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01-12-2007
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| | SO Vi$ta means death to a lot of old hardware devices.... Is this ethical and environment-friendly? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10) Linux 2.6.19.2 ^ ^ 21:08:01 up 1 day 20 min 0 users load average: 1.00 1.00 1.00 news://news.3home.net news://news.hkpcug.org news://news.newsgroup.com.hk |
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01-12-2007
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| | Re: SO Vi$ta means death to a lot of old hardware devices.... "Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote in message news:%23AB6JrkNHHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > Is this ethical and environment-friendly? > It's your choice. You have the freedom to wait until your current hardware naturally fails.... |
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01-12-2007
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| | Re: SO Vi$ta means death to a lot of old hardware devices.... >> Is this ethical and environment-friendly? >> > > It's your choice. > > You have the freedom to wait until your current hardware naturally fails.... > > It's not my choice. It's the manufacturers' choice. Where are the source codes? I didn't announce the "death penalty". Who's going to teach me how to port 32-bit drivers to 64-bit? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10) Linux 2.6.19.2 ^ ^ 21:46:01 up 1 day 58 min 0 users load average: 1.00 1.00 1.00 news://news.3home.net news://news.hkpcug.org news://news.newsgroup.com.hk |
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01-12-2007
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| | Re: to put it simply: ROBBERY. CJM wrote: > "Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:%23AB6JrkNHHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Is this ethical and environment-friendly? >> > > It's your choice. > > You have the freedom to wait until your current hardware naturally fails.... > > -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10) Linux 2.6.19.2 ^ ^ 21:48:01 up 1 day 1:00 0 users load average: 1.02 1.01 1.00 news://news.3home.net news://news.hkpcug.org news://news.newsgroup.com.hk |
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01-12-2007
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| | Re: to put it simply: ROBBERY. >>> Is this ethical and environment-friendly? >> It's your choice. >> You have the freedom to wait until your current hardware naturally fails.... Anyway.. computers (hardware or software) cannot be eaten. Well... never mind.. -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10) Linux 2.6.19.2 ^ ^ 22:05:01 up 1 day 1:17 0 users load average: 1.06 1.02 1.00 news://news.3home.net news://news.hkpcug.org news://news.newsgroup.com.hk |
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01-12-2007
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| | Re: SO Vi$ta means death to a lot of old hardware devices.... "Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote in message news:%23g26sAlNHHA.4992@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > It's not my choice. It's the manufacturers' choice. Where are the > source codes? I didn't announce the "death penalty". > 1) What manufacturer forces you to do anything? You will be able to buy XP for a long while yet, if you were so inclined. 2) How is buying a new PC with Vista less environmentally friendly than buying a new PC with XP? 3) Source Code? Why should they give you the source code? Would Ford give you the plans to the Focus? 4) What Death Penalty? WTF are you on about? > Who's going to teach me how to port 32-bit drivers to 64-bit? > Why do you want/need to port 32-bit drivers to 64-bit? Vista comes in both 32 and 64-bit variants and with a bigger-than-ever library of drivers. If the drivers you need aren't there you can approach the hardware manufacturers. If they don't support your hardware under Vista then don't buy it. |
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01-12-2007
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| | Re: SO Vi$ta means death to a lot of old hardware devices.... > 1) What manufacturer forces you to do anything? You will be able to buy XP > for a long while yet, if you were so inclined. All the greedy (mostly USA) manufacturers in the world. > 3) Source Code? Why should they give you the source code? Would Ford give > you the plans to the Focus? Without source codes, capable programmers could port x32 drivers to x64. Of course, only if Micro$oft allowed that to happen first. > 4) What Death Penalty? WTF are you on about? If Vi$ta x64 is not going to have drivers for older hardware, that's a death penalty to them. > 2) How is buying a new PC with Vista less environmentally > friendly than buying a new PC with XP? Once there would be no drivers, a lot of old and functioning hardware would be forced to be discard. You got it, did you? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10) Linux 2.6.19.2 ^ ^ 22:12:01 up 1 day 1:24 0 users load average: 1.00 1.00 1.00 news://news.3home.net news://news.hkpcug.org news://news.newsgroup.com.hk |
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01-12-2007
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| | Re: SO Vi$ta means death to a lot of old hardware devices.... 5. Will USA recycle all those old/discarded hardware parts for this planet? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10) Linux 2.6.19.2 ^ ^ 22:15:01 up 1 day 1:27 0 users load average: 1.06 1.02 1.00 news://news.3home.net news://news.hkpcug.org news://news.newsgroup.com.hk |
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01-12-2007
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| | Re: SO Vi$ta means death to a lot of old hardware devices.... 6. Is this what this thing will want? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10) Linux 2.6.19.2 ^ ^ 22:22:01 up 1 day 1:34 0 users load average: 1.00 1.00 1.00 news://news.3home.net news://news.hkpcug.org news://news.newsgroup.com.hk |
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01-12-2007
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| | Re: SO Vi$ta means death to a lot of old hardware devices.... "Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote in message news:e0pH2QlNHHA.724@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > 5. Will USA recycle all those old/discarded hardware parts for this > planet? > > USA? My new Vista machine is mostly Taiwanese. None of the top-level components was manufactured in the USA. |
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