkanoid]

Vista is a taste of MicroSoft's future plans and things certainly won't get better come the next incarnation of Windows, I can assure you. Inch-by-inch, they're going to dupe the sheep into accepting their trusted "Trusted Computing" philosophy, which basically means everything you do on YOUR computer within YOUR OWN home will be monitored and pretty much every action you make recorded and transmitted back to "HQ"...in one form or another. But ofcourse, all this intrusion into activity on your system is for your own security, to protect you from viruses and evil paedophiles.

Why is Vista slow compared to XP? Because of all the behind the scenes snooping going on. Try inserting a BlueRay disk and running certain video recording apps at the same time. You'll be told that you're "not allowed".

Things are going to get worse as far as "Intrusive Computing" is concerned and when they finally dupe the public into beleiving we need Internet2, this intrusion of our day to day computing life will only be compounded. Welcome to the wonderful world of Big Brother!

This sums the future of computing up nicely

Might aswell watch this while you're at it

[arkanoid]

adonay wrote:
Whats wrong with you people retarded? Why always look down on windows not that the mac os is so problem free either its just that everyone used to be an amiga user now is a mac fanboy

that's very presumptuous. as far as I'm concerned, MacOS and Apple are on the same rack as MicroSoft and Vista. They both have plans to invade our personal computers and dictate what we can and can't do on our systems. MacOS is also infested with DRM (aka: SpyWare)

I take offense against any coporate entity that attempts to invade my personal space and I consider my personal computer PERSONAL. No one has the right to tell me what I can and can't do with it. No one has the right to "track" my actions, it's absurd.

Btw, I actually LIKE XP. It's a relatively unintrusive and solid OS that gives no problems. Vista however is the begining of something I do not wish to see in an OS.

[arkanoid]

little wrote:
It is the same thing as oil prices. Back when they were at $60 per barrel it was "biggest piece of crap ever", but when it gets up to $100 per barrel, then $60 seems "fantastic"

oh come on now, as with anything else, there's no such thing as reasonably priced oil. Even if it is the foundation of our civilization and everyone's day-to-day living depends on it. Corporate entities are naturally going to exploit our dependence on it, create artificial scarcity in supply and hike-up the cost of oil - if they think they can get away with it (which apparently they can). Can't blame them for protecting their interests, even if it is at our expense.:roll:

[arkanoid]

"people willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both"

- Benjamin Franklin

little: I find it scarey. Give these people a shovel and they'll dig their own graves. Not only that but they do it with a smile.

God save what little there is left of the Constitution and the human rights people the world over have fought for

[arkanoid]

Just as a side note, tonight I installed the latest version of Ubuntu (7.10) on my mother's new Sony Vaio laptop which came pre-installed with Vista. She was not comfortable with Vista because of it's generally stupid interface and has been pestering me to install Windows XP which she's already familiar with from her old desktop. I suggested she gave Linux a try first before I purchased a copy of XP for her. She's been using the new install for a few hours now and absolutely loves it and finds it easy and straight forward to use.

Bare in mind this is a Sony Vaio which uses a lot of proprietary Sony hardware and the Ubuntu installation was just as easy as Windows. Anyone considering Linux should give Ubuntu a try, it's truly amazing.

Watch out Microsoft...you have a REAL contender for your throne!