Posts by Gabriel Vistica

@gaz

Yeah, but that was just a logging machine, and the crew fell unconcious when the chili from the night before finally settled in. (I'm not joking! Watch the episode!)

Great...

So we've been killing Martians the entire time we've been looking for them?

Just wait until we start sending robots to other planets. I'm sure some of them (like Saturn) will have more easily provoked life-forms than Mars.

DARN IT!

I'm an uber-Star Wars geek, so when I saw that IBM was shipping SSDs, I thought they were finally making a Super Star Destroyer! Now I have to wait another 500 years. :(

Free speech?

What the heck does free SPEECH have to do with playing video games, of any rating?

@Andrew

That works even better when you do it with greased pigs!

Don't blame the dev team

Yes, their code was pathetic, and full of bugs, and it barely ran at all.

But the people who are really to blame are the "concept people" who tried to make the developers put in certain features, even though the developers knew they wouldn't work very well.

Also to blame is the entire marketing team, who decided to bill Vista as the best thing ever (including sliced bread). They should've been a little more realistic, and then, IF it took off, they could up the hype a bit.

Television license?

And I thought Microsoft was bad! The BBC has them all beat!

Cool...

"Our volume-license customers can always downgrade to any previous version of Windows"

Does that mean that if I buy enough licenses, I can downgrade all the way Windows 3.1?

Re: Skynet

You forgot one entry:

12:07

Realizes that no matter how hard it tries, it always loses. Decides to take over the world instead.

There's only one thing to say at a time like this...

Oops.

WOW

"It took the Government techies so much time to realize that the email system of the most powerful man in India was not working properly for 3 months!"

That is pathetic.

Wow. That is Interesting.

And we care about this, why?

Paris, because she doesn't care either.

Re: AC

Or maybe you're just a conspiracy theorist!

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WOW!

That guy is GOOD!

Accretion disks

"The matter falling into the black hole doesn’t go directly in, but orbits around the black hole forming a flat accretion disc, much like the soap scum on water orbiting around an open drain."

Oh, yay. Intergalactic soap scum. Another page in the Hitchhikers' Guide.

HUH?!

"In this case, we are communicating the availability of an update that affects your ability to perform subsequent updates, including security updates. Therefore, this advisory does not address a specific security vulnerability; rather, it addresses your overall security."

Doesn't that fit the definition of "security update"?!

WOW!

Hot-swappable motherboards!

Too many?!

Only two is two many?! That ridiculous.

I had WAY too many in Vista. I work in my company's IT department, and I do a lot of OS reinstallations. When I did Vista installs, I was getting one every time I tried to change a Control Panel setting. Sometimes, it would even close Explorer because it was trying to do one of the good-ol' illegal operations.