I mean, jesus. We've come all this way and yet computers are still slow as fuck. We make faster computers, better hardware, and it still just sucks ass. Why the hell is this?
Take Vista, which I have had a bad experience with: it takes about ten minutes for the machine I'm on to be able to do anything useful. Why? Because most of the Windows crap that starts with the computer is bottlenecked through svchost.exe, because Mickeysoft thought it was a good idea to do it that way. Right now, 13 instances of this program are running, using about 200 megs of memory, and as far as I know it is just MS Spyware.