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Windows works! Why would i want to change it?
lazygamer:
quote:
Closed source. The very fact that you are depended on a bunch of overpaid coders closed in an office is not that appealing to me.
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I have this theory.
Microsoft intentionally orders it's programmers to make it's OS suck. In addition to this, the programmers are incompetent to begin with. The "make this suck" order does not get canceled out by the incompetence, it works in tandem with it, having a devestating quality effect. What does quality control say? "Good, their following orders". Even though they never care to define(or do anything about) what counts as over-following orders.
Calum:
it's nothing to do with that. it has to do with hiring people while they are fresh enough out of school to be impressionable and accept low pay. it also comes from the business model that Microsoft uses which enables bullshit code to be written. the very structure encourages it.
Of course microsoft is a marketing company which does its own software, not a software company that does its own marketing.
The Auditor:
Just the fact that you can mess with anything windows has in the registry and your computer works better.. providing you understand a few machine languages.. is a testiment to how badly coded the OS truly is.
Anything that you can make better by typing NoDrivesAllocate and a value of 1 into should not be released.
The Auditor
Hex, Binary And ASM, Oh My!
[ November 13, 2002: Message edited by: The Auditor ]
The Auditor:
Sorry Guys.. i know ive posted this once already.. but this only serves to back up the point here!
Bill Gates wanted to look good and impress everyone with his success.
He decided to measure Microsoft accomplishments against General Motors.
His comparison went like this:
"If automotive technology had kept pace with computer technology over the
past few decades, you would now be driving a V-32 instead of a V8, and it
would have a top speed of 10,000 miles/hour (160,000 km/h). Or you could
have an economy car that weighs 30 pounds (14 kilos) and gets a thousand
miles to the gallon of gas. In either case, the sticker of the new car
would be less than $50."
In response to all this goading, GM replied: "Yes, but would you eally
want to drive a car that crashes 4 times a day?"
GM further responded: If Microsoft built Cars:........
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a
new car.
2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and
you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this
and drive on.
3. Occasionally, your car would stop and fail to restart, and you'd have
to reinstall the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this
too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought
a Car95 or a CarNT. But then you'd have to buy more seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as
fast, twice as easy to drive-but would only run on 5 percent of the roads.
6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to
their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by
a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say, "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
11. To turn your car off generally you would have to close all the windows, simultaneously push the horn, aerial, and the handbrake down, then exit the car, and begin the entire procedure again to start it back up, you would accept this also.
[ November 13, 2002: Message edited by: The Auditor ]
Refalm:
AIX - Making the hardware work
Linux - A tool
Mac OS - For the creative mind
Windows XP - Tries to make computers look like Fisher Price
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