What needs to happen is that these "IT pros" need to speak up and say "Vista is a stinking pile of poop! Don't buy into it."
Try this for a Vista "feature": Leave the power management settings alone. Start to copy several hundred megabytes of data off of a Vista machine to somewhere else via xcopy in the Command Prompt. After one hour, about 20% of the way thru the copy, Vista will put the machine to sleep - WTF?!?!
google is in the advertising matching business And this is why Google is Evil. They use their massive advertising revenue to give away services for free. Much like when a Walmart comes into town, the local shops go out of business.
In The Olden Days (c)(tm), i.e. before Web 2.0, we used to call this "client/server". Before that it was called "terminal/mainframe". Somewhere in there this was a concept called "distributed computing".
The one thing that sucks goatse's backside on the 20" iMac is that the LCD is 6-bit (256K colors). They use a form of dithering to fake more colors. Is the XPS LCD 6-bit or 8-bit (16M colors)?
But that is just what the money grubbing capitalists need! More idiots buying shiny things for even more money. Why should a house sell for $150K when some 'tard comes along and pays $300K for it in hopes of selling to an even bigger 'tard a few years down the road for $600K? Only a 'tard would buy something for over $300 when it costs less than $30 to make it (iPod). Smart people just wouldn't do this.
Before I sent in my Dell laptop that went tango uniform, I replaced the HD in the unit with another one (of the same size) that was wiped clean. Dell service, being so good, found this 160GB drive to be 'defective' and replaced it with a 120GB unit and restored the OS. When I got the laptop back, they included the 'defective' 160GB drive in the box. When I figured out that they had fubared, it took several phone calls and a remote session to convince them that they had installed a smaller drive. They then sent me out a 160GB replacement. Still having to return the 'defective' drive, or else get billed for a new one, I sent back the new 120GB and 160GB drives. Today the 'defective' drive continues to work just fine running The Pile of Poop Known as Vista.
Where I is, Sympatico throttles BitTorrent down to 60 Kbp/s around 4:30 PM EST. Around 6:00 PM EST it goes down even more to 30 Kbp/s until sometime after midnight where it goes back up to full speed. They also charge up to $30 for going over your monthly GB download cap. So much for the "unlimited" connection that was advertised several years ago. During these periods, HTTP and FTP transfers still go full speed. Cork smoking bastages.
That's not a problem with ClearType its a problem with using a screen with large pixels. Get a screen with small enough pixels and the 'difficulty' goes away. Horse poopies. 1680x1050 in a 17" laptop screen and ClearType still looks out of focus with wierd color fringes on the text. First thing I turn off.
One of the things that royally pisses me off about online apps, is one day you log in and the goatse lovers have changed the app - either in a small way or in a significant way. Google is guilty of this with Gmail. Not to mention that I think the Gmail UI is rubbish. With desktop, I don't have to worry about someone 'trying to make my online experience better'.
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What needs to happen is that these "IT pros" need to speak up and say "Vista is a stinking pile of poop! Don't buy into it."
Try this for a Vista "feature": Leave the power management settings alone. Start to copy several hundred megabytes of data off of a Vista machine to somewhere else via xcopy in the Command Prompt. After one hour, about 20% of the way thru the copy, Vista will put the machine to sleep - WTF?!?!
Linux of course - because Windows sucks goatse's backside.
Yes, the same people that are re-inventing the Apollo space capsule for the "next generation space craft". Sigh.
Complain to abuse@internap.com re: that address range as hosting a spyware server...
You forgot:
0. Clip is dumb arse retard cr*p suitable only for "Duh. Heh. Heh. Duh." mentalities.
Your local Hooters must not have any pretty girls with Big Boobies (c)(tm)...
In The Olden Days (c)(tm), i.e. before Web 2.0, we used to call this "client/server". Before that it was called "terminal/mainframe". Somewhere in there this was a concept called "distributed computing".
The one thing that sucks goatse's backside on the 20" iMac is that the LCD is 6-bit (256K colors). They use a form of dithering to fake more colors. Is the XPS LCD 6-bit or 8-bit (16M colors)?
But that is just what the money grubbing capitalists need! More idiots buying shiny things for even more money. Why should a house sell for $150K when some 'tard comes along and pays $300K for it in hopes of selling to an even bigger 'tard a few years down the road for $600K? Only a 'tard would buy something for over $300 when it costs less than $30 to make it (iPod). Smart people just wouldn't do this.
No fans on any video cards around here - we like our Peace & Quiet.
Before I sent in my Dell laptop that went tango uniform, I replaced the HD in the unit with another one (of the same size) that was wiped clean. Dell service, being so good, found this 160GB drive to be 'defective' and replaced it with a 120GB unit and restored the OS. When I got the laptop back, they included the 'defective' 160GB drive in the box. When I figured out that they had fubared, it took several phone calls and a remote session to convince them that they had installed a smaller drive. They then sent me out a 160GB replacement. Still having to return the 'defective' drive, or else get billed for a new one, I sent back the new 120GB and 160GB drives. Today the 'defective' drive continues to work just fine running The Pile of Poop Known as Vista.
Where I is, Sympatico throttles BitTorrent down to 60 Kbp/s around 4:30 PM EST. Around 6:00 PM EST it goes down even more to 30 Kbp/s until sometime after midnight where it goes back up to full speed. They also charge up to $30 for going over your monthly GB download cap. So much for the "unlimited" connection that was advertised several years ago. During these periods, HTTP and FTP transfers still go full speed. Cork smoking bastages.
Why the frak would you want to keep, and reward, the people that butt fucked the company into the ground in the first place?
1) You reward success.
2) You punish failure.
3) Profit.
Now you owe me $1M Euros in management consulting fees.
...and how how many security guards to keep the terrorists away?
GWB, is that you? And, just what did happen to all those Whitehouse emails..?
Looks like the truth hit a nerve, nyet?
Of course Vista works OK for you. Look at the specs of your machine.
Try Vista and then XP on a 2.4GHz P4 with 512MB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive.
Idjit.
You do realize that the word "agnostic" is not what people think it means:
Agnosticism (from the Greek a, meaning "without", and gnosticism or gnosis, meaning "knowledge")
One of the things that royally pisses me off about online apps, is one day you log in and the goatse lovers have changed the app - either in a small way or in a significant way. Google is guilty of this with Gmail. Not to mention that I think the Gmail UI is rubbish. With desktop, I don't have to worry about someone 'trying to make my online experience better'.