Posts by Nameless Faceless Computer User

I have a question

Why does Microsoft feel the need to spend $1,500,000,000 on Win8 marketing when they use their usual tactics to insure that Win8 will be THEE ONLY operating system available bundled with a new PC?

Great. How many applications and hardware drivers will this latest release break?

Not surprising as Siemen's vision for the future is "Make more money this year than we did last year." One of the worst, evil, greedy companies on the planet.

yea right

The iPhone 5 is the first iPhone which really lives up to the hype. I still wouldn't stand in line for one, but FedEx was nice enough to hand me one on Friday afternoon. It's fast, amazing, better everything. The power connector is a scam, tho.

It's just software

WinXP is software, not a banana. If it were a banana it would get old, rot, and die. It's software. There's nothing wrong with "old" software.

I just don't get it

I visited AT/T's website, clicked pre-order, now I'm waiting patiently for the phone to be delivered in a week or two. Why do people still find it necessary to camp outside the stores? On slim chance they'll get one in their hands a few days earlier, they'll have to deal with the server crashes, network outages, and have no phone coverage for hours or days while millions of people grab the latest Apple Gizmo. It's just waaaay too much drama.

To all of you, thank-you so much for beta-testing the phones and working out the ios bugs before mine arrives.

No customer support whatsoever

I once had problems with Google Wallet. I searched for a phone number or email to contact Google about the problem. They have zilch, nadda, nothing. They can't be bothered to talk to "little people" who have problems 'cause customer service support costs time and money.

I deleted my Google Wallet account and removed my credit card information. I say, Good luck with dat.

Visual Studio used to be a great IDE. Now, it gets all entangled with the rest of the operating system, is constantly going out to the Net, and the off-line help pages have been destroyed. Want help with the syntax of an API? No longer can you simply click help. Now, asking for help brings you to the MSN Forums along with many others all asking the same question, "What is up with this?"

sure

Technology has been around for years. They used to sell electronic kits to build at home to measure voice stress. It's very unreliable, more of a parlor trick than anything else.

I've got a question

How can a SCADA system be allowed to become infected? Why would anyone use Microsoft software where security is important? ok, that's two questions.

Good try

Chrome has improved greatly over the years. However, on my Mac it continues to misbehave. While I'm idle, it goes out to the Internet and continues to pull in many megabytes of data. I block it with Little Snitch. It finds a way around the blocks. I finally had to pull the bugger.

Before I pulled it, I tired the "sync" function. After spending hours organizing my bookmarks, Chrome trashed them when I logged on with a different machine.

Chrome sucks.

yea right

1) There's a difference between an export restriction vs. a retail restriction.

2) In the past, Apple has paid shoppers to stand in line and make it appear they were having difficulties buying the latest gizmo.

3) Myself, I have personally experienced being turned down by an individual store to purchase a popular product. I walked out and purchased it elsewhere. No tears. No news stories. No drama.

4) Waiting a few weeks or a few months often resolves out-of-stock or unavailable "issues."

suggestions with no force of law

re: suggestions with no force of law - American based corporations have no issues with doing anything legal, or marginally legal. So... nice words falling on deaf ears.

Except, of course,

Except of course if you happen to own an iPhone 3gs. Yes, ios6 will run on it. No, you are being punished for not having an iPhone 4 since Apple disables turn-by-turn directions for those of you haven't upgraded to the very latest model.

bwaa haa haa

It's a "DOT COM!" Of course the stock price fell. For those of you who do not follow ancient history, it was the "Dot Com's" which crashed the stock market in 2000.

spyware in disguise

Chrome took over my Mac and began uploading/downloading many megabytes of unknown data. I added rules to the firewall to get it to stop contacting chrome.google.com, support.google.com, and client.google.com - but, Chrome would find a away to get past the firewall. It also trashed all my bookmarks.

Ya know... Firefox 12 isn't bad. Good-bye Google!

Thieves and liars

Ah, Best Buy. I purchased a monitor from their website, downloaded the $50 rebate form, and picked it up at the store to save shipping. I asked them for another rebate form in the store. I was told it was only available through the website. Fair enough. I went back to download the rebate form again, but the rebate offer had changed to $75 and I missed the deadline.

Confused, I sent both the $50 and $75 rebate forms to the manufacturer who failed to honor the rebate. I called them on the phone to ask what the issue was? They told me that no such rebate offer was ever made. The actual rebate was $70, which to their credit they honored. Best Buy had been feeding me bogus rebate offers.

I googled this to discover they've been bouncing bogus rebate offers in other states as well.

Their cables are marked up 100x over cost. Their return policy is, "Once we have your money we don't know you." Yea, go out of business already.

Trademark infringement? China? oh, against Apple? Sorry, cannot wrap brain around this concept.

public confidence

public confidence? I think not. Google Wallet comes with zero customer support, zero tech support, and no phone number to call with the thing swallows your banking information. I'm "done" with Google Wallet.

It is a myth that sugar causes diabetes. It does not cause Type I diabetes. It does not cause Type 2 diabetes. The real health risk is fat, provided to us in processed foods and fast food provided by large corporations.

This provides evidence that Steve was really an android built by Apple whose firmware could not run on their new Lion operating system.

Never again

I had a problem with Google Wallet and visited the website to call the phone number. There is no phone number. I tried to find an email address to write to. There is no email address. There is a javascript'd form submission which will pass your request on directly to the merchant, but you cannot speak to the gods who hold your financial information. I wrote to support at Google but the email bounced.

I removed all my banking information from Google Wallet and will never use it again. Good luck to anyone else who has to speak to the Google gods.

No surprises here

I used to work for that company. Yea, they are that bad. Their "business plan" for "next year" is to make more money than "last year." That plan made it into a Powerpoint side, meaning that someone actually spent time thinking that up.