Originally posted by: QuixoticOne
Either your reading comprehension skills are lacking to the point where you should be still aspiring to graduate from 6th grade, or perhaps your name is Seinfeld and you've just come back from cashing a fat Microsoft check to be their shill.
In any case, your either deliberate or profoundly ignorant misinterpretations / misrepresentations of my very valid points of contention with Vista are not appreciated, nor are your inappropriate ad hominem attacks on my credibility. I think that anyone with a clue would "get" the not so subtle (for most of us) references to notorious actual past, present, or likely future (DRM related) problems with Vista that are fundaments to my complaints about the OS.
If you think that you can just categorically claim that EVERY thing I've mentioned about "vista" just "WORKS" in EVERY possible way in every extant edition of Vista pre / post SP1 and be respected for the integrity of your opinion then you have some justifications to present because I most certainly think that your pathetically weak dismissals of my (and others) complaints are not remotely factually accurate.
Given the troubled history of Vista, the fact that SP1 has only fairly recently been released, and the fact that there is a wide disparity of functionality between Vista editions with the MOST commonly used editions having the MOST lacking features, I'd say that any criticism I've made that touches on either historical problems or contemporary ones which still affect in some way MANY or MOST of Vista's customers are entirely reasonable.
Whereas I've ONLY EVER posted a hand full of messages critical to Vista, the vast majority of those being in a thread that SOMEONE ELSE STARTED as an OPINION POLL about WHY PEOPLE HATE VISTA, I'd say that my opinining about its perceived deficiencies has been extremely moderate, infrequent, reasonable, and TOPICAL to the thread(s) I've posted in. Are you suggesting that I am neither entitled to free speech nor to contextually appropriate voicing of my personal OPINION in threads that were specifically created to SOLICIT such opinions?
Are you suggesting that a thread that is specifically about VISTA MARKETING by a COMEDIAN isn't somehow appropriate for a post that was intended to be HUMOROUS and REFERENTIAL to some classic comedy material BY that comedian turned into parody ABOUT Vista?
In fact, I've gone to considerable lenghts to HELP in considerable detail numerous people on these forums with Vista related installation / upgrade / operation problems over the past couple of years. I don't recall noticing that you've done so as frequently / effectively (perhaps your comments are just particularly easy to ignore / overlook; this seems likely).
As I've clearly stated, I run Vista 64 as one of my primary OSs, and have done so since RTM. I've also clearly stated that there are a few good things about it, but that overall I find it lacking in both design and implementation. Given my personal experience with both it, alternative OSs, and software design, I'd say that my opinions are well based.
If your comportment and parsing skills had suggested that you might have graduated 6th grade, I might have suspected that you'd be familiar with the phrase:
"De gustibus non est disputandum", meaning that ?There?s no disputing about taste.?.
Were you civilized enough to respect my opinions as such, in such a fashion, you needn't have expressed anything at all in response to my messages save perhaps polite and reasonable dissent. That you were not so civil just founds my belief that you're due a bit less respect than you accuse me of having for Vista. I believe I've seen more relevance, intelligence, and social grace from "Clippy" and "Puppy" than I've ever seen from you.
You needn't bother responding; save the time / effort for attendance at rememdial manners classes. I, for one, will simply ignore you henceforth.
Originally posted by: Smilin
Wow ... you don't know sh1t about Vista if you can't get any of these running. You need a Mac or two rocks to bang together in morse code or something. If you spent even half the time you bitch RTFM you wouldn't have anything to bitch about anymore.
Do you ever stop spewing FUD? It seems like every post in every thread you participate in. Your seething hatred of Vista is so obvious that nobody takes you seriously even when you manage to have a legitimate point. You're the one becoming a joke. Ease off a bit dude.