Tech: Windows X Pee

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Cluin
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 09:13 PM

Same could be said of seconds or minutes, Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Amos
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 08:40 PM

There are cultures on this planet who use water to clean themselves after defecating and have never touched TP, nor used leaves!

And there is no time period longer than centuries if you add enough of them, anyway!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Joybell
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 05:25 PM

Moss. Moss is good.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: mack/misophist
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 03:52 PM

It's not a good idea to use leaves. Trust me, I know

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Cluin
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 03:23 PM

Longer than that, Amos. Modern day hunters still use leaves when they get caught short. Just be sure you don't grab the wrong variety.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Amos
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 01:33 PM

Paperless toilets have been around for centuries, mate!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 01:18 PM

Uncle_DaveO

There will be a paperless toilet before there is a paperless office.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 08:32 AM

Microsoft's Windows XP is now being used by more than one-third of Internet users worldwide and is by far the most popular operating system version on the Web, according to figures compiled by San Diego-based WebSideStory Inc., which analyzes Internet usage.

See this for full details.

Falls far short of the 90% bandied about above. From the way he is defending the operating system that "has taken three times longer than Windows 98 to capture one-third of the market", his poor research and perculiar ravings I guess or unamed guest could be non other than BG himself...

Cheers

DtG
(W2K user and HPUX consultant)

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Amos
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 12:43 PM

The alternative to the cheap DOS that Bill Gates had to offer IBM for their pilot Personal Computer project running out of Boca Raton was a clever cross-platform operating system developed at UCSD called the UCSD P-System. It's object files could be read by any platform using the OS, regardless of which platform they had been developed on. The system was commercialized and owned by a company called SoftTech Microsystems in Rancho Bernardo, CA, a subsidiary of SofTech in Massachusetts.

But when IBM came to enquire about using the P-system for the nascent PC, a bright young aggressive marketing executive whose name escapes me got a bit too big for her britches and offered a pricey per-copy deal which would have neded up being prohibitively expensive to IBM. So the IBM folks went up to Northern California to see Mister Gates instead (I think this was well before Microsoft went to Seattle.)

And that's why you got DOS and copy a:* instead of a: pip b: ... (just kidding -- that was CP/M, another candidate that didn't make the cut.)

A

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Amos
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 12:34 PM

I'd hardly call my preference for reliability and ease of use a "bias".

And W2K is far more reliable than XP in my limited experience.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 09:39 AM

manitas...did he really need to specify 90% of the USERS of computers?

and would you really want the Xhosa to be puzzling over Mudcat? *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 08:26 AM

90% of the world uses XP? More likely that 90% of the world hasn't even got access to a computer.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 07:51 AM

I now have to use XP for a little music studio I set up sith SONAR producer software by cakewalk and Korg triton karma technology. Me is more secure from invasion but does have kinks to start and stop it and sometimes shuts off 3D software graphic programs if I don't save every 10 minutes.
So far XP hasn't given me any long standing problems but Bill amd others make a good point.
This year I am learning the keyboard. I don't plan to be able to play Chopin but just enough to be able to edit what I need to orchestrate some scores. After 8 hours of playing today my back really hurts. Pictures are a whole lot easier to produce than music.

I'm working toward a world flight odyssey with narration and a cello concerto.

The odyssey is in a style of Norman Corwin who was a radio producer that defined poetry and music the WWII era. He is kind of corny for today's market but was the mentor of many film directors and writers we all know today.

The narration will have soundtrack and is then followed by 12 small event movements to musicly portray the journey around the world:

...........................

The Tuskegee airmen gathered together again this crisp winter day.

They came to wish a fellow flier off on an odyssey.

No its not a journey,
its flying around the earth - the hard way.

Pole to pole and back home again.

James Icarus Jones is a giant of a man
next to his tiny experimental plane
and his wife that comes up to his ribs.

Wearing a Paul Bunyon grin
while staring at the clouds
he whispers to his wife and the sky,
"I can do this".

Last year he headed for the North pole
in an open cockpit biplane.
He made it to north Hudson bay
when his engine failed.

This time the Amazon and Tierra del Fuego
await his arrival.
Then on to an Antarctic summer
and across the Indian ocean.

and beyond.

There are times; he is not a man
or bird or dolphin flying over the sea.
he is beyond legs, wings or fins,
he forgets everything

and regrets nothing

For his is a freedom,
and communion
with the earth
and sky
singing an incredible chorus
of clouds, color and symphonic
landscapes.

He'll grab a chunk of rainbow
and wear it as a crown
He'll slice a line through real space
no artist could ever draw.

Thankful for one more breath
in finding a place to land
and sleep
to dream of the sky again.

Behind his eyes is an
epiphaney of the unknown
that few will ever know
and most just question why.

James Icarus Jones,
Captain of the sky
took off on his odyssey today.

Should he ever return,
you will see it in his grin
and the twinkle in his eye.


................................


By the time I am done, hopefully he will have made it as far as the UK.
Then again he might not.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 02:05 AM

Worst one I've dealt with was Windows ME. Crashed all of the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Cluin
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 11:00 PM

All operating systems have their own problems. In my experience, Windows XP crashes a lot less than some earlier versions of Windows did. It's also a lot more crudded up with shit running in the background, doing gawd-knows-what all time too. Not unlike the internet itself.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 12:56 PM

If you have to use XP, then get XP Pro, it's more stable. I ended up with that on the kids' new computer, but I am moving along very nicely with Win2000Pro. Since it's an academic version, the price was also right.

You have to go back 20 years or more to see the mistake made about operating systems. There was a guy with a better system who didn't bother to call back when IBM gave him a call. So Bill Gates got the business. Or something like that. MS-DOS, remember that? I forget what the other one was called. This is fuzzy, and probably put in the wrong order, but we have only ourselves to blame if we don't like the operating systems. We can change them.

The fellow who developed the better OS was a co-host with Stewart Cheifet on The Computer Chronicles. Gary Something-or-Other? I believe he went into a rapid decline and died young, broke and depressed. The CC archives don't go back far enough to show him as host, that I can find. Anyway, there's a sketchy history for you.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 12:54 PM

did Donuel SAY it was funny?

No he didn't. However, given his numerous posts about his catoons (all of which he wishes us to find amusing), it's not a great leap to assume that he meant this one to be so.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 12:35 PM

durn, silly Guest....we all see our humor in different ways. If you don't wanna laugh, don't. And did Donuel SAY it was funny? He merely said "hey...look at this".. At least the picture was well composed and is cute in a weird sort of way.

Windows is fine for many things. It has been tweaked until it works. I DO think we would have been better off had the Mac OS been the standard, just as Beta VCRs were 'better', but VHS was improved until it worked reasonably well.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 12:24 PM

First ran into that cute pic with the title "Buy the Warrantee".

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 12:05 PM

So why didn't the 'sheep' go for the early Mac OSs?

Let's not go down that route, we'd be here forever. No, Windows isn't perfect and is flawed in many ways. It is not, however 'piss poor', as Amos, with his Mac bias, suggests.

None of this should divert us from the fact that Donuel's 'funny' simply wasn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 11:47 AM

No, 90% of the world uses it because Micro$oft crossed their PR people with Border Collies, and 90% of the world are sheep.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 11:37 AM

Piss-poor OS

Really? That's why 90% of the world choose to use it?

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: mack/misophist
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 11:36 AM

Amos is right. win2000 is much better. Others are better yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Amos
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 11:15 AM

Cute dog. Piss-poor OS.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 11:11 AM

Before anyone else wastes their time clicking on Donuel's link, I'll let you all know that it's a picture of a dog pissing on a laptop.

XP = pee. Geddit? It's hilarious, and I wish I'd have had the wit and wisdom to think that one up...

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 10:49 AM

But of course computers have ushered in the paperless society.

Subject: RE: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 08:49 AM

Remember when we used to use newspapers?

Subject: BS: Windows X Pee
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 08:47 AM

Windows XP