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Ode to a Piece of Pineapple I Found on My Pizza One Midspring Noon
O thou pizza, woebefallen Sad to say, we hardly knew thee
Thou art ruined by this sodden
Piece of fruit, embedded sadly
On my pie. Woe my pie! Trodden
In by fruity terrrrrrists madly
Wreaking havoc. Sour craven
Fruity flavor does not soothe me.
O my pizza, how I loved you,
'till you met your doom.
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In depth technical review of Windows Vista

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Tuesday February 06 2007, @10:20AM
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It blows.


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  • I concur. Windows Vista is indeed a steaming, festering pile of feces.

    • I concur. Windows Vista is roughly equivalent to the fly-orbited content of a New York subway station public commode after it has received a deposit of fragrant fecal matter expunged from the bowels of an until recently highly constipated massively overweight consumer of Cheetos.

      Actually I have no idea, but I couldn't miss out on the fun.

      Cheers,

      Ethelred

  • I just saw a new Apple advertisement last night. It may have been around a while, but I only saw it for the first time last night. Cracked me up.

    I explained to my wife that two years ago, Bill Gates told his programmers: I am sick and tired of being the vendor with the worst security! Fix it!!!

    And the answer was.... Security [apple.com]

    • oh my goodness--that's HILARIOUS. THat is EXACTLY what happens in Vista. They just ask you every minute if you really want to do what you told it to do.

      "now we're reading byte #3b42 from the hard drive--CANCEL or ALLOW?"
      "now we're reading byte #3b43 from the hard drive--CANCEL or ALLOW?"
      "now we're reading byte #3b44 from the hard drive--CANCEL or ALLOW?"

      that and, of course, the all famous randomly occurring blue screen of death for microsoft initial releases.
    • Oh, dude, that one is brilliant. Probably best one yet. :)
      • I generally like the "I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC." ads. This did make me laugh more than I have for any of the previous ones - particularly because I think they hit the bullseye.
    • I bet it's funny. Unfortunately, I can't watch it. WMP says it's an "unknown format, possibly containing malicious code." Quicktime says it can't find the proper decoder on the server. I wonder if that last Windows update blocked it...
      • Yeah - I have Windows machines that don't play nice with QuickTime (or is it vice-versa?)

        So you are either going to have to buy a Mac, or just watch tons of late night TV, or enroll in night school graphic arts classes and play the thing on the University's dime.

        There may other options, but I think they involve Microsoft buying Apple and including the QuickTime codec within Windows Media Player....

        • I've been meaning to write something for the /. front page called, "Why Windows Is Not Ready For The Desktop", but so far I haven't had time. I can't play MPEG-1s on my PC with WMP (TiVo records MPEG-1s) and I've reinstalled WMP upgraded to WMP11, rolled back to WMP10, reinstalled. The BEST scenario is that it says, "We can not find a codec to play this file." The worst scenario is when it crashes WMP and takes Explorer with it. On the other hand, my Linux box hasn't yet met a format it won't play.
          • Indeed - my Linux box at work now plays Quicktime / .mov

            Heh.

            I had to buy a program to 'fix' the MPEG files saved off the ReplayTV. I don't recall trying to play them via WMP; I think I always installed some other program to play them. But the stuttering wasn't the codec's fault; the Replay just saved the files funny (for streaming to other Replays).

            • I was able to play them with no problem on WMP10. But then windows update told me that my computer could be compromised unless I downloaded a security update to WMP. It said it was 281k. I hit Download and Install and went to the bathroom. 18.7MB later, it installed WMP11 and fucked up everything. That Restore Point BS? Yeah, that worked GREAT! *Rolls Eyes*
  • I've seen all the press, but I haven't seen it on a computer yet.

    But I did read the PC Mag with the launch articles. One guy was saying, correctly, "We'll all be there. This is just the seed year. But we'll all be Vista-bound eventually."

    Saw a funny picture the other day, showing XP to all the different Vista upgrades. Home, Home Unlimited, Unlimited Business, Business Extra - whatever they call all those upgrades.

    Then they showed the Mac upgrade path. OS 10.4 Tiger -> OS 10.5 Leopard. That's it. :)
  • ... exactly what I expected. I have yet to squish my hands in the festering turdpile. I did play around a bit with their implementation of Google Earth and poked at IE7, but that's about it. Apparently MS is doing away with the untracked Volume License Key of old that allowed us to install the OS as needed. Where I work, we will now need to run one of two different licensing servers and have an exact count of how many machines we will want Vista on. And if my understanding is correct, the license is no
    • You know you have too many customers when you feel the need to kick them in the nads every chance you get. The irony is apparently the majority of their customers don't mind being kicked there.
      • I hear that's a fetish in some circles. Makes me wonder exactly what it is that Bill and Melinda get up to in private... On second thought. No. No, it doesn't.
  • i haven't messed with it yet, but i have an observation.

    most people didn't like XP when it came out. now people love XP and are waiting for vista to become as good. and by "people" i mean regular people, not the slashdot crowd.

    they'll smooth it out and everyone will like it after they learn it's ways.
    • like it or live with it. I for one am migrating machines to Linux as fast as possible. I just need to find my laptop's screen drivers (it's a tablet) and I'm all set.
      • the things that keep me on windows are applications i love, not anything to do with the OS. it's things like 3ds max, project5/sonar, and most non-console games.
    • I love XP. That is, I love XP as compared to the pieces of shit they sold as desktop operating systems previously. All of my servers, on the other hand, and I have hundreds, run some form of UNIX, mostly Ubuntu Linux. Trying to run Windows servers, I've found, is an exercise in frustration. XP does a fine job of running World of Warcraft for me, and that is all I ask of it. Stability is vastly improved over Win98, and we won't even mention ME. Why should we? Microsoft doesn't.

      When Vista sucks less

  • It blows.

    I, my good sir, have heard that it sucks!

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