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Microsoft gives XP an extra two years to live (kinda)
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| 4/3/2008
| Austin Modine
Posted on 04/03/2008 8:00:03 PM PDT by dayglored
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Of course, this image has nothing to do with why Microsoft is allowing the continuation of Windows XP on the Asus EEE-PC...
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posted on
04/03/2008 8:00:03 PM PDT
by
dayglored
To: ShadowAce; Swordmaker; Spktyr
Tech and Mac pings...
Ought to get together an EEE-PC ping list... just think of the pics that could be posted...
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posted on
04/03/2008 8:02:13 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
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posted on
04/03/2008 8:05:58 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
To: dayglored
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posted on
04/03/2008 8:06:26 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
("Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" -- Galatians 4:16)
To: martin_fierro
I heard the new generation of eee is supposed to be coming out about now. Do you know anything about this?
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posted on
04/03/2008 8:07:55 PM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(This election is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if McCain wins, we’re still retarded.)
To: KoRn
Also NOT GUILTY...
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posted on
04/03/2008 8:13:05 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: ovrtaxt
The
8GB version is now available ($500), but the larger-screened EEE PC is still not on the market.
Check this out: 16 GB USB flash drive, $60. Plug one of these into an EEE PC and you've got all kinds of memory.
To: KoRn
Still NOT GUILTY...
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posted on
04/03/2008 8:19:17 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored; KoRn
My Big Fat Hand is guilty as sin.
To: dayglored; KoRn
Found the rest of the picture... Also also NOT GUILTY.
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posted on
04/03/2008 8:25:51 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
04/03/2008 8:35:39 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: dayglored
"when Microsoft washes its hands completely dry"
How, pray tell, does one wash the hands completely dry? Who in the h*ll is working for the media these days???
Re: Microsoft Vista. This program is the most popular answer whenever someone mentions a recent MAC purchase to me. I have seen enough of Vista and the Microsoft Bataan Death March to sympathize with their decisions to buy an Apple.
Funny video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N37nAqMpfeM
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posted on
04/03/2008 9:03:00 PM PDT
by
Prole
("Show me what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman.")
To: Prole
>
How, pray tell, does one wash the hands completely dry? Who in the h*ll is working for the media these days??? Ummm, bunch of illiterates maybe?
My first thought, looking at that picture of the girl clutching her iPod, was that she's got it plugged into one of those iPod-driven dildoes that rocks you to the beat of the music...
Dang. Pretty girl. Definitely NOT GUILTY.
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posted on
04/03/2008 9:10:16 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
I want one. I need one.
Nice computer, too.
To: Billthedrill
To: AGreatPer; martin_fierro
Any but Fierro’s hand. He’s dead, did you hear?
To: dayglored
Sssooooo what is Microsoft going to offer to run on the eee-PC? Windows Mobile? LOL! Idiots.
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posted on
04/03/2008 10:06:40 PM PDT
by
neb52
To: dayglored
You can put Linux on it. Its much more reliable and it will never have a termination date.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
04/03/2008 10:09:06 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
>
You can put Linux on it. Its much more reliable and it will never have a termination date. That's how it started, and how I saw it running last November when I visited Taipei. It's really meant to run Linux.
Microsoft is in desperation mode. That's the only reason they're allowing this. They see their market getting eaten from above (OS-X, Macs) and below (Linux, Eee-PC).
Even with 90% of the desktop market still theirs, they sense the deterioration, and are willing to allow XP to live even though it hurts Vista, because otherwise their market will collapse around them.
For a story of how an Empire can collapse even though it rules everything, read Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy.
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posted on
04/03/2008 10:15:40 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: neb52
>
Sssooooo what is Microsoft going to offer to run on the eee-PC? Windows Mobile? LOL! Idiots. They'll figure out how to put XP Home on it. The machine is actually quite capable, despite its size and cost limits.
Vista, no way. XP Pro in an office environment? Of course not. But for an ultra-portable browser/email machine? ideal!!
Microsoft HAD to allow XP to live for this, otherwise this would have been Linux's first huge strike against them in the consumer market.
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posted on
04/03/2008 10:18:26 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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