Comments on: El Vista

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:08:53 +0000

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.

By: chuckers

chuckers — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:28:47 +0000

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

By: Keera

Keera — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:25:22 +0000

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.

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:24:58 +0000

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.

By: Mark Jackson

Mark Jackson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:11:08 +0000

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

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

By: Frank the curmudgeon

Frank the curmudgeon — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:08:32 +0000

Like the recycle symbol, it betokens rubish.

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:00:28 +0000

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.

By: James Schend

James Schend — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:59:42 +0000

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.

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:59:42 +0000

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.

By: turquoise cow

turquoise cow — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:45:48 +0000

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…