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What Vista Is Really Like
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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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
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.
Not really -- the prettiness in OS X is used to make the OS easier to work, the prettiness there is pretty much useless -- the only thing I see as being useful is being able to drop something onto the dock from anywhere along the bottom saves the need to be accurate. This is one reason why vista got it wrong -- Exposé goes out of it's way to show you lots of stuff at the same time so you can make an informed choice. Flip 3D in the mean time may be prettier, but it goes out of it's way to hide everything except for one window -- it can't be used to make comparisons, it can't be used anywhere near as fast as Exposé to change windows. Bob
Not to mention that vista is not beautiful visually or functionally.
It's the eyes. They're unnaturally far apart.
Wow, talk about missing the point.
Why do people "need to get laid" whenever they compare an attractive but dangerous piece of software to a women with similar attributes? It's a very clever story, and I suppose that's why you had so much trouble interpreting it properly.