Heh... Vista's STILL poop.

I can't say this surprises me

The gist of it is that users of Microsoft's "next generation" operating system Windows Vista... Oh, and this image from the Vista home page is pretty funny... standard marketing ploy...


Screen shot of funny Vista ad.

Why is this funny? Heh... Ever seen Tron? At the end the Master Control Program (MCP) was revealed to have been nothing more than a chess program gone mad... Heh... This might be a little esoteric for you... who am I kidding?! If you're reading this blog, you love esoteric! Looks for just a second at the computer and monitor behind the kid. Now I don't know when Compaq STOPPED selling that case style, but I remember buying them when I worked at Sony IN THE LAST CENTURY... and the Sony shop I worked at did warranty service on Sony computer monitors (both Sony-branded and OEM units)... the last of that model of monitor were dropping out of their THREE YEAR warranty in 1997... something tells me the computer and monitor pictured have no capacity to run Windows Vista... Can anyone remember the little "Simulated reception" disclaimer on print advertisements for TVs?

OK... so the problem is that Audio Playback on Vista is pre-empting the ability to receive data of the network. So... Does that mean that if you're streaming multimedia content, um... your inbound network performance goes out the window? Yes it does. Ah, sweet irony. Eight years ago, I had a Linux machine that couldn't even run a GUI with respectable performance (486DX2-100 w/ 16MB RAM), but could stream oggs and MP3s. With Vista, You really need 1GB of RAM just to boot the stupid thing... they recommend a dual-core processor and 2GB of RAM... and there's not enough spare clock ticks and memory bandwidth to run the network card and the sound card at the same time.

That's flat-out pathetic.

So... I still am not going to get MS Windows Vista. Just for the record. I just got a chuckle out the whole thing.