Posts by Doug Glass

Damn am I glad ...

... I bought a Roku at $49.95. Great little box.

Huh?

I have to scan? I have to update what? Aren't computers smart enough to do this all this themselves? What do you mean my virus definitions are two years out dated? I paid good money for these programs and now they want more? No, absolutely not, I don't want anything free, I want the best you can buy. Yeah, I saw the warning, it kept interfering with my chat session so I nixed it.

That will be $70 thank you. See you soon; have a nice day.

Mum should be glad it wasn't ...

... HSCUITDTBIP

Never Fails

I've always disabled autorun on every installation I've ever done. It never fails to amuse me when people call to say I broke their computer or Windows is broken or some such nonsense. Once I explain why autorun is a security risk I always get positive comments back. When I tell then what to do (for the second time) to run a program or installer on the CD/DVD I get, "I have to do all that just to make it work? How do I make it work the way it used to?", almost every time. I guide them through finding and running the .reg file that will undo the fix (always provide an undo) and they're happy. That is until, once again, their brother-in-law gave then the coolest game that just messed up their computer. I then refer them to several shops that will gladly take their money to fix it for them. "You won't fix it for me?" I just tell them no, I can't help. They never learn and they never fail to ask for help again. I just got too many dumb friends.

If you're going to be dumb ...

... you'd better be tough. Tragic for sure, but when it becomes more important to play with the latest toy than pay attention to what you're doing these events will continue to happen.

Wrong Leg

Too bad he didn't get mortally wounded on the right leg ... "right" as in "correct". Poor bird just didn't kick high enough.

The Corporate Way

When things are going badly, the solution is always to increase the number of managers and executives. What a load of crap ... MS is truly a shining example of the Peter Principle with bottlenecks always forming at the top.

Just what I need

Broken add-ons every three months. Moronazilla needs to get a clue and understand quantity does not equate to quality necessarily.

Trustworthy Services

So their initial frame of mind was to pi$$ on the poor user and remain silent on their ability to make him whole again. Must have been their lunch hour when they made their first statement ... more interested in filling their belly. And now, only since they been made to look like fools and worthless money grubbers have they decided to take some of their precious time and restore his data.

And there are people out there who still think these moronic gutless wonders should be trusted with their data? Oh, this disaster in the making is really going to be fun to watch. Not to mention the hapless users who go down in flames and then display their stupidity to the world.

"Panic"

When the woman said she was about to panic because she wasn't sure she was going to be able to watch her shows that wrapped it all up into one bundle. If you ever try and give someone a 100% new product with no link to the past, you're often doomed to failure. As hard as it may be to believe, people are human and most get programmed by outside influences. To me, commercial TV as it now exists, all forms of it, just simply suck. I hate the condescending, idiot based commercials, and would dearly love to have the choices presented here. The reason there are so many TV commercials is because it works in selling the sheep what they've been told they need. If it's advertised on TV, I generally am suspect of it, but that attitude is rare. I know many people who get their buying habits handed to them via the TV. Even though they have an internet connection, they depend on commercials to tell them what particular item they should buy. Pathetic. They're addicted to the whims of others and laugh when I tell them that. But you let the TV go down and they panic. And when I bring that to their attention, they get angry with me. Of course I just chuckle, and they keep working a non functioning remote. The very best of that sort of entertainment for me are the TV sports fanatics.

Oh well ...

... I guess too many drive failures just pushed buyers to other brands. Maybe Seagate should read the customer reviews and ratings on a few internet seller sites. Bigger may be better, but if your enormous thingy can't finish what you start you may as well not even enter the game.

Or ...

... you could just set up an email account specifically for such things as car quotes. And then ever so often delete all accumulated emails at once since they're just crap after a time anyway. And you could have even done it years ago and you could even set up more than one.

I saw that!

The rotten brown-tooth dissing the greasy beaner. Colonial trash just looooove it.

I'm Just Soooooo Glad ...

... I haven't felt the need to plaster my name all over the internet for something so stupid as this.

Paris because Paris gets plastered all over.

Banning Farting?

Should be captured and used as fuel to make electricity. I can envision receptacles all over, maybe right next to water fountains and fast food places. Imagine the money to be made by mass producing the first commercially viable fart universal capture and kompressions system: FUCKS.

If You Failet 3rd Grade Speelling ...

... this cud be a prolem 4 sur.

Idiot!

You meant to say... "Don't proff whut they right". Old people, the curse of the cybre-wurld. Yeah right. Moron

Some moron ...

... forgot to pay the bill.

Moron

Ditto

BFD

It did what it was intended to do. Way too many people think killing a deer is an error too, but it looks just like success sitting on my plate next to the mashed potatoes and green beans,

Of Course ...

... netbooks will be phased out. So were typewriters and windup watches, corded phone sets, and any number of other products. But along the way, a lot of the "out-phasing" was a very bad idea that cost overconfident corporations a bundle. It'll be fun to watch. Especially for those of us who buy what we need as opposed to buying what we're told we can't live without.

SJ

Regardless of your choices for computers, smart phones and etc., Steve Jobs HAS been a major, major force in the industry. Although I'm personally not an Apple fan (1st home computer was an Apple btw), I recognize his brilliance and business acumen. We need people like Steve Jobs for a whole host of reasons; I hope his influence continues far into the future.

So? What's You Point?

Don't like it? Don't use it. Simple choice a person can make. We on this side of the pond call that freedom of choice. The only Evil Google product worth using is the search engine, and even then TrackMeNot is running full bore. Meh, BFD.

Re: no 'scheduled downtime'

Yep, it'll crash and burn often enough to have time to do any maintenance that could have been scheduled.