Less bullshit, more substance
Not about elections, sorry
I wonder how much extra space there would be on my computers if they weren’t packed full of software that
“Detected a problem with Internet Explorer and is shutting down”. And then ask me if I’d like to send information about this to Microshaft.
Sorry. If you want me to be your GODDAMNED BETA TEST TEAM FOR FREE at LEAST send me a Tshirt. I’m on the Autodesk Beta Test Team, and THEY send me a Tshirt.
Car’s real shiny, too.
While I’m on a tear, when I click on the button that says “Shut down”, that means I want to SHUT DOWN. Asking me if I want to shut down is ASININE.
If I had a bunch of windows open, I could understand- but frankly, I shut everything off before I click on the shut down button, and you STILL ask me “Are you sure?”
You never ask me “Are you sure?” when the question is “Do you want me to shut down in an unplanned manner and lose all of your data?”
Piss off, Microshaft.
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Well, at least you’re not bitter.
(Runs away, laughing insanely)
Remember what I told you about that rotary switch on the kitchen clock/radio? Stupid engineer tricks.
You gotta stop judging others by yourself. All of you engineers aren’t brilliant, selfless, hard-working, and handsome. Rly. Srsly.
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I don’t think I bemember the switch. but I’m not judging against myself but the lowest common denominator intelligence wise.
It was that Saturday you were over at breakfast time. The coffeepot was still on and you turned it off. All the way down. Except that “off” was really one click UP. What YOU did made sense. The way the dial is set up is a — altogether now — stupid engineer trick.
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ah, I bemember now.
I’m a “customer” not an engineer. I have determined that 99% of all electric and electronic devices are designed solely to impress other engineers. I would really like to have an hour alone with the a**holes who put fifteen hundred useless “features” in my computer and cell phone. If they made a cellphone that simply was a mobile telephone, they couldn’t make ’em fast enough. Same with computer OS’s. Simplify and sell.
Rememeber the playback only video tape machines?
The problem isn’t with the engineers, it’s with the idiots in marketing telling them what to design and build.
Gerry: You know why they did that?
Because customers said they wanted those features, and nobody who got to make feature decisions would say “no”.
Engineers aren’t impressed that a phone can run, say, IM software; they know it’s not really hard to do, or requires much cleverness.
I’m with Gerry. I would gladly give up the dozens of features I don’t use on my electronic leash (aka cellphone) for one thing: decent voice quality.
C’mon guys, all the memory and processing power you’re holding in reserve for the bells’n’whistles: use it to improve the vocoders. Please.
Ham, I’m right behind you. And give me some damned reception, OK? cut with the dropouts. I don’t mind a bigass antenna, instead of that stubby litle shit, just let me make a goddamned call.
Another example: my wife’s new washing machine. Heaven help me if she is ever again indisposed for a long time, as I’ll never be able to figure out how to operate that thing. The old one was pretty intuitive, just spin the dial.
One, and only one, time when I clicked on the Send Report to Microsoft link it actually came back and said something like “Here’s a fix for your problem. Do you want to download it?”
The fix actually worked, too.
After another couple of hundred more times of sending reports in thinking I’d get lucky again, I gave up.