Well done, dude. You're one of that tiny subset of Vista users for whom it is an improvement over XP. Now take heed of the zeitgeist, and know that you are one of that tiny subset of Vista users for whom it is an improvement over XP. If it were otherwise, this article would never have been written.
Did I mention that in general, Vista has been a royal PITA for former XP users? You got lucky. Your usage patterns happen to be compatible with Redmond's grand plan. You're happy to "get with the program". To use your computer the way MS decrees you'll use it. Now spare a thought for the rest of humanity. Those poor misguided souls who are not interested in "getting with" someone else's program.
Let me point out that your experience with Vista is an anomoly. Outside your invulnerable (haha) bubble world, Vista is causing more problems than it solves.
Is this getting through?
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Take the plunge. Then, when something irritates you about your new OS, google for the solution. On the rare occassion that someone hasn't already scratched that particular itch, complain publicly and loudly. Hound the developers. As a last resort, diss it on slashdot. You're guaranteed to get "duh, just do blah blah blah and it works, moron". It's not a perfect system but it keeps improving.
The first week or two you'll be wrestling with major annoyances of the OS. The next few months you'll make the occassional tweak. Then it's smooth sailing. Before too long you will have scratched every itch and will barely even notice the OS any more. Once you've got it working the way you want it, it just keeps on working.
This advice is missing from those "I tried linux for a week and it sucked" reviews.
Err.. Ubuntu might not spend much effort on feel-good PR stunts, but has it occurred to you that producing the least-sucky desktop distro is itself a *huge* contribution to the community?
Umm... if returning ads based on the search terms you type into the very same site is spyware.... please start fixing the problem by removing your eyeballs (spy devices).
Some people just don't like shaking hands. It's an excellent way to spread disease! Eye contact is good enough for casual meetings. Different story when sealing a deal.
There are competitors to google. Anyone who doesn't like them can use their competitors' products instead. Compare that to government, where the moron voters choose either right-wing authoritarian idiots, or far-right-wing authoritarian idiots, and if you don't like it you're out of options.
Tell it brother. All these people working in pleasant environments are missing the whole point of work. It's supposed to suck. I personally won't settle for anything more than a cramped cubicle with inadequate air-conditioning, poor lighting, and an extremely uncomfortable chair. I *need* an overbearing control-freak breathing down my neck while I'm working, and lazy colleagues interrupting me to offload things they're too incompetent to handle themselves. At the end of the day, I demand an exhausting commute home of no less than two hours. If I don't collapse with exhaustion before I make it to my bed, I feel sorely disappointed.
These Bedouin jokers are missing out on the good life.
I get mod points far too often... it's annoying... but I only mod up stuff that makes me grin or produce audible laughter. Doesn't happen often. No points for witless humour.
We could stop poisoning ourselves with floride, mercury, lead, aluminum and arsenic.
Flouride in water supplies is beneficial. The others aren't.
The entire pharmaceutical industry could decide to stop fucking everyone over and make the secrets of real whole health known. Simple cures for cancer, diabetics, and other diseases are well known to naturopaths.
Bullshit. Bull shit. Bovine excrement. Quackery. Pseudoscience. Fraud. Snake oil. No doctor on earth would hold back a cure for cancer or diabetes if such a thing existed. Bullshit artists preying on the terminally ill, peddling eye-of-newt potions and magical crystals, are the lowest form of life on the planet.
All it will take is a few popular talent-scout podcasts to make radio irrelevant to people looking for new music. Would you rather get your musical buffet from the marketing behemoths, or some cool dude on the net with tastes very like your own, whose selection you can listen to alongside your regular mix, at the time of your choosing?
Well... I am a long time Mac-hater. I don't mean dislike. I absolutely loathe having to use the bloody things. Fortunately I don't have to very often... anyway.
I just bought an Ipod shuffle. It's smaller, cheaper, better-looking, better performing than anything else available in it's class. Face it, Ipods rule in every way, including price. Plus I can ignore the whole DRM issue since I get my music from uncrippled sources.
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Getting shit done.
Some people can get shit done without working really hard.
Some people work really hard and never seem to get anything done.
Which would you rather employ?
Well done, dude. You're one of that tiny subset of Vista users for whom it is an improvement over XP. Now take heed of the zeitgeist, and know that you are one of that tiny subset of Vista users for whom it is an improvement over XP. If it were otherwise, this article would never have been written.
Did I mention that in general, Vista has been a royal PITA for former XP users? You got lucky. Your usage patterns happen to be compatible with Redmond's grand plan. You're happy to "get with the program". To use your computer the way MS decrees you'll use it. Now spare a thought for the rest of humanity. Those poor misguided souls who are not interested in "getting with" someone else's program.
Let me point out that your experience with Vista is an anomoly. Outside your invulnerable (haha) bubble world, Vista is causing more problems than it solves.
Is this getting through?
Take the plunge. Then, when something irritates you about your new OS, google for the solution. On the rare occassion that someone hasn't already scratched that particular itch, complain publicly and loudly. Hound the developers. As a last resort, diss it on slashdot. You're guaranteed to get "duh, just do blah blah blah and it works, moron". It's not a perfect system but it keeps improving.
The first week or two you'll be wrestling with major annoyances of the OS. The next few months you'll make the occassional tweak. Then it's smooth sailing. Before too long you will have scratched every itch and will barely even notice the OS any more. Once you've got it working the way you want it, it just keeps on working.
This advice is missing from those "I tried linux for a week and it sucked" reviews.
Err.. Ubuntu might not spend much effort on feel-good PR stunts, but has it occurred to you that producing the least-sucky desktop distro is itself a *huge* contribution to the community?
You know what they say... regulating the internet is like teaching a pig to sing - it wastes your time and annoys the internet.
The mormons would send missionaries to make it unintelligent again.
Umm, their poo-flinging monkeys are all busy in court.
Umm... if returning ads based on the search terms you type into the very same site is spyware.... please start fixing the problem by removing your eyeballs (spy devices).
Some people just don't like shaking hands. It's an excellent way to spread disease! Eye contact is good enough for casual meetings. Different story when sealing a deal.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8474345765 531799467
If it's not pirated, then the price is not $300, but $300 + cost of OS. Duh.
There are competitors to google. Anyone who doesn't like them can use their competitors' products instead. Compare that to government, where the moron voters choose either right-wing authoritarian idiots, or far-right-wing authoritarian idiots, and if you don't like it you're out of options.
Drool, get mod points on slashdot.
Gak! Stylus? On a phone - like I really want to need two hands to use my phone...
One hand to keep the pr0n coming via WAP, the other to umm... keep yourself coming via FAP?
Tell it brother. All these people working in pleasant environments are missing the whole point of work. It's supposed to suck. I personally won't settle for anything more than a cramped cubicle with inadequate air-conditioning, poor lighting, and an extremely uncomfortable chair. I *need* an overbearing control-freak breathing down my neck while I'm working, and lazy colleagues interrupting me to offload things they're too incompetent to handle themselves. At the end of the day, I demand an exhausting commute home of no less than two hours. If I don't collapse with exhaustion before I make it to my bed, I feel sorely disappointed.
These Bedouin jokers are missing out on the good life.
Free unlimited hosting for video content is more than enough compensation... let's not pretend gootube gives nothing back.
Bah. You could just refuse to accept the jurisdiction of war crimes courts while demanding other nations submit to them. Oh, wait, already been done.
I get mod points far too often... it's annoying... but I only mod up stuff that makes me grin or produce audible laughter. Doesn't happen often. No points for witless humour.
We could stop poisoning ourselves with floride, mercury, lead, aluminum and arsenic.
Flouride in water supplies is beneficial. The others aren't.
The entire pharmaceutical industry could decide to stop fucking everyone over and make the secrets of real whole health known. Simple cures for cancer, diabetics, and other diseases are well known to naturopaths.
Bullshit. Bull shit. Bovine excrement. Quackery. Pseudoscience. Fraud. Snake oil. No doctor on earth would hold back a cure for cancer or diabetes if such a thing existed. Bullshit artists preying on the terminally ill, peddling eye-of-newt potions and magical crystals, are the lowest form of life on the planet.
I stopped stealing music when I found out you could just copy it!
All it will take is a few popular talent-scout podcasts to make radio irrelevant to people looking for new music. Would you rather get your musical buffet from the marketing behemoths, or some cool dude on the net with tastes very like your own, whose selection you can listen to alongside your regular mix, at the time of your choosing?
Well... I am a long time Mac-hater. I don't mean dislike. I absolutely loathe having to use the bloody things. Fortunately I don't have to very often... anyway.
I just bought an Ipod shuffle. It's smaller, cheaper, better-looking, better performing than anything else available in it's class. Face it, Ipods rule in every way, including price. Plus I can ignore the whole DRM issue since I get my music from uncrippled sources.
And one generation later, only Mac folks.
1. Steal underpants.
2. Sell underpants.
3. Profit.
Sniff passwords for anyone that logs into Myspace then sabotage their accounts. Declare this policy a couple of days before it takes effect.