On 7/7/2011 10:41 PM, thanatoid wrote:
Like someone write some time ago in another group, using
MS products for security is like hiring a pedophile to
work in a day care center.
... they should have strangled your sorry nym shifting
ass
[other vituperation excised]
thanatoid has been posting under that nym for years that I
know about.
I have never seen that clown using a word like 'pedophile'
Just because a new word has never been used by someone is a
rather peculiar reason to assume it is someone else writing.
Onomatopoeia. How's that? Still thanatoid? Booger ? Wheelbarrow?
I like that phrase. It brings unpleasant associations, since
child abuse is disturbing, but it is a good comparison. Most
people with a clue believe that starting with XP, MS have done a
fair bit of spying on its users, and most also know that MS
often does not bother fixing mistakes and holes in its OS and
"browser" unless it is forced to by /other people/ discovering
them and announcing their findings. So I happen to think that
"MS security software" is an oxymoron.
so I assumed it was a nym shifting troll. It's prime meat
to be impersonated.
What the hell does THAT mean?
Why the clown is here is a mystery?
Since that sentence is statement, not a question, it should not
end with a question mark. Had you said "why are you here,
clown", a q. mark would have been appropriate.
It's not using Win 7 or any NT based O/S, and it can't help
anyone.
You have a point, and I have wondered why no one has questioned
this before. (I have noticed that almost all of my
advice/comments are totally ignored, and probably with good
reason.)
The reason I /did/ start coming here - as I believe I explained
once or twice before - was to hear from actual /users/ whether
Win7 was really the dog's gift to the world that all the rave
reviews have been saying it is.
And I have learned here that it seems to be more of the usual
"invent 500 MB's of ways to hide our mistakes rather than just
fix them". IOW, the usual MS approach. Also, a lot of idiotic
changes appear to have been made for no valid reason. More of
the same, again.
Many of you know Vista was 6.0 and Win7 is really 6.1. And it
seems the .1 is the addition of an army of brooms to sweep the
dirt under the carpet. The way it's going, I don't think MS is
/ever/ going to get it right. How long before Windows 19? Don't
people have ANYTHING better to do than to stand in line all
night long to be the first in their neighborhood to own another
piece of MS crapware?
Rather than piling on more crap (I read somewhere that there is
still code from the 80's in Vista - and possibly Win7), MS
should just start from scratch, since the argument of "everybody
needs the programs they already have" does not hold water. MS
force people to buy new software more than anyone else.
When I suggest a program that is more than a few years old, as I
often do, I am laughed at. But my 8-15 year old programs are a
lot smaller, faster, and more bug-free then the new versions
everyone constantly churns out. Bloat it up, mess it up, give it
a new version number, a shiny new package, and the sheep WILL
buy it. The latest version of Acronis for home is a 168MB
/download/ !!! - my version from 2001 is under 10MB /installed/,
and it has never given me any trouble. Just ONE example.
98SE Lite is the most acceptable MS OS that I have used - the
only ones I have **zero** experience with are Win7, the original
NT (3.51 or something), Me and 2000, which all lasted a
relatively short time and had little impact. I /have/ used XP
and it drives me insane, and Vista, which I have spent about 50
hours with, is far worse, as everyone knows. And It does not
seem that Win7 is much better after all. But not to worry -
apparently Windows 8 is just around the corner.
It constantly amazes me that the two OS's most people consider
the best (Mac and Linux) are based on 30+ year old Unix - AFAIK.
One would think /someone/ could come up with a decent OS in
nearly half a century of "personal computing". But I suppose it
doesn't really matter since within a few years desktop computers
will be a rarity in the home - iPads and the like will have
taken over completely.
He's strictly low-tech using Win 9.x here for no other reason
but to troll.
My 98SEL computer probably runs faster and better than whatever
you have, so don't call it low-tech. There have been few really
significant improvements to the technology, except making
everything faster but also so much more bloated that the
/actual/ speed of the computing experience remains about the
same.
Few truly original programs (excepting those involving
completely new technology) have been written in the last 10
years, and many worthwhile older programs have disappeared or
been bought out and/or killed off by more powerful competition
pushing their inferior product. It's quite an ugly situation,
really.
And again, I'm not trolling. Even I have better things to do.
