In other words, you couldn't bother to look at a map and at least get a general idea of where you were going, couldn't follow the signs that were posted telling you what street/road you were on and had no idea of basic directions while driving.
They see my accounts, the balances, they look at me, can reasonably estimate my age and in a split second they decide if I'm a good customer or a bad customer
Funny you should mention this as it brings back a true story that happened to me not too long ago.
Right before the Bush Recession hit, I had put large portions of my savings into some short-term CDs which were paying an interest rate several points above what I could get in my regular savings account. As I didn't need the money, it was a no brainer, especially since right after that things went to pot.
When the CD came due I went to the bank to get my money out plus the interest. When the young woman came back with my check and gave me my check, instead of simply shaking my hand, she used both her hands to hold mine and with the biggest smile possible thanked me for my business.
The amount I had deposited with them was a substantial amount. We're talking "Holy shit! This guys loaded!" amount.
Maybe it's just my overactive imagination but I swear had we been the only two people in the bank she would have jumped me then and there. But then being a guy, any half decent looking woman who smiles at me conjures the same thought.
Was funny as I could only imagine the conversation she had with her coworkers once I left.
Or the ones who who used the words of said omnipotent to justify slavery because this being (supposedly) said that enslaving someone is perfectly acceptable.
And when you say worthy to receive it, you mean a man who was willing to kill one of his sons to prove to this omnipotent being how far he would go to follow such a psychopath.
Or the people who slaughtered non-white people around the world because these savages were un-believers.
Or people who were gleeful, and wrote about it, when said savages were dying of diseases that these believers brought with them but had immunity.
Yeah, those are the kind of people who are worthy of eternal bliss.
Having had the displeasure of working with this abomination at work, I can tell you that whoever thought these "enhancements" to the "user experience" would be an improvement should be taken out back and beaten to bloody a pulp with baseball bat.
What used to be a simple process to change, such as changing the default path for a network drive, is now a convoluted mess that requires three times as much effort. For example, in XP, to change the default location for a user's documents, you would right-click My Documents, go to Properties, change the path, click OK.
In 7 you have to go through the Start button, something about users, select the correct user, make the modification, save the change then delete a second users setting then save all changes.
You cannot find anything quickly or easily in 7. Everything is a search. I don't want to fucking search for something when I know where it is.
It is impossible to see every program installed on your PC in one location. Who the fuck thought hiding things was a great idea?
I could go on but my complaints have been echoed by throngs of others. 7 just plain sucks. It's shit and should be treated as such.
I will do everything in my power to keep my parents XP systems running for as long as I can, MSFT be damned.
As for me, it looks like I'll have to take the plunge and go to Linux (and thrash about with that during the learning process).
Apparently working for an organization with over $1 billion in sales (we work both sides of the equation) and 3K users isn't considered a real business environment.
We've heard all the above excuses and the answer has been: Tough. You have to justify why you need something installed and if it is approved we will work with them to arrange a time for the installation.
Users don't ask to have things installed because they already have everything they need. It is only in unusual cases, someone moving to a different job, that we need to install additional software.
You give your users admin rights? No wonder things are screwed up. We used to do that with our investigator laptops (I work for a government agency which deals with enforcement).
When we did our equipment replacement, we removed their admin rights. Amazingly we have had zero problems since that time. Correlation = causation in this case.
a species that has no habitat to be returned to even if we could somehow boost it's population up to sustainable levels.
And the reason for the loss of habitat? Man. We are the ones who created the reason pandas don't have enough room, or food, to survive.
A similar story goes for the Snow Leopard, Siberian Tiger, Indian Tiger, and a whole host of other animals. We are the ones destroying their habitat or killing them (for body parts to be used in superstitious rituals, not for food) at a rate faster than they can reproduce.
While one can argue nature is taking its course, I will refer you to the infamous quote from The Matrix:
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... a virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague, and we... are the cure.
I don't necessarily agree with the final few words, but the rest are accurate.
How about posting a screenshot of the anti-malware warning so we can be aware of it. I recently had to remove a piece of cruft from a user's laptop which, as far as I can tell, came from a Flash ad.
Since I know this user doesn't go to random bobssoftware.com sites, it had to come from an ad or a compromised site.
Also, would it have killed the editors to go to the source rather than some blog which scraped the source site?
goes through the aspects of intelligent design and the discrimination that occurs in the scientific culture
The discrimination is well-deserved since, in the end, the best thing anyone proposing Intelligent Design can say is, "Some mystical power, that we can't identify, test for or measure, is responsible for everything."
So how exactly is that science? If you can't identify it, test it or for it, or measure it, it's not part of what we know to be reality.
EVERY scientific hypothesis or theory ever devised fell under one or more of the above. All the theories regarding gravity, light, infections, digestion, the way objects move in a vacuum, were all tested over the centuries using the scientific method.
So tell me, how is one supposed to test for an omnipotent and omniscient being?
There have been many, many studies into this, and there is no evidence to suggest that what you say is the case.
Really? So I guess the medical community is completely wrong when they say residual effects of marijuana can stay in your system anywhere from 20 hours to 10 days, meaning you are impaired for that time, right?
Smoke a joint on Sunday night, come in with the residual effects on Monday still in your system. Yeah, nothing wrong with that. I like having to deal with stoners in addition to the morons who can't follow simple directions such as don't press the red button.
It's time to grow up and think for yourself.
I did. I looked at the studies not done by High Times. The residual effects of marijuana use are real, whether you want to believe them or not. I don't need to deal with people who think it's okay to come in buzzed and not thinking clearly.
How about you grow up and realize that doing shit like that affects those around you.
what business is it of an employer if someone likes to smoke a doobie or two on the weekends?
Because I don't want the guy who's running the forklift to have impaired functionality when he's moving a half ton (or more) of equipment.
If you don't think there are any lingering effects from smoking a joint or two on the weekend when you come to work, you've obviously been smoking the stuff.
Put another way, do you want the guy who's programming the software for your mother's heart monitor to be smoking that shit?* How about the guy who codes the braking software for your car?
*This all depends on how wealthy your mother is and whether you want her around.
However real life if Microsoft make a better more secure product the better everyone is.
IE almost invariably is behind everyone else in terms of security. Don't believe me? Go to Secunia and look at how many unpatched vulnerabilities IE has and compare that figure to Fx, Safari or Chrome. Last time I checked, Fx had 0 unpatched vulnerabilities while IE had 12 or so (the number may have changed).
While it is nice Microsoft is FINALLY following the standards like everyone else, to say they are more secure than everyone else is disingenuous.
these are the same people who plastered the lot where I park at work with bright green fliers advertising their service, that should tip people off to the type of company they are.
Unless you're a chinese restaurant or a pizza joint, if you have to advertise by putting fliers on people's cars, you're not a real business.
Except there is a huge flaw in Outlook which, if people continually open attachments rather than than save them, causes them not to be able to open any attachment. Those temp files never get deleted. That's a flaw which has not been corrected since day one.
Today I had to configure a new user on a W7 machine. It took me over half an hour to make it look and act as close as possible to XP. There is no way configuring a profile should take that long. Ten minutes tops.
And to change the default location of documents one no longer can go to the My Documents folder (which doesn't exist), instead, you have to go to the Start button, select the user, change the location and remove the secondary location. WTF??!!!!!
And what the hell is up with Libraries?
And yes, you can see everything as far as programs are concerned. It's been done since Day 1 of Windows. It's called Add/Remove Programs. One could see everything that was installed from there. No longer. Now you have to make a choice of what you want to see, but not both at the same time.
I could go on but the bottom line is Windows 7 sucks. Big time. This push to have everything in a cloud and available everywhere is creating huge security holes, combined with the inability for people to do their jobs because there is no logical or semi-logical way to know where things are located or how to change your system. I will go to Linux before I have my own machine with Windows 7 on it.
An OS is not a search engine. It is supposed to provide you with the means to get at what you want without having to search.
Further, the new design prevents one from seeing everything at one time. I want to see every program installed on the system. Not one list for programs and one list for updates. Everything at one shot.
I shouldn't have to hunt around for how to turn off the fade-in effects by going to a menu system completely unrelated to display settings.
When I tell it to revert to the classic look (i.e. no shitty link clicking) I want EVERYTHING to revert. Not a piece here and there.
It's shitty interfaces like this which have made people lazy and even more stupid when it comes to computers. Between allowing people to open attachments directly from emails to making everything a link, Microsoft has borked any semblance of coherency.
I'm willing to give praise where it is due (the ability to change the shutdown button to Restart as the default should resolve several issues around here), but when one creates an abomination akin to punch the monkey, the programmers deserve to be punched.
sometimes more like talking to an overly-literal government bureaucrat who just doesn't get you.
Or like talking to a programmer who doesn't understand you don't care if the interface to an OS is cool or edgy, you just want to be able to get to things without having to click a dozen different links or burrow down some menu until you near the center of the Earth. *cough*Windows7*cough*
Or like talking to a web designer who doesn't understand that you don't care if the buttons fade in and out or they can create a transparent entry box using javascript, you just want to get to the information you need without being assaulted by the latest and greatest web design. *cough*VerizonBillPay*cough*
I have had to deal with several of these over the last two months or so here at work (a state agency). The people that get them swear they were on legitimate sites when they got the same infection you mention. This is probably true as we do block what sites people can visit.
After a while of deleting files it just became easier and faster to rename their profile, create a new one and move their bookmarks and anything from their desktop to the new profile. Once done, delete the old profile.
Of course, since our CIO hates anything that isn't Microsoft, we can't install Fx or anything else (though we have done so for select people and some of us in the IT area have it installed) so we will continue to get these infections.
and I'd much rather know that there was no way anything was getting in to the stadium that shouldn't be there.
Then there is a very simple solution: everyone who wants to get into an event must strip completely and put their pile of clothes and things into the x-ray machine before they walk through a metal detector.
This solves both problems: nothing that shouldn't get in does, and you aren't exposed to any radiation (above and beyond the normal background).
I don't see anyone crying because... Digital cameras replaced film...
I wouldn't say crying, but the loss of warmth in digital pictures is clearly noticeable. Not to mention the sharp and abrupt cutoff between the subject and background in some digital images.
Then of course we'll never again see the wonderfully luxurious pictures taken on Kodachrome. Without heavy manipulation via Photoshop, I can't see digital ever giving the same feel to a picture.
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I was terrified of driving until I got a GPS.
In other words, you couldn't bother to look at a map and at least get a general idea of where you were going, couldn't follow the signs that were posted telling you what street/road you were on and had no idea of basic directions while driving.
Yup, you fit this article perfectly.
Name one person who is not related to you.
Sarah Palin. No one in my family comes close to being that stupid.
a fing-longer, he's created a nose-longer.
They see my accounts, the balances, they look at me, can reasonably estimate my age and in a split second they decide if I'm a good customer or a bad customer
Funny you should mention this as it brings back a true story that happened to me not too long ago.
Right before the Bush Recession hit, I had put large portions of my savings into some short-term CDs which were paying an interest rate several points above what I could get in my regular savings account. As I didn't need the money, it was a no brainer, especially since right after that things went to pot.
When the CD came due I went to the bank to get my money out plus the interest. When the young woman came back with my check and gave me my check, instead of simply shaking my hand, she used both her hands to hold mine and with the biggest smile possible thanked me for my business.
The amount I had deposited with them was a substantial amount. We're talking "Holy shit! This guys loaded!" amount.
Maybe it's just my overactive imagination but I swear had we been the only two people in the bank she would have jumped me then and there. But then being a guy, any half decent looking woman who smiles at me conjures the same thought.
Was funny as I could only imagine the conversation she had with her coworkers once I left.
who are deemed worthy to receive it
Or the ones who who used the words of said omnipotent to justify slavery because this being (supposedly) said that enslaving someone is perfectly acceptable.
And when you say worthy to receive it, you mean a man who was willing to kill one of his sons to prove to this omnipotent being how far he would go to follow such a psychopath.
Or the people who slaughtered non-white people around the world because these savages were un-believers.
Or people who were gleeful, and wrote about it, when said savages were dying of diseases that these believers brought with them but had immunity.
Yeah, those are the kind of people who are worthy of eternal bliss.
Having had the displeasure of working with this abomination at work, I can tell you that whoever thought these "enhancements" to the "user experience" would be an improvement should be taken out back and beaten to bloody a pulp with baseball bat.
What used to be a simple process to change, such as changing the default path for a network drive, is now a convoluted mess that requires three times as much effort. For example, in XP, to change the default location for a user's documents, you would right-click My Documents, go to Properties, change the path, click OK.
In 7 you have to go through the Start button, something about users, select the correct user, make the modification, save the change then delete a second users setting then save all changes.
You cannot find anything quickly or easily in 7. Everything is a search. I don't want to fucking search for something when I know where it is.
It is impossible to see every program installed on your PC in one location. Who the fuck thought hiding things was a great idea?
I could go on but my complaints have been echoed by throngs of others. 7 just plain sucks. It's shit and should be treated as such.
I will do everything in my power to keep my parents XP systems running for as long as I can, MSFT be damned.
As for me, it looks like I'll have to take the plunge and go to Linux (and thrash about with that during the learning process).
Try working in most actual business environments.
Apparently working for an organization with over $1 billion in sales (we work both sides of the equation) and 3K users isn't considered a real business environment.
We've heard all the above excuses and the answer has been: Tough. You have to justify why you need something installed and if it is approved we will work with them to arrange a time for the installation.
Users don't ask to have things installed because they already have everything they need. It is only in unusual cases, someone moving to a different job, that we need to install additional software.
installing habits
You give your users admin rights? No wonder things are screwed up. We used to do that with our investigator laptops (I work for a government agency which deals with enforcement).
When we did our equipment replacement, we removed their admin rights. Amazingly we have had zero problems since that time. Correlation = causation in this case.
a species that has no habitat to be returned to even if we could somehow boost it's population up to sustainable levels.
And the reason for the loss of habitat? Man. We are the ones who created the reason pandas don't have enough room, or food, to survive.
A similar story goes for the Snow Leopard, Siberian Tiger, Indian Tiger, and a whole host of other animals. We are the ones destroying their habitat or killing them (for body parts to be used in superstitious rituals, not for food) at a rate faster than they can reproduce.
While one can argue nature is taking its course, I will refer you to the infamous quote from The Matrix:
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... a virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague, and we... are the cure.
I don't necessarily agree with the final few words, but the rest are accurate.
How about posting a screenshot of the anti-malware warning so we can be aware of it. I recently had to remove a piece of cruft from a user's laptop which, as far as I can tell, came from a Flash ad.
Since I know this user doesn't go to random bobssoftware.com sites, it had to come from an ad or a compromised site.
Also, would it have killed the editors to go to the source rather than some blog which scraped the source site?
goes through the aspects of intelligent design and the discrimination that occurs in the scientific culture
The discrimination is well-deserved since, in the end, the best thing anyone proposing Intelligent Design can say is, "Some mystical power, that we can't identify, test for or measure, is responsible for everything."
So how exactly is that science? If you can't identify it, test it or for it, or measure it, it's not part of what we know to be reality.
EVERY scientific hypothesis or theory ever devised fell under one or more of the above. All the theories regarding gravity, light, infections, digestion, the way objects move in a vacuum, were all tested over the centuries using the scientific method.
So tell me, how is one supposed to test for an omnipotent and omniscient being?
So that's why Micheal left. He knew the Feds were closing in.
There have been many, many studies into this, and there is no evidence to suggest that what you say is the case.
Really? So I guess the medical community is completely wrong when they say residual effects of marijuana can stay in your system anywhere from 20 hours to 10 days, meaning you are impaired for that time, right?
Smoke a joint on Sunday night, come in with the residual effects on Monday still in your system. Yeah, nothing wrong with that. I like having to deal with stoners in addition to the morons who can't follow simple directions such as don't press the red button.
It's time to grow up and think for yourself.
I did. I looked at the studies not done by High Times. The residual effects of marijuana use are real, whether you want to believe them or not. I don't need to deal with people who think it's okay to come in buzzed and not thinking clearly.
How about you grow up and realize that doing shit like that affects those around you.
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what business is it of an employer if someone likes to smoke a doobie or two on the weekends?
Because I don't want the guy who's running the forklift to have impaired functionality when he's moving a half ton (or more) of equipment.
If you don't think there are any lingering effects from smoking a joint or two on the weekend when you come to work, you've obviously been smoking the stuff.
Put another way, do you want the guy who's programming the software for your mother's heart monitor to be smoking that shit?* How about the guy who codes the braking software for your car?
*This all depends on how wealthy your mother is and whether you want her around.
You were doing good up until this point:
However real life if Microsoft make a better more secure product the better everyone is.
IE almost invariably is behind everyone else in terms of security. Don't believe me? Go to Secunia and look at how many unpatched vulnerabilities IE has and compare that figure to Fx, Safari or Chrome. Last time I checked, Fx had 0 unpatched vulnerabilities while IE had 12 or so (the number may have changed).
While it is nice Microsoft is FINALLY following the standards like everyone else, to say they are more secure than everyone else is disingenuous.
"Google needs to hire some competent UI experts."
Maybe they can hire the folks who did the Windows 7 interface.~
these are the same people who plastered the lot where I park at work with bright green fliers advertising their service, that should tip people off to the type of company they are.
Unless you're a chinese restaurant or a pizza joint, if you have to advertise by putting fliers on people's cars, you're not a real business.
Except there is a huge flaw in Outlook which, if people continually open attachments rather than than save them, causes them not to be able to open any attachment. Those temp files never get deleted. That's a flaw which has not been corrected since day one.
Today I had to configure a new user on a W7 machine. It took me over half an hour to make it look and act as close as possible to XP. There is no way configuring a profile should take that long. Ten minutes tops.
And to change the default location of documents one no longer can go to the My Documents folder (which doesn't exist), instead, you have to go to the Start button, select the user, change the location and remove the secondary location. WTF??!!!!!
And what the hell is up with Libraries?
And yes, you can see everything as far as programs are concerned. It's been done since Day 1 of Windows. It's called Add/Remove Programs. One could see everything that was installed from there. No longer. Now you have to make a choice of what you want to see, but not both at the same time.
I could go on but the bottom line is Windows 7 sucks. Big time. This push to have everything in a cloud and available everywhere is creating huge security holes, combined with the inability for people to do their jobs because there is no logical or semi-logical way to know where things are located or how to change your system. I will go to Linux before I have my own machine with Windows 7 on it.
I don't want to search. That is the whole point.
An OS is not a search engine. It is supposed to provide you with the means to get at what you want without having to search.
Further, the new design prevents one from seeing everything at one time. I want to see every program installed on the system. Not one list for programs and one list for updates. Everything at one shot.
I shouldn't have to hunt around for how to turn off the fade-in effects by going to a menu system completely unrelated to display settings.
When I tell it to revert to the classic look (i.e. no shitty link clicking) I want EVERYTHING to revert. Not a piece here and there.
It's shitty interfaces like this which have made people lazy and even more stupid when it comes to computers. Between allowing people to open attachments directly from emails to making everything a link, Microsoft has borked any semblance of coherency.
I'm willing to give praise where it is due (the ability to change the shutdown button to Restart as the default should resolve several issues around here), but when one creates an abomination akin to punch the monkey, the programmers deserve to be punched.
sometimes more like talking to an overly-literal government bureaucrat who just doesn't get you.
Or like talking to a programmer who doesn't understand you don't care if the interface to an OS is cool or edgy, you just want to be able to get to things without having to click a dozen different links or burrow down some menu until you near the center of the Earth. *cough*Windows7*cough*
Or like talking to a web designer who doesn't understand that you don't care if the buttons fade in and out or they can create a transparent entry box using javascript, you just want to get to the information you need without being assaulted by the latest and greatest web design. *cough*VerizonBillPay*cough*
I have had to deal with several of these over the last two months or so here at work (a state agency). The people that get them swear they were on legitimate sites when they got the same infection you mention. This is probably true as we do block what sites people can visit.
After a while of deleting files it just became easier and faster to rename their profile, create a new one and move their bookmarks and anything from their desktop to the new profile. Once done, delete the old profile.
Of course, since our CIO hates anything that isn't Microsoft, we can't install Fx or anything else (though we have done so for select people and some of us in the IT area have it installed) so we will continue to get these infections.
and I'd much rather know that there was no way anything was getting in to the stadium that shouldn't be there.
Then there is a very simple solution: everyone who wants to get into an event must strip completely and put their pile of clothes and things into the x-ray machine before they walk through a metal detector.
This solves both problems: nothing that shouldn't get in does, and you aren't exposed to any radiation (above and beyond the normal background).
I don't see anyone crying because ... Digital cameras replaced film ...
I wouldn't say crying, but the loss of warmth in digital pictures is clearly noticeable. Not to mention the sharp and abrupt cutoff between the subject and background in some digital images.
Then of course we'll never again see the wonderfully luxurious pictures taken on Kodachrome. Without heavy manipulation via Photoshop, I can't see digital ever giving the same feel to a picture.
Okay well, maybe that's just par for the course in Brooklyn.
It's not in Brooklyn (yet). It's in Manhattan.
And yes, that's what many of the old arcades used to look like (well, maybe not THAT bad).
Hell, lets just shave our heads and paint bullseyes on them now, to save the mechanical sky-gods the trouble
Such as this:
Automatic sniper
With computer sights
Scans the bleak horizon for its victim of the night