I received an I-Phone today at work, so as of 4 pm on April 2, 2015 my life was transformed! I went around to all my friends at work staring at the implement assigned to me, an I-Phone 6 so no big deal apparently, telling them that my life had been transformed by receipt of this device and that I was practicing worshipping my palm (with this miraculous God-device cradled within my palm).
They stated to me that I was expressing annoyance at this fantastic occurrence in my life (an I-Phone!). Perhaps I was exhibiting frustration already because i) I couldn't see at my age the screen without taking off my glasses and ii) my finger was apparently too fat to tap correctly on the virtual keyboard,
When I went home at the end of the workday I left it on my work shelf, along with its box of parts and instructions. I have no doubt it'll still be there the day I retire.
I hope they don't come before then, like the bully manager did a couple of years ago inquiring about this miracle device's predecessor, a work Blackberry, that an IT audit had disclosed had never been turned on. I couldn't give that unasked for implement back to them then (no I didn't sell it on ebay, nor did I ever ask to receive it); this 'game changer' is an equally unwanted, strangling, work horse collar that I don't want to be a part of.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Windows 8, I'm leaving you, forever
I'm a Mac user now, and in my first hour, I'm enjoying it already. I think I can figure this Apple-part out.
Last month, my notebook which performed fine service for three years, died. It was everything I wanted from a home computer, dependable, predictable and useful.
When I went to replace it the folks at Best Buy foisted off upon me an Acer Notebook with Windows 8. What a miserable two months I have had!
Windows 8 is an unholy mess. I don't know what's wrong with Acer but always, always, it would take the opportunity to either start inserting my typed letters into the middle of a prior sentence at random times (I don't look at the screed as I type) or slowing down to glacial slowness for no particular reason, to where I frequently had to turn off my computer and restart it.
Windows 8 is tile-driven or tile-centric or something and things would come in from the sides randomly or else I couldn't find anything. I found myself using the Microsoft key constantly, as my only known route to get out of whatever screen I had been randomly placed in to get back to the desktop.
Somehow, when I lost my tool bars for 3 days and was really at sea, I transformed my screensaver button or refresh button (who knows?) to one minute. So forevermore the screen would turn to gibberish (tiles) if I didn't move the cursor every 60 seconds.
Do you know how maddening that is? I spent days, unsuccessfully, looking for the app or process or control that modifies this and never found it because the system was evidentially designed by a bunch of 2d grader idiot savants sitting in a sandbox clutching a pet/wish list with no adult supervision and no regard for consumer use. .
So today I got rid of my $800 investment in Microsoft and went out and bought a Mac system, for even more money. I could no longer tolerate that Windows 8 system in my home and I got rid of it!
Already I like my Mac, even though it's different from what I am used to, it's elegant and seemingly intuitive in a manner like I tend to be. Microsoft threw each next system operating version in your face and if it blinded you, well, they didn't care one whit.
Last month, my notebook which performed fine service for three years, died. It was everything I wanted from a home computer, dependable, predictable and useful.
When I went to replace it the folks at Best Buy foisted off upon me an Acer Notebook with Windows 8. What a miserable two months I have had!
Windows 8 is an unholy mess. I don't know what's wrong with Acer but always, always, it would take the opportunity to either start inserting my typed letters into the middle of a prior sentence at random times (I don't look at the screed as I type) or slowing down to glacial slowness for no particular reason, to where I frequently had to turn off my computer and restart it.
Windows 8 is tile-driven or tile-centric or something and things would come in from the sides randomly or else I couldn't find anything. I found myself using the Microsoft key constantly, as my only known route to get out of whatever screen I had been randomly placed in to get back to the desktop.
Somehow, when I lost my tool bars for 3 days and was really at sea, I transformed my screensaver button or refresh button (who knows?) to one minute. So forevermore the screen would turn to gibberish (tiles) if I didn't move the cursor every 60 seconds.
Do you know how maddening that is? I spent days, unsuccessfully, looking for the app or process or control that modifies this and never found it because the system was evidentially designed by a bunch of 2d grader idiot savants sitting in a sandbox clutching a pet/wish list with no adult supervision and no regard for consumer use. .
So today I got rid of my $800 investment in Microsoft and went out and bought a Mac system, for even more money. I could no longer tolerate that Windows 8 system in my home and I got rid of it!
Already I like my Mac, even though it's different from what I am used to, it's elegant and seemingly intuitive in a manner like I tend to be. Microsoft threw each next system operating version in your face and if it blinded you, well, they didn't care one whit.
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