...but I've taken two printers out in the driveway and smashed the living crap out of them.
My new neighbor saw the second one...I was swinging it over my head by the power cord screaming "DIE YOU PIECE OF SHIT" when she came up with a mis-delivered package, and got to watch it shatter into a million pieces when I slammed it into the retaining wall.
Stupid mechanical device with all my data on it, integral to the function of my laptop.
This kind of attitude from Linux devs is why I've mostly migrated to OSX.
People that use computers don't want technical excuses. They just want to use the goddam computer without it destroying its parts, which seems entirely reasonable. Ubuntu in particular is targeted at this very group of people. It astounds me that this has remained unfixed for so long, and really shakes my trust in the whole open source thing.
"Just pop out and replace the hard drive, and restore from backup every 6 months" is not an acceptable solution.
I've been paying ~$180/month for 64k ISDN to my secret lair in the hills of California. On Monday, though, I get my T1, for $250/month! I think most people that use that much bandwidth may bitch about it, but they'll pay.
...out of my car again this morning. You'd think a guy with the power to destroy the world and a guy with 450 million in campaign contributions could buy their own damn gas but NOOOO.
I'm not an Apple hater...I like my Apple workstation a lot, and prefer to use it when possible, but ITunes sucks even on OSX. Slow, memory hog, forces file conversions on me (and quite often doesn't make the conversion correctly, so I have to deal with broken song files).
My wife got an IPod as a gift, and I can't WAIT till the POS dies. It locks up daily, runs its battery down when shut of, and doesn't disconnect from Itunes correctly. I had a RIO Karma, arguably the biggest POS mp3 player of all time, that I had less trouble with.
Now I have to worry about Itunes sneaking in an update and blue screening her computer. Great.
Note to Apple: If you keep fucking up like this, you're going to be enjoying another decade of declining market share. Pretty design means nothing if your crap is breaking all the time.
Keep a link to a file on your desktop, now drop down to the command line and rename the original file. Used to break Linux, it might try to search now, Windows will try a search if it's similar. OS/2 has no such problem, the 2 are automagically linked.
I remember thinking how cool that was...until I dragged a folder into itself...it let me do it, but I never understood what happened. I never got that folder back.
About the only other thing I remember is the permacrash feature...if some app crashed the OS, when it booted up, it automatically loaded the app to the state that it had crashed in, and crashed again.
I tried hard to like Warp...particularly since my only alternative at the time was Win 3.11. I must have reinstalled it, (from a stack of floppies!) 6 or 8 times. It just never worked for me.
...what do people find so difficult about C++? Use the standard libraries, exception handling, and make sure your news all have deletes, and it's no more difficult than any scripting language. I actually prefer it over scripting languages, which have their place, but feel all sloppy and unspecific. It's like the difference between building a house out of 2x4s and building one out of sticks you found laying on the ground.
"This is a perfect example on why IBM stays ahead. They adapt. "...and as a result of their age and adaptations, they've developed more flavors of suck than any other company.
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...but I've taken two printers out in the driveway and smashed the living crap out of them.
My new neighbor saw the second one...I was swinging it over my head by the power cord screaming "DIE YOU PIECE OF SHIT" when she came up with a mis-delivered package, and got to watch it shatter into a million pieces when I slammed it into the retaining wall.
She's still scared of me.
...the poor? In 15 years you have twice as many poor.
...Laverne & Shirley characters. 10 years later, their server is still named "Squiggy".
Stupid mechanical device with all my data on it, integral to the function of my laptop.
This kind of attitude from Linux devs is why I've mostly migrated to OSX.
People that use computers don't want technical excuses. They just want to use the goddam computer without it destroying its parts, which seems entirely reasonable. Ubuntu in particular is targeted at this very group of people. It astounds me that this has remained unfixed for so long, and really shakes my trust in the whole open source thing.
"Just pop out and replace the hard drive, and restore from backup every 6 months" is not an acceptable solution.
I saw multiple favorable reviews of a belkin usb hub that has been an utter piece of garbage. I though maybe I had it plugged in wrong or something.
...would probably be well received.
...and it is filled with concrete and hairless apes.
...will we see the return of Raminus Polus?
That cat is long out of the bag. You piss off 3 or 4 generations, and you become eternal evil in their mythology.
There are actually a few of these in the works, the most promising is at OrderlyMayhem.com. If you ask nice, you can probably get a beta to play with.
There are many, many BZ II mods, and an active community at bzuniverse.com.
I've been paying ~$180/month for 64k ISDN to my secret lair in the hills of California. On Monday, though, I get my T1, for $250/month! I think most people that use that much bandwidth may bitch about it, but they'll pay.
...out of my car again this morning. You'd think a guy with the power to destroy the world and a guy with 450 million in campaign contributions could buy their own damn gas but NOOOO.
I'm not an Apple hater...I like my Apple workstation a lot, and prefer to use it when possible, but ITunes sucks even on OSX. Slow, memory hog, forces file conversions on me (and quite often doesn't make the conversion correctly, so I have to deal with broken song files).
My wife got an IPod as a gift, and I can't WAIT till the POS dies. It locks up daily, runs its battery down when shut of, and doesn't disconnect from Itunes correctly. I had a RIO Karma, arguably the biggest POS mp3 player of all time, that I had less trouble with.
Now I have to worry about Itunes sneaking in an update and blue screening her computer. Great.
Note to Apple: If you keep fucking up like this, you're going to be enjoying another decade of declining market share. Pretty design means nothing if your crap is breaking all the time.
Keep a link to a file on your desktop, now drop down to the command line and rename the original file. Used to break Linux, it might try to search now, Windows will try a search if it's similar. OS/2 has no such problem, the 2 are automagically linked.
I remember thinking how cool that was...until I dragged a folder into itself...it let me do it, but I never understood what happened. I never got that folder back.
About the only other thing I remember is the permacrash feature...if some app crashed the OS, when it booted up, it automatically loaded the app to the state that it had crashed in, and crashed again.
I tried hard to like Warp...particularly since my only alternative at the time was Win 3.11. I must have reinstalled it, (from a stack of floppies!) 6 or 8 times. It just never worked for me.
http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/07/wf041307.htm
...what do people find so difficult about C++? Use the standard libraries, exception handling, and make sure your news all have deletes, and it's no more difficult than any scripting language. I actually prefer it over scripting languages, which have their place, but feel all sloppy and unspecific. It's like the difference between building a house out of 2x4s and building one out of sticks you found laying on the ground.
"This is a perfect example on why IBM stays ahead. They adapt. " ...and as a result of their age and adaptations, they've developed more flavors of suck than any other company.
I don't want to know where THAT WIImote goes...
...we have to standardize on RICH XML frameworks to demarginalize our proactive data delivery paradigm.
...you're still on 2.0, while anybody with any hipness is all the way on 4.5.
nt
NT
How long have those guys been rotting down there? 6 years?
Lacks the skills to lie convincingly to anybody it doesn't have the power of life or death over, more like.
I'll use that next time somebody asks.