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PC Magazine Editor Throws in the Towel on Vista
MacNN caught this incredible defection and loss of faith by a former Vista booster, PC Magazine editor-in-chief Jim Louderback, as he steps down from his position. "I've been a big proponent of the new OS over the past few months, even going so far as loading it onto most of my computers and spending hours tweaking and optimizing it. So why, nine months after launch, am I so frustrated? The litany of what doesn't work and what still frustrates me stretches on endlessly. The upshot is that even after nine months, Vista just ain't cutting it. I definitely gave Microsoft too much of a free pass on this operating system: I expected it to get the kinks worked out more quickly. Boy, was I fooled! If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux."
Tomorrow on slashdot: parents of slashdotter move to Linux
The day after: Kids of a random person raised using Linux
What is this? This isn't news!?
People who use Linux moving to Windows, now THAT would be news!
I had feeling that I can express in words like these after unsuccessfully trying to use LCD projector with my T60p running Mandriva 2007
I've been a big proponent of the new OS over the past few years, even going so far as loading it onto most of my computers and spending hours tweaking and optimizing it. So why, nine months after launch, am I so frustrated? The litany of what doesn't work and what still frustrates me stretches on endlessly. The upshot is that even after many years, Linux just ain't cutting it. I definitely gave the FOSS guys too much of a free pass on this operating system: I expected it to get the kinks worked out more quickly. Boy, was I fooled! If FOSS guys can't get Linux working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Windows 2000.
Please move to Linux. Then all of the features you described as not working quickly will not work at all. You might also want to check you BIOS power settings for the probelms on sleep. If you think that "it's too difficult", you'll come back crying after testing Linux and running a couple of "./configure && make && sudo make install"s for your wireless adapter, configuring your firewall via a text editor, etc. (yuck).
You silly stupid journalist, I fart in your general direction.
Moving to Linux from Windows XP is more like a downgrade.
A few years ago, while browsing around the library downtown, I had to take a piss. As I entered the john a big beautiful all-American football hero type, about twenty-five, came out of one of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was "straight" and married - and in any case I was sure I wouldn't have a chance with him.
As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy young ass. I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd - a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as a man's wrist.
I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a heavy rimmer and had lapped up more than one little clump of shit, but that had been just an inevitable part of eating ass and not an end in itself. Of course I'd had jerk-off fantasies of devouring great loads of it (what rimmer hasn't), but I had never done it. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of the world's handsomest young stud.
Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract?
I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it smelled. I've found since then that shit nearly almost does.
I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big brown cock, beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was the donor of this feast wasn't there to wash it down with his piss.
I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with the rich bitterness of shit.
Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my handkerchief, and stashed them in my briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom.
I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours. I must have had six orgasms in the process.
I often think of that lovely young guy dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful shiteater.
You guys are hilarious. I have spurned the great and holy Linux, so this is flamebait. This is exactly the attitude I was talking about. Thanks for making my point.
Yeah, Slashdot user click2005 is just a fag.
There's a simpler solution to all the bloody memory problems with PCs, buy a Mac or Linux machine. It's not meant to be flamebait just a simple fact. It's alwasy been the main reason Linux machines got such a foothold in the server market and now Mac is gaining ground because their new servers are very sweet and afordable. The memory issues have been around forever in Microsoft OSs and I don't see them going away. For the first time I see Microsoft starting to loose ground. They shot themselves in the foot with ME but managed to regain their footing with XP. Vista just blew a leg off. Apple is gaining ground at a rate no one could have predicted and now even hardcore PC people are looking hard at Linux. I never thought I'd see Microsfot loose their dominance in my lifetime but if they aren't careful I can see a combination of Linux and Max totalling more than PC sales. If vendors start balking at the exclusive deals and Mac mantains it's growth Microsoft could see a big chunk of their sales go away. The next OS is a make or break it for them. If it's another Vista dog then they'll loose their stranglehold. People can knock Mac all they want but Microsoft has a long way to go to match OSX Tiger and Apple will release three to four new versions before Microsoft can hack up another major release.
And of course, the FOSSies eat this stuff up like teh Lunis's choad. I would actually like to see this chump move to teh Lunix: the way teh FOSSies tell it, teh Lunix is a flawless operating system which will do everything, including baking you fresh muffins, cleaning your laundry, and scrubbing your toilets (and hopefully in that order).
But if this guy were to bring a critical eye over to teh Lunix, it could rob them of their delusion. This guy would wonder why teh Lunix still can't do things Windows 95 was able to do, like automatically detect and configure hardware, properly install applications, and run commercial software.
That would be a disaster, because as users of teh Lunix, we ALL know (and Munich found out the hard and expensive way) it's nowhere near ready for the desktop. If we can spend about ten more years in Windows 95's tail lights, maybe... just maybe... teh Lunix can catch up to it. But for a magazine editor to reveal the truth- that teh Lunix isn't the perfectly magical perfection we have been propagandizing it to be for over ten years- it could spell disaster.
Be careful what you wish for, FOSSies. When spreading propaganda, the most important thing is to not believe your own lies. Too many FOSSies have been gulping down their own kool-aid, and eventually the whole house of cards will fall.
Who says we have to give a crap about "converting" people to linux? "Windoze" sucks, but if you want to put up with it, be my guest. Just don't get your panties in a wad (like the GGP) if people say it sucks.
The vast majority of people who say it sucks are speaking directly from personal experience -- I mean it's not like Windows is some obscure OS that nobody has any experience with.
Me, I've been on computers since a VIC-20 in 1981, and I've run every release of Windows from 3.10 (alongside DOS, which I preferred) all the way through to XP. About that time I started looking into Linux, and now I've been a happy Linux user for about 5-6 years. I haven't bothered with trying Vista, but then I only boot into XP maybe two or three times in a month, just to play the odd Windows game, just once in a blue moon. Linux has me covered the remaining 95% of the time, so I've just lost interest.
Do I care if you run Linux? No. If I was your neighborhood computer guy and you came to me with every problem, I might encourage you to give it a shot, and thus ease most of my headaches with cleaning spyware and viruses off your machine, but beyond that, I just can't be bothered. Certainly not enough to carefully scrutinize my language to make sure I don't ruffle the feathers of the easily-upset on the internet. Fuck that!
Really he is!
Your comments on this thread are a fraudulent mask of the bigoted hatred you openly urinate onto other Microsoft articles. You are a middle-aged blathering chunk of expectorated primate bile wallowing in your dead mum's vaginal cheese. This also goes for your alter-ego Erris and all your other personalities.