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On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:48:54 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:40:44 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 1/20/2014 8:42 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote: On 1/20/14, 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:15:28 -0500, wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:26:13 -0500, BAR wrote: These days there are a bunch of better options if you can get in the air. Napalm is cheap ;-) With mines you set them and forget them. Napalm and other munitions requrire you to actively drop them when the opposing force enters an area. I think the next generation of drone will include a heavy lift bomber. I'll bet there's a B-52 somewhere already capable of unmanned flight. Just imagine the fun that will ensue when the Windows operating system on that heavy bomber crashes, and the plane delivers the Blue Screen of Death to a Virginia subdivision. Harry, I think you are still living in the past when it comes to Windows. It took many years but it has evolved into being a very stable and reliable platform, especially with Win 7 and Win 8. Even Vista is ok if you have enough RAM. I have *never* experienced the "Blue Screen of Death" on either the Vista or Win 7 laptops. I bought the Vista machine in 2009. It has had programs (or "apps) freeze up once in a while, with the "program not responding" thing, but usually if I just have patience and wait it will clear itself. If not, I just manually close the program using the task manager and restart it. BTW ... I've had the same thing happen on both my new iMac and on Mrs.E's iMac, requiring a "forced quit". I was reading the other day that 90 percent of ATM machines are still running on Windows XP and there is going to be major employment opportunities for techs as they are all upgraded or replaced with Win 7 based systems. I've grown to like the iMac for what I do with it but I also realize that 70 percent of computer users are using Windows. Of course there will be a larger number of problems reported. That doesn't include industrial applications like ATMs and even some aircraft avionics that use Windows. I've had XP for quite a while now and love it. My wife has had Vista and now Windows 7. I'll take XP over both. Haven't seen the blue screen since Windows 95. === I've used them all and 7 is way better than Vista. I think you'd like it. |
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