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20 Things You Won't Like About Vista

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keep-counting dept.

feminazi writes "Computerworld's Scot Finnie details 20 things you won't like in Windows Vista, with a visual tour to prove it. He says that MS has favored security over end-user productivity, making the user feel like a rat caught in a maze with all the protect-you-from-yourself password-entry and 'Continue' boxes required by the User Account Controls feature." From the article: "In its supreme state of being, Microsoft knows precisely what's best for you. It knows that because its well-implemented new Sleep mode uses very little electricity and also takes only two or three seconds to either shut down or restart, you want to use this mode to 'turn off' your computer, whether you realize it or not. It wants to teach you about what's best. It wants to make it harder for you to make a mistake."

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  1. Why do all these sites get /.ed before I ...? by Van+Cutter+Romney · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why do all these sites get /.ed before I can even get to the article. Looks like the Internet just switched off ComputerWorld.

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  2. Computerworld site sucks by harshmanrob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It would also help of computerworlds web site worked so I can read the damn article. They must be running IIS. Sorry bastards. Just like Screw..err..C-NET.

  3. #7 by Dorion+caun+Morgul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    #7 Windows Vista will automatically /. any webpage of interest.

  4. Re:10 things you wont like about Vista by JonathanBoyd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    01) It's spelt 'moron'
    10) He got to 2. Look up 'binary.'
    11) He was quite funny, not so much for the content (unoriginal), but for the listing system. Nice touch.

  5. Re:Slashdot through the looking glass? by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You can't have it both ways

    Actually, you can. See OS X. Usability and security are both there.
    It's only in the Windows world that you can't have it both.

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  6. OO.org's formula editor by shadow_slicer · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I love it.

    I'm not sure why you think it's xml...The only time you even see an > or < is if you click buttons and that just means "type something here".
    I never use the mouse to hunt and click to input formulas. The syntax is very simple once you get used to it, and is very similar to latex.
    It's relatively easy to type something like
    {-b +- sqrt{b^2 - 4 a c} } over {2 a}

    (and arguably more intuitive than the latex equivalent:
    \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4 a c}}{2 a}
    )

    And I've had more luck getting the summation ranges looking pretty in OO than in latex for equations like:
    {sum from{k=-infinity} to{infinity} { a sub k e^{j w sub T k}}} over {sum from{i=-infinity} to{infinity} {a sub k}^2}