Hmmmm a rather ho-hum article....

If I could have a super computer, the size of a shelled peanut, with all the software that you could ever possibly think that you could want, with an atomic battery that ran it for 10,000 years, with an IBM Model M keyboard, and a 23" screen - if not 3 or 4 of them....

And it had a recording studio quality PA system - with a thousand plugs, jacks, 5 miles of leads and cables, and lots of really nice speakers and all...

And a set of super dooper High Def spy satellite cameras....

And I could run at least 19 different operating systems on it simultaneously, with a trillion Terror Bites of infinitely incorruptable storage..........

And it had news paper printing press capabilites of volume and speed, in photographic grade imaging, with ZERO TCO in terms of ink, paper and toner supplies.......

And it would fold up into a match book sized device, and weigh under 5 grams, and sit in my wallet beside my credit card - I would be immensely fucking happy.

But tough shit......

We live in a world filled with compromises.....

And fuck it - this is just how it goes.

(glumly accepts reality check to fantasy)

Re: This is a public service...

Manganese.....

I am the only person in the world, who perchanced on an offcut of MANGANESE STEEL, and made a post hole digger out of it....

It has an intermediate stainless steel overlay welded on the teeth faces, with a very, very, hard "tool steel / earth moving / rock crusher" hard facing alloy welded on top of that.

6mm steel plate? Fuck this is hard putting it through the hand rollers..........

Nearly bursted the machine and self, was so hard to roll.

Tis a good post hole digger though.

If you have the muscle, you can cut through rock with it.

Re: New Orderly Worlds in CHAOS

Errrrr? What?

Re: Out of that entire article

Yes and I am THE one who coined the term, "Wikipedia Nazi Moderator" - because many of the moderators I have run across are just shit head little tyrants, running their own little pages and groups just like the neo-nazi arse licking cretins in the third reich.

Imagine say someone writing a page about John Lennon (of the Beatles), and for some reason he is actually alive, he reads the page, says, "Ere By Gum Laddes, Twern't born in Derbyshire, was born in T's Clappam, owt' was T Grand Master of Eccy Thump too, Eeeee - better correct it - Ere Bah Gum!"

So he does, correct the information about himself in the Wikipedia page... and so 5 minutes and 22 seconds later the idiot Wikipedia Nazi Moderator comes along and says:

Delete, Delete, Delete, Delete

Edit, Edit, Edit, Edit,

Delete, Delete, Delete, Delete

Edit, Edit, Edit, Edit,

"John Lennon of the Beatles was born in Derbyshire and played with dollies his whole life."

Wikipedia Nazi Moderators and their stinking little turf wars, and now this?

In Australia we had "The Dodgy Brothers", and Wikipedia has it's Arsehole Nazi Moderators...

The Dodgy Brothers were actually a comedy send up of all the discount salesmen on TV selling crap.

Nice to see the Nazis have taken up the Dodgy Brothers style of spruiking...

"Yesss We are Sooooo Poooor at Wikipedia, our Pricks of the Thousand Year Empire have run out of editor... vandal.... Yes so give us all your money, we need more because we have got non, and our personal Leer Jets need to be converted to run on biofuel... because we are an ethical company....

And ummmm We are really good and we help kids cheat in tests and all that.... so give us all your money..."

Re: Bit dramatic

Yeah until you are THE one, that has to do it.

3,000 old perfectly fine *.doc files, that need to be copied as is and backed up, AND THEN converted and individually checked, as some of them have graphics, notations, formatting, headers and other "funny things" just just do not get updated or updated correctly when the need arises.

Let me see, that is about 2 or 4 weeks worth of time spent on that - why? Just because the arseholes in Microsoft want to play fucking cash grabbing games, and fucking you around in the process.

It's a major anger issue of mine is that I hate being involved in a contract for the supply of goods and services, that ends up fucking me around and costing me BIG time in the process.

"Ohhh the $200 worth of software, just caused me $20,000 in lost revenue and 4 weeks of my time? - because the arseholes in Microsoft just want to keep right on fucking me around."

This falls into the problems caused by makers of shitty hard drives and other fucking crap.

"Ohhhhh 70% of all your work done in Version C, does not open and format correctly in Version D...."

And all the documents are important, and 20% of them critically so.......

A bit sensationalist? I don't think so.

Ahem

You do not BUY it, you pay for a license to USE IT.

It's not YOUR software, you can't reverse engineer is, decompile it.. blah, blah, blah etc...

And this is from a company, full of people STUPID enough to FORCE you to have 1/3 of you VALUABLE screen space, permanently taken up with a list of functions, that for the most part, never to rarely ever get used.

With NO way to set it back to a minimalist filing system list.

If I archived every legitimate grievance with Microsoft, and the fucking bullshit - of badly configured, designed and set up, or functioning software they have supplied, and all the fucking angst and time wasting that this has created, then the list would be lengthy much.

*Microsoft is like anal sex with sand in your Vaseline. Linux is like life without Microsoft.

Re: MS shoots own foot shocker

I upvoted this twice....

Once because it makes sense, the second because I hate MS and their proprietary bullshit software anyway.

I mean really - Outlook was / is such a piece of shit that that I went to Thunderbird.

Except for archival reasons - that is it's only remaining reason for existence.

Gmail gets all the business now.

Fuck Microsoft though..... anything they do is worthy of criticisim, whether I understand it or not.

Outlook is a piece of shit - hands down. I have hated that for years and I have also refused to use it for years.

It's a really ineptly put together piece of software.

Add in all the ribbon and the other bullshit....

The more the issues of Microsoft adding in more "lack of backward compatibility", are raised, the more my irritation forments.

My enthusiasm for Microsoft office, stopped at 2003......

And really beyond that, I think in a real world surmisation, that all the TRUE developments since then, could be listed in point form an in about 6 lines.

Beyond that....

Re: Feeling guilty? Bah!

Ummm no....

Shoving endless fucking adds in my face, for shit that I neither want, need, have asked for, or expressed a genuine interest in, is NOT advertising, it's wasting my fucking time, my screen space, and it annoys the absolute fucking piss out of me.

Without add blocking, web pages and sites would be congested from beginning to end, with utter fucking crap.

These days the ONLY difference between spammers and "fucking advertisers" is that they seem to think that just because they place adds on sites, that a) Your agreeable to them, and b) that you even want their fucking shit, and c) pissing you off with millions and millions and millions of adds for fucking everything, that for the most part I neither want, need or are on my agenda of things I need to buy, is some how going to endear me to them even more.

And the spammers do the same shit, minus the websites.

Fuck - when ever I build a NEW computer, the first things - Firefox and ALL of the add blockers, like "Adblock Plus" and "Element Hider", Flash Block, Javascript Block, Tracking Cookie blocker and one or two other things.

Advertisers are like a flash mob party of drunken young people, all out on the streets, thousands and thousands of them, all yelling to hear themselves above everyone else who is yelling to hear themselves.

And they just don't fucking get it.

People are into shutting the doors and windows, turning the stereo up and tuning into their own trips and ignoring the incessant back ground din.

If I have ONE good bicycle, I don't want or need 5,000 adds an hour, every hour, all day, every day, to buy fucking cars..... that I don't want or need.

I might need ONE new bicycle every 10 years.... so that is like about 500 billion modes of transport adds that I didn't want, need or desired to see, between the events of actually needing a new bicycle, and going buying a new bicycle.

Re: I'm sold

"Windows users were surprised to find that a Microsoft security update stopped fonts from working on their PCs."

I am surprised that their PC's even continued to work.

Download, Update, Reboot = PC Death.

LOL

Linux - I love you....

Re: Funny you should mention 'pantheon'

Ooooo there is the heavenly host, in the Old Testament's book of Genius's - so that means there is a lot of gods there.

There are the 5000 semi, demi and gods in the bardo states.

Everyone one of use that the word of god has been given too, is a god, so about 3 billion people have a giddymans bible (or Mao's little red book will do - thus making it about 4 billion people).

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Ooooooo that is an awful lot of god particles.

Re: @mutatedwombat

Ooooooooooooooooooo NICE rant.....

I do "work" on these devices. Systems administration. Writing. Research. Video and image editing. A squillion types of communications. +++++++ I don't need Microsoft and that – I think – is exactly the point that Goldman Sachs is getting at here. Most of us don't anymore.+++++++++

For the first time in 30 some odd years Microsoft is actually being forced to compete on merit. They are ill equipped to do so. They have institutionalised mistreatment of their customer base to such an extent that they are corporately incapable of rising to the challenge of getting end users excited about their offerings.

Ooooo a splendid rant.

The days where I simply do what I am told, eat what's put in front of me and like it are over. I don't have to learn to use whatever interface Microsoft chooses to foist on me. I don't have to use their codecs or live with their DRM or give up my privacy or use only approved apps from only one walled garden store.

I'm the fucking customer and you will make what I want, or I'll take my custom somewhere else.

We can't all do that, yet. Some of us are locked in to one platform or another. But when you get there, when you finally get there and realise that this is the power you have; the choice that you can actually make…it is intoxicating.

Choice. What a novel concept. About fucking time.

Re: Apple Still Got Mildura Wrong After Update

Too busy wiping the frequent stains off their screens every time a picture of Steve Jobs appears.

Re: What's with the Apple fixation?

Yes but in Jean-eeva in Swatchiland and all that... you gotta remember, this is Austraya mate.....

If you go off the beaten track, to beyond the black stump and all that, you will be in the middle of no where, where there is nuffin and no one......

Except for the drop bears that will eat you alive.

Now the ABOBBI (Australian Bureau of Better Bonzer Ideas) has created a sure fire digital mapping system, that has a permanent memory and uses no batteries or artificial contrivance to develop or maintain the imaging system.

It's call the DPTPMSFAASTDWTGL (Digital Pencil to Paper Mapping System for All Adventurous Sorts That Don't Want to Get Lost).

First we grab a big note book, in one corner of a page we draw a dot with our pencil, and call it, YEWAREAR, then we draw some lines and things, and call them roads, and we name them, then we draw dots, for towns and turn offs and all that, and at the other end we write a big dot with "Bingowemadeit", to show that we made it.

DPTPMSFAASTDWTGL comes with a 2B pencil, a 6B pencil, and a red Columbia correction pencil, and a sharpener and an eraser.

Fits in every glove box and does not blow off the dashboard - except in cyclones when the windows are open or smashed.

Re: Why hasn't the US "brought democracy" to NK yet?

99% of the sheep bleat about the NK doing this or that, is kiss arse bullshit to the US state dept, on foreign policy.

Remember the fucks that run corporation USA, also own the US / global media too.

They don't like people who say no to them raping them, and their countries.

Re: So MS, Apple and Google are forming the patent version of the Legion of Doom?

Watching "Ruins of the Third Reich"....... The Glory Years......

Patents... patents, patents..

I wonder what will have become of them all in another 50 years time?

Re: Bearded man has informed opinion

"Canonical does offer a way to turn the Amazon search results off"

Well:

a) I was not told about it.

b) I was not told that there was a way to stop it.

c) I was entered into a contract with a third party without my knowledge or consent.

d) I was not told offered the opportunity to opt in OR opt out.

e) To add fuel to the issue, while Ubuntu is claimed to be free, and always will be, I object being traded as a pawn for revenue - this being the case, then it's not free is it.

f) And how come they have never informed me of the silent shove in, nor the opt out?

Sleazy.

It's the ethical IQ of Microsofts ribbon.

Re: Siri

Siri?

What about Battery, or Charger?

Hmmmm PC + Cake Mixer

Someone has to lick the blades.

Satan - because she rules the christian world.

Re: Wrong tense.

Why am I feeling so smugly in agreement with you about everything you have said?

Microsoft does very little innovation - 95% of everything they do is just rebox last years shit, put new wrapping paper around it and then change the use by date.

Personally I'd like to see the giant take a fall...... and a mighty dust eating fall it shall be.

A jolly mix of their avarice, and greed tangling up in each other foots boot laces, and my malicious delight.

Linux - because I and my OS is superior.