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A Mac Fan's Take On Vista
jcatcw writes "Ken Mingis has been running Vista on a MacBook Pro for a couple of weeks. Highlights from his review: 'Apple's UI is called Aqua. Microsoft calls its interface Aero. Hmmmm... Gadgets and widgets. What's that line about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery?... The UAC implementation in Vista is heavy-handed and intrusive — it halts what you're doing, even if you want to do something as simple as change your clock. My sense here is that Microsoft has been criticized so often for security vulnerabilities that it decided to club users over the head with its new operating system-in-lockdown-mode... I'm more enamored of Vista's Flip 3D feature, which basically takes all of the open windows on your desktop, stands them up on end and stacks them in a way that you can cycle through to the one you want to use. It's similar to what Apple's Expose does... Vista's method wins on aesthetics.'"
What's that line about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery?
I think it goes something like "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
Where are the SCO lawyers alleging source code theft? This is prooooooooof
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Yes I know that the glass color can be changed, but no matter what it is still dark and depressing.
:-)
It's just there to get you in the mood. You know, if you're already depressed, then the first crash or 0day won't hurt so much.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
Solitaire has been updated and rewritten to take advantage of Windows Vista's new graphics capabilities well thts sold me.
It takes 2 seconds to disable it if you don't like it. Windows R, msconfig, disable UAC, reboot.
;)
You said enough at "Windows are a misconfiguration".
No sig for you. YOU GET NO SIG!
PC: Hi, I'm a PC.
Mac: Hi, I'm a Mac. Hey, what do you have there?
PC: Oh, just some games.
Mac: Oh neat. Can I play too?
PC: No.
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
Good thing that this particular feature remains unchanged.
I hope I didn't brain my damage.
Stupid Mac fanboys always saying Vista is better!
-- Boycott Shell
And 'cause he's a Windows user, so he's not going to include a review of the seven anti-virus and firewall programs he needs to patch the gaping security holes in the system. Nor will he mention the seven hours it took to get his digital camera to work, the three days he loses every month when WGA decides his machine isn't authorized any more, the install DVDs he keeps next to his machine for the monthly reinstalls, cause the best way to solve problems on a Windows box is to just reinstall the thing.
And he isn't a Linux user, so we don't have to hear him brag that he built a dual Opteron machine with a 2 TB RAID for only $6.50. Nor do we have to hear him tell us he can't believe anyone would ever pay for an operating system, even though he had to spend nine days crawling through endless Linux forums to find the obscure, cryptic shell command which will let his sound card work at full volume most of the time. And he will never brag that he feels sorry for people who are tied to programs like Office or Photoshop when there are open source programs out there which work almost almost as well for professional needs, such as making the posters of fat chicks in Sailor Moon outfits he prints out to cover the basement walls of his home.
And, yes, I know my generalizations are as stupid as yours. But my grammar's better.
I am a believer of momentum and curves.
I found it amusing that he has multiple XBox 360s, huge music collections, multiple HDTV displays, and yet to run it all he's scrounged together an XP 1700+... :)