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As I wrote in another post today: The soapbox is not the best part of the town, but fortunately there is no real reason to go there.
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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Uhh!! good point. Next time
I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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Mohibur Rashid wrote: Are we sure
I'm not sure. I'm just sure this belongs to the Soapbox 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I'm sure Mohibur needs one of these: [^]
NK was whacko and crazy long before the last election.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Two crazies do not add up to one sane. 
Marc
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Thats why you multiply
I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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Well, Firefox updated itself to version 55, and now my extensive set of add-ons are starting to act up.  It seems that a great add-on would be one that could automatically search for and updates all the other add-ons. Any ideas?
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swampwiz wrote: automatically search for and updates all
Windows 10
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devenv.exe wrote: Windows 10
Tell me that's a joke. 
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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GKP1992 wrote: Tell me that's a joke.
Are you joking? Windows 10 and automatic updates can't be a joke!
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I thought FireFox did that automatically. Guess not. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I know every thing. The challenge is that people aren't things; that, and don't ask me for directions.
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I have a newish MacBook Pro and I've been fairly robust in my frustration and disappointment in, well, pretty much all of it except the outside cover. Which is gorgeous.
I have a new theory though.
It's no secret that Apple has been rumoured to be moving to ARM[^] which is great for power, terrible for those who remember moving from PowerPC to Intel. Apple will really need a convincing story to get people to move over, and so my latest conspiracy theory is that Apple is deliberately handicapping the display driver, touchpad driver, Wifi driver, power management and anything else they can easily break in Bootcamp in order to make the Windows experience so terrible that people just move to macOS and away from Bootcamp entirely.
Nothing else can explain just how awful it's become to use Bootcamp on the new Macbooks.
C'mon Microsoft: get your hardware issues under control, give us some serious battery life, and release the hounds. The time is ripe for a Contender.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Based on my last visit to the local Microsoft store, in the mall, they have a lot of work to do. Maybe they do better on line.
3 MS employees talking to each other and a little kid playing games... on an HP I think. On a Saturday. Perhaps their notebooks and tablets perform well, but they are really ugly. Who designed that hinge?
In the same mall, the Apple store is mobbed. If you go in, you discover that most are waiting to see the genius for support.
Now back to my life in virtual machines.
(if I say something in the forest and my wife isn't there, am I still wrong?)
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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theoldfool wrote: you discover that most are waiting to see the genius for support.
Now that says something. A mob waiting to see the genius for support.
The Microsoft store empty.
Draw your own conclusions.
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Perception is reality, though.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Perception is reality, though.
I perceive you are correct.
Marc
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Chris Maunder wrote: Perception is reality, though
Dude; like, whoa.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Chris Maunder wrote: get your hardware issues under control,
MS have hardware? The only thing I know of is the surface, we have 7 of the monsters in one room.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Check out the Surface Book[^] for an example of how to make something as simple as a hinge ugly, impractical, and a liability in the thin-is-king market.
Or the Surface Laptop[^] for an excellent example of what happens when you have a solid vision coupled with a bunch of monkeys calling the shots. Excellent hardware and they drag it down with Windows S.
Microsoft are constantly *this close* to doing things right. They need a single person with vision at the top who walks around calling BS on the stupid, stupid product decisions that get made.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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 I did not even look at MS when I bought my latest laptop earlier this year. And the office use Thinkpad which I consider an excellent tool.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I did not even look at MS when I bought my latest laptop earlier this year. And the office use Thinkpad which I consider an excellent tool.
What did you buy? The Daughter bought this[^] last Saturday.
Not bad considering she sits HSC in a bit more than a month, bought an AUD$8K car earlier in the year, put new Mags and Tyres on it and now the laptop.
I put the Mags and Tyres and now the laptop on the interest free card, but she has paid them off in less than half the time required and saved cash for the car and it's comprehensive insurance.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I got a Lenovo of almost the same spec. I do like the bigger screen even if it is a bugger to lug around. It does not travel much on a day to day basis.
your daughter sounds like a real go getter, good on her.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Chris Maunder wrote: Microsoft are constantly this close to doing things right. They need a single person with vision at the top who walks around calling BS on the stupid, stupid product decisions that get made.
Microsoft have needed it for years.. Unfortunately, since Jobs Apple has also needed that person 
Personally, I'm really disappointed in many of the decisions Apple has made over the last few years. Ignoring battery issues on iPhones while doing useless things like removing the headphone jack, going for thinner and thinner instead of making their iPhones waterproof, making iOS less intuitive and with more bugs.. the last few years have been a disaster.
As someone who really used to enjoy using Apple products, there are very few I'd buy these days. That touch bar thingy on the MacBooks looked like a niche feature from day one.. I'd rather have function keys but there's no option for that on a 15" MacBook Pro, so I'm sticking with my 2015 model until it break or is no longer supported. Hopefully by then they'll have someone sensible back in control. 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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