It's Gold: Windows Vista Hits RTM

forkieboy:

Four pages of off-topic comments is our specialty ;-)

Seriously though, I initially signed up to say: "You're all crazy! Look at you! This is silly!"

Six months later I'm still here contributing to four pages (sometimes eight pages!) of off-topic venom.

It's addictive man, walk away while you still can!

-grin-

Windows Vista Hits RTM. Either I missed the announcement that Powerpoint was now a component of Windows, or, yet again, I have read four pages of primarily off-topic comments from the same old names, spewing the same old venom, and the childish personal abuse which has made this site the joke it has now become.

"It's convenient that you don't remember any examples to cite. As for the use of a BIOS, that is a valid criticism. The BIOS is 25+ years old, buggy, and slow."

Why is it convenient? You know, I may seem like I know everything when it comes to my users, but I don't. This forum doesn't have any sort of search feature or user management of any kind. How can I remember all that you have said, when in many cases, you post, or have posted 5, 10, 15 different comments to any one article. There is nothing convenient about it.

And you seem to like it both ways. You say it is a valid criticism. However, it is something that you have stated ad naseum here in this comments section. And you complain when others call out valid criticisms of the Mac OS, sometimes with a couple of different replies, calling us morons, pathetic, that we (or MS) are "owned", etc. Are these valid responses? And you complain when you are called retarded, by one poster who is not well liked at all, and has difficultly with grammar and the English language. Should we all be morons now?

The pathname issue is overblown. Read the rest of the paragraph I wrote. It is a ridiculous limitation. But, software is complex, and it's not getting any simpler. If you have read the shell:revealed blog, some people have provided a little slice of life of as a programmer at MS. In it, they described the effort required to change even little things, like the add fonts dialog. With bigger bugs to squash, something like this is irrelevant, even though it may be important to a subset of users. But it should be fixed.

bonch, if you want your opinions to be respected, you need to earn it. While I may disagree with lotsa and bdk on some issues, at least I respect them, and they present things in a logical manner. You tend to take the childlike approach, and get us all riled up.

Fair enough.

Although, you do manage to come in to pretty much every article and post off topic rantings.

As for being called retarded, that's one guy we all can't stand and constantly tell to shut it. Then again, it does take one person to make a whole group look stupid.

"This is some dizzy spinning here. Yeah, increasing the length of a string to store a path name in a highly-used Powerpoint feature really requires them to bust their **** to fix. Silly."

By busting their ***** I meant that they are not rushing to fix it. I wasn't implying that it was a hard fix.

"I also work for a software company. This is not a hard bug to fix."

Then you should know that easy fixes with workarounds get pushed to the back burner unless there is nothing pressing on ye old bug list. I know that I push stuff to the corner on a daily basis because my goup is more concerned with major functionality problems as opposed to, say, a slight GUI issue. So I'm sure the Office team is more concerned with service packs and security holes than the length of a path and/or filenames.

@sticknick:

"Wow. That must have eaten up, what? Sixty seconds of your time? I feel for you man, I really do. And I applaud you. I don't think I have the technical know how to pull off a major feat like that."

Well, I had to make up for Microsoft's apparent lack of technical know-how to use a mutable string for a file path. As much fun as it is to micro-manage the Windows filesystem to make sure asset file paths don't offend Powerpoint, I have better things to do with my time, and I hate being called away from my work to help the boss with a media file that's not playing in Powerpoint because of a 128+ char file path.

"Ok, so I misread. You said path name. I apologize. However thanks for making me at least half right. The MS help you posted said FILE or Path name."

A file name is a part of the path name.

"That being said, no matter the software, no matter the company, if there is a simple workaround, like moving a file, developers are not going to bust their ***** to fix it. They're, instead, going to try and solve larger issues like, oh, I don't know, random kernel panics."

This is some dizzy spinning here. Yeah, increasing the length of a string to store a path name in a highly-used Powerpoint feature really requires them to bust their **** to fix. Silly.

"This isn't MS propaganda. Since I work for a software company, I know this for a fact."

I also work for a software company. This is not a hard bug to fix.

"And just to say: There are very few people, like your boss, who rips music to the default directory. Others, like most here, I'm sure, edit the rip directory to suit our needs."

Complete and utter bull. Most people ripping in Media Player are ripping to their My Music folders.

"I have to ask you Preseton, why all the venom? vandil has actually calmed down and now makes some really good points about both MS and Apple."

Because I got called "retarded" and other names over a seriously stupid Powerpoint bug that you guys misunderstood.