Aww, sorry that your day was so crap. I hope it gets better.
Yesterday I stood in gale force winds and rain from 7 till 5, then got to come home to find out my dog had gone to the bathroom all over the kitchen floor because nobody let her out before they left, then I got to sit around without anything to do in an empty house for 5 hours because everyone in my family is out of town and the power was off.
Today I worked in gale force winds and ran from 7 to 1 then got to stand inside for an hour dripping and shivering until I finally convinced them to let me go home. I get home and start getting stuff ready for someone to come over and help me photograph a sculpture I'm putting in my portfolio that I've been working on for weeks and I need to submit to scholarships and galleries soon. They were supposed to show up at three and five hours later they weren't there. So I head to the grocery store to get some stuff for dinner hoping to make my mood better with a decent meal. I go in, get a steak and some stuff to make dinner with, chat with a couple of people I know from school and I'm starting to feel a little better. A couple minutes later I'm heading out of the store, and a extremely drunk fellow decides to try and help me with a few words of advice about something I couldn't understand. When I walk by him, not really paying attention, thinking about dinner, he gets mad and decides to throw his cup of crappy beer at the back of my head. Rather than start a fight and make my day worse, I just get into my car and left. I get home and try to wash it off with a shower but it just won't come out and my clothes are pretty much ruined too.
So now, I've been soaked to the point of catching a cold, still don't have a portfolio of work I can send out, and I smell like cheap stale beer and I still have nothing to do with myself.
What a great vacation / break from the family and work this weekend has been.
So I finally got home from University about two weeks ago. I quite enjoyed my time there, if I ignore how I now instinctively sneak around everywhere because the jackass who was next door to me started screaming and banging on the wall every time I so much as got out of my chair, and how I now twitch violently whenever someone knocks on a door, and the way I can no longer sleep without the sound of a thousand drunken retards marching outside my window.
On the bright side though, my hearing just inexplicably fixed itself, so now every conversation I have doesn't end up with me saying 'what?' until the other person gives up.
Okay, so at All Things Digital, there was a very brief demo of the multitouch integration that's being put into Windows 7 by Microsoft. Well great, touchscreens. Multitouch doesn't really have a lot of native integration in operating systems save for things like the iPhone/iPod touch/Apple stuff. Of course, there are a lot of idiot journalists who are taking it to mean the following:
1. Windows 7 will only use touchscreens! YOU CAN NEVER USE A KEYBOARD/MOUSE AGAIN! - Er… no. These sort of things append the interface and offer up certain other opportunities. For example, POS terminals nowadays do make heavy use of touchscreens. Hell, I see one used almost everyday now. By doing this, Microsoft stands to open up a fairly large chunk of market to themselves. Don't even get me started on netbooks and ultraportables. By allowing native touchscreen support and making the kernel more modular, Windows stands to be a huge force in the ultraportable market. Why? Touchscreens allow for a smaller device size AND remove the need for keyboard and touchpad fabrication. This is a GOOD feature, and the only one we know for certain, having seen it, exists.
2. Microsoft stole this from Apple! - Now you're being retarded. Apple did not invent multitouch, despite what you may think. The technology itself borders on being 25 years old. Of course, that's no huge decider. But Microsoft Surface is. Microsoft had been developing Surface as a product since 2004, and I think published a whitepaper (which I may have in PDF at home) about multitouch integration a few years earlier. Keep in mind this was all 3 years before the iPhone was even announced.
3. This feature is SOOOO BLOATED RARRRRRGH! - About as bloated as keyboard and mouse input is. Are you fucking retarded?
4. Windows 7 is going to be just like Vista! Look, it even has the same interface! - I'd ALMOST let this one slide. Almost. But then I realised, "Oh wait, Vista looked like XP in it's first beta shots. And XP looks like 98! It's almost like they save integrating the interface design until the product is in a mostly stable state!" I mean really, how much does it take to become a tech journalist now? I'm pretty sure you just need to be able to pick a computer out of a lineup.
5. Windows 7 is going to require even MORE resources! - Okay, first off, shut up. It's natural to assume that, yes, future technology will require more power than older tech. Vista has some serious problems on older machines, that's no doubt, and Vista did take a few too many liberties with how much power it required. But Windows 7 is said to have the same system requirements and Vista does now and is to offer better performance. And it's coming out in 2010. It is hardly unreasonable to assume that a computer with the following specs won't be commonplace by 2010:
1GHz processor 1GB of system memory 15GB of available space Support for DirectX 9 graphics DVD-ROM drive Internet access
And that's the recommended requirements for Ultimate. Really, this isn't a huge thing.
6. Why don't you just fix Vista instead? - They ARE fixing Vista! THAT'S WHAT THE LAST FUCKING SERVICE PACK WAS. That whole service pack that was rolled out to include kernel changes to allow for things like, oh I don't know, updates that don't require reboots and fixes a lot of the security issues. Vista is being fixed, but the damage is done, so it isn't being picked up like XP was after it started getting fixed. Vista is basically Windows ME all over again, which is a shame. The main difference being that Vista isn't nearly as crash happy.
7. WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT WON'T RUN LEGACY APPS NATIVELY? RAAAARRRGH! - Oh my god, are you the same person who was complaining about bloat? You're lucky that they're even including desktop virtualisation options to run XP and older apps. If Windows continues to hold onto legacy support in the kernel, you're going to run into even more bloaty transitory issues. I mean shit, if there's one thing I'd like to see gone from Windows forever, it's going to be reliance on the fucking registry. That's one of the things that kept being shoved down our throats so some of you jackasses could continue to run old shit. That thing has been around since 1998 and has long since served it's purpose. There are far better ways to handle INI massacres now.
Some of these dickhats claim to have been working in the tech industry for decades, and maybe that's part of the problem. I read this one guy ranting about how computers are still as hard to use as they were 40 years ago when he was using punchcards and he was being completely sincere. It seems that tech journalism has reached a point where new blood is DESPERATELY required. People who get how technology is now and don't have this rose tinted goggle syndrome of how things were "better back then" because I sure as hell won't go back to entering shit on a punchcard into giant, room filling furnaces, comrade.
I mean, really people. The product isn't even coming out for two years, it's still in the earliest stages of beta. Just… shut up.
It's interesting. I wonder how much of it is just pandering to perceived wisdom. I like to use the Google homepage for my news, but today I noticed that almost every single headline in the tech section was about the upcoming 3G iphone, as well as one in the ordinary news headline section! These are sourced from online newspaper everywhere and normally there NEVER more than one headline about the same story, unless it's something REALLY, REALLY important… And yet this thing with crappy speculation of Apple's new gimick?
No wonder their products tend to take off… Lotta support from the press there.
That's a good example… HP bring out one of those ultra thin laptops, and suddenly they're doing it to "compete with Apple's distinctive Mac Book Air". HA! F**king imbeciles! Apple was a late comer with a dodgy entry to THAT particular market, it didn't even impress Apple fanboys. And HP would have had to have been developing this thing before Apple ever came out with their thing. This is just basic stuff here, and yet it suits them to set it up in Vs the Mac format.
Just like every new smartphone is an attempted "iphone killer" that just doesn't manage it…
It's like they were in the pay of Apple or something. ~_~
Uh, duh. Everyone's like me, because I'm just that great of a fellow.
Anyway, rant! Yes.
I finally went to see Indiana Jones and the Crystal Whatsit with my brother. It was fucking terrible! It wasn't a bad night out though, it's been a while since my brother and I actually did something together.
Oh, and I finally got to play with my new printer! Or so I thought. I couldn't get the cartridges in at all, and when I finally figured out how to do it properly, the printer just plain rejected them. I even checked in the manual, and I was doing it correctly.
Then I finally got to sit down and return to my usual sitting on my fat arse routine, at which point my computer told me my shitty wireless adapter had conked out again. It. Fucking. Lied. It still says I'm not connected, but here I am. I don't like it when this sort of thing happens, because each time, it's a step towards robot overlords.
everyone always told me I as crazy when I said that apple was offering the same product as everyone else. well they are, only with less selection, higher prices, andless software.
at one point they were a superior machine. but hat was nearly a decade ago. the government, corporations and scools dropped them for a reason. the pc was gaining speed and becoming a snowball of power. cheaper, just as if not more efficient, and selection. I mean selection alone could sell in todays markets.
It is really annoying when people "oh well" me when I make valid critiques. The least they can do is lie that they'll make changes.
Stubborn.
It's even more annoying when they get all huffy or make a bunch of excuses :)
But you can't expect someone to take every suggestion you say for gold, and the people getting huffy and making excuses don't deserve help really.
I wish the comic review would actually move on…maybe after 20 days of no reply move it out of the sticky and just get on with others. That would be more interesting too, like a gamble.
I have a full-time job, a full-time comic and a part-time design business. If I damn well take time off of work to help you with something to spend time with you, DO NOT GODDAMN FUCKING BAIL OUT AT THE LAST MINUTE!
Urgh, it really pisses me off when I take a day off work in which I could be making a couple hundred dollars to do something and they tell me the morning of, that they've changed their mind. :mad:
It is really annoying when people "oh well" me when I make valid critiques. The least they can do is lie that they'll make changes.
Stubborn.
You should totally come my way. I'm slowly getting some of my commenters to finally tell me when something is "off" on a page. I like being told I do good, but man, if I screw up I need to know. I may be too stupid or blind to see it myself. I hate repeating mistakes.
75% of the improvements in my comic are by criticisms challenging me to do better.
Excuses don't always mean a author didn't consider the feedback either. Sometimes they may have a legit reason (to them) for continuing what another person considers an error.
It's even more annoying when they get all huffy or make a bunch of excuses :)
But you can't expect someone to take every suggestion you say for gold, and the people getting huffy and making excuses don't deserve help really.
Excuses don't always mean a author didn't consider the feedback either. Sometimes they may have a legit reason (to them) for continuing what another person considers an error.
I do see the difference between valid excuses (Which I find rare) and unreasonable excuses. It just grinds my teeth (Which I'm not supposed to do) when they say that they like it when clearly there's just something horribly wrong, and I do let minor errors slide unless it's repeated constantly. It's worse when others "encourage" them to not listen.
And as a side note, three of my recent critiques were responded with "oh well", right down to capitalization.
You should totally come my way. I'm slowly getting some of my commenters to finally tell me when something is "off" on a page. I like being told I do good, but man, if I screw up I need to know. I may be too stupid or blind to see it myself. I hate repeating mistakes.
75% of the improvements in my comic are by criticisms challenging me to do better.
That's good to hear. I wish this would happen more often. Things just aren't the way they used to be before.
neh. I have a 3000 word asignment due on Monday. I've done about 2000 (but a heap of that are quotes)and now my head is getting all mushy and I DON'T WANNA! I'm running out of topics to talk about but I'm also getting to the point where I'm just getting sick of it and I don't want to do any more.
Uni would be awesome if I didn't have to do any work :(
neh. I have a 3000 word asignment due on Monday. I've done about 2000 (but a heap of that are quotes)and now my head is getting all mushy and I DON'T WANNA! I'm running out of topics to talk about but I'm also getting to the point where I'm just getting sick of it and I don't want to do any more.
Uni would be awesome if I didn't have to do any work :(
You should be as effusive with the word count as it is possible to be in this writing assignment. You should put in a great deal of unneccessary analysis and endevour to explain items in your text using as many words as humanly possible to make your points as clear as you can possibly make them to the reader of your paper.
Notice how densely the paragraph above is worded? It is striving for maximum word count when half as many words would say the same thing.(some 60 words for something that could be conveyed in 35 or even 30) Be as specific as possible in all you say. (notice three words for one there? I could have said "everything") Include the descriptions of everything every time it is mentioned. Use a qualifier all over the place for anything and everything. Add lots of unneccessary subordinate clauses. Never begin a statement with a conjuction, repeat everything all over again. Use concluding sentences in every paragraph which are merely a restatement of the topic sentence.
In other words write like Charles Dickens (or so many other 18th-19th century writers) :)
I had my last peer tutoring session last week, and I was tutoring some kid who would not listen to me at all! Every time I pointed out any error(oh, you can actually reduce that fraction, see?) he would respond with "Oh well," and carry on doing it wrong. He did an entire page wrong because he didn't listen to the instructions both me and the teacher gave him. But whatever, I'm sure the school will do something nice for me in return for all my hard work, right? Then just today I found out that I missed the day when they gave the peer tutors donuts. Stupid kids and teachers.
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