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Usually the person on the other end of the phone is the master in a sense...be it a boss that you depend on for a salary, a client you depend on for a check, or a significant other you depend on for ... well, you fill the blank here.
Hence the problem.
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I'm like you. I have a phone but I have never told anyone that I've got it. Hence, no phone calls. If they do happen to find out, I can never remember the phone number when they ask; which is true!
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I have the perfect 'sorry I can't help' solution. Find a nearby pool, lake sea or ocean and go swimming; for hours.
Yesterday I had a very pleasant 1 hour swim across a bay in crystal clear water with not a sound but the occasional laughter from the beach. I also figured out why a module I'm working on keeps deading.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: occasional laughter from the beach.
Dang! People are so mean sometimes! 
Nagy Vilmos wrote: also figured out why a module I'm working on keeps deading
'cause often just stepping away from the problem helps to solve it! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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At work (and occasionally anywhere else) my phone is on quiet... I check calls ans messages when it suits me...
I do not care if someone thinks it is not polite... I do not want to be polite, I want to do my job (or other important things, here and now)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: or other important things
q.v. Faffing about in The Lounge
veni bibi saltavi
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On the top of the list!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You don't have to explain anything. I personally would simply block people who tend to bug me. By your description, the people bug you.
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Perhaps there is an opportunity here... Your cell provider allows you to provide a block of numbers from which any caller wishing to call you during specified period of time are required to pay a absorbent fee (cell provider gets a cut and you get the bulk of which) to allow the call to go though.
NOW...every time the phone goes off during your down time it is a joy to you because you realize that for the $500 you just stiffed them for can still blow them off and go about your things if you choose. And besides more than likely the ones that are calling don't have the authority to spend the cash anyhow so they'll never get authorization in the first place.
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You may be onto something!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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OMG this resonates SOOO Much.
And it's funny. My wife NEVER answers when I call her and acts as though the phone is an OUTBOUND tool for her, but quite the nice little tracking device for me.
If I fail to answer, it's 20 questions.
If she fails to answer, it's "I left it in the car", "I forgot to bring it". When I argue, she adds "You need yours for business"... As if that means I should not turn it off so SHE can call, and if I do, then hold on... Where were you?
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Yeah, I also deal with double standards of that sort! What really bites is when the urgent matter winds up being nothing more than commiseration! (she really is usually cheerful, but when things go wrong, I must hear about it!)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I know that feel bro. In this age of modern communication technology, I hate it immensely when people phone call me, because most of time, I am in a middle of serious thinking, staring my codes. They should just email me or send me message. I know they probably need something urgent, but disrupting my thought process is a serious crime too. That's why I have my phone whenever I code. Urgent matters can go piss themselves. 
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There is no need to tailgate me when I'm doing 50 in a 30.
And those flashing lights on top of your car look ridiculous.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have a game I like to play when not in a hurry...go exactly the speed limit.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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You must be a true highwayman.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Just got out of one myself. I was barely doing 65 in 55. Luckily, he took pity on me because I had other points already. Time for a driving class. 
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Let me see if got all the steps in the lesson down:
1. force the user to create an account ... I'm okay with that one.
2. after the user enters the usual credentials, put up a survey page with all kinds of questions (which I find "invasive") about your "computing lifestyle," purchase budget, etc., but don't tell the user the survey is mandatory to proceed to registration. don't warn the user about that as they click submit and the page exits.
3. don't send the user who just entered their credentials an e-mail telling them they need to do the survey to complete registration.
4. then let the new user try to log-in, and then tell the user their account doesn't exits.
5. once the user has figured out the survey is mandatory ... and the survey is completed ...
6. okay: let the user log-in, and then go to the product registration page
7. on that page require the user to enter two long serial numbers which are both underneath bar-codes on the box, one of which is small and virtually hidden. don't tell the user which bar-code is which, make them guess. as the wannabe registrant makes mistakes in that, put a new page with pictures of the serial numbers actually located on the card (which you've installed, and could not see without either x-ray vision, or some special tool).
8. did i mention that in the serial number entry fields lower and upper case are accepted ? since my paranoia was ripe at this point, i was careful to enter case matching the box codes, but I wonder if that might be another trap to punish the user designed by their obviously sadistic site-mongers.
9. and now, the coup de main: at last the weary and vexed registrant makes it to the last entry field, and it's a field that requires you to enter a link to a file which is a scan of the purchase receipt ! which, of course, you never thought of.
So, you wanna send a message to MSI support to let them know you'll never purchase another MSI product again: get ready to enter a serial number, even though you are logged in.
Is this the digital marketing equivalent of water-boarding ?
from my enlarged spleen, Bill
p.s. the card works quite well, and I actually see a visual improvement over the old one at 1080p. I prefer the nVidia UI over the former, Radeon, UI. I haven't installed the MSI over-clock utility yet, and will probably never use it.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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MSI as in Microstar International? They're still around?
Wow.
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My last three notebooks are from MSI and all were quite good. Their good luck that they never tried to let me jump through some loops for some drivers.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The first XX years of technology was meant to make everything easier.
We are now switching to a new mode...
The next XX years of technology are meant to make everything more difficult.
There are so many loopholes and security checks that its easier to do everything _manually_ again.
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raddevus wrote: so many loopholes and security checks
Sadly, I agree; it's the price we have to pay for opening new frontiers for organized criminal behavior, as well as every other type of human exchange ?
And, yet ... may the gods protect us from the web becoming more centralized than it's becoming now ... I think. fyi: I am in a country where, at times (not often, actually), I have to use a VPN to access certain well-known first-tier news-sites abroad, and where some bulletin board operators are now in jail for posts their users made, even though they deleted them after being notified of their content. It is also true that in the country I am in a large group of people (citizens of the country, not expats) from all walks of life are trying to get the occaisional restrictions lifted, and trying to take legal action to redress the condition of some of the folks in jail.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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raddevus wrote:
The next XX years of technology are meant to make everything more difficult.
I mentioned this to someone the other day. Desktop app deployment and maintenance is way more difficult than it was 10 years ago...before UAC, HKLM restrictions, Program Files restrictions, and more aggressive AV programs. Additionally, I find more and more end users are 'locked down' or very limited to what they can do. (like run update tasks from the temp folder) Oh well, it stays interesting!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Oh well, it stays interesting!
That it does. 
And you are entirely correct about desktop deployment. It's a crazy world out there.
I'm working on a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app right now and everything is different and _unexplained_.
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That is about right for a hardware manufacturer. In my experience they're rather clueless when it comes to software. Just see the corny skinned UIs that they make for their utilities. BIOS help messages are also another example of their crappiness. And there is no need to mention the pre-installed bloatware on PCs.
Why do you have to register the thing anyway? I never register any products (unless it is a subscription type, obviously). Life is too short to make another user account and keep track of its password.
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