Steve Ballmer has just announced that in the first three days of being on sale, more than 4 million people have bought the Windows 8 upgrade. This doesn't count OEM installations or Microsoft's own Surface - just individual upgrades. Definitely a promising start for Windows 8, but then, these are most likely enthusiasts (I'm one of those four million), so we still don't know a whole lot. I'm patiently waiting for the response from regular consumers.
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Member since:2006-02-15
Have you guys noticed how he never actually responds to anything whatsoever, he only goes on to blather about this "jitter" and how he has worked so and so hard to minimize it. Then he proceeds to make this or that ignorant and baseless comment about Windows and goes away, only to re-appear some other day again in another thread to repeat the same thing?
Member since:2005-06-29
Oh I know he's a classic troll, and I usually ignore him. But I happened to have been dealing with the sound latency issues I described above so I felt moved to comment. I know I won't get a response from him.
I am tempted (based on conversations you and I have had on Google+) to try a Gentoo install on my Mac mini. I wonder if I could "de-jitter" the kernel to the point where I have as low latency there as in Windows. 
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Member since:2007-11-23
Oh, really? I don't know this guy, but he is NOT being aggressive in his post [he is just expressing his own thoughts on the subject], while user Morgan was ... Just take a look at his post and the ending.
That being said, I'm not shocked that the original poster did not want to reply to this. He's probobly affraid of being attacked again.
The real problem are people who bash others and call everyone a troll almost immediately. THAT looks like trolling to me.
P.S swearing is such a weak thing. Could you please stop doing this? show your dignity and don't swear in public.
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What is hilarious, at least to me, is he isn't even using the word correctly! Its obvious what he is describing is "skipping" and NOT jitter, which was the way the old CRTs would "flicker" from EMF interference.
And most likely the reason he is suffering from video skipping is that "Mr Leet" has gotten himself so badly pwned that he has more viruses than his machine can possibly run, but he's too "leet" to admit he don't know what he's doing and needs help.
We ran into one of these "leet" Linux users at the shop, he actually had an email relay installed on his machine because he thought Linux was "magical" and never needed updating and got himself pwned.
I do think its funny his "dirty poo poo head" word is faggot, as that seems to be the favorite word along with the N word for halo playing HS dropouts everywhere. I personally enjoy pointing out the foolishness of little smart mouths like this, picturing him foaming at the mouth like Angry German Kid while he screams "FAGGOT!" at the screen is really funny. Look at the previous post on Win 8, he ended up posting no less than NINETEEN TIMES just to call me a dirty poo poo head...now THAT is funny!
Member since:2005-06-29
Well I think I know just the thing to get him in a happier mood: Let's find him a slave-wife!
http://paradoxuncreated.com/Blog/wordpress/?p=321
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2010-10-27
That's a really funky version of XP you've got there. I've got an old laptop with XP and Process Explorer tells me it's running only forty processes.
Perhaps yours is a special halal version of XP that searches out and destroys anything coming over the network that contradicts "the standard values of no-promiscuity, no-homophilia, no-intoxicants, no-criminality of The Quran".
http://paradoxuncreated.com/Blog/wordpress/?page_id=2
Edited 2012-10-31 04:24 UTC