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So they asked me if I was BI. Well I took a little Spanish in high school, but not enough to be BI. But I didn't want to look stupid so I said sure I'm BI.

You don't just have your podcast auto resume whenever you start driving?

I can tell every time. Nasty stuff. Reminds me of sachirine. I get that stevia is natural, but it's taste is real obvious. If they want to use less sugar... Just use less sugar.

Even then it would be a copy. In this case it would be like downloading an amalgam of thousands of movies, not quite like any of them

I could have that discussion. But it still wouldn't be theft. Nothing was actually stolen.

I'm going to say it again. It cannot be theft. Nothing is stolen. What did they have before they don't have now?

I see people disagree with me but they are too lame to try and say why, and they definitely could not explain how, when there is nothing in AI but a probability algorithm.

I can't buy into the theft idea. It is like describing ideas in mathmatical concepts. The ai contains nothing of the original.

Is there another word that fits better? I don't know.

On the other hand, why would anyone buy art without knowing the artist? I commision art, I buy art, but I always get to know who it is from and in most cases how they made it: watercolor, oil, pen, etc.

Well I appreciated all of that believe it or not. I still stand by windows 95 being basically a hybrid with the bootload from DOS, but I understand your distinction. But because while windows 95 was 32 bit preemptive, it still had 16 bit applications running at the same time that were cooperative multitasking such as User.dll. They pushed processes to User.dll It still was this weird hybrid sitting on top of several 16 bit processes.

As an Amiga user by early 1988, and access to DEC Alphas and Sun workstations, windows 95 seemed very late to the party. But you are right that in hindsight, windows 95 solved a lot of problems for working with generic hardware for the masses.

But also remember that DirectX at launch was not easy to work with. Microsoft had licensed OpenGL from silicon graphics, and later bought the graphics engine for DirectX from Rendermorphics. OpenGL would be at windows 95 launch far better performing, and directx still hard to write for and limited graphic functionality. But they continued to improve it and you are right they supports sound, joysticks, graphics, one stop shop eventually.

But it’s a perfectly functional and sensible solution for storing system configurations.

No. It was not. The concept was OK, but the execution was not. Even Microsoft didn't know what was in there. The design was horrific. They could have used keywords, they could have had a data dictionary, they could have standardized it. They could have made it not get corrupted by glancing at it.

But they didn't, at least not for a long time. And it still sucks, just a little less.

XP was also pretty good for its time.

Pretty good at collecting every virus under the sun and beginning the anti consumer practices.

95 was an innovator if anything, ahead of pretty much anything else on desktop at the time

Huh? Coming from an Amiga it really didn't seem innovative. Or OS2 or BeOS (which ran circles around Win 95) or Macs. Windows 95 was still just another dos program on top of a shell.