Re: OT: Funny: I'm voting Republican.

On 6/27/2008 3:03 PM, chris thompson went clickity clack on the keyboard and produced this interesting bit of text:
On Jun 26, 9:47 pm, Paul J Gans <g...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ye Old One <use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:52:09 +0000 (UTC), Paul J Gans <g...@xxxxxxxxx>
enriched this group when s/he wrote:
Ye Old One <use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:19:18 -0700 (PDT), Inez
<savagemouse...@xxxxxxxxxxx> enriched this group when s/he wrote:
Any chance you could post this again with better attributions? Looks
interesting, but impossible to read on Google Groups.
Is Google the problem? Are other readers presenting Inez's post just
fine?
Thanks,
Chris-
I think the problem was me. I have two computers, a laptop and a
desktop. My desktop computer fell on its sword, and my new computer
has Windows Vista, which apparently was specially designed by
Microsoft to torment me.
Upgrade to XP Pro. You will never regret the move.
You don't understand "free enterprise". Microsoft has fixed it
so that peripheral manufacturers are not producing XP versions
of hardware drivers any more.
Can you name one case of that?
So yes, run XP on your older
hardware (I do), but don't count on it to work on new stuff much
longer.
Three to four years min before it becomes a problem - most still do
Win98 drivers after all.
Just go down to your local computer store and ask to see the
very latest nVidia graphics cards and see if they have XP
drivers. I may be wrong but I'd bet they don't.

But if they do, the next generation (out for Christmas) won't.

As for Microsoft, I believe that they have helped pay development
costs for new drivers for new equipment. But not for costs of
development for old versions of Windows.

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--- Paul J. Gans

I believe they will still be making graphics drivers for XP for a long
time. However, Microsoft has already implemented a sanction against XP
users: only Vista fully uses the capabilities of DirectX 10. Since so
many game designers rely so heavily on DirectX, that alone will hasten
its demise.

So far, from everything I've heard, DirectX 10 has not been all that great a success. The most recent update to Flight Simulator 10 has a DirectX 10 preview mode that breaks for most people. From images I've seen, DX10 doesn't do a whole lot to make things better. In short, while it's there, it's not really all that impressive. It's not killing anything.

--
$100 invested at 7% interest for 100 years will become $100,000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing. -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

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