I'm reminded of a comment in Practical Wireless very many years ago.

"... but when it's smaller than the knob to turn it on, what's the point?"

The thing is, almost all the UIs I've seen are pretty dire... and they are getting worse, not better.

Nooo!

They can't take December away. I'm one of those strange people who likes their family.

If you want to see how far we've gone backwards stick a copy of DR-DOS on a modern computer (bit of a fiddle, but do-able) and run some stuff on it. Then weep at how much more productive and responsive it is than anything on any modern OS. And yes, that include Linux.

To paraphrse...

Plugs expand to fill the sockets available for their insertion.

My work bench has 4x6way extension sockets, and I still run out!

Considering that more and more services, both commercial and mandated government, are only available via the internet I can foresee the time when such a prohibition would actually force the person to break the law.

There is only one deserving 'new' word

Embuggerance

I was wrong

It's even worse that I thought, as the other previous commentards seem to have noticed.

Being a contrary bugger...

I've just bought a brand new made to order high performance machine.

I like to think I'm a musician (others may disagree) and recently found I was hitting the sides of my 5 year old dual core athlon, however, being the cheapskate that I am, this will be re-purposed as my 'office' machine, and the current 7-8 year old one held in storage for a while till I'm sure everything is settled, then cleaned out and passed on to whoever may want it.

Simple economics - they think

If you don't have the repair manual, you'll just have to buy a new one won't you. Even if you're in the trade it's an expensive nightmare trying to get service manuals.

I don't see being forced to trust anyone as particularly good news.

They gone dunnit again

Our gubbmint appears to be about to exceed their previous level of stupidity.

So instead of being taken to the cleaners, they were sent to the tailors (savile row)

He was an idiot, but immature, so he'll likely grow out of that.

The court doesn't have the excuse of immaturity.

America seems to have turned cruel punishments into an art form.

Head in hands

I feel sorry for all the genuine claiments out there. They are in for a terrible time.

The scroungers will of course find ways to make a killing out of the situation

Maybe I'm getting old and senile (don't answer that!), but can somebody explain exactly what is being said here.

Sorry I'm late. I had to deal with a customer who wondered if i could just...

In other news

Old people are likely to die fairly soon.

Pure authoritative vindictiveness, nothing else.

Utterly disgusting.

Pictures are childish

So is Apple (in lots of respects).

I find it curious that the authorities in the US seem to be determined to not investigate the security of their voting systems. There seem to be so many relatively obvious flaws in the current procedure you just can't help wondering if there is a hidden agenda.

Personal detai.. NO!

Am I diong it wrong?

Just checked my own 'pooter which is loaded to the gills with 'stuff'.

OS+apps = 7G

user data = 36G

This is in fact entirely in keeping with their modus operandi. They have never listened to their userbase. Anyone here tried making a suggestion? I know of a very practical one put to them years ago. First they ignored the submitter. Eventually, almost in as many words, they told him to go away and stop bothering them.

The idea... Drag-and-drop file saving RISC OS style, with example code showing how it could be integrated into the exisiting file manager.

It's just so good to see insufferable arrogance properly rewarded.

I suppose they will now follow up with a petulant sulk and ignore their critics... again.

Definitely one of the best. Obviously recorded exactly as it happened!

Clearly, nobody told the kids they were not supposed to be able to hack the machines, so they just went ahead and did it.

I would have thought that the users would be even more confused if they see a different browser for each site they visit or application they use.

This situation isn't going to improve, so just bite the bullet and move to standards compliant systems. A bit of pain now will save a lot of agony later.

Sauce

Goose, Gander

Reorganise as appropriate.

In a way this is actually better than if there had been no problems at all. They have now proved that they can work round at least some faults.

Quite a special guy. I don't think I would have survived all that mistreatment.

I remember a comment made in the memoirs of a psychiatrist involved in the debriefing of the Japanese POWs. It was something like:

"After what they have suffered, these men are entitled to be just as crazy as they like, and the rest of us should make allowance for them."

Fanbois to the left of me,

extremists to the right.

Here I am,

stuck in the middle anew

This was entirely predictable.

Nuff Sed.