Darren New wrote:
>> Ah, well. I don't use Office, so... Not a surprise there isn't a lot 
>> of that coming down the pipe. lol
> 
> What do you expect them to update?
> 
My point was that "update" in their world means, "We maybe patched some 
bugs, but this is damn unlikely, unless they where security bugs." You 
are "not" going to get say, "Would you like to install Word 10.0, since 
you currently only have 9.0. ;) Well, not unless its IE, and... I don't 
use that unless I have to anyway. lol But, its not just "major" changes, 
its incremental ones. Even virus scanners will "patch" until they hit 
some version limit, then require you buy the next one. In the case of 
something like Word, that may mean getting 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, etc., some 
with "new" features, but requiring a major upgrade to get the "full" 
10.0 version. Its just not in their business model to not screw you for 
"huge" amounts of money, for "major" patches, without anything in 
between, especially not even including the bug fixes that only make it 
into the next major release.

In other words, you may be forced to "wait" for that high price update, 
if you expect to see some things fixed at all, and that... just sucks, 
and is yet another reason to be "somewhat" less than impressed by them. 
That is, if a list of "patches" that are like 99% security, and don't 
ever address "any" real problem you are having, isn't enough, by itself. lol

>> They ever get Windows Backup to do compressed incremental backups, 
> 
> Yes. Unfortunately, MS screwed the pooch on this and only backs up what 
> they think are important files. Otherwise, it would have been a really 
> nice system.
> 
Ah, well.. I suppose that explains the One Touch 4 software... They 
probably wanted to make it "work like" MS', never mind that the damn 
thing now won't backup files it doesn't recognize, directories that 
"contain" your My Documents (this one just fracking doesn't make sense 
to me, somehow it "knows" that your user data is in a subdirectory of a 
folder on the drive, so it refuses to even "allow" selecting the folder 
to backup, since it would duplicate the one its already defaulted to 
backup in the first place... Suppose I should fix that one of these 
days...), and won't backup anything that looks like it contains 
"settings", including ini, reg, etc. In other words, they took what, in 
version 1-3, worked well, and hosed it, by making it do the same thing 
Windows Backup does, from your description. <--- bangs head on desk.

>> or it still assuming you have an external removable that is at least 
>> as big as the "entire" data space you are backing up, like they did 
>> before? I haven't bothered to check, since it was nearly useless back 
>> when all I had to backup to was CDs, and it wouldn't do CDs. lol)
> 
> They improved that. You can now ghost the drive (full or incremental), 
> or you can do incremental backups to compressed zip files, either onto 
> an external HD or CD/DVDs, with a very nice mechanism for doing full and 
> incremental restores as well.
> 


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void main () {
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     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
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