El Vista

Cidu Bill on Mar 2nd 2010

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Okay, I maybe kinda sort of see what he’s getting at here, but…

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17 Responses to “El Vista”

  1. Steffen Mar 2nd 2010 at 12:27 pm 1

    I can’t help you, but it’s not intended to be “El Vista” but rather “Elvista”, the joke definitely won’t work without that.

  2. RyanE Mar 2nd 2010 at 12:31 pm 2

    That, and the joke is about 3 years too late, now that Windows 7 is out.

    I think the writer just barely noticed that Vista and Elvis share 3 letters, and Vista is ’shiny’, like the King himself.

  3. Mark Jackson Mar 2nd 2010 at 12:42 pm 3

    And Vista does display a “swirly thang” when it goes into a fugue state, although it doesn’t much resemble the comic’s color wheel.

  4. Kevin Madden Mar 2nd 2010 at 12:56 pm 4

    The “swirly thang” in the comic resembles the spinning wait cursor (aka, spinning wheel of death or spinning beach ball of death) in OS X.

  5. Daniel J. Drazen Mar 2nd 2010 at 01:32 pm 5

    Not-well-thought-out bad pun-based cartoon. And resistance from WHOM? They could have just said “The new ElVista OS is rolled out” and been done with it.

  6. Jeff S. Mar 2nd 2010 at 01:58 pm 6

    Both were fat and slow moving before their deaths.

  7. Folly Mar 2nd 2010 at 03:52 pm 7

    Can’t add much except that ‘all froze up’ is a reference to ‘all shook up’.

  8. turquoise cow Mar 2nd 2010 at 06:45 pm 8

    yeah i converted to macs for my own personal use (and still use XP professional at work) so i have very little experience with the actual vista, but the swirling ball thingie is commonly seen in OSX whenever you are waiting for something to happen. It’s sort of like an hourglass, but different. So that kind of confused me a little. Does Vista (or any incarnation of windows) have that spinning ball thingie? I seem to remember mostly hourglasses in XP…

  9. James Schend Mar 2nd 2010 at 10:59 pm 9

    Vista has a blue circular spinny thing as a wait cursor, but it looks nothing like the one in the comic.

    As opposed to criticizing possibly the weakest pun in history, I’d like to focus on the fact that Vista’s been out about 3 years now… very timely gag.

  10. Mark in Boston Mar 2nd 2010 at 10:59 pm 10

    In the original Macintosh, the wait cursor was a wristwatch, and it was a source of amusement to Mac users when Windows I came out with its hourglass, implying that you would have to wait for an hour.

    We were easily amused in those days.

    Oddly, back then the Mac was ready to go as soon as you powered it on. Programs ran so much faster then.

  11. Jeff S. Mar 2nd 2010 at 11:00 pm 11

    The spinny thing is NOT like a color wheel. It’s more like a rotating circular version of the recycle symbol, and it’s monochrome blue.

  12. Frank the curmudgeon Mar 3rd 2010 at 03:08 am 12

    Like the recycle symbol, it betokens rubish.

  13. Mark Jackson Mar 3rd 2010 at 11:11 am 13

    It wasn’t an hourglass - it was an egg timer.

    It’s true, however, that Microsoft poached the idea from Apple.

  14. Elyrest Mar 3rd 2010 at 11:24 am 14

    Mark Jackson (13) - That’s a little hard-boiled of you to say that!

    Whenever I saw the hourglass/eggtimer I always thought to myself that it was “clocking”. To me this meant it was going to take forever for something. I used the term “clocking” to my husband (a computer programmer) once and he looked at me like I was crazy (not unusual). It seems that I was the only person who used that term. I still use it to myself.

  15. Keera Mar 3rd 2010 at 04:25 pm 15

    Mark #10, the Mac still boots up way faster than a Windows machine. I’ve now had ample opportunity to observe that, ever since I got a PC at work, and I’ve asked around, just to make sure it wasn’t my PC. My aging work Mac seems to move at the speed of light, in comparison.

    So, Elvista operating system. Actually, the joke is timely. Elvis and Vista are both dead, yet some people pretend that’s not the case.

  16. chuckers Mar 4th 2010 at 04:28 am 16

    You also have to boot a windows PC more often than a Mac.

  17. Todd Mar 6th 2010 at 04:08 pm 17

    The cartoonist must be a Mac user who hasn’t touched Windows since the 9x days. Every time I hear “32 bit patch to a 16 bit…” (can’t remember the whole thing), I think that shows just how ignorant the speaker/writer is. Except for the “two bit company that can’t stand one bit of competition” part.

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