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Version Fatigue
An anonymous reader writes "An article in TechCentralStation introduces a useful new term: "version fatigue," which describes what happens when you get tired of learning new ways to do the same old thing with each release of software. This is something that tech designers seem insensitive to, but that drives users crazy. Maybe it's because tech designers are more anxious to be creative than to produce things that users like?"
Buzzwords for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
I will start this article by first explaining a bit about myself. I'm pretty much a nerd. Life goes on, if you don't like that then stop reading now. By many of the females I know I'm considered a 'nice guy' something that I have always been uncomfortable with. Not for the fact that deep down I long to be 'not nice' to the opposite sex and pick them up by using such wonderful techniques as "Dumb Sports Star", "Date Rapist" and my 'favourite' "Finished school, no direction, maccas employee" - but more on these type of people later. I want to be not 'the nice guy' for the sole fucking reality that the nice guy never gets the girl. This summery of the past few months will once again prove that this is the case.
This 'saga' of what I now feel compelled to call, "The worst fucking luck on earth", began after a girl who I'd grown to like a fair amount dumped my sorry ass. But at the time it was what I wanted as well, I just don't have the guts to hurt people's feelings, and prefer to take the pain of carrying on instead of breaking it off. We split because of religious differences, that is I am and atheist, and she's not. And in my poor fucking foresight I lost a good friend because I was too stupid to realise what a nice person she was. But that is water under the bridge now.
During this time bitching and moaning about how there was never going to be a girl for me, I was sub-consciously seduced by the girl who this article really centres about. Oh and when I mean girl I think I really mean, mentally unstable she-bitch. She had been in my class the whole year, she was not the greatest looking girl in the world, but she accepted me for who I was and I felt compelled to return the favour. So after what was probably 3 months of courting I asked her out, now you see, I didn't really ask her out because I lusted after her, but because I didn't know where to take the relationship to next, she was female and my best friend, and well being 17 and under-sexed, my hormones got the better of me. At the time I actually asked her out I was quite horny, as I'd just witnessed the greatest aphrodisiac that is on this earth - The Harry Potter Movie, and the reaction I got from her needed no words to reply. She shoved her tongue down my throat, I hadn't expected that kind of reaction, but that's what I got.
Now we progress a few months to, if my sieve of a brain can recall, just after Christmas time. By this stage I had grown accustomed to her, and every minute I spent by her side made me very happy. But she calls me into her room crying, she asks if we can call it off. I ask why, then after a while talking about it, she changes her mind, but after that I'm fairly sure that she still wanted to be with me, at least for 3 more months. So 3 more months pass and it was the night of her birthday, I was just comfortable, I felt like there was nothing that could break us up. Then 2 days later she comes over to my place, tears my heart out, starts the lawnmower, rides over it a couple of times, and to make sure my ability to care for a member of the opposite sex won't ever work again she picks up the pieces wraps them in a bag, and takes them to what I assume is her lair to consume for dinner that night. That I was fine with, it gives a nerd a bad reputation to have a girl friend. But as she left, she gave me hope, she said something to the affect of, "It's just that I don't have time for a boy friend right now, I have work, school, and music - I bet you that I will regret this decision in a few days and we'll get back together." She also said, "It's not you it's me" But I just laughed at her when she said that, she knew the second she said it that it was a stupid thing to say as I deconstructed it right there and then in front of her.
ANYWAY FOLKS THESE WORDS WERE JUST DECEPTION AND LIES ON HER PART!
After giving me the standard "2 months so that I don't feel guilty about dumping my boy friend for another guy" period. She seduces another poor soul. This is a guy that she works with at maccas. Whilst I have bitter feelings towards the guy, which I have never met, I know that he is not to blame. Actually maybe he is the fucking basted.
Oh well enough back story
In the introduction I made a slight reference to the kind of guy that I'm not and will hopefully never be - but unfortunately, they are also the ones that get the girls.
Dumb Sports Star - This is the most common kind of male at my homo-erotic school (not that there's any thing wrong with being gay, as long as your family accepts you and your happy). All they care about is sport, sex and alcohol. You can commonly witness these kinds of people driving Utes, even though they live 4 minutes drive from school and have no use for the tray. There method of getting a girl is looking for the most pretty, dumb thing that walks there way. According to there morals there is no need for brains when you are shagging something. But the jokes on them when they get there girlfriends pregnant because they didn't' use a condom. Well done sports brain!
Date Rapist - Whilst not technically a rapist in this situation, these are the most dodgy people at our school, they love there FUBU jackets and visors. They smoke quite a bit, and have no objection to beating people up and breaking any rule to get things there way. There preferred method to getting a girl is to either spike there drink with rookies or to just wait till the girl has drunken so much that she doesn't know up from down, left from right, or nice sensible nerd from possible date rapist. They move in for the kill, but not to worry, it's usually over in about 2-3 minutes, as there dick's are either too small to find, or they only have the stamina of an African humming bird.
Finished school, no direction, maccas employee - These fuckers are the ones I despise the most, because this is what I was dumped for. Now to quote my ex (the night I officially discovered she had a new boyfriend, even though I'd pieced it together over a week before) "I don't know, he's 19, I'm 17, he has an OK taste in movies, but we're from different worlds. He enjoys getting drunk with his friends, and I'm not like that", now WTF!?! Why are you going out with this guy? Why is she attracted to this guy? The answer is because he fits into one of my unfairly created stereotypes. Now for the deconstruction of this stereotype: Whilst not all are bad people, they feel a compelling urge to solicit younger girls, stealing them from the age group that they are actually from, yet after a while the girl realises that she is dating someone with no direction that always wants his way. If the girl doesn't get out of the trap they are destined to become a working mother, divorced by age 30. They make there move by just being themselves, lazy slackers. The female is instinctively drawn to this by there, "Oh my maybe I can fix him and make him respectable gene", but this is usually overpowered by the males, "WOMAN, get me a beer" gene.
Now any nerds or "not-normal" people out there. Unless you want to live a lonely life, suggest that you become one of these kinds of men or your girlfriend will leave you for one. Me? I would rather die alone then let that happen, so I guess I'm fucked These guys will do anything to get some poon, and that unfortunately means your lady friends are also on the menu.
Life is pain, and pain is life. Lucky I wasn't in love or some shit like that.
Michael, I think you missed a ...
Engineers are just the new artists on the block.
FP?
-flamesplash
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
But he still knows that this guy couldn't get laid to save his life.
I have been pwned because my
....have virgin fatigue
love is just extroverted narcissism
desktop market share != usage
check server statistics
check scientific and technical applications
check movie studio render farms
check outside of america
just because joe and sue consumer aren't using Linux, doesn't mean that linux isn't being used. in fact, the home desktop market pales before the corporate market, where linux is doing quite well.
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
Holy homonym, Batman. Are they teaching grammar in these schools anymore?
Not bugfixes, cocksucker, UI changes. Big difference.
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Do you know what does fatigue means in English ?
Fatigue !
BANDE DE VOLEURS !
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Seriously, we link to enough of Instapundit's work without giving him due credit.
Enough is enough people!
dude, what's the story with your sig?
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Reality has a liberal bias
Losers!
Like when you get sick of those assholes telling you yer line isn't good enough for DSL. (Well shit, if I owned that piece of copper, it'd be fibre!)
A52dec was rewritten 3 times, resulting in the same thing every time. Ignored rewrite #2 and just merged with rewrite #3. Going to abandon it for the next 2 rewrites and merge with the 6th rewrite.
I mean, there's still plenty of n'Sync and Britney Spears fans!