I want an operating system...

Not a computer that needs psychoanalysis to get it working.

You know like "The ON button" and "The OFF button".

But noooooo the management of Microsoft, insist that you stick the tooth brush up your arse to clean your teeth...

This is what an epic idiot trip their OS's and software have become.

Stupid new ways, to do plain old things.

For the profit margin that's why. For the profit margin.

Re: Deep breath now...

"when MS also admits failure then" --- they have their dick and their head stuck in the same vice.

Re: yes

I can't remember the movie, but it had Charlton Heston as the pyramid builder and ummmmmm that King and I guy as the pharoh ?????? and the whole thing about this was building the Cheops pyramid and then setting off all the intricate internal locking and sealing mechanisms...

Now the kings wife was a schemer, who wanted to get it all when he died... and

The really scarey bit was the locking and sealing mechanism, which included the kings family and priests, all being seated in a sealed room inside the pyramid, and a HUGE rectangular stone block slide down an internal ramp, breaking off these clay cups, in the walls.

As the clay cups broke, sand came pouring of the chambers behind them, and flowed down the slop and into some channels, that excited into the room where the queen and priests were... effectively and eventually, burying them alive inside it.

The queen was rather non plussed when she discovered that she had in fact inherited the kingdom - his after life one, and that she got to join him in it - for eternity.

And I look at all these concrete bunkers and underground chambers, and I think, "Well - these are all just underground tombs.... - and I hope to die, in the middle of a green grassy field under some nice trees."

Re: Fun fact

"Ahhhh Mi Ladds, tis but a mere candle flickering in the cosmic wind. Think of all the fish we can have with our chips if we set it off. All those in favour, say Eye."

EYE.

"Motion carried. Blow it up and bring the nets and rowing boats - tis a great deal we will be needing I tinks."

Re: Sigh..

Remember Pauline Pantsdown?

LOL

Re: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Mmmmmm NASA maffs and sients.

"NASA calculations indicate that a meteoroid probably around 0.4 metres across and massing 40kg-odd barrelled into the lunar regolith going at around 56 thousand mph."

Yes sirrreeee - that was a Oh - dot - oh - four all rightey.... same as a 50 cal, only rounder.

56 thousand miles per hour? x 1.6 = ~90,000Kmh or 24Km a second....

Damn was that hard? No not really. I am not from NASA.

My main 2c worth is that if the average speed of meteors are coming in at about 5 Km a second, and this one is about 5 x as fast....

What are we going to do with the ones that come in at us at that speed... or fastera?

And the biggerestust ones too....

Ommmmmm ohh ahhh....

As the bomb said to the crew, "I think. Therefore I am. Let there be light."

This is the image I came across ages ago... but that one had the caption, "Houston? What the fu......?"

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/pics/201212/18680/1868002/1868002_1354588149.jpg

Re: So...

LOL.......

"Awesome - so totally, totally, fucking awesome!"

(extinction - here we come)

Re: Windows

Despite YEARS of pure ignorant arrogance - total belligerence, absolute total belligerence, on behalf of Microsoft's management towards WE the (now ex) consumers.....

With our billions of legitimate complaints about their dirty tactics to keep imposing stupid ideas on us, as well as the totally unethical leverages to make people stay on the upgrade cash cow, I never thought I would see the day, that the bastards who run this company, had received such a beating for another utterly stupid set of ideas, that this would appear in print:

"Last week, Windows group chief marketing and financial officer Tami Reller was finally handed the white flag and given the job of walking out into no man's land with a mea culpa to deliver from Microsoft: she confirmed the company will shift from "no compromises" on Windows' new Metro design to reinstating the familiar desktop Start menu."

Fancy that.... it must have taken so much market pressure, for them to have been forced into taking ONE tiny little back step in imposition......

I hope the entire Microsoft executive gets served Kool Aid by Ballmer at the next meeting.

Re: @ First Direct have it right...

Yes - try contacting people in a business like Australia Post for instance.....

Professional stone walling antics to the max, no middle management, just loads of clueless drones on the front line and nothing else.

You can tell the general attitude of a company and it's management, who view customer service, and contact, as a thing that is to be viewed as an unnecesary cost / hassle etc., where 99% of them will give up and go away, if the methods used to contact them are so well hidden, minimised, convoluted, and just as totally difficult as they can be, AND they usually dump you into a foreign call centre.... filled with clueless drones....

Me: "HI I want to enquire about establishing an account."

Them: "Excuse me sir, what is your account number."

(groan - this is going to be a long day.)

"Hi can you divert my call to the offices in Sydney Australia?"

"Sorry sir I cannot do that sir."

In Australia, we have Telstra, Optus, Mastercard - to name a few.

Master Card are a particularly outstanding example of how to piss customers right off - "We are the big shiny happy corporation - eager to do business with you." - their adds lie, while backed up with a complete lack of phone numbers, for any people in any countries.

The service is just fucking appalling......

The other issue is why do these smart corporate types, pick the stupidest of people to place on the front line? - which is the very area to have your smartest and most mentally agile people?

Why are their human relations depts filled with clots who's idea of customer service is based on a home life of "Neighbors" (evil Australian soap show), and the general IQ is of the nasty girls in the playground playing one-up manship over the others....

I have also had HUGE fights with companies who have endless robot phone systems, complete with great, happy, shiny, shiny fucking advertisments - running several minutes, before you get to the actual robot button pressing games.

And then we have the likes of Microsoft....

Re: I really get tired of this bemoaning 'evolution instead of revolution'

So where is your input as to where, when, how and in what form, will he next amazingly amazing step come?

Personally I am so amazed that I can hardly wait for my POX basic 3G phone to expire after another battery or two - and I will have to get a new phone then.... in hopefully 3 to 5 years.

6 years will be better, and 7 years will be remarkable.

I will have to replace it eventually, as I can only sodder so many external connecctions and replace key switches, while my phone becomes the technical equivalent of a Edison wax cylinder in a gramophone store.

Re: I agree... In all honesty BUT...

The truth is that Microsoft's "innovation" stopped at XP and Office 2003.

There are sort of fundamental things, like hammers and nails.. that once they reach a certain degree of technical proficiency, any improvements from then on, are generally cosmetic.

And really, Office 2007 and the IDIOT non removable ribbon, was just window dressing on a shit product.

Docxs ? was just a way to force all the people without the newest version of MS Office, to go and upgrade to the latest version.

Windows 8? In looking at XP, how many REAL technical improvements, were genuinely needed to move the product with the times and advances in technology, security and functionality?

Without getting too hair splitty - underneath all the hype and bullshit, it's probably about the same as giving your car a full service, with a grease and oil change, new plugs, filters and a clean up.

In other words, not a lot.

From XP and Office 2003 onwards, 95% of these "improvements" have been made solely to keep people on the upgrade tread mill.

The Microsoft Operating System, and MS Office, kind of reached their technical epoch, just like the Hammer and the nails did, a long time ago.

Re: iTunes

US Ambassador.

Stooge Gangster, telling others what the Mob wants us to do.

Guns, stand over merchants, and murders politely left at home on the first visit.

US State Dept needs to be renamed to something more sincere, like "We kill you's if you wana fuck wid us."

Re: Given that the US dollar is actually worthless

Yeah OK... Gold for US dollars.

Your on.

Re: And the spin-offs ..

Shit - I wonder just how much we will all remember, after we are all dead and gone, a million or even a billion or perhaps even a trillion years from now?

It will be depleting the fires of hell....

Then Satan all the demons will catch cold and move up here into the sunlight, in an effort to stay warm.

However, if they rise and go to the sun, where it is very warm, we risk demonic orgies and devil breeding, until the face of the sun is covered in evil spirits, and the light shall go out, casting the earth into darkness for all eternity.

So on the principle of scientific fact based faith, I call for the closure of the pathway to hell and prayers for redemption - and tax free income for the first $100 million for my church.'

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Re: Eh?

Oh bullshit - your life is your life, so be it.

Lester has done what he thought right. People would whinge if he had a shit and they would whinge if he didn't.

"OH Lester had a shit - it's a put down for all down trodden impoverished people. blah, blah, blah...."

"OH Lester didn't have a shit - it's a put down for all down trodden impoverished people. blah, blah, blah...."

If the posters original posting, had been left up, people would have applauded the commentary.

If the posters original posting, had been left up, people would have denounced the commentary.

Personally I like the more imaginative postings..... whether they are crap or not.

If it's great, read it, if it's crap, tune out, read something else.

End of fucking story.

Re: Rogue: Dungeons of Doom

Oh christ....

After seeing that green image of the enterprise, I am having severe non LSD based flash blacks...

Christ.... I am fucked... need to lie down.

Given that the US dollar is actually worthless

And thanks the US Federal Reserve (private bank with official sounding name) and it's fractional lending scam, the USA has trillions in debts, loans and interest that can never ever be paid on money that never existed, and so when the cash house of cards soon implodes, Apple, and all their worthless shares, composed of worthless money, for their worthless shareholders, will all evaporate.

So "Hooo Haaaa" for the Great American Delusion.

And "OMG - Were Doomed - Eat the children" when it comes.

Re: Glass is not a liquid

Many of them were very good at making glass.

It was the time, and the technology, and the methods used.

At the time, people were happy with it too...

But thanks to massive industrialisation, high speed glass plants, and production lines, more or less flawless float glass is coming off the liquid tin filled tanks - which incidentally, "on the float" the liquid glass has the same curvature, as the earth.

But glass does flow under gravity - based upon it's temperature.

Re: Glass is a solid - simple experiment

Decades old is not centuries old.

And you have not had them tested have you, and almost no body, no where, has the testing gear to test them, have they.

If Jesus can blast off into low earth orbit without rockets, then glass can be thicker at the bottom too.

Re: gamers and pirates

As was online porn - above traditional printed paper porn - said the religious.

Re: I fell for a scam like this ...

Prostitutes, Pornos, and Anonymous One Night Stands are cheaper.

Re: "...engineers have had no luck as yet at restoring control."

LOL

Re: Love it.

Why shit can things before you try them?

I think, based upon what I have read, that this MIGHT actually be a very useful thing.

BUT....

If I want to do computing, or internetting research / porn / etc., sit down with a real computer / netbook and do it. Desk + coffee etc.

I don't know... I do LIKE intelligent tech, but I'[d have to have one and become reasonably proficient with it to actually comment on it.

But sometimes too... it's NICE to leave all the tech at home and just go without it for a day or two here and there.

But there is nothing like internetting, while talking on the phone with clients / making purchases and sales... etc., as well.

If it can run with ADD BLOCKING and other things to remove all the bullshit and to keep it as a purely functional device..

If it's done like that - it will be great. If it's done as an add saturated stuck to your face magazine, then I think it will fail.

Re: Re "famous Neil Gaiman"

Fucking priceless....

"If I might be permitted to make my own suggestions, I think bookshops should also install sofas and coffee machines, and invent a process for ordering out-of-stock titles that doesn’t involve queueing for half an hour to speak to a 17-year-old fuckwit who can’t spell or use a mouse. I have spent less time waiting at a DIY store Customer Services counter."

Targetted advertising on YOUR phone?

No shit.

The bastards just don't let up.

Makes note to self. "Do not buy any Google "toilet paper" advertising products".

Just the mere mention of Steve Jobs....

Makes me feel like decomposing in a box too.

Re: Top Gear? AND Voina - and their 65 meter cock on a russian draw bridge.

http://ss-burnout.com/2013/02/05/ive-just-found-the-single-reason-why-you-should-watch-series-19-of-top-gear-uk/

Google. Images:

Voina cock russian drawbridge

Bingo.

Re: too late

Quote: "About the only difference is that "killer robots" presumably have, (is) a shorter loiter time than your average WWII mine,"

Hmmmmmm the worlds 3 biggest industries are sex, drugs and guns.....

It's too profitable.

And dropping autonomous killer bots by parachute into a country, is not an issue, because not much will be heard about it, and every one in that country who does not like being invaded and shot up, must actually be a terrorist, and they get in the way of the cheap (stolen) oil, then they actually interfere with bringing peace and democracy to their country.

We can't allow that. The reason why we send in the bots, is because we care, we care for the hearts and minds of the nations that are ruled by democratically elected tyrants, who oppose our foreign policy, armies and corporate bank robbers.

Re: Wow

Yahhhhh HUGE, really, really, really - ultra fucking huge.

Ummm Space Elevators are easy.

Get ONE thread up, in whole or in part, then get up a counter weight - a very small one, enough to allow a second thread to be pulled up.

Then add more threads, more counter weight, etc., etc., etc...

1000Km sections, glue on the overlapping joints.... easy.

Once the thread is strong enough, and the counter weight is enough to take it from a goat track into a single lane highway.....

Away we go.

10 metric ton loads.....

Re: Space elevators simply won't work. Never.

No it won't... it will stay as tight as a string.