How about:
- Viewing event logs (Note that viewing means read only)
- Running many applications... each and every time they are run.
- Viewing the 'System' part of control-panel to find out how much ram (once again read only)
- Anytime any one of the numerous random pieces of bloatware decides it wants to check to see if updates are available.
Face it, your lucky to go 30 seconds without the screen suddenly darkening and the interruption of normal programming to bring you this annoying piece of nagware.
You mean modern hardware like the recently released Acer Aspire One? Or perhaps one of the Asus EEEPC lines?
It seems that more and more 'modern' no longer means 'big and powerfull' but 'small and lean'.
Vista is Microsofts Edsel. They are trying to sell something big and powerful just when people are wanting small and economical.
And it didn't live up to the hype. Oh, and the login screen looks like a vagina (if you squint hard enough in just the right kind of light).
...and thus experiencing winter right now, I'd just like to say NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!
We're freezing our butts off down here. Record low temperatures, frost for the first time in many places, etc.
as if?
as if??
as if what? goddamit??
What do you mean by as if?? Just what are you trying to say? I need to know what you mean by that! What exactly is your point?
... am truly saddened by this latest turn of events.
I really wanted to believe that Hans was the 'misunderstood but innocent' computer nerd who was being screwed over by a conniving gold-digging Russian bride.
This latest news pretty well confirms that...
Nina is actually dead and not just living in secret in Russia
The two children are now pretty much orphans (mummy actually dead, daddy in prison for ages)
Reiser, the computer nerd who many of us can identify with, is actually a murderer. ... all of which are really bad things.
This has kind of "shaken my world" a little bit. I always used to associate 'computer nerd' with 'slightly socially inept but harmless and basically nice' and didn't mind being labeled so. Now this all seems to have changed?
So why don't you just forget everything you know and think of yourself as a 'new user'. This way you won't have any problems with it (according to your own comments).
Or is it because both of these interfaces take a certain amount of 'learning', and now that it has changed, both old hands and newbies are again left out to dry?
If the usage of the OS complies with the license then surely any inadvertent behavior on the part of the OS is the responsibility of the owner (Microsoft) and not the license holder (the end user). From the banks perspective the difference is trivial. It just means that when your account gets cleaned out, instead of not re-imbursing you, the bank will just not re-imburse Microsoft.
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Who can I send money to...?
GetUp!
Because a sweaty, overweight, balding guy jumped around on stage like a baboon and made lots of bellowing noises?
And just which body part is this supposed to make us think of?
How about:
- Viewing event logs (Note that viewing means read only)
- Running many applications... each and every time they are run.
- Viewing the 'System' part of control-panel to find out how much ram (once again read only)
- Anytime any one of the numerous random pieces of bloatware decides it wants to check to see if updates are available.
Face it, your lucky to go 30 seconds without the screen suddenly darkening and the interruption of normal programming to bring you this annoying piece of nagware.
The gizmodo Hitachi song competition has already been mentioned below, but the winning entry is just amazing.
On the contrary, I usually find the urge to take a leak only occurs just after the full body armour has been put on.
What is so bad about vista on modern hardware?
You mean modern hardware like the recently released Acer Aspire One? Or perhaps one of the Asus EEEPC lines? It seems that more and more 'modern' no longer means 'big and powerfull' but 'small and lean'.
Vista is Microsofts Edsel. They are trying to sell something big and powerful just when people are wanting small and economical. And it didn't live up to the hype. Oh, and the login screen looks like a vagina (if you squint hard enough in just the right kind of light).
They didn't QA properly, obviously.
Ah, but they did!
" iTunes ain't done till Vista won't run."
...and thus experiencing winter right now, I'd just like to say NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!
We're freezing our butts off down here. Record low temperatures, frost for the first time in many places, etc.
as if?
as if??
as if what? goddamit??
What do you mean by as if?? Just what are you trying to say? I need to know what you mean by that! What exactly is your point?
I really wanted to believe that Hans was the 'misunderstood but innocent' computer nerd who was being screwed over by a conniving gold-digging Russian bride.
This latest news pretty well confirms that...
... all of which are really bad things.
Nina is actually dead and not just living in secret in Russia
The two children are now pretty much orphans (mummy actually dead, daddy in prison for ages)
Reiser, the computer nerd who many of us can identify with, is actually a murderer.
This has kind of "shaken my world" a little bit. I always used to associate 'computer nerd' with 'slightly socially inept but harmless and basically nice' and didn't mind being labeled so. Now this all seems to have changed?
This is about the same amount of protection as pulling out is a form of birth control.
This being /., how does that compare to just not getting laid in the first place?
Um.. Do you perhaps have a car analogy you could use instead?
"Your Honour, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk...."
Diebold
So why don't you just forget everything you know and think of yourself as a 'new user'. This way you won't have any problems with it (according to your own comments).
Or is it because both of these interfaces take a certain amount of 'learning', and now that it has changed, both old hands and newbies are again left out to dry?
Not flaming, just asking.
This would be the deluxe model multi-user inflatable girlfriend.
And Eric, being such a happy cat, was a piece of cake.
I'm a mac-user, and I'm also a mac-user-hater. Your experience is unfortunately all too common.
The high resolution pictures on google earth are not satellite images, they are aerial photographs taken from ordinary terrestrial planes.
Go look at a remote part of the world with google earth, the ones with no clarity at all. This is what you get from the satellite images.
Koyaanisqatsi
Dude, you left out the punchline!!
You were supposed to end with "$*%& [NO CARRIER]"
>But then, do I need my address book to make calls to Google Maps...
Probably not, but having address book sync with Yahoo is a bonus for me since my main email address is a Yahoo one.
Not only that, but it is usually animated ads that use most of the cpu when trying to scroll a web page.
Adblock + flashblock means far less cpu usage once the page is down.
Apple is as guilty as anybody else.
All Apple machines, when "asleep", have a bright white LED on the front that sort of slowly pulses, as though the machine is sort of... breathing.
And the laptops have ring of light around the power cord where it plugs into the laptop. This glows orange when charging and green when fully charged.
Together, these two lights can be really distracting if you have your powerbook in your bedroom at night.