Re: XP is great


"classd101" <c_bielek@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:73347787.0504132227.5de1e4a8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Frithiof Andreas Jensen" <frithiof.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:<d3j108$80e$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...

> Siiigh, does the term .... power_toys_... ring a bell?

Slightly - as one of those "improvements" that can be safely Ignored?

> Well, if you ever tried optimizing your system, it would run alot
> faster and could possibly be done by red giant time.

Yes. But It's almost easier to get a new box - if one auctions the old one
off on the Saturday Auctions frequented by consumers, the price fetched can
often pay for the new box.


> You seem to prescribe to the theory of BG that any fault found in it
> is the fault of the users. I suppose that is true, if no one used it,
> there'd be no faults found. In reality however, it is the standard
> every day OS, gets used, bugs are found, and it's actually the fault
> of those who refuse to admit to and fix them, not those who use it.

<shrug - analogy:>

I just like to jump over where someone already removed the fence to get to
the Farm Shop to buy the vegetables, I set out to buy. Some people obviously
like to seek out the more impressive tall bit of the fence, where that pile
of junked farm machinery, broken bottles and rusty barbed wire was dumped by
the farmer ... a matter of taste and style, i guess ;-)

> You get the point I hope. One size doesn't fit all. What's the sense
> in buying a hot rod of a computer and expecting it to run like that
> hot rod, when by default, XP equals the a logging truck with a half
> secured load.

To abuse the analogy: Is that the problem of the driver or the copper trying
to overtake?

> You know it's people like you who keep the majority of people from
> ever moving beyond the point and click barrier.

Yup -

"People like Me" are also responsible for Global Warming and The Palæstinian
Problem; Oh and I did not worry much about World Peace, must be the reason
for Iraq .... gawd, I feel soooo guilty. ***, The Pobe died too. Must be
that Burrito, I ate.

Bahhh:

"People" tend to keep themselves in whatever trouble they like to be in.

> I think it's a load of *** to even think they're unable to fix things
> because it's so big it's beyond them??

Sigh:

The fixing has No Value to "Them" - The Value was in exchanging the license
with your money, getting you into that first commitment, what value now
remains is your potential purchase of more software and support, which you
would not do UNLESS unhappy with what you have got already (but not so
unhappy that you give up altogether - i.e. you must be fed Hope in the form
of updates ...).


> Windows has always been designed to keep people obliviously point and
> click stupid.

So? It's a Consumer OS, a Means to an End, something to be discarded at some
point in favour of something else, not something to get involved with or
philosophize about.

If one expends mental energy on it, one ends up married to it and deeply
concerned over it's state of health at all times - as I can see many people
are. Works in the Stock market and Nigerian Scams too.


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