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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

How can you people continue to pay for Windows?

I honestly don't understand how you stupid sheep can continue to pay for windows.

An example? Sure. I have hundreds. I set a window to be 'always on top' because I need to constantly and personally watch it to see if I can get some fucking glimmer into the reason why, periodically and for no fucking reason, windows will just

stop

for no reason. I could be editing files, watching video clips or playing a game. Windows? We're gonna stop now.
Nothing's better for completely fucking hosing one's concentration like a GUI - that's the official name for what windows wishes it was - which freezes every now and then.

So. Anyway. Apparently we can only hope to discern whatever the hells' going on in this black fucking box of a GUI, since MS doesn't really want to give us actual, usable tools for getting under the hood, is to have a program running and telling me the load, and see what's on top when the thing hiccups.

That is, if I can resist the sudden and irrepressible urge to put my fucking fist through my monitor in abject disgust over this festering pile of last decade's software rejects.

So. Right. I have this dinky little application to help me get a better guess as to the magic that's hiccuping in my piece of shit GUI here. It's gotta stay on top, since, hey, I can't really move things out of the way when it comes to be important, and I can't really guess when that's gonna be, now, can I?
So I have this thing on 'Always on top' mode. Sure. Now riddle me this:

What kind of complete moron would even consider the space underneath this 'always on top' window to be usable? I mean, at all? Ever? If it's not usable, then why in sweet god's name does windows in-fucking-sist on opening every goddamned window underneath this thing, instead in some of the cast real estate somewhere else on the fucking page? If I want bad window design, I have that for free on Linux, and it's getter better by the hour. Make the case for me giving you money, now.
Go on. Try. I dare you.
Windows is officially that creep in the elevator alone with you who stands too close.