Microsoft VISTA

[Renegade 13]

Yep, I agree with that too. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Canada.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Canada.gif[/img] It seems I'm quite agreeable today. And talkative. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Canada.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Canada.gif[/img]

Now if only the US would give us back the $5 Billion they stole from us with the illegal duties on softwood lumber, I'd be happy

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IMHO, the world should have a standardized transportation system and it should not be free. Every city should run on it so that every city would connect seamlessly. And people should make money from it, so that there will always be people willing to invest large parts of their lives working on improving it. More trafficking police asap, and with that done, smugglers should be run to ground and harshly punished. Something along the lines of 10 years in supermax with meal time being bobbing for apples in boiling acid. The developed world should have subways to every home and business. And the undeveloped world should be left the FUC alone. When they evolve beyond their stupid tribal methods of organization and draconian religious fantasies, we’ll welcome them with open arms. Until then, we should not pull the advanced parts of the world down to their level. You can pay $500,000 US for your part of the transportation system, this would pay for an subway rollout in three years. And while I’m on this rant, the USofA gave the world the Diesel-electric train, the model T and their blue prints. The rest of the world should shut the FUC up and not try to take it over. If they don’t like it, they should just close their ports and put up something of their own. With their own subway designs, their own trains, and build their own cars. I’m sorry, but it just makes me LOL. If this ever happened, can you imagine what would come to be in Iran? The trains would shut down several times a day for prayers. Visit a drug dealer and the train would kill you. Or what would the old USSR’s version of the roads have been like? Go to the wrong street and there would be a knock on the car door. Streets would take 30 years to build. What about some more advanced countries, steam engines and horses would be the standard so long as it was all supplied by in country industry. And every summer it would all shut down for three weeks. And lastly, what if Jay Gould and Jim Fisk had never taken the risk, and we were still using ferries and oxen. There would be a 100 train companies each serving 1/2% of the market on proprietary land and lots of train wrecks with the New York Central. Well perhaps not that bad, but you can bet that we would have a lot less than we have now and we would be paying a lot more for it.
God Bless America
War Is Peace
Freedom Is Slavery
Ignorance Is Strength

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Suicide Junkie said:

Ye gods. That's horrible.

It would be like a state sponsored, "Floppy-disk" thumping religion which also has a license to print money.

A strong disincentive to innovate too, since any changes will threaten them and their free money.

PS:
As a matter of practicality, would these PC Police be trying to install DOS 1.0 on my Ghz desktop, or WindowsXP on my 16mhz 80806 box?
Or would they just be burning me at the stake?

What about Macs, routers, ISP and digital-wristwatchs? If this only pretains to PC I will be happy to buy a Mac and put Linux on it.

Do you not believe in freedom of speech? Do you not consider computer code a form of communication? Are you a fascist?

[Puke]

i see that you are trying to be sarcastic, but you are more correct than you would like to think. in the old USSR, it did take ages to get any public works projects done. roads ran up to a river, and continued on the other side - with no bridge!

In the middle east, railroads pass from oil wells to refineries, going through cities but not stopping in them. because they are wells and refineries that belong to the western world, and theres no use in spending money trying to develop the third world. you poke fun at the idea, but who the hell is going to fund a subway system in the Sudan? its not worth the time or money, and it would just be destroyed in a civil war anyway.

The world would stand to benefit from a standardized public transit system, and the US did pioneer alot of it. do you know how many different railroad gauges there are in the UK? you cant move a train from one track to another!

The computing world needs standards too. but free commerce dictates that the only standards we will have will be of the defacto sort. and our rails will never be standardized. and in the US, are rails will never be fully utilized because of the oil, tire, and highway industries that keep mass transit suppressed.

So there are lots of things that SHOULD be done, that never will.

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i see that you are trying to be sarcastic, but you are more correct than you would like to think. in the old USSR, it did take ages to get any public works projects done. roads ran up to a river, and continued on the other side - with no bridge!

All countries have transportation problems. Open a map for Colorado Springs. We let the real estate agents make are roads!

In the middle east, railroads pass from oil wells to refineries, going through cities but not stopping in them. because they are wells and refineries that belong to the western world, and theres no use in spending money trying to develop the third world. you poke fun at the idea, but who the hell is going to fund a subway system in the Sudan? its not worth the time or money, and it would just be destroyed in a civil war anyway.

Iran and Turkey have many railroads that were made even before oil was being refined. Oil is often moved by pipe line.

The world would stand to benefit from a standardized public transit system, and the US did pioneer alot of it. do you know how many different railroad gauges there are in the UK? you cant move a train from one track to another!

And USA railroads have always been standardized?

The computing world needs standards too. but free commerce dictates that the only standards we will have will be of the defacto sort. and our rails will never be standardized. and in the US, are rails will never be fully utilized because of the oil, tire, and highway industries that keep mass transit suppressed.

The GNU community IS making GUI standards. They ARE working with Mac and Solaris. KDE and Mac have been handing code back and forth for a long time now; they are both using khtml. Everybody is complying with the w3c BUT IE. As Thermodyne pointed out IPv6 is coming (slowly though).

[El_Phil]

Well for starters the UKs had a 'Standard Gauge' act since the 1840s, with only the Great Western any different. And even that was changed over 1892 (Overnight. As in literally one nights work! Amazing what you can do with no H&S to slow you down). So actually all UK railtracks are the same gauge and have been for over a centuty. (The things you learn playing Railtoad Tycoon hey. )

The US didn't pioneer standard gauge, the NE US used standard (copied off the Brits I might add ) and the rest used random sizes, anywhere between 4ft and 6ft in fact. This was a problem when railroads started to meet up, so eventually late 1880s they went for standard gauge for all US rail, spending the next few years doing all the conversions. So in fact US rails have been standardised, again for about a century.

This doesn't bode well for you arguments Puke, if I'm honest.

Especially as computer hardware has standards, rock solid ones. You can buy any hardware from any company and it will work in your machine as long as both are on the same standard. How many other industries can say that?

Software is shakier, mainly as MS changes standards to make them more propietry. Internet Explorer is not standard compliant off the top of my head.


Finally I think Sir Tim Berners-Lee and CERN would have something to say about inventing the internet as we know it. Quite alot actually.

[Baron Munchausen]

Renegade 13 said:
It's odd...there's actually very little distinction nowadays between Canadians and Americans. We essentially share...everything. Culture, technology, trade, language, religions, basic political systems, etc. We may as well just amalgamate and be done with it Actually, bad idea. Seeing as how Canada is larger than the US, but with only 1/10 the population, it'd be a little difficult to get fair representation in federal government. More likely is having Western Canada (Manitoba and all provinces west) separating from the rest of Canada.

Wow, I've really managed to get off topic. Sorry!

No, Canadians would tip the narrowly balanced system to the left and we could finally have some things that other civilized countries in the world have had for decades, like national health care.

[NullAshton]

Is this topic still on technology, or have we completly abandoned the topic?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

To-pic? What is this 'To-pic' of which you speak?

[NullAshton]

The 'To-pic' is what's above and to the right of your cartoony head.