Posts by Lawrie-aj

Happy birthday Windows 3.1, aka 'the one that Visual Basic kept crashing on'

GPGs

How well I remember the day when an MS person at an Ingram Micro dealer fest said with a straight face and a bit of humour, “The UAE ( Unidentified Application Error of Windows 3) is dead. We renamed it GPF.”

Then there were all of the users who blamed everything on EMM386 instead of their crap RAM or CONFIG.SYS configurations.

AI beats top players at Bridge in two-day tournament

Hmmm

Google's search engine to better help people in need of emotional support

Sounds like a lippy, “ Hi there, it looks like you are writing a suicide note. Would you like some help?”

Meta accused of hiring Republican consultancy to seed anti-TikTok rumors

Zuck eh?

“Hi, can you direct me to the bottom of the barrel please?”

“We’re not sure, but if you ask Zark Muckerburg he will help.” “For a price.”

New Windows 11 build boasts inbox updates and UI tweaks

File managers

Still think Xtree Pro was the go. Best FM around. Sad that the Windows 3.1 version was awful.

Japanese airline ANA spins out telepresence-bot startup for virus-avoiding medicos and fearful tourists

Yes, but can it manage stairs?

How do you ascertain user acceptability if you keep killing off the users?

A timely limerick

70

Apple's autonomous tractor

Became the deciding factor

In the death of young Jill

As it rolled down the hill

And changed into fourth and attacked her

We know what you want to write: Google injects more AI into G Suite

A story using autocorrect.

Recently I decided to switch from the HTC sense keyboard to a Google one as I wanted access to emojis.

I usually have predictive text and autocorrect turned off because they are a PITA. Just for a time, I decided to leave them turned on, but I get very tired of having to reread many times whatever I am writing so as to pick up the autocorrect mistakes.

Fuck it. I decided. I will write a story accepting everything that is suggested. Herewith is the result. Make sense of it if you can. There is a prize for the first person to decipher it.

The autocorrect story.

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Proportional comments would be available to all with no fear that they would be riding or oil for their poorly Spell.

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And so we come to the end of this sorry tale. Like Clippy before it, Autocorrect was a great success as a failure.

IBM torches Big Tech's get-out-of-jail-free card, says websites should be held responsible for netizen-posted content

Not the Children!

I'm not sure but wasn't WW1 and the rematch some years later a bit more detrimental to the physical and.mental health of the young?

To say nothing of other stuff..... I wonder how much of this concern is a meme being spread for Chinese style control.