Vista Startup Sound to be Mandatory? 865
Toreo asesino writes "There has been lots of debate in the past few days over Microsoft's plan to make the startup sound in Windows Vista something that can't be specifically silenced by changing the sound settings in the control panel. Users would be able to avoid hearing it by manually turning down the speaker volume, but then they would have to turn that volume back up to hear anything else."
that's only the half of it (Score:5, Funny)
Bong (Score:2, Funny)
Re:that's only the half of it (Score:5, Funny)
How to turn it off.. (Score:5, Funny)
you can always... (Score:1, Funny)
um, I dont think so (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:that's only the half of it (Score:3, Funny)
Vista startup sound clip ought to be... (Score:5, Funny)
I still hold out hope...
Yes Steve a registry setting please...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\ShutTheFuckUp
make sure that dword is set to 1
Re:that's only the half of it (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Copying the Mac again... (Score:5, Funny)
I see you are new to Microsoft products. Your sig seems to state otherwise, but since you still seem to believe that your computer should work for you, rather than for Microsoft, you obviously have yet to experience any Microsoft product in action.
I genuinely feel sorry for anyone who has to experience Windows for the first time, especially if they are used to any other OS...
Re:Their operating system, their choice. (Score:3, Funny)
Let me guess... (Score:5, Funny)
What you don't know... (Score:3, Funny)
It'd be pure microsoft...
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:that's only the half of it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:that's only the half of it (Score:2, Funny)
reason 78 I won't be using Vista (Score:5, Funny)
Reason #2. It's been delayed 5 times and still won't die
Reason #3: Fundamentally no better than XP
Reason #4: Still no shell
Reason #5: Or compiler
Reason #6: Takes more space then it really ought to
Reason #7: New added value bonus DRM compliance goodies!
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Reason #76: It takes more memory than a weather simulation of Earth just to show the desktop
Reason #77: "Ultimate Edition"
Reason #78: Annoying Startup Sounds
Tom
Subliminal Advertising (Score:3, Funny)
I'll take a stab here and say that it will contain a subliminal message...
After a while they will begin leasing out the SubLim ad slot to Microsoft Prefered Partners via the windows update function every tuesday.
[/tinfoil hat]
Place a curse on Microsoft [i-curse.com]
The reasoning behind this is pathetic. (Score:5, Funny)
OMG..they have a branded starup sound! Can we have a startup sound too! Please!
"A spiritual side of the branding experience. A short, brief, positive confirmation that your machine is now concious and ready to react."
Spiritual side? WTF does that mean? Do we get Kool-aid if we format the drive?
"The startup sound is designed to help you calibrate or fix something that got out of wack when you startup your machine. Let's say you muted your machine, and you don't hear your startup sound, you know you aren't ready to listen to stuff."
Maybe the power LED being off, the dial at 0 or the red 'no' symbol on the speaker icon might give it away after you hear absoulutely nothing coming from the speakers?
Of course there are the foot pedal mouse and coffee holder ROM drive crowd to think about. Maybe they can get an offical Vista helemt with a send in postcard.
"The Xbox has a hard-wired startup sound. "
Which makes sense. Your siting down to game and the sound system has a mojor role in that experience. It also happens as soon as the machine starts. You know exactly when it's going to happen. It's basically a "hey..it's this loud right now..get your volume set..we're getting ready to game". Not blast you out if you forget where your settings were the previous time and you walked away during boot up.
People get paid to "think" this crap up. It's amazing.
pirated version? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Subliminal Advertising (Score:2, Funny)
one more, that they have been smacked with left and right:
windows is secure
Bummer... (Score:5, Funny)
My current system at work, which I built around an MSI Athlon 64+ motherboard, is housed in a case that looks like a Soviet-era toaster: dull silver-grey plastic and louvers on the front that look like they belong on the hood of a tractor. I festooned the case with hammer-and-sickle symbols and the letters "CCCP" in red type bordered in yellow. That computer's name is "katyusha".
Its startup sound is the Red Army Chorus singing the Soviet National Anthem. Just one verse, though. It annoys my employer to no end, but he'll be the first one up against the wall when the Revolution happens. Fucking capitalist pig dog.
What really annoys me is the faux "click" sound of an unaltered XP install, the one that's bound to Windows Explorer "Start Navigation" events. It's never in sync with the mouse click. Second most annoying is the crumpled paper sound when the "Recycle Bin" is emptied (are those bits really recycled? Hmmm?). I turn those off immediately after an install.
Somewhat less annoying (but all too common) are users that bind the sound of a toilet flushing to the "Empty Recycle Bin" event. Invariably, they're the sort of person for whom a fart joke is the pinnacle of humor. But they bitch like hell when you bind the sound of a lusty wet ripping flatus to each mouse click. "My computer's been hacked!" they complain. "I was humiliated in front of a client!"
How d'you like me now, bitch?
k.
Re:that's only the half of it (Score:5, Funny)
It'll be:
"Hello, This is Bill Gates and I pronounce Windows as Windows."
vista startup noise (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How to turn it off.. (Score:1, Funny)
What the fuck?
Mods: Don't mod up people that are making stuff up. He was apparently attempting to use humor, a concept that is not fully understood across the
Skip the window... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:that's only the half of it (Score:5, Funny)
Yew got a purdy mouth. Who said siddown? Ahm'a make yew squeal like the wheels on mah chair... Ah! Luv! Dis! Cumpany!
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Oh quit complaining... (Score:3, Funny)
... you'll always be able to disable the sound by changing your master boot record.
Re:reason 79 (Score:3, Funny)
Reason #79: Just to make #78 clear, if I want my computer to make a funny sound every time I reboot, I'll lick my finger and rub it across the screen, and if the squeaky sound doesn't amuse me enough, I'll shove it up Steve Ballmer's ass.
Re:Copying the Mac again... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How to turn it off.. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I hope this debate is a joke (Score:3, Funny)
They bitch about pollution, you raise taxes until they can't stand it anymore. They make taxes priority 1, bitch and moan. You lower taxes and they forget they had *anything* to bitch about at the beginning.
Re:that's only the half of it (Score:5, Funny)
"Hello, This is Bill Gates, and I pronounce Windows as..." followed by sounds of Bill Gates rolling around in a giant pile of cash.
or, for anyone who's played Paranoia
"Trust the Computer. The Computer is your Friend. Not trusting the Computer is Treason..."
Skip the laptop... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Horrible idea, but thats par for the course for (Score:5, Funny)
Most Airlines frown upon things being thrown out the window in mid flight....
Re:Horrible idea, but thats par for the course for (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Subliminal Advertising (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Horrible idea, but thats par for the course for (Score:2, Funny)
Fixed that for you.
Re:that's only the half of it (Score:4, Funny)
Another Thought (Score:2, Funny)
Re:that's only the half of it (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Horrible idea, but thats par for the course for (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, and remember that the best way to accelerate your Vista-based system is 9.8 m/s^2!
Even better (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The reasoning behind this is pathetic. (Score:2, Funny)
Which makes sense. Your siting down to game and the sound system has a mojor role in that experience. It also happens as soon as the machine starts.
Right. The Xbox start up sound is quite useful. If I hear it, it means I've held down the power button too long and bypassed the mod chip.
Re:that's only the half of it (Score:4, Funny)
Vista Sound Byte (Score:2, Funny)
1. Ballmer screaming, "I-LOVE-THIS-COMPANY!"
2. Gates laughing hysterically that you even purchased Vista.
3. Gates clip from the 80's praising the Mac.
4. Gates laughing hysterically because he's so rich he now doesn't care WHAT you like in Windows.
5. "Cha-CHING!"
I'm sure there are lots of others that would be appropriate...
Re:Horrible idea, but thats par for the course for (Score:5, Funny)
Fun prank: change your air-traveler friend's Windows starup sound
Laptop:"This laptop will expode in 10, 9, 8 ..."
Federal Air Marshall:"Sir! Turn that off NOW or I WILL SHOOT!"
Hapless Prankee:"Uh, I can't! It's Windows!"
Hee hee!
Re:sigh (Score:2, Funny)
The imagine how glorious it'll look on your 30" multi Monitor setup. *sigh*
Re:Skip the laptop... (Score:3, Funny)
No, that's for when it plays a sound after each google search...
Re:Horrible idea, but thats par for the course for (Score:2, Funny)
Intel may have fixed that (Score:4, Funny)
A computer feature that actually works? All the time?
Oh, well, there's a pretty good chance that Apple's switching to Intel CPUs and the associated hardware architecture will fix that and you'll get to enjoy the pleasure of full reboots a lot more often just as we fortunate PC owners do
Take care! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:that's only the half of it (Score:2, Funny)
Nice sig, but when I type it I get (Score:5, Funny)
!!! possible candidates are:
- jen/girlfriend-1.1.3-r5 (masked by: ~taken)
- mary/girlfriend-1.1.3-r5 (masked by: ~uninterested)
- karen/girlfriend-1.1.3-r5 (masked by: ~uninterested)
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
Re:Apple (Score:4, Funny)
See the difference?
Kind Regards
Why on earth... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"Your copy of Windows is genuine/pirate" (Score:5, Funny)
The "Your copy of Windows is pirate" would just make people laugh and brag about it. What they really need is a "Hello. I'm watching GAY PORN! MEN HAVING SEX WITH MEN! IN THE BUTT!" sound played extremely loud. They could blackmail people into actually buying legit copies, especially if they syngergized by incorporating text-to-speech technology with the search history saving functionality of Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Genuine Advantage Automatic Updater and used the startup sounds to effectively communicate interesting search histories to anyone in the room. "Hello. I'm a pirated copy of Windows Vista. I was used to search WebMD for 'penile discharge' last night. Please contact Microsoft Legal Department in order to have your startup sound changed."
Hmm, I'm tempted to write a little proof of concept program for my own pirated copy just to see how it works... The hard part would be getting it to find the juicy stuff on its own.
Re:Subliminal Advertising (Score:1, Funny)
Richard Thomason's Laptop (Score:2, Funny)
Matt.