You can step into the world of hurt that is Vista, the latest version of Microsoft Windows that was released in January.
He was born in Holland at the close of World War II, the eldest of three children, and his sensibility was first marked by that vista of destruction.
And now superimpose a few truck stop bain maries across that vista of banana palms.
I returned to the piled quilts and hot-water bottle of my bed, marvelling that the vista of India's highest mountain and the whole south-east wall of the Himalayas was just there, for me to feast my eyes on throughout our stay at Neora Valley Jungle Camp.
Salman Rushdie even referred to this is in his 2001 novel Fury, describing the warm New York months of 1998 as "that Buena Vista summer".
There would evidently be some effect on earnings per share, but the size of the drag on the stock would be limited by the fact that the market already at least partially distrusts the current launch schedule, and also the fact that the bulk of the Vista story is for fiscal year 2008.
Also, Ragas says that the launch of the Vista operating system from Microsoft will boost demand for DRAM back-end equipment, which will drive faster growth in ESIO's core memory repair business and should boost bottom line results.
That being said, there is one part of Vista that I do rather like, an aspect that in fact fills me with the feature envy that we OSX users rarely experience: SideShow.
By day, the grassy top of "warthog hill" offers the kind of vista that has brought generations of travellers to the African bush: a wide sweep of acacia trees, lakes and hills that go on undulating to the far horizon, bathed in a clear golden light.
