The apps I want to remove mostly don't appear and the ones that do have neither the uninstall nor disable options when I select them. They do have the uninstall updates option which is a worry because I have never updated them. No, Windows still wins the crapware war.
No, I'm not American, I'm Australian. When I was a young man I dated a Californian woman for six months and then dated a Canadian woman foir 15 months. I later married a South American. I have few illusions left and I know that today's peace is built upon American idealism in 1946. But I miss that America. I want America to be the good guy. I'm fed up with America being a bully.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
My father was in the Japanese Occupation Force and detested the Japanese til the day he died. I went to Japan to see what he was talking about, saw it, and fell in love with the place nonetheless. I learned Japanese poetry. I talked my sister through cancer with it - she said to me "my oncologist saved me but you brought light to a dark place." The finest Japanese poetry was written by Irishman, Yeats:
Climbing, falling she knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.
No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, O sea-starved, hungry sea.'
That is like Windows. I took a day off work to line up and buy Windows 98SE but when Windows ME cme out I knew iit was a dead seagull. Nowadays they who stuck with Windows sit on coils of rope, their kneecaps broken, and sing a song of freedom.
If I root my HTC One X and don't get it right then I've got myself a doorstop. If I do it after I get my HTC DNA then it has no meaning. I'm right back in 1985 when I wanted to upgrade from an 8bit XT mobo to a 16bit 286 and I cooked a $600 mobo ($2000 in today's dollars - a bank loan was involved).
As an online seller I can offer these suggestions:
Always bet on stupidity, people often come to you in a hurry.
But hedge on cleverness, because people aren't really stupid although they always act so sometimes but only the truly stupid perservere.
First up explain what you offer and what you don't - that's the easy part once you have words for what you don't.
Then set up layers of explanations for those who haven't understood. Start with intelligent explanations and every onion ring should get progressively stupider. Never ever make a joke outside the first and most intelligent level of explanation.
At any point you may make an apology, "I'm sorry we wasted your time with this product that was not ready yet." At this point the truth is no longer an issue because all you want is for the bloke to leave with his underpants on (by the way, Americans never apologise to anyone so if you're American then ignore this section).
If they don't accept the apology then, well it's up to you, personally I speak softly and then change their perception of the world. It sounds like a euphemism but it isn't. Make them think about something else. Two brain cells can't hold three thoughts.
sethmeisterg - the "off-topic" that you'll see against this comment which was later removed was from me. I brushed the track pad and then had to post a comment to remove the moderation that I never meant to post (I was going for overrated because Oracle is not a company on whose goodwill one should build any edifice). I apologise and thought you deserved an explanation.
Benefits versus risk. Oracle is not a company whose products I'd build a business on unless I knew the cost and had a signed agreement beforehand, The products are fine, the company is variable.
Yes Young People of today - however bad today's music may sometimes be, the greatest musical horrors lie in the past where they should be left to moulder. The greatest horror of them all, the very worst song of all time, so bad the Vogons wouldn't claim it, is from 1914. See http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/abadabahoneymoon.htm if you must but I recommend against it for your sanity is at risk if you do. I swear that this song is what drove Gavril Princip's assassination and started the Great War.
If they really wanted to improve the show they could do a Southpark/Kenny thing and wipe out Miley Cyrus every episode in ever increasingly unlikely and excruciating ways. Better yet, turn that into a computer game - you are the Doctor, you have a goldfish, two sticks of gum and a sonic screwdriver, your job, yet again, is to save the universe from the Miley Monster!
The remaining Time Lords hiding from the Doctor for a joke is a brilliant idea.
As for the sig, well fortunately that particular song has been cast into oblivion along with I Wanna Be Loved By You. The actual line was rather different though:
"I hollered up at Ethel, I said, "Don't look, Ethel!" But it was too late. She'd already got a free shot. Grandstandin', right there in front of the home team."
In the first series the Doctor abandoned his granddaughter on a backwater planet. She clearly wasn't able to be involved in the Time Wars so she's probably still alive. If they really want to redress the shortcomings of the classic series they should make Charlie Sheen the next Doctor and he should go find her and she should be played by Miley Cyrus and the Companion should be played by Rowan Atkinson.
Well, it'd certainly get the show some attention, but, my point is that both the classic and the modern series have more holes than a Swiss cheese. There can be no redress on any grand scale and personally I don't care. I like the show. My joke about Miley Cyrus makes me think that she would make a great alien on the show though and Whoopi Goldberg would make an interesting companion.
Thirty years ago in Tokyo they had beer vending machines everywhere and on the streets, 100 yen and you had a 375ml (or thereabouts) can of beer. More and you could even get 3 litre cans of beer. There seemed to be no restriction on who could use them. Nowadays I hear they have vending machines selling schoolgirl's underwear. I certainly didn't see any of those.
Weird vending machines and weirder toilets aside, Japan is well worth visiting and great fun, but remember that in the little towns no-one speaks English.
Jewel's in that video and I only had eyes for her. I think Jewel Staite is one of the sexiest women on the planet - much sexier than Morena Baccarin for example.
Tyson is not my favourite because he was the man behind Pluto's reclassification. But rather than suggest he be demoted to being classified a dwarf astronomer I'd like to point out that astronomers missed a marvellous opportunity.
There are clearly three main types of natural orbiting object (that we know about) - big round gassy planets, smaller round rocky planets, and smaller again not round objects. The boundary between first two is the natural line between giant planets and dwarf planets.
By concentrating on what planets do and what they orbit rather than their inherent nature is equivalent to botanists agreeing to call bumblebees, hummingbirds, and microbats by the same name because they are all a similar size and they all eat nectar.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a discredited astronomer in my view not because he was behind Pluto's "demotion" but rather because he has shown that doesn't understand that taxonomy is not about what things do, but rather it is about what things are.
KDE is not for everyone, it's pernickity and finickity and insists you do things KDE's way. Personally I love KDE but it is definitely not for everyone so cut the guy a little slack because he has at least tried it more than once.
...and he has point about the K's - imagine if Gnome put G's in front of every name that started with N...
Thank you for that, it gave me my first real laugh of the day. Just this morning I realised that I use no Microsoft products at all and haven't done so for ages and I've never noticed. Your joke and my laughter at it makes me realise that I haven't used Gnome at all this year and I've long stopped noticing its absence.
Gnome stopped be a point of disatisfaction for me and became a part of history about six months ago. It would take a massive reinvention and a reason from some other cause to ever get me to look at it again. Gnome has microsofted itself for me and while perhaps Wayland can help it, I doubt it. It's going down Nokia Alley on the greater stage too, becoming the bearded lady in the corner when it used to be centre stage.
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I've never been to Canada. I have been to Alaska. Twice. Perhaps I should go back there.
You give me hope.
The apps I want to remove mostly don't appear and the ones that do have neither the uninstall nor disable options when I select them. They do have the uninstall updates option which is a worry because I have never updated them. No, Windows still wins the crapware war.
No, I'm not American, I'm Australian. When I was a young man I dated a Californian woman for six months and then dated a Canadian woman foir 15 months. I later married a South American. I have few illusions left and I know that today's peace is built upon American idealism in 1946. But I miss that America. I want America to be the good guy. I'm fed up with America being a bully.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
My father was in the Japanese Occupation Force and detested the Japanese til the day he died. I went to Japan to see what he was talking about, saw it, and fell in love with the place nonetheless. I learned Japanese poetry. I talked my sister through cancer with it - she said to me "my oncologist saved me but you brought light to a dark place." The finest Japanese poetry was written by Irishman, Yeats:
Climbing, falling she knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.
No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, O sea-starved, hungry sea.'
That is like Windows. I took a day off work to line up and buy Windows 98SE but when Windows ME cme out I knew iit was a dead seagull. Nowadays they who stuck with Windows sit on coils of rope, their kneecaps broken, and sing a song of freedom.
If I root my HTC One X and don't get it right then I've got myself a doorstop. If I do it after I get my HTC DNA then it has no meaning. I'm right back in 1985 when I wanted to upgrade from an 8bit XT mobo to a 16bit 286 and I cooked a $600 mobo ($2000 in today's dollars - a bank loan was involved).
If you cultivate rhinoberries you'll get rhinos. If you cultivate catnip you'll get zonked out cats. Change the ambit and you change the ambience
My clean Android is full of crapware that I can't remove. Windows crapware is removeable.
Windows beats Android on crapware.
Like television - and yet we still watch it.
As an online seller I can offer these suggestions:
Always bet on stupidity, people often come to you in a hurry.
But hedge on cleverness, because people aren't really stupid although they always act so sometimes but only the truly stupid perservere.
First up explain what you offer and what you don't - that's the easy part once you have words for what you don't.
Then set up layers of explanations for those who haven't understood. Start with intelligent explanations and every onion ring should get progressively stupider. Never ever make a joke outside the first and most intelligent level of explanation.
At any point you may make an apology, "I'm sorry we wasted your time with this product that was not ready yet." At this point the truth is no longer an issue because all you want is for the bloke to leave with his underpants on (by the way, Americans never apologise to anyone so if you're American then ignore this section).
If they don't accept the apology then, well it's up to you, personally I speak softly and then change their perception of the world. It sounds like a euphemism but it isn't. Make them think about something else. Two brain cells can't hold three thoughts.
sethmeisterg - the "off-topic" that you'll see against this comment which was later removed was from me. I brushed the track pad and then had to post a comment to remove the moderation that I never meant to post (I was going for overrated because Oracle is not a company on whose goodwill one should build any edifice). I apologise and thought you deserved an explanation.
Benefits versus risk. Oracle is not a company whose products I'd build a business on unless I knew the cost and had a signed agreement beforehand, The products are fine, the company is variable.
Yes Young People of today - however bad today's music may sometimes be, the greatest musical horrors lie in the past where they should be left to moulder. The greatest horror of them all, the very worst song of all time, so bad the Vogons wouldn't claim it, is from 1914. See http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/abadabahoneymoon.htm if you must but I recommend against it for your sanity is at risk if you do. I swear that this song is what drove Gavril Princip's assassination and started the Great War.
Britney Spears for the Doctor's companion? Christina Aguilera?
If they really wanted to improve the show they could do a Southpark/Kenny thing and wipe out Miley Cyrus every episode in ever increasingly unlikely and excruciating ways. Better yet, turn that into a computer game - you are the Doctor, you have a goldfish, two sticks of gum and a sonic screwdriver, your job, yet again, is to save the universe from the Miley Monster!
The remaining Time Lords hiding from the Doctor for a joke is a brilliant idea.
As for the sig, well fortunately that particular song has been cast into oblivion along with I Wanna Be Loved By You. The actual line was rather different though: "I hollered up at Ethel, I said, "Don't look, Ethel!" But it was too late. She'd already got a free shot. Grandstandin', right there in front of the home team."
In the first series the Doctor abandoned his granddaughter on a backwater planet. She clearly wasn't able to be involved in the Time Wars so she's probably still alive. If they really want to redress the shortcomings of the classic series they should make Charlie Sheen the next Doctor and he should go find her and she should be played by Miley Cyrus and the Companion should be played by Rowan Atkinson.
Well, it'd certainly get the show some attention, but, my point is that both the classic and the modern series have more holes than a Swiss cheese. There can be no redress on any grand scale and personally I don't care. I like the show. My joke about Miley Cyrus makes me think that she would make a great alien on the show though and Whoopi Goldberg would make an interesting companion.
So the sex droid has super impressive kegel muscles but cooks wieners in ten seconds flat!
Thirty years ago in Tokyo they had beer vending machines everywhere and on the streets, 100 yen and you had a 375ml (or thereabouts) can of beer. More and you could even get 3 litre cans of beer. There seemed to be no restriction on who could use them. Nowadays I hear they have vending machines selling schoolgirl's underwear. I certainly didn't see any of those.
Weird vending machines and weirder toilets aside, Japan is well worth visiting and great fun, but remember that in the little towns no-one speaks English.
Just hit the little button on the back of the Sontarans' helmets and they go down like a sack of potatoes.
Jewel's in that video and I only had eyes for her. I think Jewel Staite is one of the sexiest women on the planet - much sexier than Morena Baccarin for example.
Tyson is not my favourite because he was the man behind Pluto's reclassification. But rather than suggest he be demoted to being classified a dwarf astronomer I'd like to point out that astronomers missed a marvellous opportunity.
There are clearly three main types of natural orbiting object (that we know about) - big round gassy planets, smaller round rocky planets, and smaller again not round objects. The boundary between first two is the natural line between giant planets and dwarf planets.
By concentrating on what planets do and what they orbit rather than their inherent nature is equivalent to botanists agreeing to call bumblebees, hummingbirds, and microbats by the same name because they are all a similar size and they all eat nectar.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a discredited astronomer in my view not because he was behind Pluto's "demotion" but rather because he has shown that doesn't understand that taxonomy is not about what things do, but rather it is about what things are.
The grey goo is here! Run for your lives!
KDE is not for everyone, it's pernickity and finickity and insists you do things KDE's way. Personally I love KDE but it is definitely not for everyone so cut the guy a little slack because he has at least tried it more than once.
...and he has point about the K's - imagine if Gnome put G's in front of every name that started with N...
Thank you for that, it gave me my first real laugh of the day. Just this morning I realised that I use no Microsoft products at all and haven't done so for ages and I've never noticed. Your joke and my laughter at it makes me realise that I haven't used Gnome at all this year and I've long stopped noticing its absence.
Gnome stopped be a point of disatisfaction for me and became a part of history about six months ago. It would take a massive reinvention and a reason from some other cause to ever get me to look at it again. Gnome has microsofted itself for me and while perhaps Wayland can help it, I doubt it. It's going down Nokia Alley on the greater stage too, becoming the bearded lady in the corner when it used to be centre stage.