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Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: samintx
Date: January 24, 2007 08:00AM
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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: MGS_forgot_password
Date: January 24, 2007 08:46AM
Actually, the CVNs are usually the fastest ships in the carrier group.
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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: SteveJobs
Date: January 24, 2007 09:33AM
wut da 'ell ya talkin' bout?

I just looked up USS Ronald Reagan (GRHS) and it'll do 30 knots. That's good.

I've been on the LHD-1 and it says it's only good for 23. Hmm, for a small carrier, you'd think it could plow faster.


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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: sscutchen
Date: January 24, 2007 09:42AM
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How does Vista stack up? After a couple of months of testing in the Fortune gadget laboratory, my verdict is this: Vista is definitely the best operating system Microsoft has ever made. (Mac users, stop snorting!)

heh.




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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: Lux Interior
Date: January 24, 2007 10:15AM
a prettier, more useful user interface

Are they putting lipstick on the pig now?
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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: Filliam H. Muffman
Date: January 24, 2007 11:32AM
Vista took more than 5 years. It is 4 years late, how could it have taken just 5 years? I guess they are only counting how many years it took since they started over...


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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: Donkey Hotay
Date: January 24, 2007 11:35AM
Perhaps only how long since the name change from Longhorn.
After deepsixing NT6/Win2K3+...


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Donkey (Ye Olde Farte of ye Internette) Hotay is a Tilted Windmill® enterprise.



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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: jdc
Date: January 24, 2007 11:41AM
well i dont own any peecees, and never plan to, so i guess its not in my future...

but this made me laugh:

>> I wasted a full day tracking down and troubleshooting updates just so I could print a letter.




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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: SteveJobs
Date: January 24, 2007 12:07PM
What is your definition of a PEECEE...for many it USED to be INTEL BOX...now, I'm not so sure.

Even jobs referenced the macs as PC in the latest Macworld keynote.


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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: jdc
Date: January 24, 2007 12:27PM
peecee = anything not a mac =)




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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: silvarios
Date: January 24, 2007 02:55PM
I'm lazy, so I did not read the article, but eventually I'll end up using Vista. If not on my or work at home computer, then while I troubleshoot future client's shiny new Vista boxes.

I'm not terribly excited by this prospect, but then again, I'm not terribly excited about supporting Windows XP either. And when I get those occasional Windows 98/ME computers, I sort of roll up into a ball like a Puppeteer and simply wait until the danger has passed.


Nathan
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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: Paul F.
Date: January 24, 2007 03:11PM
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I sort of roll up into a ball like a Puppeteer and simply wait until the danger has passed.

LOL!
There's a limited number of forum members that would understand that reference...
But I did literally "LOL"...


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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: silvarios
Date: January 24, 2007 03:23PM
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Paul F.
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I sort of roll up into a ball like a Puppeteer and simply wait until the danger has passed.

LOL!
There's a limited number of forum members that would understand that reference...
But I did literally "LOL"...

Paul F. thanks for understanding. I figured there would be enough people here who would recognize the reference and also appreciate the sentiment.


Nathan
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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: Donkey Hotay
Date: January 24, 2007 03:25PM
On the one hand...on the other hand...on the gripping hand...


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Donkey (Ye Olde Farte of ye Internette) Hotay is a Tilted Windmill® enterprise.



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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: Filliam H. Muffman
Date: January 24, 2007 05:17PM
(Filliam sneaks down the hall and ties some Shadow Square Wire at neck height, and yells 'free hookers and booze in the breakroom!')


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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: Racer X
Date: January 24, 2007 05:38PM
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SteveJobs
wut da 'ell ya talkin' bout?

I just looked up USS Ronald Reagan (GRHS) and it'll do 30 knots. That's good.

I've been on the LHD-1 and it says it's only good for 23. Hmm, for a small carrier, you'd think it could plow faster.

the CVNs are way faster than that when they want to be. That's all I am saying. I have friends who are engineers over at the Bremerton Naval Shipyards.

Same reason they say the top speed of the SR-71 is mach 3+
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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: silvarios
Date: January 24, 2007 05:44PM
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Donkey Hotay
On the one hand...on the other hand...on the gripping hand...

I never read The Gripping Hand or any other book written by both Niven and Pournelle. Damn you and your better references. I'll have to hit the library and go beyond the 6 or so Niven books I have read.

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Filliam H. Muffman
(Filliam sneaks down the hall and ties some Shadow Square Wire at neck height, and yells 'free hookers and booze in the breakroom!')

Are you trying to prune the forum of some undesirables?

Nathan
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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: Ammo
Date: January 24, 2007 06:24PM
Reading this review reminded me of how low the expectations of people who use (and review) Windows are. I just don't get it.

MS has done its work well.
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Re: Is there VISTA in your future? MSFT OS
Posted by: silvarios
Date: January 24, 2007 06:34PM
If I am using a non Apple PC, then I would go with a Debian based Linux distro or maybe one of the friendly BSD "distros" (I believe usually built from FreeBSD). Vista is not on my radar.

Again, I'll be working with Vista as a part of my part time troubleshooting gig, but Windows for personal use...no.


Nathan



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