Well, Steve, everyone knows that there is nothing going on in December ๐
I’ll store that texting tip, Steve, Tnx.
]]>Bryan, regarding unsolicited cell phone texts, I ended up (don’t know how) on two advertising lists and was receiving several texts a week. Fortunately, one can (at least for the moment) reply by texting “STOP” to them; that actually did shut off the flow of crap. I found the advice on an AT&T help site. I don’t know if it’s a matter of law, or just how the most popular text-spamming s/w works.
]]>– Badtux the Geeky Penguin
]]>There was no start on any hardware until there was a sufficient demand for the new product.
I have begun to suspect that the “security settings” for some major pieces of software are nothing but a menu program that changes to reflect the choices the user makes, but doesn’t actually affect anything else. They are using the “placebo effect” on security.
]]>No, I’m not bitter at being told, “we’ve announced it, now we need to design and implement it because they took thirty orders at the show and they need to be delivered within thirty days” so many times over the years :).
– Badtux the Geeky Penguin
]]>What was designed by the engineers is not what was built because “it was too expensive”, but no one altered the features list of the original design, and no one told the programmers that the instruction set they received is not the actual instruction set of the hardware because certain instructions require hardware that was deemed extraneous. This means that the product that is shipped cannot possibly do was the advertising says it will do and no one in customer support is told why.
If you want fun, have half of the boxes in a major order for a network arrive without boot PROMs. The joys of IT.
In the end the MBAs take over and everything goes to hell [without the hand basket as it was deemed an unnecessary expense that reduced profitability].
At least my cell phone provider doesn’t ding me for their text messages that I don’t read, Steve, but if I use the browser feature to connect to the ‘Net, I would be dinged for the time it takes the ads to load.
]]>Denial is where I sometimes feel like throwing my phone, but denial is not close to me and a Houston bayou just isn’t the same.
I expect occasional ads on any medium. I won’t say I like them, but I take them as the new normal. What I do not appreciate is ads that use up resources I pay for… minutes, text messages, etc. If there were a way to reflect those costs back onto the advertiser, I’d be a lot less exasperated with ads.
]]>Ummm… As someone who was Service Mgr for an Apple Svc Center here for a few years not long ago… I can say with some conviction that: That’s true, and they are (morons). ๐
I also worked for an Apple dealer for a couple years in the early 90’s. Apple actually gave a damn back then. Not now. We were told time and again that our *job* was to minimize the number of warranty claims, and the number of ways that a warranty could be voided grew. Apple stopped caring about the public and thinking of them as *customers* a while ago. Now they are all just suckers who will put up with anything. Most products are secretly upgraded throughout their life. I was there when the first Macbook Pro was launched in Jan 2006. It was a pile of garbage! I was giver a stack of service notices and notes on fixing certain problems, but *ONLY* if a sucker complained hard enough (like going to Consumer Affairs etc). By the end of 2006, the MacBook had undergone several revisions (to the point where by Xmas it looked completely different internally). It’s one reason why Apple make it so bloody difficult to get their stuff apart! ๐ Apple never announced any revisions or changes publicly, and it was a nightmare for us because as a svc Center, we had to stock parts for all these different revisions! I quit early 2007. I told customers with early revision MBP’s to demand the latest revision. Apple were really pissed at me. Screw ’em!! ๐
Apple is indistinguishable from Micro$tuffed as far as I can see. Gates & Jobs may as well be co-joint twins!
]]>Because of the way my IP address is reported I get a lot of worthless ads for Central Florida because that is the node where The Phone Company connects to the backbone. The whole purpose behind most cookies is to track your interests to sell targeted ads. It is the nature of the system, so why deny it?
It is only an issue because of the denial.
]]>Do I like it? Not really. But I put up with it because all the alternatives would track me too, so I might as well get the one that integrates best with the rest of my electronic infrastructure…
– Badtux the Geeky Penguin
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