From BigBadBob-at-mrp3-dot-com@testing.local Sun Mar 2 10:14:36 2014 Path: diesel.cu.mi.it!fu-berlin.de!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 01:02:37 -0600 Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 23:02:35 -0800 From: Big Bad Bob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130501 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.hacker Subject: those who break moore's law pretend to 'know better than you' X-Why-Are-You-Looking-Here: Jedi Business, move along Approved: yes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 49 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.47.136.67 X-Trace: sv3-Hy2qg2LiX9dtGrrzB4a0a8cLaSqFHfCWPrCRK8H/Bx11pd9NEm1XuVCPOTHGtBnmLjDbmDFhw+5CAez!4gjQgFpFWY/sRpRyJ3GcOcioCp4iuiXhAoxZMtySDkrdxJdj9WZ214O98hpPiOaIKzyRnaPs9q+S!YUtbdut5VtybIa+SHvPc/zArOidyhjIYSY1E X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3248 Xref: diesel.cu.mi.it alt.hacker:30851 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/10/friends_dont_do_tech_support_for_friends_running_windows_xp/ "But with fewer than 60 days left until Microsoft more-or-less pulls the plug on Windows XP, Redmond wants you to stop sharing your expertise and just tell those you know and love to buy a new PC." “The easiest path to Windows 8.1 is with new devices” _WHAT_????? Nevermind that 'Moore's Law' was broken when SOFTWARE FAILED TO PROPERLY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MULTI-CORE. yeah, I've ranted about THAT a few times. Shame on software providers (like Microsoft) that WASTED! COLLOSSAL! AMOUNTS! OF! TIME! AND! RESOURCES! ON! CRAP! [like TIFKAM, '.Not', "take over the world" mentality, yotta yotta yotta] instead of DEVELOPING BETTER MULTI-CORE UTILIZATION [which would have kept Moore's Law running indefinitely, my $.10 worth]. RESULT: _NOW_ everyone's 10 year old computer runs NEARLY! AS! FAST! [and possibly FASTER, if you compare XP to 8.x] than a NEW machine. So why bother shelling out $ for "new, shiney" WHEN! YOU! DO! NOT! NEED! IT!!! THAT and 'from the cheap seats', WE! DO! NOT! WANT! TIFKAM! WIN8.x!!! MICROSOFT, did _YOU_ guys donate money to OBAKA to be [re]elected? Do _YOU_ support his SOCIALIST agenda? Did _YOU_ guys actually THINK this would HELP your business? Are the sock-puppet + spokesdroid "news" on MSNBC reflect what YOUR COMPANY WANTS? Did you NOT SEE that THIS WOULD KILL YOUR BUSINESS by DESTROYING THE ABILITY OF PEOPLE (customers) TO AFFORD YOUR PRODUCTS????? All of that _INSTEAD_ of doing the RIGHT thing, aka "develop the multi-core OS of the future". You DO NOT stay in business by HARMING YOUR CUSTOMERS, nor giving your competition the ability to KICK YOUR ASS. You also do NOT manipulate people into GETTING SOMETHING THEY DON'T NEED. That's not SALES. That sort of thing is often given a sexual metaphor instead. You get it, right? SALES is where your customer wins by buying your product, and YOU win by producing the products people want. Forgot, didn't you? HOISTED by your OWN PETARD! Yup.