Hell yes Turkey stock's tasty!
I guess I should have said - relatively speaking - considering that I'm a student, for me there's a price and time cost that's been holding me back. I agree that/. has covered this subject, if not beaten it within an inch of its life.
Cheers,
I'm SO close stewbacca...it's the price that deters me. I know that you pay for what you get, but holy crap is there ever a monetary divide between the two. I'm no rich man. I use Meemo instead of a Crackberry for mobile e-mail. I make soups with my extra vegetables, and I'll be eating Turkey stock well into June after this holiday season. That said, I may -unavoidably - have to take a hit for my poor choice in this case.
I'm so frustrated with Vista that I've been debating coming over to Macs/Mac OS now (even though it would put me into debt) ever since I got my new laptop (Tohisba Satellite series).
I find that Vista's "security" features are no more than irritating pop-ups, which people tune out after a while, since so many come up. As far as I can tell, they basically just make you sign off on all of your stupid decision three times as much as they used to - so that when something happens, the user is fully responsible.
Vista gives my machine - which has ample processing power - terrible processing speed problems. Its Big-Brother-esque elements, which I won't even get into, are straight-up frightening. It's Office application compatability issues are PATHETIC. The new "Word" is a mockery to educated consumers worldwide. It's like, they added some totally trivial bells and whistles, like the stupid sidebar (see the RSS reader offering for the definition of "stupid"), and a couple of window-to-window Windows Exlporer features, and pumped it out in haste. Basically, on the front end of things, Vista is the worst thing that's ever happened to me (I work from home, and have had terrible issues with work due to Vista vs. XP issues). On the back end, I'm actually frightened by some of the things I've read. Frightened, if not horrified.
Stick with Linux. A friend of mine, who runs "Free Geek Vancouver" (Google it), introduced me to Ubuntu a few weeks ago, when I was having Vista issues. Not only did it get onto my computer and tell me that there was nothing wrong with my computer - just Vista - it told me that my computer had a battery recall, which I never would have found out about otherwise. Again, Vista is the worst thing ever to happen to me. It's a joke, that isn't funny.
Sure, Bill Gates is crusading for good, and seems to have good values, but many of his employees should be shot over this disgrace called Vista.
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Hell yes Turkey stock's tasty! I guess I should have said - relatively speaking - considering that I'm a student, for me there's a price and time cost that's been holding me back. I agree that /. has covered this subject, if not beaten it within an inch of its life.
Cheers,
I'm SO close stewbacca...it's the price that deters me. I know that you pay for what you get, but holy crap is there ever a monetary divide between the two. I'm no rich man. I use Meemo instead of a Crackberry for mobile e-mail. I make soups with my extra vegetables, and I'll be eating Turkey stock well into June after this holiday season. That said, I may -unavoidably - have to take a hit for my poor choice in this case.
I'm so frustrated with Vista that I've been debating coming over to Macs/Mac OS now (even though it would put me into debt) ever since I got my new laptop (Tohisba Satellite series).
I find that Vista's "security" features are no more than irritating pop-ups, which people tune out after a while, since so many come up. As far as I can tell, they basically just make you sign off on all of your stupid decision three times as much as they used to - so that when something happens, the user is fully responsible.
Vista gives my machine - which has ample processing power - terrible processing speed problems. Its Big-Brother-esque elements, which I won't even get into, are straight-up frightening. It's Office application compatability issues are PATHETIC. The new "Word" is a mockery to educated consumers worldwide. It's like, they added some totally trivial bells and whistles, like the stupid sidebar (see the RSS reader offering for the definition of "stupid"), and a couple of window-to-window Windows Exlporer features, and pumped it out in haste. Basically, on the front end of things, Vista is the worst thing that's ever happened to me (I work from home, and have had terrible issues with work due to Vista vs. XP issues). On the back end, I'm actually frightened by some of the things I've read. Frightened, if not horrified.
Stick with Linux. A friend of mine, who runs "Free Geek Vancouver" (Google it), introduced me to Ubuntu a few weeks ago, when I was having Vista issues. Not only did it get onto my computer and tell me that there was nothing wrong with my computer - just Vista - it told me that my computer had a battery recall, which I never would have found out about otherwise. Again, Vista is the worst thing ever to happen to me. It's a joke, that isn't funny.
Sure, Bill Gates is crusading for good, and seems to have good values, but many of his employees should be shot over this disgrace called Vista.