Posts by Howard Hanek

The Avatar Says It All

I remember years past all the software audits for corporate users where the MS Rep had the fires going days in advance to burn 'violators' at the stake and prepare the bill to present to IT.

Question

Were those peculiar binoculars a relic from the Monty Python show?

Pirates Did It Better

.....they had the drama of 'Walking the Plank' while cruising shark infested waters. Perhaps when IBM relocates all their facilities to India they'll revive the tradition.

Architecture

......resembles a pair of trousers with a trap door 'feature' you don't often see anymore.

They must be popular in and around Redmond though.

They Were Just Being Polite

....and returned his BACKPACK........

Desktop Takeover

It's impossible NOT to notice that MS's W10 demands to take over your desktop and reset all application defaults to their products whether you want to or not. Then comes the 'software subscription' and loss of control over the 'fees' which can then be raised as high as the market will bear.

No thanks. That sexy interface comes at a price. Corporate users have leverage. Individuals don't have much and they been weaned on gimmicks like 'clicky' and frightened away by the complexities of an OS that resembles a gigantic serving of spaghetti.

There are options, good ones with their 'price' being a learning curve for a standard desktop system software that predates MS-DOS and Windows and it's really not onerous at all and offers a community of millions solving common problems. I expect 'finally' that Unix/Linux growth will outpace Windows as the OS of choice. Because 'choice' is what MS is out to destroy.

Any Correlation to Vampires and Zombies Are Coincidential

One of the great things about draining a long time swamp is to uncover all the dead things, the long lost things laying sometimes for generations waiting to be finally disposed of properly.

Personally I believe there are way too many zombies and vampires in government........period and THEY dislike change.

Lots of Bs In There

"Brexit-bored Brits back to bashing the bishop after ballot box blues"

I thought football was the national sport?

Let The Best Propaganda Machine Win!

.....isn't THAT really how all this works?

The French ARE Jumping the Gun

....the French language will be soon be replaced by Arabic and more Muslims speak English as a second language than French so..........

A Modest Proposal

It's "......lets eat the children" time again in Great Britain. Let's replace all laws and elections with a system that gauges emotional metrics to be under the supervision and control of Liberals and Leftists. That should solve ALL our problems.

Reel?

You must have meant........get real? Tech companies HAVE been reeling....IT in and now they must get real, surely.

My Name is Different

I call the MS browser "The Edge of Oblivion"

Dare I Say It?

....out of a tiny acorn a mighty oak tree grows. There! Now I feel better having gotten THAT off my chest.

Oak trees also don't suffer from 'exploding nipples'.

It's Abused

The rule WAS .......One free phone per household.

I commonly see poor people paying with a Welfare EBT with five or six 'free' phones.

A Universal Problem in the 21st Century

.....too many nuts........not enough bolts.

...with an overabundance of wingnuts.....

Simpler Times

....when patch Tuesdays led to quilting Wednesdays and something good to show for it......

Proper Response

That revered Irishman, Jonathan Swift told us how to handle a Gulliver washed up a Lilliputian beach. Bring plenty of rope.

He was just data gathering too.

History Repeats Itself

Let me guess? Something about synergies and getting ahead of the curve and being on the right side of history.

The same thing Time/Warner and AOL's CEO's said........

Medusa Was A Mere Dilettante

Microsoft turns entire companies into stone and then sells them off for the price of the cartage.

Medusa Was a Dilettante

Microsoft turns entire companies into stone and then sells them off for the price of the cartage.

My Question

The pols.....are they creating a straw man or a rag doll or will the 'solution' be an application of lipstick on a pig?

Puns Intended

HDS - they're a pole apart from the competition. (PS the North Pole is cold but the SP is colder)

HDS - they're so cool they make liquid nitrogen seem like boiling water

HDS - just got the warehouse bill for all the unsold equipment and it exceeded their R&D budget?

New Song Title

"Do You Know the Way From San Jose"

Protection

Can one purchase a gas mask and protective clothing against the 'cloud'. Are there treatments available if exposed? Are there any medical facilities that specialize in the treatment of the disease or are THEY already infected?

Complelling?

You'd have to hypnotize, sedate and compel me first on threat of death or severe bodily harm.

It's Unfair I Tell You!

A plot by British Public Schools to rule the world using all those ancient language skills that have been rendered useless for anything but conspiracies.

An Easily Recognizable Analogy

Windows XP = Living Room Picture Window

Windows 7 = Bedroom Window

Windows 10 = Bathroom Window

The farce continues

......meanwhile in the US pols continue to circumvent security in order to bypass the FOIA and represent the biggest threat to their nation's security with the full knowledge of the bureaucracy.

Mystery Solved

.....I was curious about WHY you never hear of any of our drones using MS software.........

Secret Weapon Against ISIS?

Programmed and dropped by the millions over ISIS controlled territories to permit a sneak attack while everyone is busily trying to call each other or decipher them?

Finland

Dear MS Board of Directors: You could have purchased the entire nation of Finland for what was lost on Nokia and at least have gone a long way to establishing a monopoly on reindeer to show for it.

Upper Management Requirement

Top tier IBM managers are required to have the ability to say 'you're fired' in twenty six languages.

Backups Are Important

.....and necessary today.

Hey! If Every Clout Heavy Pol Can Lie We Can Too!

.....let's go to the video tape then shall we?

Another 'Benefit' of Windows 10

...so the customers pay for all the testers MS layed off and they make Windows 10 more profitable for them in the future?