Posts by Snapper 663 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Nov 2010
This! This is what I hate about Microsoft!
They 'upgrade' an already pretty shitty app and remove the way you can see if there are unread emails in a folder!
WTAF!
The only thing I can think, and that's nearly 40 years of putting up with Microsoft's shit, is that after the next, next 'upgrade' we will have a 'new' feature.
Apart from their blatant selling of HD's for NAS drives which were technically incapable of being re-silvered, WD has history as far as this sort of thing is concerned.
When Apple launched macOS 10.9 Mavericks back in 2013, a lot of my clients found that any WD drive attached to the Mac had just been wiped. At the time I strongly encouraged my clients to have backups so if the backup was a WD drive, that got wiped. if a second backup was also a WD drive that got wiped as soon as it was plugged in. Cue a lot of frantic emails and phone calls early that morning.
Apparently WD had been warned by Apple that there were problems with the software drivers, but WD ignored the advice.
Data was recoverable but like any drive that's been wiped you tend to get lots of folders with 10,000 photos in each starting with 00001.jpg for example. Luckily the modified dates were not wiped but it nearly put a couple of my designer clients out of business.
Hah! We drive on that side because most people are right-handed/brained and...
Could use their stronger right arm to put the brake on their horse-drawn wagon.
Could use their sword arm without having to reach across their body.
Can judge distance with their dominant eye, so better at passing something coming the other way.
Can change gear with their left hand and control the wheel/steering with their more controllable right, giving a noticeably lower accident rate than 'other' countries.
You're welcome.
Same here at Waterloo where the flippy-panel signs went the length of the concourse. It was a LOT less stressful waiting for the audible clue to look up from your paper to see if your platform had been announced.
The tension is palpable at Victoria as some of the platforms are a good distance away from the main concourse and I'm convinced there is going to be a major incident one day at the barriers.
Young spoilt brat of a seriously rich daddy handed me her 17" MacBook Pro.
Wet, sand inside and out and keyboard sharply dented in several places.
"I left it on the beach and a wave broke over it, then when I was trying to dry it out a friend walked across it in high heels.....how long will it take to fix?"
Worn glasses sinc 10 as I was -6 in both eyes and couldn't see the blackboard. Obviously moved to contact lenses as soon as possible in the 70's.
Now, when I'm reading in bed I remove the contact lenses and don't use my glasses and everything within 30cm like fruit, skin, watch-faces etc, shows the most amazing detail that glasses and lenses take away.
A certain company staffed almost entirely by 80 of the fair sex that I did the tech support for, had a visit from a team of their company counter-parts from another country including the second-in-command of the whole company.
This young lady could only be described as a fashion victim and a Queen Bee. Nearly everyone started copying her mannerisms and way of working, which included taking her office MacBook Air everywhere with her, and with the added frisson of using it as a clutch-bag to hold pens, keys and lippy between the keyboard and screen.
I'm sure everyone reading this is aware of how a nutcracker operates.
A week of her sailing round the office with her coterie resulted in eight broken screens and a very stern notice from THE BOSS that computers are precision instruments and should not be considered fashion accessories or indestructible or else!
For myself I favour the leather belt phone holder. I know exactly where my phone is at all times, can retrieve it and have it at my ear in less than 2 seconds, plus the phone is protected and can't fall out. Old fashioned yes, stylish no, but I don't really care about that. It gets the fucking job done even if I'm crawling around under desks. I obey my requirement.
A young Steve Jobs famously said "They have absolutely no taste, and I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products,"
He also gave a lot of back-handed compliments to Microsoft and Gates. "Microsoft made a lot of applications for Macintosh and they were terrible," he said, before complimenting "but they kept at it and got better and eventually dominated the Macintosh application market."
Jobs' back-handed compliments didn't stop as he said that Microsoft are great opportunists but "I don't mean it in a bad way" he continued. "They are like Japanese and they just keep on coming," he said.
Jobs also said that he had no problem with Microsoft's success and that they "earned their success, for the most part," but what he had a problem was that Microsoft made "really third-rate products."
He didn't stop and continued lambasting Microsoft. "Their products have no spirit in them, their products are pedestrian." He said that what's said is that most customers also didn't have that spirit.
Jobs was then asked whether he was sad that Microsoft had "won" and Apple lost. He said, "what saddens me isn't that Microsoft had won but that their products lacked insight and creativity."
I work in London and until a few months ago and for many years before that frequently used to pass the Microsoft Store on Oxford Circus (junction of Regents Street and Oxford Street, which must be one of the prime retail positions in London with a rent to match), about 200m from the Apple Store on Regents Street.
The Microsoft Store was an undisguised copy of the Apple Store, with almost the exact same wooden tables, lighting and layout. Funny thing was I very rarely saw anyone apart from bored looking staff in it, unlike the Apple Store that frequently had to restrict customers numbers and had a queue outside.
The problems start when the abusive partner finds out that a lawyer/refuge has been contacted.
The problems start when I want to send confidential quotes/contracts/medical information to someone else and THEY have it turned on.
Will I deal with that company or person again? Probably not *if* there is any way of finding out.
Will I add a disclaimer to the top of every email and .PDF I send to the effect that the recipient is is required to let me know in writing that they have switched Recall off, and if they intend to switch it back on for ANY reason they have to give me five working days notice before doing so and immediately destroy all and any documents including the original emails that I have sent them?
Fuck yes!
Am I a hypocrite because I have a computer myself. No, because I use computers and other devices that don't run Windows and I will never do so.
Just 'a distraction'!
If you send your health records to your doctor or a CV to a potential employer, do you really want your doctor or potential employer to have a relatively insecure copy of your data that companies like, um, take one at random, Microsoft getting hold of it?
What are they going to do with it? This is Microsoft remember, who changed the 'close window' click to 'close window and accept what it asked' in the not too distant past.
Did they ask MY permission to take a copy of MY data and did they ask MY permission to use it and, again, give me a valid reason for doing it?
Back in the 90's I had a client call me in to the Apple server I'd installed the day before saying it was 'broken'.
Took about two nanoseconds to realise they'd disconnected the SCSI connection to the three external hard drives, and totally messed up the sequence of the cabling with one drive connected to itself!
'How could this happen!' said the brains in charge....
The 'None of the above' is much better than a spoiled paper. It shows you have checked the various party's offerings (and history) and in your opinion found them wanting.
I think you'd see a much larger number of people get interested in politics if they could count on officially showing their disapproval at election time.
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