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I am a Web designer and I have tried Windows Vista on my brother’s new laptop. After checking the new OS I have to say that they (Microsoft) put a lot of effort on the interface and some few things. It really looks nice. But after long consideration I have reach to this conclusion: Why should I change to this new OS? There are no great new improvements. The Web pages still look the same. My programs run the same way. And finally if you put them side by side (same hardware) XP is by far the winner, faster and still (more or less) reliable. So why to spend more money in better hardware just to get the same performance that I have with XP today?
To be honest, Vista reminds me of my ex-girlfriend–cute, but a terrible resource hog.
My parents were my first guinea pigs for Vista. They were able to figure it out and do more with this OS than on any previously (going back to Windows 95). The best part is that I wasn’t on the phone for hours walking them through things. The fact that Vista seems to be that intuitive for average people says something, in my opinion.
XP is the older 25-year-old brother, smart, has tons of friends he gets along with. His annoying 10-year-old brother Vista is less experienced, naive, struggles with friends, and has to write accountability papers a lot when he screws, telling his big brother how he’ll do better the next time.
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I had a lot of trouble installing SP1, and had to actually reinstall Vista as an update before SP1 would go in.
I did boot into what’s left of the Vista partition and install SP1; it seemed to load the apps a little quicker.
Installed SP1 and the computer is running smoothly.
Not yet another to fix Vista, please. I’m happy with XP and will skip Vista for sure.
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It is true that he envisioned a manned geostationary satellite. In fact, he even knew that there would be enough solar power to have…. a steam engine. I love that detail, but he really was brilliant.
None of the news articles mentions that he was the first Chancellor of a Technical University sponsored by the government where I was an instructor for a short while and he was also a member of the Rationalist Association of Sri Lanka.
I read every book ever published by this literary giant and enjoyed every one. I wish more had been turned into screenplays so we could have enjoyed them on the big screen like 2001. Along with Isaac Asimov he is one of the true leaders of the world when it comes to fantastic story lines and character development.
Possibly the greatest gift Arthur C. Clarke gave us is his view on humanitarian technology. He claimed that a household could and should be totally independent, as far as its energy and sanitation needs are concerned, from as early as the 1960s. He considered technology to be the ultimate tool that would free humanity from the need of labor and the existence of poverty. His plans weren’t science fiction. He was a visionary man whose visions are realistic; we should follow his path and try to realize his ideas.
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