Posts by Not That Andrew

Re: Hoovers???

Actually, in the UK Hoover lost their trademark because it became a generic term, so you can quite happily and legally hoover away with your Dyson, Miele or Henry. You can even hoover with your Hoover. I have no idea of the grammatical correctness of your actions, however.

I'm surprised that those 7 year old machines don't have Vista drivers available that work with Win7. Whoever does your purchasing should be shot.

Re: MUST NOT BE NAMED

The King in Yellow, you mean?

Re: Sorry...

I think you will find it was Dr. Breen's voice actor who died.

Re: Meh.

You're warped, but unfortunately we will have to get used to TIFKAM, or switch to Apple or Linux

Re: DanDanDan spanner

Considering what I've read about the problems the courts have had getting interpreters since the Government farmed out the interpreter services to the lowest bidder, I'm inclined to believe the Grauniad.

Re: 4+ year old hardware

Are seriously saying that Win 7 won't run adequately on hardware like Intel Core 2 Duos and Quads? or older AMD Opetron and Phenoms? granted, you might have to scrounge up some RAM to make sure the the machine 2 GB available. But Win 7 will run perfectly in that sort of hardware.

Actually, Win 7 runs surprisingly well on most hardware running XP in my limited experience. I've tried it on an Athlon XP system and it ran fine (although it did have 3 Gb of memory).

Erm, GIMP is not a direct functional replacement for Photoshop. For one thing it STILL doesn't support CMYK, even though GEGL makes it possible and there is a plugin that kinda does it by exporting to CMYK. It's more than good enough for you and me, but not for a graphics professional.

Re: Oh dear.

Nah, this is just some conmen looking to rip off obsessive Apple fans.

A little googling reveals that $30k could get you a custom life size bronze statue, depending on the foundry and complexity of the work and as far as I can tell, excluding artists comission, which will be hefty. You still need the site and planning permission and obviously designing and building a base and erecting a statue costs money.

So if they are thrifty and lucky they might do it with $50k to $70k. However as they don't seem to have the sort of idea that two minutes of googling would give you, so they probably will end up with a garden gnome in a turtleneck.

Re: Not concerned..

While the feature has been available since Win95 actually, Windows has _never_ encouraged users of the desktop version to create multiple user profiles. If that were the case it would require you to create a separate admin account and user accounts during setup instead of just (since 2K or XP IIRC) requiring you to set up one account and silently giving it admin privileges. Which I suppose beats 95 and 98's way of just dumping you into what passed for an admin profile on those glorified DOS shells and expecting you to set up passwords and booting to the login screen yourself.