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Life­hacker is fea­tur­ing a video by Win­dows user Chris Pir­illo on his expe­ri­ence after 6 months using Vista. It’s quite in-depth (over 50 mins) and he reaches the con­clu­sion that at the moment, it is just not worth the hassle.

Life­hacker then asked its read­ers about their expe­ri­ences with Vista. The result is a mixed bag and we have to be care­ful as every­one likes a forum to bitch about stuff, but the response cer­tainly backs up the old tech adage of ‘don’t buy v1 of any­thing’. Those who’ve had good Vista expe­ri­ences are over­whelm­ingly peo­ple who either bought it pre-installed on a new machine or who did a fresh install. Upgrad­ing from XP appears to be a recipe for dis­as­ter.

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How lovely is this?

I could watch that for ages. It comes from the bit.fall project by Julius Popp. The words are made up of falling drops of water and some pre­ci­sion tim­ing. The exact words them­selves come from pop­u­lar inter­net searches.

You can see Julius talk about the work in a 3 minute doc­u­men­tary here. And there’s a com­mer­cial use of this kind of approach here for Jeep – which to me lacks the charm of the original.

Nice.

Source: Rus­sell Davies