I've heard this "azureus lags your machine" rubbish for years, it hasn't been like that in a long long time, it's quite snappy now and absoloutely one of the most powerful torrent clients around, the plugins are splendid.
I tried utorrent, didn't like it, went back to Azureus, sure it's 9x the size and hell even if it does take 2x the ram it's still better looking, more powerful and in my eyes, easier to use.
Well they fixed the video probems from 7.04 but the wifi doesn't work on my RT2500, WPA just isn't happening despite the menu implying it does, what a shame.
Still waiting for a version of this OS to just WORK out of the box for me:/
Considering previous episodes, one can only guess that Jamie used to be a cockroach wrestler, somewhere inbetween the circus acrobat and the astronaut phase of his career(s)
2, Fuck cockroaches, little bastards! Even if they are vunerable to radiation your common everyday products to kill them in the home are doing less and less, the ones in my apartment sometimes walk THROUGH THE INSIDE OF THE MICROWAVE while it's ON........ wtf? I have a photo of them nesting INSIDE the damned 'ultrasonic bug repeller' (set to roach mode, no less*) I hate them, I hope Jamie and Adam find something seriously toxic to kill the bastards
* yes, I know they are a 'sham' but when you're desperate you'll try anything, I've also tried sticky traps, bug 'bait', the powders, surface sprays and god knows what else what.
Sorry to be shouting and all but I'm a Windows guy, I always have been a Windows guy, sure I have that slashdot bone in me, wanting OSS to be huge, great, free and out there for everyone to share and love but let's be realistic now, for some people it's not an option, myself included.
Honestly I have been really quite satisfied with XP (after becoming accustomed to its own issues) However after having recently tried Vista (multiple times) it's a disgrace, PURELY from a look and feel perspective, it's like 500 people designed it around a board room table but consistency and ease of use just aren't even considered.
I'm definately NOT an apple man by any means, yet having now used OSX for a week and an ipod for a year, they just get (most) stuff right, logical and simple - just how it should be. Vista is wrong, it looks wrong, some of you can whinge it sucks under the hood or perhaps DRM ate your babysitter, maybe it has poor performance copying files and playing MP3's (doesn't bother me) but that UI? Good lord if you can't make it better at least give us back the XP one as an option.
It's time that MS made some RADICAL changes to the user interface, crazy out there stuff, which is actually USEFUL! rather than just re-hashing the same old thing, stapling on some stuff (poorly) and expecting us to enjoy it.
Finally some decent games for the Wii which AREN'T for kids or socialites throwing parties. (There are gamers out there who play SP only games for a good storyline, honest - and we don't always have room mates either!)
The Wii has absoloutely no appeal with this demographic, trust me - I know, I am that demographic.
As for Okami, I started it on PS2, looked awesome, however if the Wii edition has no widescreen, consider it useless as far as I'm concerned.
LOL Flamebait, ok so someone is PRO noise in a computer and it's not marked troll? Come the fuck on people, think about this, advocating a noisy computer? Something some of us older users have been striving to avoid ever since we sold our Amiga's and C64's
Noisy disks indeed, mark the original authors post as either, retarded, over-rated, troll or just plain lunacy, I'm outright insulted such a post would even make it to text on a website.
WHILE WE'RE AT IT, LET'S BRING BACK FLOPPY DRIVES!
I'm sure some posters are about to bitch you out for this one, I for one couldn't agree with you more though.
I recall the claims, we were apparently meant to get exactly what you said, insane amounts more storage, easily and quickly - any minute now! Instead, it trickled along just as it always has.
I've been having solid state discussions since I was a nerd / dork at high school, talking with other nerds about how much hard disks suck and how we hate the performance and wow those holographic disks will rock.
This was quite literally 13 or so years ago, magnetic always seems to beat the competition to the big space punch. On top of this the disk manufacturers will be shooting themselves in the foot if they ever do release a decent sized, high speed solid state disk unless it's insanely expensive (and if it is, it won't take off)
It's a catch 22 - 4 years we'll be using magnetic, abso-freaking-loutely, now 14 years? Maybe......
Score 5 Informative from such a subjective post? Cmon mods please,.......
Moving parts suck, yes, they do break down, yes but 50%? Does anyone moderating this actually have a personal computer or had one for long sheesh!
How about you give me a +5 for my subjective opinion too? I've been using PC's since I was 13 y/o (16 years, argh) I do not exaggerate when I say I've owned at least 80 hard disks. In that time I have had less than 6 fail on me and 3 of them were my own fault.
For a mechanical device, working within the limits that it has to to function, the reliability on hard disks is frankly astounding.
I guess the guy could've just been solely buying Maxtors though...
What really bugs me is how much of the startup config is done serially. A lot of startup tasks take time, and step N+1 has to wait until step N is finished whether or not it depends on that step
I couldn't agree with this fellow more, I'm a windows user (the shame, the shame) but I notice the same thing, why can't this stuff be done in parallel, sure it may cause some disk thrash but I'm sure that can be optomised.
Hell both XP and Vista actually seem to pause for about.5 to 1.0 seconds while the bloody splash screen fades in! MILLIONS of computers, re-booted hundreds of times, all wasting 1 second of our time, even by conservative estimates on those figures I figure that's 118 years of life wasted by that alone.
I know it's pedantic but for @#% sake when I was a boy, I'd flip a switch and my C64 would be ON and that baby was a computer, not just a games machine.
We should be having under 5 second boot times nowadays, from power button to actual use of the machine... sigh.
The overheating issues are occuring on far far far more than 3% of units, I've seen results from several sources at least 5 forum polls at different sites, EB store employees tallying up a sold / return ratio, journolists (sp?) reporting how many have failed at their offices etc.
The chaps at UPS actually know what the Xbox is when returning it bwefore you return it, based on the box you bring it in with..... the failure rate is rumoured to be as high as 30% - I'd be very comfortable believing 15% for sure.
The 3 year warranty for the RROD is absoloutely FUCKING useless as far as I and several console gamers are concerned. A>I don't want to be without my console for 2-6 weeks multiple times over the course of 3 years. B>Secondly due to DRM you have to sign in to Xbox live to be able to play your downloaded Xbox games because they are signed to the hardware of your DEAD console see : http://brokenxblm.blogspot.com/ C>Why should I support a company releasing shit hardware, can't they get their act together, it's been 2 fucking years! and finally and I believe by far most importantly,.. D>3 Years? big fucking deal, there's still gamers playing 5 year old PS2's, 8 year old PS1's, 10 year old N64's and older, sure some old hardware breaks down, I won't deny that but at least you have a chance,...... why should I or anyone else purchase a product which is actually LIKELY to break down, forcing me to have to buy a new one in 3.01 years time or 4 years etc? No! I'm enjoying cheap Xbox 1 and PS2 games and I plan to keep enjoying them, I'd like to do the same with a 360, maybe pull it out in 4 or 5 years to play Gears of war etc,.....so in that case, I can't see waiting for a more reliable edition being a bad thing.
Also there's rumours there's a fixed model out, the die appears to be approximately 15% smaller, which doesn't correlate with 90nm to 65nm but no one knows for sure, so we're waiting for more info - but either way the thing is still bloody noisy.
Nope, I'm waiting for confirmation on forums like Xbox-scene.com that there's a more reliable one out there in the wild.
I had no idea, first I've heard of it, that's a lifetime in technology years. That's one of the most stupid things I've ever heard of, how could Apple paint themself into a corner like that?
(No, I'm not a pro-unlock person, I can see why they did it but for such a long period of time? Utter stupidity)
I find this a little disapointing, I was under the impression that backwards compatibility was all in software for the PS3 now anyhow.
I saw a post on shacknews.com mentioning the PS2 60gb original had the full PS2 guts in it, including some kind of video scaler chip or some such, the PS3 80gb (and European 60gb) has the video scaler but no CPU / guts. This third model has neither chip, without the 2 other chips it's apparently impossible, assuming of course that's true. I do understand them needing to remove something to justify the value of the higher ones but I don't think this is the thing to remove.
Some may claim backwards compatibility is useless or unwarranted etc but well I simply disagree, there's many uses for it. The least Sony could have done is at least lie, like Microsoft about the effort to constantly improve backwards compatibility for the benefit of the customer (haha)
Do the RIAA own all the songs she had on her machine? Were any of them independant songs not from the RIAA? Why 9000$ per song vs 1$ per song same as itunes?
It's all fine and dandy to say the gameplay is most important and well it is.
Problem is Microsoft made SPECIFIC points when marketing the Xbox 360 as a powerhouse, with 12mb of EDRAM capable of 'free 4x AA at all time' and the fact that it will do 720p in all games as a mandatory requirement, no low def games alowed (you can run the games in low def, but it's a downsample) etc etc
When push came to shove one of their first titles, Project Gotham Racing 3 runs at 1024x600 or some such resolution and upscales and rumour has it, you can tell (never seen it myself) Frankly, I don't care that much but considering Microsofts lies on the 360 (which gamers and Halo fans seem to magically forget) one can understand the uproar.
(example of lies like "as of the release date of the Xbox 360, all future Xbox 1 titles will be automatically backwards compatible") etc etc.
I'd like to damn well think the blacks are good anyhow. I'm a die hard CRT lover, I've detested the quality of the picture on LCD's for a long long time, I guess you could say I'm a videophile.
All that being said, I only just recently caved, yes I've caved, even CRT lover dan at dansdata has caved. I picked up a Dell 2407 WFP HC screen, which apparently does colours quite well.
I purchased this because for 3 years people have been proclaiming how good LCD's are now and how widescreen is the future, how ghosting is a thing of the past, viewing angles aren't a worry, scaling with fixed pixel width is fine and blacks levels are fine on modern LCD's
Well, I'm one person who has purchased a product who has the balls to speak the truth rather than defend my money spent. Firstly, I love widescreen, it's bloody awesome, period - great stuff. I LOVE the extra desk space! Fixed pixel width is certainly not bugging me in games anywhere near as much as I thought it would and I don't change resolution often in Windows anyhow (I guess I used to with my CRT) Refresh rates and ghosting is right on the limit, it's not ideal but it's certianly nothing to fret about either.
However....
Black levels and viewing angles are ok now? - I think not people, I think not. In bright games, the picture quality, coupled with the widescreen awesomeness of above, lovely stuff, just lovely. I tried Oblivion though and in the caves, oh those caves, I felt the 'silverfish' effect - the blacks shimmer and refract light or something die to viewing angle nastyness. The picture, quite literally reminded me of waking up in the morning with sleep in the corners of my eyes, I found myself rubbing my left eye constantly to try and remove said sleep. Clearly I couldn't, it wasn't actually there, infact within about 30 minutes of playing, I simply couldn't play anymore. I was shocked, I am not the headache type or the motion sickness type but this was quite literally making me irritated, not sick but I couldn't play due to the distraction in the corner of the display (both left and right) The viewing angles are simply too tight for this monitor, the solution of course is to sit futher away, however why would I want to? This is why I purchased a huge 24" monitor, so that the picture is immersive and great, not something I push to the far edge of my desk, otherwise it's just too small again.
I've also tried Half Life 2 - the black scenes in that do the same thing, I honestly do not know how people play any dark games on an LCD at all, it's simply not a pleasant experience. In some regards I miss my 22" CRT, it was a high end tube, did over 100hz at 1600x1200, some ridiculous figures at 1024 (140+ etc)
So ultimately, my question is or rather my demand is, does OLED solve these issues? I've heard it does, but does it REALLY? LCD is (according to THOUSANDS of people on the web) apparently "as good or better" than CRT now (I beg to differ)
If I could just solve that issue with the shimmery blacks, I'd be fine but until then, for true videophiles, I just can't recommend an LCD still, hence me having a near 200lb CRT beast in the loungeroom as a television.
"Vista is faster on my laptop (ASUS G1) than XP and has more functionalities."
Absoloute bullshit, plain and simple - period. The rest of your post isn't worth reading if you put a comment in like that.
I don't care if love it, hate it, work for Microsoft or only use Vista at work, that is a lie, that's simply not how it works with MOST new OS's let alone Vista.
"Why do so many people ignore the often-cited reason for not switching to Vista? DRM is invasive, restrictive, and ridiculous"
Why do you anti-DRM monkeys KEEP spouting these ridiculous posts? 99.95% of users have NO CLUE what the hell DRM is, what it does and how it's bad. You do and I do but they don't, PERIOD, you've got 3 laymen users right now of Vista. The 'ooh it's pretty and new, I want it / already have it' The 'I don't know what's wrong with it by my IT pals tell me it's bad!' and finally option 3 which is by far the minority, the informed tech types who are either in option 1, 'it's pretty and new' or option 3 "I do know what's wrong with it and I don't want it"
I'm all for hating on DRM but citing it as a reason for Vista being a problem is laughable. Shitty user interface yes. Bad drivers, yes (partially not MS's fault) Overpriced, way way over demanding on hardware, sure. DRM being the cause of sales issues and ill will? - no.
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I've heard this "azureus lags your machine" rubbish for years, it hasn't been like that in a long long time, it's quite snappy now and absoloutely one of the most powerful torrent clients around, the plugins are splendid.
I tried utorrent, didn't like it, went back to Azureus, sure it's 9x the size and hell even if it does take 2x the ram it's still better looking, more powerful and in my eyes, easier to use.
Well they fixed the video probems from 7.04 but the wifi doesn't work on my RT2500, WPA just isn't happening despite the menu implying it does, what a shame.
:/
Still waiting for a version of this OS to just WORK out of the box for me
Considering previous episodes, one can only guess that Jamie used to be a cockroach wrestler, somewhere inbetween the circus acrobat and the astronaut phase of his career(s)
You guys might want to check out Vista,.......
1, I love this show, no really I do.
2, Fuck cockroaches, little bastards! Even if they are vunerable to radiation your common everyday products to kill them in the home are doing less and less, the ones in my apartment sometimes walk THROUGH THE INSIDE OF THE MICROWAVE while it's ON........ wtf?
I have a photo of them nesting INSIDE the damned 'ultrasonic bug repeller' (set to roach mode, no less*)
I hate them, I hope Jamie and Adam find something seriously toxic to kill the bastards
* yes, I know they are a 'sham' but when you're desperate you'll try anything, I've also tried sticky traps, bug 'bait', the powders, surface sprays and god knows what else what.
HIRE SOME FUCKING UI EXPERTS.
Sorry to be shouting and all but I'm a Windows guy, I always have been a Windows guy, sure I have that slashdot bone in me, wanting OSS to be huge, great, free and out there for everyone to share and love but let's be realistic now, for some people it's not an option, myself included.
Honestly I have been really quite satisfied with XP (after becoming accustomed to its own issues)
However after having recently tried Vista (multiple times) it's a disgrace, PURELY from a look and feel perspective, it's like 500 people designed it around a board room table but consistency and ease of use just aren't even considered.
I'm definately NOT an apple man by any means, yet having now used OSX for a week and an ipod for a year, they just get (most) stuff right, logical and simple - just how it should be.
Vista is wrong, it looks wrong, some of you can whinge it sucks under the hood or perhaps DRM ate your babysitter, maybe it has poor performance copying files and playing MP3's (doesn't bother me) but that UI? Good lord if you can't make it better at least give us back the XP one as an option.
It's time that MS made some RADICAL changes to the user interface, crazy out there stuff, which is actually USEFUL! rather than just re-hashing the same old thing, stapling on some stuff (poorly) and expecting us to enjoy it.
Finally some decent games for the Wii which AREN'T for kids or socialites throwing parties.
(There are gamers out there who play SP only games for a good storyline, honest - and we don't always have room mates either!)
The Wii has absoloutely no appeal with this demographic, trust me - I know, I am that demographic.
As for Okami, I started it on PS2, looked awesome, however if the Wii edition has no widescreen, consider it useless as far as I'm concerned.
LOL Flamebait, ok so someone is PRO noise in a computer and it's not marked troll?
Come the fuck on people, think about this, advocating a noisy computer? Something some of us older users have been striving to avoid ever since we sold our Amiga's and C64's
Noisy disks indeed, mark the original authors post as either, retarded, over-rated, troll or just plain lunacy, I'm outright insulted such a post would even make it to text on a website.
WHILE WE'RE AT IT, LET'S BRING BACK FLOPPY DRIVES!
I'm sure some posters are about to bitch you out for this one, I for one couldn't agree with you more though.
I recall the claims, we were apparently meant to get exactly what you said, insane amounts more storage, easily and quickly - any minute now!
Instead, it trickled along just as it always has.
"who likes hearing harddrives do their work? Solid-state storage is too quiet, "
Die, in a fire please or at least seek help.
I've been having solid state discussions since I was a nerd / dork at high school, talking with other nerds about how much hard disks suck and how we hate the performance and wow those holographic disks will rock.
This was quite literally 13 or so years ago, magnetic always seems to beat the competition to the big space punch.
On top of this the disk manufacturers will be shooting themselves in the foot if they ever do release a decent sized, high speed solid state disk unless it's insanely expensive (and if it is, it won't take off)
It's a catch 22 - 4 years we'll be using magnetic, abso-freaking-loutely, now 14 years? Maybe......
Score 5 Informative from such a subjective post? Cmon mods please,.......
Moving parts suck, yes, they do break down, yes but 50%? Does anyone moderating this actually have a personal computer or had one for long sheesh!
How about you give me a +5 for my subjective opinion too?
I've been using PC's since I was 13 y/o (16 years, argh) I do not exaggerate when I say I've owned at least 80 hard disks.
In that time I have had less than 6 fail on me and 3 of them were my own fault.
For a mechanical device, working within the limits that it has to to function, the reliability on hard disks is frankly astounding.
I guess the guy could've just been solely buying Maxtors though...
What really bugs me is how much of the startup config is done serially. A lot of startup tasks take time, and step N+1 has to wait until step N is finished whether or not it depends on that step
.5 to 1.0 seconds while the bloody splash screen fades in!
I couldn't agree with this fellow more, I'm a windows user (the shame, the shame) but I notice the same thing, why can't this stuff be done in parallel, sure it may cause some disk thrash but I'm sure that can be optomised.
Hell both XP and Vista actually seem to pause for about
MILLIONS of computers, re-booted hundreds of times, all wasting 1 second of our time, even by conservative estimates on those figures I figure that's 118 years of life wasted by that alone.
I know it's pedantic but for @#% sake when I was a boy, I'd flip a switch and my C64 would be ON and that baby was a computer, not just a games machine.
We should be having under 5 second boot times nowadays, from power button to actual use of the machine... sigh.
I could care less...........
(no really, I could)
The overheating issues are occuring on far far far more than 3% of units, I've seen results from several sources at least 5 forum polls at different sites, EB store employees tallying up a sold / return ratio, journolists (sp?) reporting how many have failed at their offices etc.
The chaps at UPS actually know what the Xbox is when returning it bwefore you return it, based on the box you bring it in with..... the failure rate is rumoured to be as high as 30% - I'd be very comfortable believing 15% for sure.
The 3 year warranty for the RROD is absoloutely FUCKING useless as far as I and several console gamers are concerned.
A>I don't want to be without my console for 2-6 weeks multiple times over the course of 3 years.
B>Secondly due to DRM you have to sign in to Xbox live to be able to play your downloaded Xbox games because they are signed to the hardware of your DEAD console see : http://brokenxblm.blogspot.com/
C>Why should I support a company releasing shit hardware, can't they get their act together, it's been 2 fucking years!
and finally and I believe by far most importantly,..
D>3 Years? big fucking deal, there's still gamers playing 5 year old PS2's, 8 year old PS1's, 10 year old N64's and older, sure some old hardware breaks down, I won't deny that but at least you have a chance,...... why should I or anyone else purchase a product which is actually LIKELY to break down, forcing me to have to buy a new one in 3.01 years time or 4 years etc?
No! I'm enjoying cheap Xbox 1 and PS2 games and I plan to keep enjoying them, I'd like to do the same with a 360, maybe pull it out in 4 or 5 years to play Gears of war etc,.....so in that case, I can't see waiting for a more reliable edition being a bad thing.
Also there's rumours there's a fixed model out, the die appears to be approximately 15% smaller, which doesn't correlate with 90nm to 65nm but no one knows for sure, so we're waiting for more info - but either way the thing is still bloody noisy.
Nope, I'm waiting for confirmation on forums like Xbox-scene.com that there's a more reliable one out there in the wild.
I had no idea, first I've heard of it, that's a lifetime in technology years.
That's one of the most stupid things I've ever heard of, how could Apple paint themself into a corner like that?
(No, I'm not a pro-unlock person, I can see why they did it but for such a long period of time? Utter stupidity)
I find this a little disapointing, I was under the impression that backwards compatibility was all in software for the PS3 now anyhow.
I saw a post on shacknews.com mentioning the PS2 60gb original had the full PS2 guts in it, including some kind of video scaler chip or some such, the PS3 80gb (and European 60gb) has the video scaler but no CPU / guts.
This third model has neither chip, without the 2 other chips it's apparently impossible, assuming of course that's true.
I do understand them needing to remove something to justify the value of the higher ones but I don't think this is the thing to remove.
Some may claim backwards compatibility is useless or unwarranted etc but well I simply disagree, there's many uses for it.
The least Sony could have done is at least lie, like Microsoft about the effort to constantly improve backwards compatibility for the benefit of the customer (haha)
Do the RIAA own all the songs she had on her machine? Were any of them independant songs not from the RIAA?
Why 9000$ per song vs 1$ per song same as itunes?
It's all fine and dandy to say the gameplay is most important and well it is.
Problem is Microsoft made SPECIFIC points when marketing the Xbox 360 as a powerhouse, with 12mb of EDRAM capable of 'free 4x AA at all time' and the fact that it will do 720p in all games as a mandatory requirement, no low def games alowed (you can run the games in low def, but it's a downsample) etc etc
When push came to shove one of their first titles, Project Gotham Racing 3 runs at 1024x600 or some such resolution and upscales and rumour has it, you can tell (never seen it myself)
Frankly, I don't care that much but considering Microsofts lies on the 360 (which gamers and Halo fans seem to magically forget) one can understand the uproar.
(example of lies like "as of the release date of the Xbox 360, all future Xbox 1 titles will be automatically backwards compatible") etc etc.
(note: subject is actually a question ... ?)
I'd like to damn well think the blacks are good anyhow.
I'm a die hard CRT lover, I've detested the quality of the picture on LCD's for a long long time, I guess you could say I'm a videophile.
All that being said, I only just recently caved, yes I've caved, even CRT lover dan at dansdata has caved.
I picked up a Dell 2407 WFP HC screen, which apparently does colours quite well.
I purchased this because for 3 years people have been proclaiming how good LCD's are now and how widescreen is the future, how ghosting is a thing of the past, viewing angles aren't a worry, scaling with fixed pixel width is fine and blacks levels are fine on modern LCD's
Well, I'm one person who has purchased a product who has the balls to speak the truth rather than defend my money spent.
Firstly, I love widescreen, it's bloody awesome, period - great stuff.
I LOVE the extra desk space!
Fixed pixel width is certainly not bugging me in games anywhere near as much as I thought it would and I don't change resolution often in Windows anyhow (I guess I used to with my CRT)
Refresh rates and ghosting is right on the limit, it's not ideal but it's certianly nothing to fret about either.
However....
Black levels and viewing angles are ok now? - I think not people, I think not.
In bright games, the picture quality, coupled with the widescreen awesomeness of above, lovely stuff, just lovely.
I tried Oblivion though and in the caves, oh those caves, I felt the 'silverfish' effect - the blacks shimmer and refract light or something die to viewing angle nastyness.
The picture, quite literally reminded me of waking up in the morning with sleep in the corners of my eyes, I found myself rubbing my left eye constantly to try and remove said sleep.
Clearly I couldn't, it wasn't actually there, infact within about 30 minutes of playing, I simply couldn't play anymore.
I was shocked, I am not the headache type or the motion sickness type but this was quite literally making me irritated, not sick but I couldn't play due to the distraction in the corner of the display (both left and right)
The viewing angles are simply too tight for this monitor, the solution of course is to sit futher away, however why would I want to? This is why I purchased a huge 24" monitor, so that the picture is immersive and great, not something I push to the far edge of my desk, otherwise it's just too small again.
I've also tried Half Life 2 - the black scenes in that do the same thing, I honestly do not know how people play any dark games on an LCD at all, it's simply not a pleasant experience.
In some regards I miss my 22" CRT, it was a high end tube, did over 100hz at 1600x1200, some ridiculous figures at 1024 (140+ etc)
So ultimately, my question is or rather my demand is, does OLED solve these issues?
I've heard it does, but does it REALLY? LCD is (according to THOUSANDS of people on the web) apparently "as good or better" than CRT now (I beg to differ)
If I could just solve that issue with the shimmery blacks, I'd be fine but until then, for true videophiles, I just can't recommend an LCD still, hence me having a near 200lb CRT beast in the loungeroom as a television.
Help me OLED, you're my only hope.
"Vista is faster on my laptop (ASUS G1) than XP and has more functionalities."
Absoloute bullshit, plain and simple - period.
The rest of your post isn't worth reading if you put a comment in like that.
I don't care if love it, hate it, work for Microsoft or only use Vista at work, that is a lie, that's simply not how it works with MOST new OS's let alone Vista.
Stop wasting our time.
You can't really fix it when half the flaws are the actual user interface itself.
"Why do so many people ignore the often-cited reason for not switching to Vista? DRM is invasive, restrictive, and ridiculous"
Why do you anti-DRM monkeys KEEP spouting these ridiculous posts?
99.95% of users have NO CLUE what the hell DRM is, what it does and how it's bad.
You do and I do but they don't, PERIOD, you've got 3 laymen users right now of Vista.
The 'ooh it's pretty and new, I want it / already have it'
The 'I don't know what's wrong with it by my IT pals tell me it's bad!'
and finally option 3 which is by far the minority, the informed tech types who are either in option 1, 'it's pretty and new' or option 3
"I do know what's wrong with it and I don't want it"
I'm all for hating on DRM but citing it as a reason for Vista being a problem is laughable.
Shitty user interface yes.
Bad drivers, yes (partially not MS's fault)
Overpriced, way way over demanding on hardware, sure.
DRM being the cause of sales issues and ill will? - no.
There is few, few
I don't think a post like this is doing itself justice without a link to iproduct.gif
http://forever.broked.net/~jason/images/index.php?image=iProduct.gif&d=d.html
I could care less about your comment, infact I bet his comment was done for cheap!
Anyways, back to playing with my legos.