Comments for My Speculations http://myspeculations.wordpress.com Video Games, Technology, Politics, and more. Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:48:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on I’m Sick of Vista Complaints by Still Lovin’ Vista? « My Speculations http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/im-sick-of-vista-complaints/#comment-61 Still Lovin’ Vista? « My Speculations Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:48:16 +0000 http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-61 [...] You know, you’d think after the scathing insults and type-shouting I have recieved from my last post with dozens of so-called “experts” in the field telling me how much Vista sucks [...] [...] You know, you’d think after the scathing insults and type-shouting I have recieved from my last post with dozens of so-called “experts” in the field telling me how much Vista sucks [...]

]]> Comment on I’m Sick of Vista Complaints by John Morrow http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/im-sick-of-vista-complaints/#comment-60 John Morrow Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:21:07 +0000 http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-60 I have had it with the VISTA. It is slow and often goes into some think mode. It basically is frustrating and costs me money. In January of 09 I will convert my entire office to Apple. This is a major change but I just can't tolerate sub standard performance. The cost to covert is high but productivity improvements will cover this over time. Microsoft just doesn't get it! I have had it with the VISTA. It is slow and often goes into some think mode. It basically is frustrating and costs me money. In January of 09 I will convert my entire office to Apple. This is a major change but I just can’t tolerate sub standard performance. The cost to covert is high but productivity improvements will cover this over time. Microsoft just doesn’t get it!

]]> Comment on I’m Sick of Vista Complaints by R Morin http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/im-sick-of-vista-complaints/#comment-59 R Morin Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:46:36 +0000 http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-59 I WANT MY XP BACK.....!! This Vista is the *&%#*, It gives me blank pages out of knowhere,downloads and installs without warnings, reboots as it feels like it,Freezes offten, could I sue to get my money back, or at least XP Back?? I WANT MY XP BACK…..!! This Vista is the *&%#*, It gives me blank pages out of knowhere,downloads and installs without warnings, reboots as it feels like it,Freezes offten, could I sue to get my money back, or at least XP Back??

]]> Comment on I’m Sick of Vista Complaints by teb http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/im-sick-of-vista-complaints/#comment-58 teb Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:55:51 +0000 http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-58 not expect a stable release of an operating system??? microsoft (m$) got you bad, baby. i can't choose which specific files to backup. i can't choose individual files within a backup to delete. i have gone from a granular, highly customisable backup model in Win 3.1 to this crap in Vista. so now i am using freebie software (www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp) to do what i already paid for. great. and don't get me started about defragging. i am presently defragging a 750Mb external hdd. it's my backup device, so i don't have it plugged in all the time. this means that it is inconvenient for me to put the defrag on a schedule. no problem, i can do it manually... except, of course, that there is no way to monitor the progress of process. cool. its just keeps running until it stops. how the heck is that an upgrade from xp, win2k+3, win2K, win98, win95 or win 3x? why has everything done such a massive turn-around in networking? i knew just fine how to stick in an rs232 cable and get to the server/internet. now, i have to fart around with the dreadful network and sharing centre. for what? the few useful enhancements in Vista are more than severally undone by crap like the foregoing. as someone said above, i don't have to the time to learn stuff i don't need to learn. i am a programmer, and i have to keep up with other crap m$ is putting out every other month. from vs2001 to 2005 to 2008; linq, wpf, wcf, mssql 2000, mssql 2005, mssql 2008... this is the stuff i have to keep up with to feed my family. and then i need this crap with Vista too? well, i know what to do. i refuse to go anywhere near office2007. i finally get the picture and i am using OpenOffice2.4: its not as sweet as Office2003 to my eye, but I am getting used to it and i'm going to stick to it. so, i got Vista because i bought a dell xps m1330 a few months ago, and i didn't have the option to get it with xp (i'd have had to pay more). no problem. guess who is going to buy a new laptop in a couple of years? me. guess what laptop i am going to buy? anything that gets me fully away from m$. and yeah, i've already begun studying for non-m$ certification. big time. not expect a stable release of an operating system??? microsoft (m$) got you bad, baby.

i can’t choose which specific files to backup. i can’t choose individual files within a backup to delete. i have gone from a granular, highly customisable backup model in Win 3.1 to this crap in Vista. so now i am using freebie software (www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp) to do what i already paid for. great.

and don’t get me started about defragging. i am presently defragging a 750Mb external hdd. it’s my backup device, so i don’t have it plugged in all the time. this means that it is inconvenient for me to put the defrag on a schedule. no problem, i can do it manually… except, of course, that there is no way to monitor the progress of process. cool. its just keeps running until it stops. how the heck is that an upgrade from xp, win2k+3, win2K, win98, win95 or win 3x?

why has everything done such a massive turn-around in networking? i knew just fine how to stick in an rs232 cable and get to the server/internet. now, i have to fart around with the dreadful network and sharing centre. for what?

the few useful enhancements in Vista are more than severally undone by crap like the foregoing. as someone said above, i don’t have to the time to learn stuff i don’t need to learn. i am a programmer, and i have to keep up with other crap m$ is putting out every other month. from vs2001 to 2005 to 2008; linq, wpf, wcf, mssql 2000, mssql 2005, mssql 2008… this is the stuff i have to keep up with to feed my family. and then i need this crap with Vista too?

well, i know what to do. i refuse to go anywhere near office2007. i finally get the picture and i am using OpenOffice2.4: its not as sweet as Office2003 to my eye, but I am getting used to it and i’m going to stick to it. so, i got Vista because i bought a dell xps m1330 a few months ago, and i didn’t have the option to get it with xp (i’d have had to pay more). no problem. guess who is going to buy a new laptop in a couple of years? me. guess what laptop i am going to buy? anything that gets me fully away from m$.

and yeah, i’ve already begun studying for non-m$ certification. big time.

]]> Comment on I’m Sick of Vista Complaints by Sterling http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/im-sick-of-vista-complaints/#comment-57 Sterling Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:17:18 +0000 http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-57 I think the very real and entirely legitimate question to be asked is: What does Windows Vista offer that consumers- not engineers, not intellectual property holders, consumers- were actually asking for? I know most people weren't looking for reduced security, or a hindering layer of DRM, or fewer clock cycles and system resources allocated to what the user was actually _choosing_ to do with their computer. And these problems all still persist, more than a year after Vista's release. That Microsoft chose not to offer DirectX 10 for XP says more about their perception of a need for a carrot to offer with the new OS to go with all the sticks than anything about the technology itself. There's nothing stupid about consumers expecting the largest software company in the world to do enough focus testing to make their software do what they want to more or less _as_ well as the old one. Building on new technology is supposed to mean you move from screwdriver to electric drill, not in the opposite direction. Belittling them for expecting competence is forgetting that the market depends on people buying the software when it comes out- that _Microsoft_ depends on people buying the software when it comes out- and suggesting that this entirely necessary market segment should accept being treated like guinea pigs. It's naive, yes, to expect all software that ran on the previous OS to run on the new one- there's simply no way that every title, or even every commercial title, could be tested. But it's not at all so to expect your OS not to be bloated with things you never wanted and have no indication how to remove or turn off. Windows isn't a game; it's software that millions of people depend on. It has a budget and staff that no entertainment software could remotely compare to. Not even apples to oranges, there; more like watermellons to cherries. If your software doesn't do what it's supposed to, don't ship it... Or expect complaints. I think the very real and entirely legitimate question to be asked is: What does Windows Vista offer that consumers- not engineers, not intellectual property holders, consumers- were actually asking for? I know most people weren’t looking for reduced security, or a hindering layer of DRM, or fewer clock cycles and system resources allocated to what the user was actually _choosing_ to do with their computer. And these problems all still persist, more than a year after Vista’s release. That Microsoft chose not to offer DirectX 10 for XP says more about their perception of a need for a carrot to offer with the new OS to go with all the sticks than anything about the technology itself.

There’s nothing stupid about consumers expecting the largest software company in the world to do enough focus testing to make their software do what they want to more or less _as_ well as the old one. Building on new technology is supposed to mean you move from screwdriver to electric drill, not in the opposite direction. Belittling them for expecting competence is forgetting that the market depends on people buying the software when it comes out- that _Microsoft_ depends on people buying the software when it comes out- and suggesting that this entirely necessary market segment should accept being treated like guinea pigs.

It’s naive, yes, to expect all software that ran on the previous OS to run on the new one- there’s simply no way that every title, or even every commercial title, could be tested. But it’s not at all so to expect your OS not to be bloated with things you never wanted and have no indication how to remove or turn off.

Windows isn’t a game; it’s software that millions of people depend on. It has a budget and staff that no entertainment software could remotely compare to. Not even apples to oranges, there; more like watermellons to cherries. If your software doesn’t do what it’s supposed to, don’t ship it… Or expect complaints.

]]> Comment on I’m Sick of Vista Complaints by Steve Medley http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/im-sick-of-vista-complaints/#comment-56 Steve Medley Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:54:09 +0000 http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-56 Having been a computer network professional certified since 1978 I find your lame acceptance of mediocrity as evidence of America's substandard educational system and parental negligence in instilling any sense of real values. One of Microsoft's own self-evaluations pathetically touts Vista as being "sexy" -that is deviance. Having been a computer network professional certified since 1978 I find your lame acceptance of mediocrity as evidence of America’s substandard educational system and parental negligence in instilling any sense of real values. One of Microsoft’s own self-evaluations pathetically touts Vista as being “sexy” -that is deviance.

]]> Comment on I’m Sick of Vista Complaints by Antifmradio http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/im-sick-of-vista-complaints/#comment-55 Antifmradio Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:51:59 +0000 http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-55 i dont care WHAT you say. Yes no one is supposed to expect the NEW OS to be as stable as the old one went out but give me a break XP was in beta and test mode for only 1 year and 7 months Vista on the other hand had been in BETA for users for 3 years but for 2 years before that, it was already in TEST mode. So youre telling me youre ok with an OS that still isnt stable after more then 5 years of testing meanwhile XP reached its stability ( mostly ) and it was only while XP reached its 4 year in the public? i dont care WHAT you say.

Yes no one is supposed to expect the NEW OS to be as stable as the old one went out but give me a break

XP was in beta and test mode for only 1 year and 7 months

Vista on the other hand had been in BETA for users for 3 years but for 2 years before that, it was already in TEST mode.
So youre telling me youre ok with an OS that still isnt stable after more then 5 years of testing
meanwhile XP reached its stability ( mostly )
and it was only while XP reached its 4 year in the public?

]]> Comment on Will MGS4 Affect the Box Office Sales for The Incredible Hulk? by MaxPwnage http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/will-mgs4-affect-the-box-office-sales-for-the-incredible-hulk/#comment-50 MaxPwnage Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:26:59 +0000 http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-50 GTA IV's release didn't really affect Iron Man's box office sales so I doubt MGS4 will affect The Incredible Hulk that much. :D GTA IV’s release didn’t really affect Iron Man’s box office sales so I doubt MGS4 will affect The Incredible Hulk that much. :D

]]> Comment on I’m Sick of Vista Complaints by Colin http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/im-sick-of-vista-complaints/#comment-48 Colin Mon, 05 May 2008 02:10:11 +0000 http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-48 I though Vista was OK until I had a serious problem. I had to buy a FAX application because Vista Home doesn't have one and was all set up for a couple of months until it crashed. Vista security wouldn't allow me to reinstall the application or delete the application or run any of the files inside the application folder. I tried everything I could think of, searched Help and the internet for many hours with no result, just became familiar with other poor bastards who have run afoul of Vista. I'm not an IT expert but I do have an electronic engineering degree and 30 years experience, retired with plenty of time and I have been at least familiar with computers since DOS days and If I (and the tech at the software application company) are completely stumped by this bag of crap God help the small business person who has a critical application fail. Vista Security is completely paranoid in allowing access to YOUR computer. I think Microsoft has lost it or at least no longer cares about the individual consumer. They are a dinosaur like GM who don't really have control over their products developed by giant interlocking committees any more. I though Vista was OK until I had a serious problem. I had to buy a FAX application because Vista Home doesn’t have one and was all set up for a couple of months until it crashed. Vista security wouldn’t allow me to reinstall the application or delete the application or run any of the files inside the application folder. I tried everything I could think of, searched Help and the internet for many hours with no result, just became familiar with other poor bastards who have run afoul of Vista. I’m not an IT expert but I do have an electronic engineering degree and 30 years experience, retired with plenty of time and I have been at least familiar with computers since DOS days and If I (and the tech at the software application company) are completely stumped by this bag of crap God help the small business person who has a critical application fail. Vista Security is completely paranoid in allowing access to YOUR computer.
I think Microsoft has lost it or at least no longer cares about the individual consumer. They are a dinosaur like GM who don’t really have control over their products developed by giant interlocking committees any more.

]]> Comment on I’m Sick of Vista Complaints by CodeTech http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/im-sick-of-vista-complaints/#comment-47 CodeTech Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:18:04 +0000 http://myspeculations.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-47 Vista has a lot of good and a lot of bad. It's not a blanket "bad thing". I tried it on my 2003 P4 machine when it first came out and it was not usable. However, on my quadcore it's a gem. The biggest complaints I have are, frankly, mind boggling issues. Mind boggling in the sense that they simply should NOT be an issue. Why, oh WHY, does Vista pollute my browser history with the folders I've recently viewed? The two activities are not related. I usually flip between 15 different web sites on a given day and they fall off the dropdown if I do anything in the file system. It's an annoyance that bothers me no end. And how, how HOW does the OS forget how to select multiple files? Sure, there's a fix out there, but it's not a part of the OS updates, and it's a damn STUPID bug to still be there over a year later. Other issues I can accept as OS teething pains, and for the most part I'm happy with Vista... but those two are combining to really make it feel clumsy. Vista has a lot of good and a lot of bad. It’s not a blanket “bad thing”. I tried it on my 2003 P4 machine when it first came out and it was not usable. However, on my quadcore it’s a gem.

The biggest complaints I have are, frankly, mind boggling issues. Mind boggling in the sense that they simply should NOT be an issue.

Why, oh WHY, does Vista pollute my browser history with the folders I’ve recently viewed? The two activities are not related. I usually flip between 15 different web sites on a given day and they fall off the dropdown if I do anything in the file system. It’s an annoyance that bothers me no end.

And how, how HOW does the OS forget how to select multiple files? Sure, there’s a fix out there, but it’s not a part of the OS updates, and it’s a damn STUPID bug to still be there over a year later.

Other issues I can accept as OS teething pains, and for the most part I’m happy with Vista… but those two are combining to really make it feel clumsy.

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