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This waking dream has been making the rounds: what if you woke and found a strange and beautiful woman in your bed, and she was inscrutible, unpredictable, and dangerous... but oh so beautiful? That's Vista for you.
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This waking dream has been making the rounds: what if you woke and found a strange and beautiful woman in your bed, and she was inscrutible, unpredictable, and dangerous... but oh so beautiful?
That happens to us all the time, and we slashdotters JUS DUN GIV A FUC. That's how badass we are.
It's called a wet dream....
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Hmm.... sounds good to me -- I'll take it!
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The trouble is; she is "Britney Spears" beautiful rather than "Natalie Portman" beautiful. ...so you have to ask yourself, do I need baldilocks or do I need hot grits?
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
This waking dream has been making the rounds: what if you woke and found a strange and beautiful woman in your bed, and she was inscrutible, unpredictable, and dangerous... but oh so beautiful?
I'm gay. I'd panic.
But will she go down on you as much as previous incarnations?
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
What a horrible analogy. If I found a beautiful woman in my bed, I'd be fine with that. The fact that she's crazy can be overlooked, since I'm just there for the fun and she can go be crazy somewhere else for the rest of the day. Beautiful only goes so far, after the hormones take a hike the personality takes over and you realize you really can't be bothered to be near all that crazy for any length of time. Applicable to people and OS's :)
what if you woke and found a strange and beautiful woman in your bed, and she was inscrutible, unpredictable, and dangerous... but oh so beautiful? That's Vista for you.
Yeah, but the problem with women like that is that they're like chocolate. Sweet at first, then increasingly bitter.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I can only use Vista in Vegas?
"DISPLAY PROPERTIES NEEDS YOUR PER-PER-PER-"
The whole building collapses.
I spend most of my time in bed, darling.
Why?
>what if you woke and found a strange and beautiful woman in your bed, and she was inscrutible, unpredictable, and dangerous...
and you reach down and discover she has a dick.
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Too bad she's bloated and stops you a hundred times whenever you try to do anything interesting.
Just recently I encountered the monstrosity of the Information Bar in Internet Explorer for the first time (forced to use it at work).
... and again ... and again. Aaah, it is so refreshing to come home to Linux at night.)
... big time.
Only Microsoft would decide to send up a pop-up to your computer screen each and every time it blocks a pop-up, to announce to you it has blocked a pop-up!
(And don't lie and respond back that the Information Bar is easily deletable. It isn't; doing so causes issues; and doing so at work requires buy-in from the boss, who won't buy it. So every time I am required to see Microsoft popups again
Beautiful, Microsoft. Having now seen a glimpse of a piece of Vista in action, I have no worries for Linux or Firefox. Free software's future is secured, because with Vista, the Microsoft stupidity simply continues
It's not like having a pretty girl in your bed. It's more like living with the incurable social disease she passed along to you while you were getting it on.
Vanity article about Vista ... again ...
I'm not against Vista [though I am], I'm not for it [truth], I just don't care. Are we not yet over the novelty of Vista yet or what? It's basically Windows XP++, big deal.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Since we are anthropomorphizing and all ..
I'd say Vista is like a fat ugly lady dressed in very nice clothes. And, I'd say Vista users are like those people looking for a sugar mama going after glitz.
What you are describing is inconcievable to most of the posters. You might try: "imagaine a 16way AMD box, a real screamer for SETI, molecule folding etc., also fully modded to use the waste heat to make espresso but would randomly shock you and download kiddie pr0n without your knowledge'.
That might be something a slashdotter understands.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
I have many partitions.
So. I have Vista installed on my home computer.
Can I trade it for that beautiful and dangerous woman you are talking about?
We Slashdotters have no idea how we'd respond to that. Does this mean we'll have to RTFA?
I put the 't' in electrical engineering.
...makes this blog entry notable for /. posting? Is the author some well-known developer, hacker or something, that his anecdotal Vista situation is any more worthy than anyone else's for posting?
so vista is like an expensive whore with STDs?
...of this little comic:
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http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/
If Vista was that beautiful, this Mac user here would be unfaithful too! (rawwwrr...)
If the lead article was not a lead article, but was a comment, wouldn't it have been rated troll by now? Okay, maybe it's not negative enough to be a troll. How about troll bait, then? This *is* Slashdot, after all.
A couple of simple add ons to Ubuntu and you can easily make Vista and OSX users insanely jealous of your working environment.
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Vista has a penis?
You'd think that all these bloggers would accept the fact that Microsoft isn't giving away any more free laptops by now...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
is like sleeping with a crack ho with no teeth, that you have to pay $1000 each time she feels you're not good enough.
I think Vista is more of the ugly little sister always trying to immitate the far hotter older sister (OS X). Sure she might be cute, but you've already gotten better.
"I aksed my neighbour, John MacIntosh, to come over to have a look. He said it looks a lot like his house did when he had it remodeled a few years back. Only his house doesn't have any Windows..."
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
The fact that a beautiful woman would be in ANY /.er's bed is strange by itself. We realize that. No need to emphasize the fact that she is strange, because it is plainly obvious that she is warped beyond all belief - or she is a mail order bride.
"Better to be vulgar than non-existent" -Bev Henson
No pics?????
More like, vista is an ancient trailer-trash jerry springer reject who got a makeover at "glamourshots". Sure, the makeup is almost halfway to passable, but she still weighs 700 pounds.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I read the first few paragraphs of the article. It was some of the most disgusting crap I've ever read--lascivious, l3wd, suggestive in a creepy and unwholesome way, prurient. It would've been okay if the author dropped the whole "wouldn't you like to have a woman" objectification after the first paragraph. As it was I was left with the impression that the author exhibited a writing style which would be typical of a man who makes a hobby out of buying (and prides himself on the knowledge of) women's underwear just so that he can wear them on his head while viewing pr0n--and not necessarily becoming ually aroused while doing it either (look, I don't care if the guy does know the clothier's terminology of every piece of women's underwear, and I don't care if he does wear them on his head while viewing pr0n... but if he's wearing women's underwear and viewing pr0n then it should be part of a s3xual expression--not a written piece about Windows Vista). I usually call it "flaming" where the flamer is trying to pass off flagrantly obnoxious behavior as perfectly normal.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
Mildly funny, but why does the author go on a rant about viewing the screen resolution? For crying out loud, it's only 3 clicks away from the desktop. Ironically, exactly the same as in XP...
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Yes, she was beautiful last night when you were pissed up on booze, but now, laying next to her, you notice how her face is covered in oozing rivers of makeup, slowly melting and running down her face. You are disgusted by her foul, pitted skin and faint moustache effect. She yawns, and your face is blasted by an unholy, eldritch gas, you recoil and wretch, struggling to keep what remains of last night's kebab and chips in your stomach.
Terrified you slowly peel back the duvet to reveal breasts that are so small that sagging should not be possible; yet sag they do, with two terrible, craggly nipples point out in unrelated directions. You begin to feel faint, your ears begin to ring, but you cannot resist scanning down her fetid, clammy belly, to see the most rotten vagina that has ever blighted this earth. With lips twisted, gnarled and gaping, the stench is unimaginable; a mixture of stale kippers, mouldy garlic and fuming sulfuric acid, you are amazed that your sheets are still in once piece. Oh yes, you grab the hot sauce alright, but only pour it in your eyes so you can no longer see what lies before you, and force it into your nose so the odour can no longer torment you.
Slashdot's only posted 36 Vista-bashing stories this week! Step it up, people! There should be at least ten a day!
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I'd buy that for a dollar!
As a Mac user I'm at risk of sounding like I'm belly-aching, but I really don't think Vista is that good looking.
... I don't know ... greasy. Like I'm looking through oily antique glass. It doesn't feel fresh and clean to me.
The default color scheme, that earthy green blending in to pale yellowy blue -- it all looks kind of
Also, the way that 3d window swapping thing works, with the windows flying by at an 45 degree angle from top the top left. If gives me a kind of motion sickness -- just seems like an unnatural movement somehow.
When XP came out, I thought most of the OS looked second rate, but they really nailed the default desktop background; the rolling green hills and clear blue sky, it was really refreshing to me. But Vista's default is heavy -- like it needs a wash -- not light and airy at all.
Anyway, just my opinion. Maybe it's just me.
I wish the author had continued his story a little further. I bet he would have discovered that the meatloaf wasn't any better than that of his previous wife, just unnervingly different... with the hot sauce.
MS Wife(C)(R)(TM) 6.0 is no better than version 5.1, except for being more attractive, and slightly psychotic about security instead of inherently lazy.
She is probably even more insistent that you use her mailbox (email), her surfboard (browser), her desk (office suite), and lots of other things she provides, and if you try to go back to your own, she'll break them or set them on fire.
I hope he's not too eager to have sex with her. Most penises won't work with Vista.
she was inscrutible, unpredictable, and dangerous
This pretty much describes most of the female population...
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
Vista is like a fresh coat of paint on a run-down, smelly outhouse!
So, what's an Apple babe like?
Table-ized A.I.
When I buy something, I make sure it will do what I want it to, and if doesn't once I get it, then I'll get rid of it and buy something else. This guy just goes out and gets vista, discovers it can't do anything useful but since it has some graphics changes from XP he'll get used to it. That's exactly the apathetic behavior that causes so many things to suck. He really needs to grow a pair and do something about the fact that he just blew a few hundred dollars on a piece of junk. Instead of writing a metaphorical post to live journal he should go find something that does what he wants it to do.
... "in ways you could never imagine", you thought she meant sex.
Now all your Base belong to her and she encrypted your CD collection.
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Windows, pretty on the outside but further examination reveals that it is thick layer of make up applied to an old hag who there for everyone. She is set in her ways and getting her to do anything requires you to spend more money.
OS-X. Extremely pretty but deep down she is an mature lady with a lot of refinement. She however expects only the best so you better deliver. This baby is going to cost you.
Linux, the ugly duckling of the pack, yet she loves you completely without resevervation, she doesn't want your for your money or status. She is open and honest. And if you love her you can turn her into the princes of the ball but unlike the pretty windows, the linux girl stays true to you.
BSD, well, you seen dawn of the dead?
I am KIDDING!
OS/2 A loving hard working wive who raised the kids perfectly, kept the house in excellent condition and always prepared delicious meals followed by amazing sex, yet spurned for a 16 bit bimbo with 32 bit makeup.
Mainframe, you have to wait in line with the other johns, good service but you know thousands of others have been there before you.
Okay, I am out, your turn.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Since when did blogs entries become news sources?
My recommendation:
Stick with the woman you're already married to and buy her a new dress. = Buy Windowblinds (http://www.stardock.com/), and keep your XP.
TheTiminator
I am really getting tired of reading how wonderful Vista is when what I have seen is stupid, invasive and problematic.
Vista is NOT that BEAUTIFUL - I have seen it's equal in Mac & Linux and have done for years.
Second, it is a battle to get it installed and running. Many drivers don't work or are subject to mysterious crashes. Many promisted features do not work as advertised and don't even get me started on getting a contemporary colour multipurpose, fax/printer/scanner/copier working properly... Hah!
When all is said and done, after paying all that money Microsoft support SUCKS!!! Wanna spend a few hours on the phone talking to IDIOTS who want you to re-install and then admit the problem has not been resolved OR blaming the vendor.
Vista is an overpriced, underperforming, under supported TURD and I am recommending all my clients to stay clear for at least a year if they INSIST on upgrading to Vista.
Now if bullet head fantizises about Vista being a beatiful women, the guy REALLY needs to get laid!
Random Dude
...did Microsoft pay for this "story"? Wake up with an evil Bond girl in your bed, you might enjoy your last few minutes on Earth. With Microsoft products, it's just torture for the rest of your life.
I just wonder... what if one day I'll wake up with a penguin in my bed.
:D
Well, I'd get its sources, open Blender and Emacs and start hacking
"Surrender"
Mother told me, yes, she told me I'd meet girls like you.
She also told me, "Stay away, you'll never know what you'll catch."
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Don't we all have better things to do than reading some loser describe an operating system as a woman.
What the fuck does this have to do with ANYTHING?
I'm reading this attempt of an article and wondering.. did someone change the meaning of the word "really" overnight and forgot to tell me?
She now also brings soothing lotions with her, for those painful rashes you'll be repeatedly getting on your johnson.
It's a piece of shit. Neeext.
'Once scientists, even the dim-witted social scientists, get muzzled, the Western Civilization is finished.' - oldhack
you know where you can shove it, slashdot
Is this you trying to be funny again? Because you failed hopelessly.
Sorry.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
what if you woke and found a strange and beautiful woman in your bed, and she was inscrutible, unpredictable, and dangerous... but oh so beautiful?
I can't imagine a metaphor less suited to the Slashdot crew.
New MS Office - 35% easier to use
New MS OS - 15% easier to use
Being Flamebait on Slashdot - Priceless
Slashdot posts like this prove you are a Troll. For everything else, use made up statisitcs.
I dunno, but a Linux babe...
Maybe years ago she started off with thick glasses, pigtails and braces - head buried in books and always to be found in the library - but that was when she was young. The watchful eye would spot the beauty underneath. Anyone with foresight knew that eventually the braces would come off and she'd get herself some contact lenses.
Now, however, she has grown up - curvaceous, intelligent, attractive, witty and humorous. She can seduce you anytime, but if you're not in the mood for it, she'll take you up on an intellectual conversation, or handle all your arguments and after all the huffing and puffing she's still your friend, reliable as ever.
She watches what she eats and likes the same food as you - she is any shape you want, whatever you're after. Somehow she knows your tastes - and knows how not to bore you.
She's more than some kind of blonde bimbo you picked up in a drunken state the night before, screws you, steals your passport and credit card and is gone before you wake up in the morning.
But most of all, she doesn't charge for the experience - she's your babe, not a whore you bought at a computer store.
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
A friend of mine deals with selling new computers laced with that computer version of black tar herion called Vista. He's had quite a few people, i'd say over 50% of new Vista owners, coming back and bitching at him their stuff doesn't work. TurboTax or one of those doesn't work right, he's had people with issues using AOL, Comcast, and Verizon internet services. Anti-virus programs, etc, and the AOL customer was going to send in his lawyer because the fact AOL and Vista doesn't get along, he was unable to run his "business" (god only knows how you run a business on dialup anyhow). So far about 30% of those having issues with Vista are more than willing to either return the PC and purchase on with XP on it, or paying to have a version of XP installed (paying for XP and labor).
Based on what I've seen at his shop, I'd say Vista is a huge success.
Lightly roasted.
Finely ground.
In puddles on the floor.
Full of milk.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Slashdot loves that kind of story right now. If you want traffic for your site, just write up a negative Vista story that has a little different spin than the past ones and submit it. Good chance you get linked. It's just what's in fashion with the editors right now.
I figure we are going to have to put up with it for a few more months and then the newness will die down and they'll find something else to spend their attention on.
A couple of simple add ons to Ubuntu and you can easily make Vista and OSX users insanely unproductive in their working environment.
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
How much effort it would be to set up aside, that's a great example of flash over substance. A lot of pretty effects that don't help usability or worse yet, hamper it. A good example is when they sit there stretching the corner of the app window and making it bounce back. What's the achieve, other the show off an effect? That's not a real expected behaviour for grabbing an app, nor a real useful one. However right in the next sequence we see that for all the niftyness, there's problems with normal ops. You resize a window (a normal, useful operation) and it is very slow and jerky. What's the excuse for that? Even XP, which lacks an accelerated display layer, is smoother. Then we get to the bouncing icons. Ok, nifty, but such a thing actually makes rearranging your setup more difficult. You are waiting on it to stop with it's little act adn show you the actual order things are in.
I could go on but what it comes to is an attempt to copy form but not substance in my opinion. Yes, shininess and cool features is all well and good, but they need to follow better usability and features. Vista's desktop composition isn't so cool because of the shiny glass effects, it is cool because of the underlying technology it implies: A real, complete hardware desktop composite. Likewise the shiny features don't get in the way of usability. It's not a situation of "Use the old UI for quick easy use, the new one for eye candy."
It's a nifty effort and I'll be interested to see where it goes but insanely jealous I'm not.
Trojans don't work at all....
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
That was a bit harsh.
I'd say the usual "You must be new here", but with a 4-digit UID, I'm pretty sure you've been told the same thing before.
Thank you SlashDot for giving me the ability to apply -5 points to anything moderated as funny. Not a single post in this thread made it up to +5 for me. Awesome. Every second spent reading some SlashDot user's attempt at "funny" is a second of my life wasted and spinning off into space never to be recovered. Thanks again!
One simple rule for its versus it's
She also gives new meaning to the words "High Maintenance"
They both died of lung cancer. Look it up.
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You've not seen many of twitter's "funny" posts. Really, it's sort of like watching an anti-Semite try and put a few jokes into his conspiracy-theory laden rants about how the Jews own everything.
Actually, it's exactly like that.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
If you've spent this much time reading articles about Vista for the last 4 months (since enterprise release) or 1 month (since wide release), just buy the freakin' thing already. If you bill yourself by the hour for the things you do on your own time, you've already spent more money reading about Vista then you would have just buying it.
I'd wonder why my ass felt funny.
Now, I get the print edition of the Wall Street Journal, but in the last couple of weeks I've been reading about how memory chip manufacturers are in serious trouble due to very very low adoption of WinVista, and how new PC manufacturers can't sell their 4GB RAM laptops cause noone wants to spend money on upgrading. And how even business users are holding off on WinVista "upgrades" that are only to make it do what Mac did with it's OS two years ago with much less RAM on Intel and AMD chipsets.
That is what Vista is like. Nobody is buying it.
But they are buying Office.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
Fucking lame and boring. 'nuff said.
it's sort of like watching an anti-Semite try and put a few jokes into his conspiracy-theory laden rants about how the Jews own everything.
If I kept company like that, jb, I might be an ass like you. You should find some nicer friends, as well as a nicer employer. That way, you might learn to relax and quit being such a persistent pest. If it's your family, I feel sorry for you.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
If I have to read another article introduced like this again I'll switch to digg. Stop it.
This Linux babe comment is double-plus accurate and insightful
I study CS, and feel confortable to say that I know way around most problems, and how to solve them ( for the most part)
However(!) When my crappy fps in WoW whent down from a steady 30fps(not-to-shappy-graphix-setting (XP)) to a sub 7fps(extremely UGGLY (MINIMUM) settings) in VISTA, I felt a small resentment and once again felt the dissapointment of MS. And thats not all.
Even though I have a full good system, with common parts, I (don't ask me how) got so lucky to se a BLUE SCREEN!!
Overall XP wins over Vista 99% in terms of windows usage... Windows is still inferior to the simplicity of a good linux system... To bad we don't have the games to give us a 100% OC-system
In a plastic cup.
(That's from Eddie Izzard, but I couldn't resist saying it.}
Vista is really like Rosie O'Donnell, fat, lazy, foul-mouthed, lesbian man-hater, ugly, eats too much, and has a loud mouth.
But Vista comes with beer goggles so that while it is Rosie O'Donnell it looks like Marilyn Monroe, and even though you know that is impossible, the beer goggles make you accept it anyway.
Not only that but Rosie O'Donnell came with an iron clad contract so you cannot fire her or use a different OS or use her in a virtual machine, in fact you signed it because it is the EULA and you thought it was harmless at the time, but now you are forced to have her running your life for you and accepting her upgrades (service packs) even if they continue to pack on the pounds on her and cause her to take up more room.
You think you got Marilyn Monroe, but you are stuck with Rosie O'Donnell.
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
How the hell do you double-bag a PC ?
:)
-or-
I wouldn't even compute that with someone else's PC!
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Was that as good for you as it was for me ? Now get out of my office!
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I put a brown paper bag over the box and hit it from behind.
Okay that's enough for one post
-Billco, Fnarg.com
If I woke up in bed with Vista, I'd gnaw off my hand holding the mouse.
dave
They can fix a Vista VDRM infection, with a shot of Linux.
I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
What if, you ask? Son, contemplating these fantasies of waking up next to strange, beautiful women is a quick ticket to dementia. We're engineers and scientists, not congressmen and celebrities. While strange, beautiful women may be intriguing, thinking outside those cubicle walls is dangerous thinking. You'd best get back to your programming, and focus on the real world, not this 'women' of which you speak.
Quiz: True or False -- On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your middle name?
I'm not even running a firewall or anti virus.
Yeah, really! I mean, I've also been using your Vista Business and Office 2007 since launch, and I haven't had any problems either!
sometimes, it's tiring to see the same stupid misogynist messages from stupid geeks over and over again...
I remember when you bought a PC and you had a command prompt and a BASIC interpreter. People wrote software -- that's what a computer was for. I don't need another iteration of a machine sheltering me from figuring out how it works so I can make it work better. Piss off Vista.
Shouldn't this be "inscrutable" and not "inscrutible"?
Ok, there's the homosexual joke. We just need...
1) a reference to the Nazi's
2) a quip about what how vista behaves when in Russia
And we can wrap this thread up and work on updating our myspaces
Cancel or Allow?
funny pics
It's the eyes. They're unnaturally far apart.
How long did you continuing reading it?
sometimes, nothing.
And you wonder why there are no females on /.
I'm married to a redhead. Over half my girlfriends were redheads. I _like_ dangerous. Maybe I just will give Vista a spin. Oh, wait, it's not compatible with Grub!
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
With a spoon in them.
(Also from Izzard)
Again with that link. You don't think it actually proves anything, do you? The only thing it might possibly prove is that I think you're a prick, and get a kick out of proving you wrong. And I think you get that same kick with me, otherwise you wouldn't bother posting that silly, easily refuted link every time I hit a nerve.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
Nothings could have happened last night; my hardware doesn't meet her requirements. Should upgrade first.
Yes, I am the one with the legendary sig.
I'd take a pretty girl that would do everything from tickle my balls to backdoor action, rather than a bitchy piece of eyecandy that might be good for a few pokes... I guess that's why I use MacOS.
Of "Do you want to Cancel or Allow?" doesn't sound like much fun to me.
I stopped reading when he started bitching about finding how to change the resolution. Either start typing in the start menu search (you'd probably find it after "re", and no, the search is not in-your-face like the woman in the story), or you actually can still right click the desktop in Vista to get to those options (God forbid Microsoft actually changes anything to be more intuitively organized and you actually READ what's on your screen to find where it is). And yes, Vista tells you exactly what resolution you're in. I will admit UAC is annoying, but it's easily turned off, for those of us who aren't dumb enough to run britneyspearsnaked.vbs.
That being said, I enjoy when my games perform well (Nvidia's Vista drivers aren't yet up to snuff, especially not in OpenGL), so XP is back on my Windows partition. I do recommend anyone with a nice machine that doesn't play many games try Vista, it's much better than Slashdot makes it out to be (borrow a friend's Vista disc, you get a free 120 day trial).
WHO NEEDS SHIFT WHEN YOU HAVE CAPSLOCK/ DAMN1
Vista is like a 1980's Porsche 911 whale tail. You take a beautiful form and add huge fiberglass wings that do nothing, huge fender flares that look horrid and do nothing but mess up the airflow over a beautiful body or put stupid goo gahs on the dash. Ugly white gauges, and fiberglass tail, that is Vista. Lots of, at first glance, beauty, if you are a company searching for Icing because you have no damn cake to offer. But when you take a look under the hood, it's just the same old thing, or even worse. You look at Vista and you think to yourself how much effort must have gone in to make things HARDER to understand. Fewer lables on buttons makes for new computer user problems. Icons so complex and so identical that you are reduced to HAVING TO READ the lable of the ICON so that you can find the PRINTERS folder in Control Panel. ICONS are supposed to be there so you DON'T have to read the lables of things. They are there so that you can scan a number of them and find the printers folder because it looks like a freaking printer, not like a picasso printer, and especially when all the other folders within control panel look the same enough that they no longer do the job that icons are supposed to do. Or how about I.E. 7 deciding that the menu bar is superfluous and so removing it is a good idea. So that if a person wants to print a selection of a web-page, and they can't figure out how to return their menu-bar, they are S.O.L. Microsoft fails to understand in Vista on a whole new level that hiding buttons and making icons complex, HURTS the end user. Especially people who are new to computers, those who you would like to have a good first experience enough that next time they come back to Windows. Those people call me, to figure out how the heck can they find the second printer on their network if they don't have 'file>print' anymore. I have to walk them through finding the Menu bar again. Stupid in spades. The idiots at MS assume that everyone has spent their life learning what the 'home page' icon looks like, so that they feel taking labels off things is ok. Well, everyone doesn't know what that icon looks like, because that icon has changed with every iteration of I.E. And every 'home' icon gets fuzzier, and blander and smaller with each iteration. It's getting to the point that they should just put words to replace icons, for all the good they do now. I work with newbie computer users, and there is nothing more frustrating to them than to take the computer out of the box, turn it on, but then not know how to turn the damn thing off because there is NO BUTTON MARKED "turn off computer" anymore. Sure this woman is pretty, but as with many pretty things, it's lost it's FUNCTION in the process of becoming beautiful. And that's the problem. Oh, I installed a vista machine on my network and it can see my network printer but thus far I haven't been able to get the printer installed on the vista machine (Vista can't connect) so I can print to it. I have worked for hours trying to figure out the issue. I have stopped all virus/internet protections, turned off all firewall stuff (I am picking straws now), I have gone to MS looking for answers to the cryptic error message I get from Vista. MS of course, doesn't recognize the error string as being anything they have ever told their machine to reply when trying to print to a printer. I have been to the printer manufacturers website hoping to find a Vista driver for this printer, and of course they say the printer will work fine with Vista in networked config. Thanks MS. Now I have to rethink the Vista upgrades I had planned until I can figure out if a winxp machine can print to a vista hosted printer, or if the various other op systems I bring into the classroom so my students can have a look, will print to a win Vista hosted printer. All I wanted to do was bring a few Vista machines into my current network, in an effort to upgrade the whole lot, but I get stymied with, up to this point, hours work trying to fix problems that shouldn't be problems. I h
Long article, but the author totally backs up all his assertions. Lots of screenshots, etc.
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http://kadaitcha.cx/vista/dogsbreakfast/index.htm
Brilliant. You only forgot to mention that the Linux babe never gets sick, never drags you off to visit her mother (never even calls her mother), has built-in birth control, and really enjoys it when you get two or three other hot Linux babes to all play together on your system.
I like my girls like I like my coffee... drunk.
I like my girls like I like my coffee... silent.
Careful. She probably has a virus or two...
What happens when you open your browser and see an article of F, U and D about vista? That's /. for you.