OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?

[Loser]

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

You certain of that?

[Instar]

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?

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

[geoschmo]

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]

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]

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]

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.

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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.

[Instar]

Originally posted by DavidG:

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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.

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Basically, the process of installing and uninstalling software can mess the registry up. Windows does need better support of this (such as allowing defragging the registry by the built in defragger). If the registry gets wrecked, you'll need to go back to a save point or maybe reinstall everything. I do not know of many registry fixing programs, Windows could use a better utility for it though.