[H]omer wrote:

> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Vista makes the list as one of the top-10 worst consumer tech
>> products of all time
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Pretty bad. But top ten of all time? That's mighty impressive.
>> `----
>>
>> http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9...bj=TheOpenRoad
>
> It even beat WinME to the cut, which is bad enough, but to appear on the
> same list as the Sinclair C5 must be a brutal humiliation.

Hehe. Fabulous. However, I'd put a different spin on the "consumers
demanded to downgrade" issue. The real issue, IMO, is Micro$oft "force it
down their throats" philosophy.

It's simply inexplicable that they can just say to their OEM customers
"starting on this date, you will only sell the brand-new OS". Consumers
should be given a choice, over some phase-in period, *obviously*. The
brand-new OS is NOT going to be the best product, for large segments of
the market, *obviously*.

____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 28 November 2007 19:50 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Vista makes the list as one of the top-10 worst consumer tech
>> products of all time
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Pretty bad. But top ten of all time? That's mighty impressive.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9...bj=TheOpenRoad
>
> It even beat WinME to the cut, which is bad enough, but to appear on the
> same list as the Sinclair C5 must be a brutal humiliation.

WinME runs /far/ more software.

--
~~ Best of wishes

Steve Ballmer is even monkier than his moniker suggests
http://Schestowitz.com | Free as in Free Beer | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
Load average (/proc/loadavg): 0.71 0.90 1.12 1/172 18025
http://iuron.com - semantic search engine project initiative

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:25:58 +0000, "[H]omer" wrote:


>This is what is so unhealthy and perverted about the OEM lockin business
>model.

They are doing wonders with Thorozine these days.
Please invstigate, Homer.
Maybe if they catch the disease soon enough you might be saved.

Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> By the way, did you use paradj to hyphenate and justify? I haven't
> used it in years.

No, I just choose my words carefully.

--
K.
http://slated.org

..----
| "Future archaeologists will be able to identify a 'Vista Upgrade
| Layer' when they go through our landfill sites." - Siân Berry,
| Green Party. http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2851
`----

Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.9-91.fc7
06:44:47 up 17 days, 3:38, 2 users, load average: 0.50, 0.32, 0.36

____/ [H]omer on Thursday 29 November 2007 06:46 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> By the way, did you use paradj to hyphenate and justify? I haven't
>> used it in years.
>
> No, I just choose my words carefully.

I thought you were using a tool to automatically reformat the text, e.g.
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archiv...ify-hyphenate/

--
~~ Best of wishes

Roy S. Schestowitz | Othello for free: http://othellomaster.com
http://Schestowitz.com | RHAT GNU/Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
07:00:01 up 29 days, 10:58, 2 users, load average: 1.51, 1.69, 1.63
http://iuron.com - help build a non-profit search engine

Roy Schestowitz espoused:
> ____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 28 November 2007 19:50 : \____
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> Vista makes the list as one of the top-10 worst consumer tech
>>> products of all time
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Pretty bad. But top ten of all time? That's mighty impressive.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
> http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9...bj=TheOpenRoad
>>
>> It even beat WinME to the cut, which is bad enough, but to appear on the
>> same list as the Sinclair C5 must be a brutal humiliation.
>
> WinME runs /far/ more software.
>

Hmm, not sure how much software a C5 ever ran... personally, I always
rather liked the idea of the C5, and I still see the odd one about
occasionally, but it was very much a solution searching for a problem.

--
| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
| Cola faq: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/linux/advocacy/faq-and-primer/ |
| Cola trolls: http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/ |
| My (new) blog: http://www.thereisnomagic.org |