Technology Questions

Go Back   Technology Questions > Software Questions > Operating System Questions > Vista Community > Windows Vista

Windows Vista Discuss the different versions of Windows Vista, Fuji, or Vienna

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
  #1 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 11:20 AM
ZensGreedyFly
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the others
here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.

I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a bit
of nostalgia.

Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?

"XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"

"How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"

"What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"

....I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's

Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

 
Old 09-05-2007, 11:20 AM
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 11:30 AM
Vista User
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.


"ZensGreedyFly" <zensgreedyfly@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:vmCDi.5076$JD.2511@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...[color=blue]
>I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the others
>here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.
>
> I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a
> bit of nostalgia.
>
> Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?
>
> "XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"
>
> "How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"
>
> "What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"
>
> ...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's[/color]

How about 98se / Why do you want more then 8 Meg of memory?



Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #3 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 11:40 AM
John Lee Brown
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

What do you mean I remember when we got the first 512k of ram for a
mainframe computer.
"Vista User" <VistaRules@NoSpam.net> wrote in message
news:fbmsfh$f85$1@aioe.org...[color=blue]
>
> "ZensGreedyFly" <zensgreedyfly@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:vmCDi.5076$JD.2511@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...[color=green]
>>I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the
>>others here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.
>>
>> I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a
>> bit of nostalgia.
>>
>> Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?
>>
>> "XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"
>>
>> "How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"
>>
>> "What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"
>>
>> ...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's[/color]
>
> How about 98se / Why do you want more then 8 Meg of memory?
>
>
>[/color]

Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #4 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 11:50 AM
Vista User
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.


"John Lee Brown" <johnlbrown53notospam@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:ej8i8t%237HHA.5404@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> What do you mean I remember when we got the first 512k of ram for a
> mainframe computer.
> "Vista User" <VistaRules@NoSpam.net> wrote in message
> news:fbmsfh$f85$1@aioe.org...[color=green]
>>
>> "ZensGreedyFly" <zensgreedyfly@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>> news:vmCDi.5076$JD.2511@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...[color=darkred]
>>>I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the
>>>others here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.
>>>
>>> I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a
>>> bit of nostalgia.
>>>
>>> Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?
>>>
>>> "XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"
>>>
>>> "How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"
>>>
>>> "What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"
>>>
>>> ...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's[/color]
>>
>> How about 98se / Why do you want more then 8 Meg of memory?
>>
>>
>>[/color]
>[/color]

Ok how about late 70's Data General 1200 4 Meg Core Memory.
Now those were the days.

Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #5 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 12:30 PM
Synapse Syndrome
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

"Vista User" <VistaRules@NoSpam.net> wrote in message
news:fbmsfh$f85$1@aioe.org...[color=blue]
>
> How about 98se / Why do you want more then 8 Meg of memory?
>[/color]


Your memory has been corrupted. 64MB of RAM was common by the time Win98se
came out.

ss.


Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #6 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 12:40 PM
Adam Albright
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:14:51 GMT, "ZensGreedyFly"
<zensgreedyfly@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
[color=blue]
>I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the others
>here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.
>
>I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a bit
>of nostalgia.[/color]

Translation: Vista Haters: anyone that makes a fanboy look like the
idiots they are.
[color=blue]
>...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's[/color]

If anything is true about this goofy newsgroup it is fanboys don't
want to hear the truth. That's why I keep linking to a "see no evil"
picture of three monkeys determined not to see, hear or speak anything
bad, just like Vista fanboys never ever want to see, hear or speak
badly of Vista. They're too busy praising Microsoft and lining up to
kiss Microsoft butt. While quite a show, such poor conduct helps
nobody actually having problems.

Reality check: In the hundreds of posts I made to this newsgroup not
ONCE have I said I hate Vista or suggested anybody use Linux or a Mac
instead or anything like that. Not once. Yet I get labeled a Vista
hater because I have the tenacity to stubbornly document what's wrong
with Vista. Idiots like Frank, the moronic newsgroup fool constantly
tries to lie I can't get Vista to work, the furtherest thing from the
truth. Vista has "worked" for me from day one. That does not mean it
works all the time for all users like some foaming from the mouth
baboon like Frank loves to pretend.

This newsgroup is a poor source of "help". Few people visiting here
are actually helped. They're lectured, scolded, told they've posted
their question to the wrong group, told nobody made them upgrade, told
they should go back to XP and of course sooner or later anyone having
any issues with Vista gets painted as a dummy, is told they didn't do
enough research or it must be a hardware vendor issue or any of the
other lame excuses fanboys throw out constantly. Help? Hardly, just
the same suspects trying to hold court, pontificating and desperately
trying to act like they know more than the next guy and that they're
in charge while of course denying that's what they want at the same
time. Priceless!

Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #7 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 12:50 PM
ZensGreedyFly
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

Feel better?

"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
news:ppvtd359li5moiknuqck863sqn47id8amp@4ax.com...[color=blue]
> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:14:51 GMT, "ZensGreedyFly"
> <zensgreedyfly@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the
>>others
>>here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.
>>
>>I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a
>>bit
>>of nostalgia.[/color]
>
> Translation: Vista Haters: anyone that makes a fanboy look like the
> idiots they are.
>[color=green]
>>...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's[/color]
>
> If anything is true about this goofy newsgroup it is fanboys don't
> want to hear the truth. That's why I keep linking to a "see no evil"
> picture of three monkeys determined not to see, hear or speak anything
> bad, just like Vista fanboys never ever want to see, hear or speak
> badly of Vista. They're too busy praising Microsoft and lining up to
> kiss Microsoft butt. While quite a show, such poor conduct helps
> nobody actually having problems.
>
> Reality check: In the hundreds of posts I made to this newsgroup not
> ONCE have I said I hate Vista or suggested anybody use Linux or a Mac
> instead or anything like that. Not once. Yet I get labeled a Vista
> hater because I have the tenacity to stubbornly document what's wrong
> with Vista. Idiots like Frank, the moronic newsgroup fool constantly
> tries to lie I can't get Vista to work, the furtherest thing from the
> truth. Vista has "worked" for me from day one. That does not mean it
> works all the time for all users like some foaming from the mouth
> baboon like Frank loves to pretend.
>
> This newsgroup is a poor source of "help". Few people visiting here
> are actually helped. They're lectured, scolded, told they've posted
> their question to the wrong group, told nobody made them upgrade, told
> they should go back to XP and of course sooner or later anyone having
> any issues with Vista gets painted as a dummy, is told they didn't do
> enough research or it must be a hardware vendor issue or any of the
> other lame excuses fanboys throw out constantly. Help? Hardly, just
> the same suspects trying to hold court, pontificating and desperately
> trying to act like they know more than the next guy and that they're
> in charge while of course denying that's what they want at the same
> time. Priceless!
>[/color]

Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #8 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 01:00 PM
Ken Blake, MVP
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:35:13 -0400, "John Lee Brown"
<johnlbrown53notospam@bellsouth.net> wrote:
[color=blue]
> What do you mean I remember when we got the first 512k of ram for a
> mainframe computer.[/color]


My first mainframe computer, in 1962, had 4K of memory. And that was
decimal 4K--4000, not 4096.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #9 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 01:00 PM
vista terminal ator
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

go away troll


"ZensGreedyFly" <zensgreedyfly@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:vmCDi.5076$JD.2511@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...[color=blue]
>I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the others
>here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.
>
> I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a
> bit of nostalgia.
>
> Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?
>
> "XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"
>
> "How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"
>
> "What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"
>
> ...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's[/color]


Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #10 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 01:10 PM
ZensGreedyFly
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

right on! that was the old punch card reader eh?

"Vista User" <VistaUser@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:fbmtcm$hnr$1@aioe.org...[color=blue]
>
> "John Lee Brown" <johnlbrown53notospam@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:ej8i8t%237HHA.5404@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> What do you mean I remember when we got the first 512k of ram for a
>> mainframe computer.
>> "Vista User" <VistaRules@NoSpam.net> wrote in message
>> news:fbmsfh$f85$1@aioe.org...[color=darkred]
>>>
>>> "ZensGreedyFly" <zensgreedyfly@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>>> news:vmCDi.5076$JD.2511@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...
>>>>I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the
>>>>others here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.
>>>>
>>>> I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a
>>>> bit of nostalgia.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?
>>>>
>>>> "XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"
>>>>
>>>> "How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"
>>>>
>>>> "What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"
>>>>
>>>> ...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's
>>>
>>> How about 98se / Why do you want more then 8 Meg of memory?
>>>
>>>
>>>[/color]
>>[/color]
>
> Ok how about late 70's Data General 1200 4 Meg Core Memory.
> Now those were the days.[/color]

Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #11 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 01:10 PM
Bill Yanaire
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

Look who is talking! The village idiot!

"vista terminal ator" <-> wrote in message
news:46df082d@newsgate.x-privat.org...[color=blue]
> go away troll
>
>
> "ZensGreedyFly" <zensgreedyfly@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:vmCDi.5076$JD.2511@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...[color=green]
>>I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the
>>others here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.
>>
>> I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a
>> bit of nostalgia.
>>
>> Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?
>>
>> "XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"
>>
>> "How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"
>>
>> "What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"
>>
>> ...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's[/color]
>
>[/color]


Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #12 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 01:20 PM
Frank
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

Adam Albright wrote:


--as a public service, aa's drunken diatribe was deleted--

Sober up ok?
Frank
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #13 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 01:20 PM
Frank
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

vista terminal ator wrote:
[color=blue]
> go away troll[/color]



hehehe...care to take your own advice?
Frank
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #14 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 01:20 PM
Vista User
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.

Yup and teletypes with paper tape punches you were cool if you had mylar
tape.


"ZensGreedyFly" <zensgreedyfly@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:5UDDi.5108$JD.1055@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...[color=blue]
> right on! that was the old punch card reader eh?
>
> "Vista User" <VistaUser@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:fbmtcm$hnr$1@aioe.org...[color=green]
>>
>> "John Lee Brown" <johnlbrown53notospam@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>> news:ej8i8t%237HHA.5404@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> What do you mean I remember when we got the first 512k of ram for a
>>> mainframe computer.
>>> "Vista User" <VistaRules@NoSpam.net> wrote in message
>>> news:fbmsfh$f85$1@aioe.org...
>>>>
>>>> "ZensGreedyFly" <zensgreedyfly@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:vmCDi.5076$JD.2511@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...
>>>>>I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the
>>>>>others here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new
>>>>>OS.
>>>>>
>>>>> I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back
>>>>> a bit of nostalgia.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?
>>>>>
>>>>> "XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"
>>>>>
>>>>> "How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"
>>>>>
>>>>> "What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"
>>>>>
>>>>> ...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's
>>>>
>>>> How about 98se / Why do you want more then 8 Meg of memory?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>[/color]
>>
>> Ok how about late 70's Data General 1200 4 Meg Core Memory.
>> Now those were the days.[/color]
>[/color]


Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

  #15 (permalink)  
Old 09-05-2007, 01:30 PM
PTravel
Newsgroup Contributor
 
Posts: n/a
Re: Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.


"ZensGreedyFly" <zensgreedyfly@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:vmCDi.5076$JD.2511@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...[color=blue]
>I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the others
>here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.
>
> I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a
> bit of nostalgia.
>
> Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?
>
> "XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"
>
> "How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"
>
> "What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"
>
> ...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's[/color]

Fun topic! :)

I believe it was Bill Gates who said, "No one will ever need more than 64K
of RAM."

My first 20 Meg (that's Meg, not Gig) hard drive (in an original IBM XT):
"Wow, I'll never fill that up!"

My computer with a floppy drive: "Wow, that's so much faster than the
cassette tape!"

My first home computer (a Sinclair ZX80 - 4k of RAM, expanded to 16k): "Wow,
it's a miracle that they can pack so much computing power into such a small
box!"

And . . .

My first interaction with Windows 3.0: "Ugh! Who wants a Graphics User
Interface, anyway? This thing is for idiots. Give me a comman-line
interface any day!"


[color=blue]
>[/color]

Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is Off
Smilies are Off
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
FEAR & Extraction Point Fassin Taak Vista Games 4 07-24-2007 04:30 PM
Fear David Dickinson Windows Vista 15 06-11-2007 11:20 PM
Fear of Google (FOG) LPH Internet 0 05-07-2007 05:19 AM
Sporadic performance with Fear and FearXp Dale \Mad_Murdock\ White Vista Games 0 04-12-2007 07:26 PM


New To Technology Questions? Do You Need Help with Your Computer or Device? Do You Need Help with this site?

All times are GMT -8. The time now is 04:33 PM.


2003 - 2009 All Rights Reserved. Technology Questions

Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.3.0