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JavaJones:
Amen!

- Oshyan

f0dder:
Amen to that, mouser!

Don't give into big brother's whims, even if they seem harmless.

Carol Haynes:
It is getting a bit ridiculous - I have just been upgraded to 4Mb broadband (unexpectedly - I thought I would be stuck with 1Mb because of my location - my neighbouring village still can't get 512Kb consistently). Trouble is you get the impression that more and more of the bandwith gets used up by companies demanding their software can phone home ... its a bit like computers - you chuck in more and more hardware and faster and faster gear only to stand still with what you can actually do on the stupid thing! I love the standard spec for people to use Vista with all the bells and whistles - MS have pretty much guaranteed minimum takeup of Vista in the bsuiness world - how many business machines have a graphics card with 128Mb of video RAM ?

f0dder:
how many business machines have a graphics card with 128Mb of video RAM ?

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More than you'd think - since many business machines use low-end on-board graphics with unified memory architecture :)

Carol Haynes:
But I thought onboard graphics didn't allocate that much RAM? If business machines are really set up like this they are unlikely to have large amounts of memory either - I'm sure system admins won't want 50% of available RAM allocated to Vista (which seems to require 512Mb as a minumum standard).

I am running Vista Beta in VMWare ... compared to Windows XP running in the same environment it is

S....O    S.....L.....O....W and that's without access to Aero (since VMWare only has an emulated 16Mb graphic card)

and talk about making you click windows to confirm absolutely everything ...

"Are you sure you want a toilet break?"

"Click here to confirm that you just confirmed you need a toilet break"

"Toilet breaks have not be tested in Windows Vista - please confirm you understand the implications of going for a toilet break"

... Damn now I need to change my pants!

"Are you sure you want to change your pants" etc.....

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