Vista piracy?

[unixronin]

"Microsoft says Vista's piracy rate is half that of XP."  Duh!  They had to let vendors keep offering XP on new computers because so many people didn't want Vista.  Who's gonna steal it?

Actually, it reminds me of a cartoon in the back of New Scientist some 30 years ago.  It concerned a fictional company that produced "NuFoods" with names like Chisp and Cheem, made from ... well, let's not go there.  The dialogue went something like this:

"Some vendors are actually displaying NuFoods at the front of the store in preference to their own brands."

"They're selling well, then?"

"... Actually, they're hoping people will shoplift them."

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[tabbifli.livejournal.com]

We have an older Contour (our mechanic is frequently heard to comment that we have the best maintained Contour on the planet), which has power seats on the driver's side, but no memory. It's beginning to let us know it's old and getting cranky and would like to be retired soon, so we're probably going to start looking at new cars in the next year or so.

On thing we're both agreed on is, if at all possible, position memory in the seats. I really need to drive a little farther back so my hip and legs don't cramp up, and he'd like to be a little more sitting straight. The really funny thing in all of this is that his legs are a little bit longer than mine are (he's 6'0", I'm 5'10" and frequently wear heels), but I'm the stretchy one.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

It's beginning to let us know it's old and getting cranky and would like to be retired soon,

Yeah, the Intrepid too. The front suspension is making groaning "I need lube" noises, but Dodge didn't see fit to provide grease fittings. One of the power window servos is all but dead, which requires tearing the door apart. All the door weatherseals have shrunk away from the frame, and the trunk weatherseal is in shreds across the trunk lip. And it's had a succession of niggling electrical problems almost since we got it (the current niggling electrical problem is that the fog lights work when they feel like it, and not otherwise). We won't buy another Chrysler-Dodge car, and in fact I think we're pretty much soured on all the US manufacturers at this point.