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danyboy27
12th August 2009, 18:41
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10308013-75.html

that a hard one.
Havet
12th August 2009, 20:36
Gotta love intellectual property.
Revy
12th August 2009, 20:52
Windows Vista is always so slow I wouldn't haved dared to try and open something like Word. That was hell. I switched to Ubuntu. A huge difference in speed, it was so much faster. Not only that, Ubuntu's Open Office comes with a PDF exporter! Which I'm pretty sure is nowhere to be found in Word.
Havet
12th August 2009, 20:54
Windows Vista is always so slow I wouldn't haved dared to try and open something like Word. That was hell. I switched to Ubuntu. A huge difference in speed, it was so much faster. Not only that, Ubuntu's Open Office comes with a PDF exporter! Which I'm pretty sure is nowhere to be found in Word.

I didn't know ubuntu's open office comes with a PDF exporter! That rocks! Man I gotta take off my vista soon, I hate it (came with pc...)
danyboy27
12th August 2009, 20:56
the only reason why i am still running windows is for the games
IcarusAngel
12th August 2009, 21:16
I am running Vista on one of AMD's last lines of socket 939 processors and I find it not sluggish at all after using several 'speed tweaks' for Vista. Turning off unneeded features has it performing at near XP levels.

I also have played the video game 'Crysis' and 'Team Fortress 2' under Vista (8600 GT graphics card) and the performance is only 3 or 4 fps lower than what it was on XP. I use Office XP all the time. I also have Visual Studio installed.

MS's unfair monopolistic advantage is probably why other OS's don't have the games and some of the professionally designed programs that windows has.

I use linux when I code in C, but another nice thing about Vista is that it already has the .NET framework. XP is of course nice too.
IcarusAngel
12th August 2009, 21:23
Gotta love intellectual property.

And of course it is big corporations like MS who take the most advantage of IP laws in order to retrain their monopolistic powers. That's capitalism.
danyboy27
12th August 2009, 21:29
And of course it is big corporations like MS who take the most advantage of IP laws in order to retrain their monopolistic powers. That's capitalism.

still they just got owned.
Havet
12th August 2009, 21:34
And of course it is big corporations like MS who take the most advantage of IP laws in order to retrain their monopolistic powers. That's capitalism.

Yes, I never claimed otherwise :cool:
Durruti's Ghost
13th August 2009, 19:25
I believe there is a literary device for this. It's called "poetic justice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_justice)".