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Question: Why have Microsoft entered the console market?
Answer: Because they think they will be able to take it over like that, make a load of cash and be one step nearer to owning your brain.
I think MS should just stick to what it's good at. No, not PC OSs, as anyone who have used Linux will tell you, but small apps like IE, Outlook Express (not 2000) and Excel. Maybe Word. Everything else is just total bloat. Did you know, that laser printers cause a miniscule amount of Ozone (toxic). If you were to print out the Windows source code, you kill half the amazon rain forest?
Anyway, Microsoft are cheating. The X-box is using lastest third party hardware, and will be way expensive. And, have you seen the size of the thing! Basic unwritten console law states a console must have a max size of an A4 piece of paper.
Also, MS have no heart, because all they want to do is conquer the market. I believe Sony, Nintendo and Sega actually enjoy making millions of people happy.
Impressive as the specs are, I believe the X-box will fail. Let's face it.
a) It's a small PC
c) It's Microsoft
d) It runs off Windows, for god's sake!!!
opinions?
Answer: Because they think they will be able to take it over like that, make a load of cash and be one step nearer to owning your brain.
I think MS should just stick to what it's good at. No, not PC OSs, as anyone who have used Linux will tell you, but small apps like IE, Outlook Express (not 2000) and Excel. Maybe Word. Everything else is just total bloat. Did you know, that laser printers cause a miniscule amount of Ozone (toxic). If you were to print out the Windows source code, you kill half the amazon rain forest?
Anyway, Microsoft are cheating. The X-box is using lastest third party hardware, and will be way expensive. And, have you seen the size of the thing! Basic unwritten console law states a console must have a max size of an A4 piece of paper.
Also, MS have no heart, because all they want to do is conquer the market. I believe Sony, Nintendo and Sega actually enjoy making millions of people happy.
Impressive as the specs are, I believe the X-box will fail. Let's face it.
a) It's a small PC
c) It's Microsoft
d) It runs off Windows, for god's sake!!!
opinions?
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Your Honour wrote:
> I never mentioned system performance
Sorry, savatt wrote that
> I never mentioned system performance
Sorry, savatt wrote that
Your Honour wrote:
> I can't comment on Win XP as i've never seen it.
How do you know
> so much about it? It's not released yet is it? Or have you been to
> various Warez sites?
Read article in latest pratical internet.
You know, every time yo connect to the net, it tells the MS server
a) What progs you have running
b) What you are doing
c) What sites you have visited
d) progs installed
e) THEN, it's starts wasting precious banwidth and HDD space by download weekly updates without even tell you.
Oh, and a modular program such as Windows should have no probs with new progs being installed. Apache? PHP?
> I can't comment on Win XP as i've never seen it.
How do you know
> so much about it? It's not released yet is it? Or have you been to
> various Warez sites?
Read article in latest pratical internet.
You know, every time yo connect to the net, it tells the MS server
a) What progs you have running
b) What you are doing
c) What sites you have visited
d) progs installed
e) THEN, it's starts wasting precious banwidth and HDD space by download weekly updates without even tell you.
Oh, and a modular program such as Windows should have no probs with new progs being installed. Apache? PHP?
I never mentioned system performance, and yes, you probably do know more about it than me, im not disputing that.
The way i posted was they way it was explained to me. Essentially that way is the way it happens, but no doubt there are a lot more things to take in to account.
The way i posted was they way it was explained to me. Essentially that way is the way it happens, but no doubt there are a lot more things to take in to account.
MS released a beta of WinXP through MSDN a while ago, I have a friend who is subscribed. Alos, try and find the stuff about serial numbers and hardware - I'd go get it, but I'm late for a clan match =/
Your Honour wrote:
> When i first installed win98 it was fine, i could leave in one for
> days with no problems. It's when you start installing othe rsoftware
> that the problems arise.
Let me explain:
Each time something
> is installed it adjusts the OS (registry, adding stuff to the
> C:\windows folder etc...) in a way to make that program ruun
> slightly better. If you only install a few things it doesnt have
> much of an effect.
However, if you install loads of programs, and
> then a number of games as well, the OS will become significantly
> changed, resulting in hogher chances of crashing.
Hope that made
> sense.....
I understand all that maybe better than you do, but the fact is it shouldn't do that. There's something wrong if you can just explain it like that and see it as reasonable.
And as for the above post, system performance shouldn't matter. That's what system requirements are for...
> When i first installed win98 it was fine, i could leave in one for
> days with no problems. It's when you start installing othe rsoftware
> that the problems arise.
Let me explain:
Each time something
> is installed it adjusts the OS (registry, adding stuff to the
> C:\windows folder etc...) in a way to make that program ruun
> slightly better. If you only install a few things it doesnt have
> much of an effect.
However, if you install loads of programs, and
> then a number of games as well, the OS will become significantly
> changed, resulting in hogher chances of crashing.
Hope that made
> sense.....
I understand all that maybe better than you do, but the fact is it shouldn't do that. There's something wrong if you can just explain it like that and see it as reasonable.
And as for the above post, system performance shouldn't matter. That's what system requirements are for...
Bah, I'm off to play counterstrike again. That game is too damn addictive..
I can't comment on Win XP as i've never seen it.
How do you know so much about it? It's not released yet is it? Or have you been to various Warez sites?
How do you know so much about it? It's not released yet is it? Or have you been to various Warez sites?
But that underlying source is so inherently dodgy. The interface doesn't matter.
Fact is, certain perfectly OK actions trigger a loop hole in the kernal that just shouldn't be there.
It's not hard to make a visual GUI almost identical to Win without it crashing all the time. Mac OS/certain Linuxes anybody?
And as for WinXP, don't get me started on how much that makes my blood boil
Fact is, certain perfectly OK actions trigger a loop hole in the kernal that just shouldn't be there.
It's not hard to make a visual GUI almost identical to Win without it crashing all the time. Mac OS/certain Linuxes anybody?
And as for WinXP, don't get me started on how much that makes my blood boil
The only console games to evercrash on me are the LMA manager games on the playstation. Most PC games have crashed on me, but then my comp is really poo.
When i first installed win98 it was fine, i could leave in one for days with no problems. It's when you start installing othe rsoftware that the problems arise.
Let me explain:
Each time something is installed it adjusts the OS (registry, adding stuff to the C:\windows folder etc...) in a way to make that program ruun slightly better. If you only install a few things it doesnt have much of an effect.
However, if you install loads of programs, and then a number of games as well, the OS will become significantly changed, resulting in hogher chances of crashing.
Hope that made sense.....
Let me explain:
Each time something is installed it adjusts the OS (registry, adding stuff to the C:\windows folder etc...) in a way to make that program ruun slightly better. If you only install a few things it doesnt have much of an effect.
However, if you install loads of programs, and then a number of games as well, the OS will become significantly changed, resulting in hogher chances of crashing.
Hope that made sense.....
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