Entries Tagged as ‘Vista’

August 16, 2007

Top Ten Reasons for Buying a PC, not a Mac

1. All your friends are doing it.
2. Solitaire is your crack cocaine.
3. You love the visceral knife-edge thrill of wondering if your app will remain stable until you save your work.
4. You think that processor power and RAM are better employed running Antivirus than on doing anything productive or useful.
5. You have had a designectomy.
6. You enjoy the irony of the [...]

February 26, 2007

The New 486!!

Found this in a drawer in my classroom the other day…

Gasp in wonder at its 25mhz Intel 486 processor!
Flinch at its magnificent 4mb of RAM!
Marvel at its collosal 80 mb hard drive (yes, mb)!
Gaze upon its mighty 1mb video RAM!!
I shouldn’t mock too much, because in 1994, this was pretty impressive spec. Things have fairly [...]

December 5, 2006

Vista’s Next Generation Voice Recognition…

Yes, indeedy! Vista is here! Gasp at its incredible new voice-recognition feature!

Welcome to the future! Gurgle hindsight at trunk happiness sit!
Once again, the voice-recognition hoverboard fails to float. In fact, strangely enough, the only time this particular hoverboard has floated to any great extent was about 13 years ago  on the mac. Admittedly, the functionality [...]