keddypie ([info]keddypie) wrote,
@ 2008-01-15 08:04:00
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it's official and announced now, so i can talk about it.

my office is shutting down. we're all out of work starting mid february. 

this is quite a damper on my life. 


gonna give a quick overview of my classes this semester now that i've attended them all.

advanced computer diagnostics: eh. looks boring and overly easy. instructor flaunted how lucky we were to have him instead of my boyfriend as a teacher because he's so much easier than him, and he's an ass. bonus points for calling my boyfriend an ass in the first hour of class. we then learned about windows Vista, which gives you an impression of how the semester will go. this class is tuesday and thursday evenings. devon barker is in there with me.

circuit analysys 1: any class with wedding is awesome. it's pretty much the same class as the fundamentals course i took, but with a little more detail. a shit load of labs, but as long as i can drag myself to class, should be easy like pie.

java programming: only 5 people in the class, get to spend more time with wedding. i actually have classes with wedding for 6 hours straight. herrr.

tech math 1: my teacher is Goungshong Chen, and his english skills are as good as they sound. he speaks somewhat broken english, and mumbles on top of that. oh god. we also have a very fast pace in that class, and i'm horrible at math. i suppose i'll be teaching myself, and probably begging for scraps along the way.

CGI: it's a web course. i fucking hate web courses. but tom gray teaches it, and i love tom gray.  it's only 3 credit hours, shouldn't be too hard. we'll see.

BIRTHDAY IS THIS SATURDAY. everyone is invited to come to the IHOP on talmadge around 7PM to help celebrate. don't have to bring gifts. i've enlisted at least 5 or 6 people to come so i know i wont be alone, but the more the merrier. 

today, gonna hang out with fizze for the first time in years. we'll see how that goes. she can watch me do dishes and i might make her lunch. then, i'm off to install vista for a grade.



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No Quarter For Vista
(Anonymous)
2008-01-16 04:44 pm UTC (link)
...have you actually used Vista?

Unlike XP, Vista offers NO groundbreaking new features that consumers are asking for. XP allowed both businesses and homes to take advantage of user-level file security, join Active Directory domains (BIG step forward), and a host of new functions which were absent in Windows 9x, like performance tuning and system restore. Compare this to Vista, which scrapped the cool features it was intending to implement like a new file system and truly quicker file searches - all despite spending a ridiculous amount of time developing what is still a shamefully unstable OS.

We can't also ignore the confusing naming scheme for different versions of the OS, all of which utilize generic "value-based" terms and do little to explain the actual difference between them. Compare this to "Home", "Professional" (read: business), and later "Media Center" (self-explanatory).

And is DirectX10 support supposed to be a selling feature? Considering that for the moment DirectX10 has markedly shitty performance compared to DX9, i'm going to guess not.

Aero interface? "Gadgets"? All the "new" interface designs are a flagrant rip-off of Mac OSX features. I'll just use my Mac, thanks - their interface is a lot nicer to look at it and a lot easier to use than all this ribbon bullshit that I don't recall anyone asking for, yet Microsoft has deemed fit to force it down our throats.

Oh, and any worthwhile feature of Vista could have easily been implemented in XP as part of a future Service Pack, but that doesn't yield enough dollars to keep Microsoft happy.

Fuck Vista.

-Beausoleil

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Re: No Quarter For Vista
[info]stegthedinosaur
2008-01-16 06:23 pm UTC (link)
Having used Vista since last year, I can happily say it sucks. And everyone in the office of the Microsoft Gold Partner company I work for agrees with me.
I didn't say XP doesn't suck, trust me it does, it just sucks less than Vista.





PS Beau I'm not moaning at you, just agreeing and defending with myself

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Re: No Quarter For Vista
(Anonymous)
2008-01-16 06:42 pm UTC (link)
Right on. I find it amazing that Microsoft has actually released something that is making me stick up for XP...if I have to pick a Windows OS, I generally pick 2000 for its simplicity and functionality.

I think the real point here is that the problem isn't with apparently ignorant consumers not liking change...it's with an overblown software giant throwing its weight around and doing a very shoddy job of masking its true intentions.

I'm hoping they do something to impress me with "Windows 7".

-Beausoleil

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