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Craptastic!
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:00 pm |
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I've got an upgrade coming my way...maybe at the end of February through the "buy XP in some timeframe and we'll give you Vista for a nominal shipping fee of $30!". Given the OEM pricing, I should have just waited for Vista to come out first.
Regardless of one's feelings towards Windows Vista, this site featuring random Demitri Martin thoughts may not exist if they weren't interested in kind of advertising the OS...kind of. |
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Craptastic!
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:06 am |
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I don't know if your post was intended to be a joke, but here's a response:
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| This doesn't bode well for Longhorn, the other super secret OS, that has been in development even longer than Vista. |
Longhorn IS Vista.
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| The problem with Windows is that nobody wants to trample on The Creator's ideas so everything gets piled on. Every extension of Windows is piled on to the previous version and so and so forth because to do something new different and leaner would require the support of the people they are fighting against. |
How do you know this? Do you work at Microsoft?
If an OS is has popular features or people are just used to doing/seeing things a certain way, does it make much sense to completely overhaul everything?
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| This is a company that had to write 4 billion lines of code so a HD-DVD peripheral device could plug into Xbox360. Lean software isn't in their vocabulary. |
It was 4 million, but what does that even mean? What operations had to be coded? Did it take 4 million lines of code to turn the eject tray button on the dashboard into a Pokeball? Is it 3 million lines of comments? I don't see how anyone can really conclude anything based off the number unless they actually have access to the source code. |
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Craptastic!
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:17 am |
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| They again had to rape the interface and bloat it with tons of shiny effects, to the point of needing a fucking 3D gaming video card to display it well. Aero my ass. |
You can turn off the Aero interface. Not only that, but considering the whole 3d desktop feature and such, wouldn't it make sense to require at the very least, a $50 "3d gaming" videocard to pull it off? Hell, most, if not all prebuilt PCs over the last year or two from the likes of companies like HP have integrated video that may be absolutely horrible at playing games, but are capable of working with Aero.
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| -They bloated the OS even more so you now need 2 GB of RAM and 15 GB of HDD space just for it to run well. An OS is supposed to be an operating system that consumes the minimum of resources and support your applicaitions, not trying to be a jack-of-all-trades program! Death to the perpetual upgrade cycle! |
15 whole Gigabytes? Oh my god! Our 200+ gb HDDs can't sustain that! If you'd take the time to read up on performance articles and such, 1gb is still sufficient with minimal disk thrashing, while 512mb will bring about performance similar to running XP with 256mb of RAM.
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| Now Windows will annoy you even more with the new User Access Control pop-ups! To be honest, this wasn't a bad idea, but its implementation sucks. It asks you about a lot of things you shouldn't need administrator priviledges for, or things that aren't really harmful! |
Considering that it's possible to get viruses onto a fresh install of XP with SP2 without even opening up an application nowadays, could you elaborate on what exactly it is that you don't consider potentially harmful?
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| A lot of incompatibility. Sucky drivers. 'nuff said. |
So...who's fault is that? That's right, the folks behind the incompatible hardware who've had a year or so to come up with new drivers. |
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