Dump serial ports AND the entire COM port architecture. That needs to go all that horrible mapping and virtual ports just to connect for example my Phone's USB port to my replicator software. It's already on the USB port - make it a native USB communication already. Having upwards of 10 COM ports is stupid.
Dump LPT ports, all of it, the physical connector and the LPT architecture. Everyone is using a USB printer or a networked print server or a networked MF device.
Dump S-Video. It's crap, it's old and it brings nothing to the table.
Dump dialup modems. If you need one plug it into your USB hub.
Dump PCCard. It's long past its prime. It takes up a slot that never ever gets used on a laptop anymore.
Dump PS/2 mouse & keyboard ports. Waste of space. If you need an external keyboard or trackball go USB or wireless.
Trust me **AA in this bleak economic frontier you are months away from one of your people getting murdered over this. Probably outside a courthouse right after one of your lawyers congratulates him/herself over how wonderful it is to fuck people over, poor people. Let me know how that works out for your legal department.
In my firm, which is a Fortune 50 company, we're actively abandoning MS Office for our own modification of Open Office. In fact OO3 does everything better - it handles all the problems of earlier versions like embedded OLE objects, it handles all our all 'legacy' junk AND it handles all of the various MS Office 2007 file formats which, as everyone knows were invented JUST to force people to lock in and upgrade. In fact all those Office 2007 formats are becoming the weird occasional exception for us as we move to ODF and such. Mostly we use MS Office 2007 formats as a required translation step from DOC to ODF since OO3 handles it that way by default: DOC > DOCX > ODF for instance.
So being weird and unique, Balmer, we don't care. Soon MS Office will be just another legacy format we keep around for archival purposes like Lotus Wordpro, 123, AmiPro and the like. Good luck with that, Steve.
Persistant errors during installation having to do with Google Gears failures. Even where I tried to Google Gears on its own, prior to installing Chrome. GG is apparently part of the installation mechanism used by Chrome.
Seriously devote that time and those resources to making the target system more hardened more resilient instead of giving me another monitor that sucks up CPU and RAM to give me some flashy lights and blinky things to impress me that you're serious about my welfare. The best system is a dumb box that just works 100% every time all the time, forever.
Now everyone in a pickup or a minivan is busy going 15mph under the speed limit to get a rise out of the 59 cars behind them with someplace better to be than behind their row of stupid stickers. Oh look at me, I discovered a new way to save money, look at me I'm so superior. No you're just an asshole who now has a good reason to drink and drive.
Can it keep old people from running down shoppers on the sidewalk? Can it keep old people from driving the wrong direction on the highway? No? Oh I guess it's a just a parental proxy for people who are too lazy to drive their kids around.
Tell you what, America - raise the driving age to 18.
Notes is a great platform for corporate apps. But any corp worth their salt is running their remote users through a VPN tunnel of some kind. So you'd need to run that tunnel or VPN dialer or tokenized app on the iPhone as well.
Part of the problem is that cell phone carriers view their own customers as little change machines. Everything is an extra cost unless you get a flat rate which is ridiculously expensive.
Well thank the Goddess Shiva that all the jobs that require thinking went to India, China and South America. And the only people left in the States who still work in IT aren't even code crunching monkeys talented enough to fuck your systems up.
We get it. You want to screw us. You NEED to screw us. Really we get it. But we're not going to take it anymore. Goddamnit you won the format war and you RAISED prices. Screw you burn in hell and I hope all of you and your kids all get ass cancer and die.
John Harrison's story chronicled in "Longitude" is the story of the greatest unsung hero of science and engineering since the Renaissance. Working on his own for nearly 50 years and in the face of fanatical opposition of the Board of Longitude Society he singlehandedly invented modern chronongraphy and all the particular horological advancements required up through the invention of electronic time pieces. To that end he solved the longitude problem which directly lead to British Naval supremacy as well as all commercial shipping and the advent of safe ocean passage without loss of life or cargo.
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Dump serial ports AND the entire COM port architecture. That needs to go all that horrible mapping and virtual ports just to connect for example my Phone's USB port to my replicator software. It's already on the USB port - make it a native USB communication already. Having upwards of 10 COM ports is stupid.
Dump LPT ports, all of it, the physical connector and the LPT architecture. Everyone is using a USB printer or a networked print server or a networked MF device.
Dump S-Video. It's crap, it's old and it brings nothing to the table.
Dump dialup modems. If you need one plug it into your USB hub.
Dump PCCard. It's long past its prime. It takes up a slot that never ever gets used on a laptop anymore.
Dump PS/2 mouse & keyboard ports. Waste of space. If you need an external keyboard or trackball go USB or wireless.
Trust me **AA in this bleak economic frontier you are months away from one of your people getting murdered over this. Probably outside a courthouse right after one of your lawyers congratulates him/herself over how wonderful it is to fuck people over, poor people. Let me know how that works out for your legal department.
In my firm, which is a Fortune 50 company, we're actively abandoning MS Office for our own modification of Open Office. In fact OO3 does everything better - it handles all the problems of earlier versions like embedded OLE objects, it handles all our all 'legacy' junk AND it handles all of the various MS Office 2007 file formats which, as everyone knows were invented JUST to force people to lock in and upgrade. In fact all those Office 2007 formats are becoming the weird occasional exception for us as we move to ODF and such. Mostly we use MS Office 2007 formats as a required translation step from DOC to ODF since OO3 handles it that way by default: DOC > DOCX > ODF for instance.
So being weird and unique, Balmer, we don't care. Soon MS Office will be just another legacy format we keep around for archival purposes like Lotus Wordpro, 123, AmiPro and the like. Good luck with that, Steve.
Encrypt everything.
Persistant errors during installation having to do with Google Gears failures. Even where I tried to Google Gears on its own, prior to installing Chrome. GG is apparently part of the installation mechanism used by Chrome.
Google Gears stood in the way of successful installation.
25 in a 40 zone down a 4 lane road?
And by who, I mean non-retard who.
You'll have to rely on Viagra and money like everyone else.
Seriously devote that time and those resources to making the target system more hardened more resilient instead of giving me another monitor that sucks up CPU and RAM to give me some flashy lights and blinky things to impress me that you're serious about my welfare. The best system is a dumb box that just works 100% every time all the time, forever.
Now everyone in a pickup or a minivan is busy going 15mph under the speed limit to get a rise out of the 59 cars behind them with someplace better to be than behind their row of stupid stickers. Oh look at me, I discovered a new way to save money, look at me I'm so superior. No you're just an asshole who now has a good reason to drink and drive.
And if we're really lucky it will turn out to be 4 miles across.
Can it keep old people from running down shoppers on the sidewalk? Can it keep old people from driving the wrong direction on the highway? No? Oh I guess it's a just a parental proxy for people who are too lazy to drive their kids around.
Tell you what, America - raise the driving age to 18.
But when Matt Drudge does it it's called 'new journalism'. Still bullshit though.
Rule #1: Everyone is bullshitting you, everyone lies all the time for their own advantage.
Rule #2: The internet makes rule #1 more efficient.
Two failed continents. Lovely.
Notes is a great platform for corporate apps. But any corp worth their salt is running their remote users through a VPN tunnel of some kind. So you'd need to run that tunnel or VPN dialer or tokenized app on the iPhone as well.
Part of the problem is that cell phone carriers view their own customers as little change machines. Everything is an extra cost unless you get a flat rate which is ridiculously expensive.
You're the retard.
Seriously. Fuck eBay and Paypal. That is all. Now toddle off and sell some more old broken shit.
Well thank the Goddess Shiva that all the jobs that require thinking went to India, China and South America. And the only people left in the States who still work in IT aren't even code crunching monkeys talented enough to fuck your systems up.
We get it. You want to screw us. You NEED to screw us. Really we get it. But we're not going to take it anymore. Goddamnit you won the format war and you RAISED prices. Screw you burn in hell and I hope all of you and your kids all get ass cancer and die.
Is either deleted or it's not.
John Harrison's story chronicled in "Longitude" is the story of the greatest unsung hero of science and engineering since the Renaissance. Working on his own for nearly 50 years and in the face of fanatical opposition of the Board of Longitude Society he singlehandedly invented modern chronongraphy and all the particular horological advancements required up through the invention of electronic time pieces. To that end he solved the longitude problem which directly lead to British Naval supremacy as well as all commercial shipping and the advent of safe ocean passage without loss of life or cargo.
Why not? Half of all voters barely know what month it is. The other half would rather blog about it.
Talk like Bacon Pirate Ninja day.