OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?

Thermodyne · #1 September 24th, 2003, 12:40 AM

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Originally posted by deccan:
Incidentally, since I'm planning on getting a new computer with Windows XP pre-installed, can anyone point me to a good guide on getting the Microsoft junk (learning tutorials, Windows Messenger etc. that I never use) uninstalled so that XP can run at max performance?

Try these for starters.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp

http://www.winguides.com/registry/

Depending on what video you get, quite a lot can be done there to make the system put up more frame per/sec.

Loser · #2 September 24th, 2003, 03:20 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
there are a couple people in foreign countries that are richer than Gates.

You certain of that?

Instar · #3 September 24th, 2003, 03:25 AM

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Originally posted by Loser:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
there are a couple people in foreign countries that are richer than Gates.

You certain of that?

Gates actually is far ahead of all modern royalty Last I heard, including all the Middle Eastern ones.

geoschmo · #4 September 24th, 2003, 03:44 AM

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Originally posted by Instar:
Gates actually is far ahead of all modern royalty Last I heard, including all the Middle Eastern ones.

In actual real dollars very possibly. But in comparison to local cost of living and in comparison to the average per capita income in each country I would suspect he's well down the list.

DavidG · #5 September 24th, 2003, 04:02 AM

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Originally posted by Instar:
I feel MS is blamed FAAAAAAAR too much. I really like XP (I have used Linux, and it is nice, but not up my alley too much). I ran a distro of Linux, of course it did not support much of my hardware, but it worked. Microsoft is the market leader for a reason -- their stuff is pretty good. Sure, they have done some monopolistic stuff, penalize them for it, but lets not go crazy.

Ah spoken by someone who has never used WinMe I bet.

I despise MS with a passion mostly I think because I'm blessed with WinMe at home and at work (untill just recently) If any other company produced a product that flawed they would recall it or fix it. And yea I know I could upgrade to XP but I resent the hell out of having to pay $150Can to fix the flawed piece of crap I've already paid for.

DavidG · #6 September 24th, 2003, 04:12 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Perhaps it is time for a reformat and reinstall of windows for his PC.

This is one of the things that pisses me off about windows. As in why is this necessary?? It would be real nice if Windoes could clean itself up without me having to go through the insane amount of time needed to reinstall all my drivers and software.

Instar · #7 September 24th, 2003, 06:29 AM

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Originally posted by DavidG:

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Originally posted by Instar:
I feel MS is blamed FAAAAAAAR too much. I really like XP (I have used Linux, and it is nice, but not up my alley too much). I ran a distro of Linux, of course it did not support much of my hardware, but it worked. Microsoft is the market leader for a reason -- their stuff is pretty good. Sure, they have done some monopolistic stuff, penalize them for it, but lets not go crazy.

Ah spoken by someone who has never used WinMe I bet. I despise MS with a passion mostly I think because I'm blessed with WinMe at home and at work (untill just recently) If any other company produced a product that flawed they would recall it or fix it. And yea I know I could upgrade to XP but I resent the hell out of having to pay $150Can to fix the flawed piece of crap I've already paid for.

I agree, WinME sucks, never used it, and I am the happier for it. I have used Linux, so I have something to compare things to. Linux is nice, it works, but hardware support is iffy. I hear about compatibility problems too. If you get a free distro, then when you need tech support, who do you call? Sure, Linux support Groups exist, but if you need an answer fast, it may not be what you want.