@jake - I don't like naphtha in my pocket

Nothing like that nice warm feeling...

flames, because....

Whoah Jake!

You might want to re-read my post. Despite the fact that you quite literally quoted each and every line, you missed it...a little more than slightly. I was not talking about your home network...but you sure like talking about it to boost your street cred. I remember punch cards too there matey, but only barely. Try not breaking paragraphs up into their individual components. It tends to destroy the proximity dignification of the whole and render your aggressive response disconnected.

I used the word telly on one side, and television on the other side of the sentence containing CRT (an acronym which includes televisions too.) I was drawing a parallel between someone that refuses to buy a new TV when models of interest are likely available merely because they have one already, and it is "good enough." I added the HDMI/SCART jest to further said point and provide potential technological justification...but you missed it all. Bravo. Ten points of ten for complete FAIL. You would likely find more parallels of worth in your own gear (which does sound cool) with the random items I chose to represent the idea of classic if you read my post this way.

And no my post was not a slam on anything that has clean code or is stable, but I am certainly not writing this from an old DEC, Vector, IBM pre-clone era, or WYSE machine...and neither are you so try to stay on topic.

what?

Ok, just to abuse multi's TV analogy :

XP is black and white. Ok, so what features of 7 make it colour?

XP is scart , Ok, Im still wondering what features of 7 make it HDMI.

We're not talking a massive integral-worth leap, like black and white to colour, or regular to HD picture on a piece of technology whose only use is to be viewed.

W7 has no features I physically need, and nothing I want thats going to massively enhance how I use my computer. and like the last tiem I had this arguement with the Vista fans, they end up resorting to telling me in glassy tones about the Aero interface, which for sure, is really pretty for something that eats system resouces like a digital cancer.

the extra network "security" aka, asking me a million "are you sure" questions, the file and registry control, etc. It feels, bluntly, like an OS for thickies. If they come out with a "Pro" flavour, where the OS assumes a level of technical knowledge above, say, an oyster, and stops asking me pointless questions and just does as its fucking told, then maybe I'd consider upgrading. (alas, alack, NT, where did your "RTFM" attitude go?)

@multipharious

"You might want to re-read my post."

Done, The only thing I didn't comment on was the subject line. For a reason.

"Despite the fact that you quite literally quoted each and every line, you missed it...a little more than slightly."

Maybe, maybe not ... shall we explore?

"I was not talking about your home network..."

Neither was I, at least not entirely.

"but you sure like talking about it to boost your street cred."

I lost interest in "street cred" before I got my first degree and learned what work was.

"I remember punch cards too there matey, but only barely."

So you are under 25 years old, then?

"Try not breaking paragraphs up into their individual components."

When the author of said paragraphs is all over the place, I have no option.

"It tends to destroy the proximity dignification of the whole and render your aggressive response disconnected."

For "disconected" I think you meant "tightly coupled" ... you have a LONG way to go before your disorganised arguments diserve anything resembling dignity.

"I used the word telly on one side, and television on the other side of the sentence containing CRT (an acronym which includes televisions too.) I was drawing a parallel between someone that refuses to buy a new TV when models of interest are likely available merely because they have one already, and it is "good enough." I added the HDMI/SCART jest to further said point and provide potential technological justification...but you missed it all. Bravo."

Please note: We are talking computers & operating systems. Not television. I'm fully aware that most people (including yourself, it would appear), can't tell the difference ... but I assure you that "telly" and "windows" are completely different thingies. So-called high-def is hardly necessary when it comes to computing.

"Ten points of ten for complete FAIL."

Lose "fail" as a meme, youngster. It was old before you graduated highschool.

" You would likely find more parallels of worth in your own gear (which does sound cool)"

It's not "cool", it's RealLife[tm]. Some of us have been doing this for a living longer than you have been alive. Legacy systems (especially the ones that work in the RealWorld[tm]) are so far beyond what you consider "cool" that it would make your head spin.

"with the random items I chose to represent the idea of classic if you read my post this way."

Random items do not a coherent point make.

"And no my post was not a slam on anything that has clean code or is stable,"

So ... your point was, what, exactly?

" but I am certainly not writing this from an old DEC, Vector, IBM pre-clone era, or WYSE machine...and neither are you"

No? This post, as are nearly all of my longer comments here on ElReg, is being typed on an IBM Model M keyboard attached to a 3151 monitor ...

"so try to stay on topic."

I thought I was. And you replied, so in theory you did too ... again, your point was ... ?

Paris because...

She is not sure how best to be subtle either.

Vista Upgrade price is ridiculessly high

MS wants 220$ to upgrade from vista ultimate to win 7 ultimate.

What is the big different ? don't know. it looks like sp3 for the vista OS.

why pay again for it ? who knows...

I'm staying with vista, b/c I've paid for it.

I won't pay for the sp3 (win7) upgrade, and on new computers, I use old XP license, and get superb performance.