Vista (was Re: [SLL] Video Card Recommendation)

[Kyle]

On Wednesday 31 January 2007 17:05, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007, David Johanson wrote:
> >Coming home from 3 weeks travel I find that my monitor
> > is turning colors which leads me to believe that my
> > video card is failing. I'd appreciate a recommendation
> > for a top flight card that will handle dual monitors
> > that will faithfully display color as the box will be
> > used solely for working with graphic images. No gaming,
> > office work, or anything else, just for photographic
> > use. So the only criteria are absolute fast color
> > renditioning and ability to drive 2 monitors. All
> > recommendations greatly appreciated but I'm hoping that
> > the best available is from Nvidia.
> >
> >On my flight home yesterday were two M$ developers who
> > were happily giving demos of VISTA.  I was amazed to
> > see what looked just like most any version of the 2.6
> > kernel with the latest version of the KDE desktop
> > running. In fact, had the M$ icon not been visible, I
> > would have sworn they were running Linux. Guess it just
> > speaks to the "innovation" from the crooks in Redmond.
>
> Funny that.  I was at a dog and pony show several months
> ago by some Microsofties on the wonders of Vista.  I
> don't think I saw anything that I haven't had for several
> years with OS X (other than a system lock up or two
> during the demo :-).
>
> I wonder how much extra software one needs to by for
> Vista to get all the toys that are standard with a new
> Mac -- iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, Garage Band, etc.

Hmm, if those things will work at all:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

For those who don't know, Gutman is fairly respected in the 
security/crypto world.  Some of the stuff in there is 
amazing.  Amazing at least to think that someone thought 
this was a good idea.  

MS is trying to sell Vista on bling so that no one sees the 
other stuff that you get.

Clearly the copy protection stuff is moot since the video 
pirates etc. just rip whole DVDs including all the various 
encryption schemes.   A friend of mine in Brazil said he's 
already seeing Vista install discs out for cheap.  They 
probably are not authorized by MS...

Best,
Kyle