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  • C Christopher Duncan

    That's because it was crude, unimaginative, and in general not up to his typical standard of sardonic cleverness. :) Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one! -- modified at 15:25 Friday 2nd June, 2006

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    It was reference to an identical post I made to the same guy in the soapbox, so I should at least get a 2 for subtlety, and a 3 for being able to use the same line twice without anyone knowing.

    "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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    "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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      How many of you who are openly bashing on Vista have actually used it for any serious length of time? My own experience has been less than stellar, since Vista and my laptop seem to be at odds with each other...and the fact that the IT guys here at work won't add my machine to the domain if it's running a beta OS (out of my control). The UAC is great, IMO. I needed admin credentials to do things like install software (which I should need anyway) or change system settings, but not for most things that I wanted to do. And the Aero Glass experience is awesome. XP looks as antiquated as Windows 95 does now that I've experienced the new UI. And aside from the big things, there's a bunch of little things. Like when you rename a file in explorer, the selection doesn't include the extension. So if I want to rename "New Text Document.txt" to something else, only "New Text Document" is highlighted. That's ultra nice, IMO. Just wondering if you guys are actually speaking from experience when you say that "this sucks" or "that's worthless". Because, in my experience, I wouldn't say that about anything in Vista.

      And when we saw the computer, when we saw its code - and Turing saw it first - we were looking at complexity incarnate. And then suddenly we saw complexity everywhere. It materialized, it crystalized around us - even though it had always been there.
      We have yet to recover from the shock.

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      David Stone wrote:

      So if I want to rename "New Text Document.txt" to something else, only "New Text Document" is highlighted. That's ultra nice, IMO.

      Now, what would be Super Extremely Ultra Nice would be a way to change the extension of a whole bunch of files in one go, without changing the other parts of the name. You know, the sort of thing you can do easily from a decent command line, but probably can't remember the syntax for since you only need to do it once every few months.

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      • C Christopher Duncan

        Yeah, and that Toyota will still be getting you from A to B long after most of its contemporaries have chewed the root. They may not be sexy, but Toyotas rock from a quality point of view. Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!

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        Christopher Duncan wrote:

        They may not be sexy, but Toyotas rock from a quality point of view.

        longevity might be a better word I guess. Regards, Nish


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        • realJSOPR realJSOP

          It was reference to an identical post I made to the same guy in the soapbox, so I should at least get a 2 for subtlety, and a 3 for being able to use the same line twice without anyone knowing.

          "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
          -----
          "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

          and a 3 for being able to use the same line twice without anyone knowing

          Hey, this is a programmer's hangout. We encourage code reuse! Perhaps you could provide an API as a service to those of less gifted and glaring wit? :-D Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!

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            Christopher Duncan wrote:

            They may not be sexy, but Toyotas rock from a quality point of view.

            longevity might be a better word I guess. Regards, Nish


            Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
            Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)

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            The latter is a product of the former. ;) Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!

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            • realJSOPR realJSOP

              You're from Brazil - what do you know?

              "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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              "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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              John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

              You're from Brazil - what do you know?

              No, idiot. I'm proudly Italian. Didn't you bother looking at people's profile before firing away bullshit? Now, go back playing with your dolls. ______________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] and the ScrewTurn Software experiment

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              • D David Stone

                How many of you who are openly bashing on Vista have actually used it for any serious length of time? My own experience has been less than stellar, since Vista and my laptop seem to be at odds with each other...and the fact that the IT guys here at work won't add my machine to the domain if it's running a beta OS (out of my control). The UAC is great, IMO. I needed admin credentials to do things like install software (which I should need anyway) or change system settings, but not for most things that I wanted to do. And the Aero Glass experience is awesome. XP looks as antiquated as Windows 95 does now that I've experienced the new UI. And aside from the big things, there's a bunch of little things. Like when you rename a file in explorer, the selection doesn't include the extension. So if I want to rename "New Text Document.txt" to something else, only "New Text Document" is highlighted. That's ultra nice, IMO. Just wondering if you guys are actually speaking from experience when you say that "this sucks" or "that's worthless". Because, in my experience, I wouldn't say that about anything in Vista.

                And when we saw the computer, when we saw its code - and Turing saw it first - we were looking at complexity incarnate. And then suddenly we saw complexity everywhere. It materialized, it crystalized around us - even though it had always been there.
                We have yet to recover from the shock.

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                I keep XP on the Win2k scheme, find the XP scheme to space consuming and distracting. One good thing - MS keep supporting products for a long time. I think it was abotu a year ago they stopped continued support for NT4. The tigress is here :-D

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                • C Christopher Duncan

                  Yeah, and that Toyota will still be getting you from A to B long after most of its contemporaries have chewed the root. They may not be sexy, but Toyotas rock from a quality point of view. Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!

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                  Volvo has the high mileage record at over 2 million miles on a single car.

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                  • C Christopher Duncan

                    John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                    and a 3 for being able to use the same line twice without anyone knowing

                    Hey, this is a programmer's hangout. We encourage code reuse! Perhaps you could provide an API as a service to those of less gifted and glaring wit? :-D Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!

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                    Oooh! The John Simmons Web Service! Rock on! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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                    • D David Stone

                      How many of you who are openly bashing on Vista have actually used it for any serious length of time? My own experience has been less than stellar, since Vista and my laptop seem to be at odds with each other...and the fact that the IT guys here at work won't add my machine to the domain if it's running a beta OS (out of my control). The UAC is great, IMO. I needed admin credentials to do things like install software (which I should need anyway) or change system settings, but not for most things that I wanted to do. And the Aero Glass experience is awesome. XP looks as antiquated as Windows 95 does now that I've experienced the new UI. And aside from the big things, there's a bunch of little things. Like when you rename a file in explorer, the selection doesn't include the extension. So if I want to rename "New Text Document.txt" to something else, only "New Text Document" is highlighted. That's ultra nice, IMO. Just wondering if you guys are actually speaking from experience when you say that "this sucks" or "that's worthless". Because, in my experience, I wouldn't say that about anything in Vista.

                      And when we saw the computer, when we saw its code - and Turing saw it first - we were looking at complexity incarnate. And then suddenly we saw complexity everywhere. It materialized, it crystalized around us - even though it had always been there.
                      We have yet to recover from the shock.

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                      I tested it, and I don't know what the fuss is all about actually. It has some nice features (Aero, sidebar, Windows explorer looks good, download manager and tabbed I-net explorer). I wasn't able to test the Aero Glass feature though :^). The amzing thing is that it installed in about 15 or 20 minutes !:omg: What does amazes me, is that it takes soó long to release. Coulda, woulda, shoulda doesn't matter if you don't. :beer:
                          :jig:

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                      • M Michael A Barnhart

                        Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                        So when you buy cars, eye candy is a good enough reason

                        Um I am driving an all white 1997 Toyota Tacoma. Ok, I did splurg for the FM radio. It gets me from point a to point b. ;P "Yes I know the voices are not real. But they have some pretty good ideas."

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                        Michael A. Barnhart wrote:

                        It gets me from point a to point b.

                        "It is not the destination that makes the journey worthwhile." - proverb Besides I was there once (point b) it was very disappointing ;P

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                        • realJSOPR realJSOP

                          Crap is still crap - it doesn't matter what stage of its existance we're talking about...

                          "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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                          "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                          Crap is still crap

                          Whew! I was worried that it wasn't! :laugh:

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                          • R Red Stateler

                            Volvo has the high mileage record at over 2 million miles on a single car.

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                            Christopher Duncan
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                            That's because people who own Volvos drive 5 miles an hour. Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!

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                            • D Dario Solera

                              John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                              You're from Brazil - what do you know?

                              No, idiot. I'm proudly Italian. Didn't you bother looking at people's profile before firing away bullshit? Now, go back playing with your dolls. ______________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] and the ScrewTurn Software experiment

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                              Christopher Duncan
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                              Dario Solera wrote:

                              proudly Italian

                              Isn't that redundant? :-D Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!

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                              • C Christopher Duncan

                                That's because people who own Volvos drive 5 miles an hour. Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!

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                                Red Stateler
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                                I've gone over 100 in mine. Purrs like a kitten.

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                                • L led mike

                                  Michael A. Barnhart wrote:

                                  It gets me from point a to point b.

                                  "It is not the destination that makes the journey worthwhile." - proverb Besides I was there once (point b) it was very disappointing ;P

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                                  led mike wrote:

                                  It is not the destination that makes the journey worthwhile."

                                  Exactly, which is why I am happy taking twice the time and enjoying it.

                                  led mike wrote:

                                  Besides I was there once (point b) it was very disappointing

                                  Point B is my home. I am very please with it. :-D Sorry you are not as happy. ;P "Yes I know the voices are not real. But they have some pretty good ideas."

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                                  • D David Stone

                                    How many of you who are openly bashing on Vista have actually used it for any serious length of time? My own experience has been less than stellar, since Vista and my laptop seem to be at odds with each other...and the fact that the IT guys here at work won't add my machine to the domain if it's running a beta OS (out of my control). The UAC is great, IMO. I needed admin credentials to do things like install software (which I should need anyway) or change system settings, but not for most things that I wanted to do. And the Aero Glass experience is awesome. XP looks as antiquated as Windows 95 does now that I've experienced the new UI. And aside from the big things, there's a bunch of little things. Like when you rename a file in explorer, the selection doesn't include the extension. So if I want to rename "New Text Document.txt" to something else, only "New Text Document" is highlighted. That's ultra nice, IMO. Just wondering if you guys are actually speaking from experience when you say that "this sucks" or "that's worthless". Because, in my experience, I wouldn't say that about anything in Vista.

                                    And when we saw the computer, when we saw its code - and Turing saw it first - we were looking at complexity incarnate. And then suddenly we saw complexity everywhere. It materialized, it crystalized around us - even though it had always been there.
                                    We have yet to recover from the shock.

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                                    David Stone wrote:

                                    Just wondering if you guys are actually speaking from experience when you say that "this sucks" or "that's worthless".

                                    are there a lot of people saying either of those things ? i played with one of the Betas months and months ago and didn't find anything that made me want to squeal with glee. a slick new shell? meh. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker

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                                    • L Lost User

                                      I keep XP on the Win2k scheme, find the XP scheme to space consuming and distracting. One good thing - MS keep supporting products for a long time. I think it was abotu a year ago they stopped continued support for NT4. The tigress is here :-D

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                                      Trollslayer wrote:

                                      I keep XP on the Win2k scheme, find the XP scheme to space consuming and distracting

                                      that means you're smart - like me. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker

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                                      • D David Stone

                                        How many of you who are openly bashing on Vista have actually used it for any serious length of time? My own experience has been less than stellar, since Vista and my laptop seem to be at odds with each other...and the fact that the IT guys here at work won't add my machine to the domain if it's running a beta OS (out of my control). The UAC is great, IMO. I needed admin credentials to do things like install software (which I should need anyway) or change system settings, but not for most things that I wanted to do. And the Aero Glass experience is awesome. XP looks as antiquated as Windows 95 does now that I've experienced the new UI. And aside from the big things, there's a bunch of little things. Like when you rename a file in explorer, the selection doesn't include the extension. So if I want to rename "New Text Document.txt" to something else, only "New Text Document" is highlighted. That's ultra nice, IMO. Just wondering if you guys are actually speaking from experience when you say that "this sucks" or "that's worthless". Because, in my experience, I wouldn't say that about anything in Vista.

                                        And when we saw the computer, when we saw its code - and Turing saw it first - we were looking at complexity incarnate. And then suddenly we saw complexity everywhere. It materialized, it crystalized around us - even though it had always been there.
                                        We have yet to recover from the shock.

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                                        Rob Graham
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                                        So far I have only tried to run it in a Virtual PC. The result was that it pegs my CPU (3.0GHz 2GB memory) at 100%. The VPC is almost unusable (10-15 seconds to bring up control panel, even in windows classic UI mode). Of course it was still busy trying to index all the files after an hour, so maybe it'll settle down if I let it run long enough to finish...(cab't change the indexing settings or stop the indexer until its done, as far as I can tell. In Vista UI mode it was utterly unuseable (2 minutes to call up display settings so I could turn it off). I can understand this to a degree, since the VPC graphics adapter is all emulation, but was dissappointed that it didn't figure that out on its own and default to windows classic. In fact, the system performance tools shows all aspects of the "hardware" to be "green" - ok to run Vista... Underwhelmed so far...

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                                        • C code frog 0

                                          I'm way with you David. Most people don't even realize they've hopped on a band-wagon. Wagon-bashing is the term I've coined for it. People don't understand that they have a choice. They don't have to use Vista and they should just make their choice and be quiet. Instead everyone has to be an expert especially with something they haven't used. So they register their opinions etc, etc, etc... It's cool to bash Microsoft right?:rolleyes:


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                                          Chris Losinger
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                                          code-frog wrote:

                                          People don't understand that they have a choice

                                          who doesn't understand that ? got any names ?

                                          code-frog wrote:

                                          They don't have to use Vista and they should just make their choice and be quiet.

                                          if people are going to ask questions about Vista in this forum, other people are going to offer their opinions. "be quiet" isn't a CP value. if you want a strictly pro-Vista echo chamber, i'm sure MS has one set up somewhere.

                                          code-frog wrote:

                                          Instead everyone has to be an expert especially with something they haven't used.

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