Just curious. What possessed you to buy a steaming heap of crap like Android in the first place?
I sense a general theme in your financial posts along the lines of "well, the buyers should have known what they were letting themselves in for, particularly with non-transparent untested esoterica like collateralised debt swaps." (I paraphrase inaccurately.) The same holds true for bleeding-edge tech nonsense.
Here's a hint from the marketplace. If you persist in buying cheap annoying broken crap that lacks architectural or design or implementation or testing or support or maintenance competence, then you are essentially subsidising the very thing that annoys you -- ie broken-out-of-the-box, unintelligible, consumer throwaways.
Buy something like an iPhone/iPad (I am not employed by them, I do not own shares, I do not own one and I hate the fucking things) and you will actually be contributing to society, if only for not sponsoring global shoddiness through technical purchasing decisions.
On the other hand, pointless and feeble-minded whining about "software coders [who] are too lazy to do anything in a language when an icon can be used instead (one which I can be guaranteed not to understand) and (b), most of them don't speak English anyway" almost certainly makes up for chucking money down the toilet in the first place.
Carry on. Incidentally, the phenomenon of breakage during upgrade that you experienced has a trademark: BiannualForcedDeathMarch(TM) (http://www.tmrepository.com/trademarks/biannualforceddeathmarch/).
So Shall Ye Reap
Date: 2010-12-18 07:05 pm (UTC)I sense a general theme in your financial posts along the lines of "well, the buyers should have known what they were letting themselves in for, particularly with non-transparent untested esoterica like collateralised debt swaps." (I paraphrase inaccurately.) The same holds true for bleeding-edge tech nonsense.
Here's a hint from the marketplace. If you persist in buying cheap annoying broken crap that lacks architectural or design or implementation or testing or support or maintenance competence, then you are essentially subsidising the very thing that annoys you -- ie broken-out-of-the-box, unintelligible, consumer throwaways.
Buy something like an iPhone/iPad (I am not employed by them, I do not own shares, I do not own one and I hate the fucking things) and you will actually be contributing to society, if only for not sponsoring global shoddiness through technical purchasing decisions.
On the other hand, pointless and feeble-minded whining about "software coders [who] are too lazy to do anything in a language when an icon can be used instead (one which I can be guaranteed not to understand) and (b), most of them don't speak English anyway" almost certainly makes up for chucking money down the toilet in the first place.
Carry on. Incidentally, the phenomenon of breakage during upgrade that you experienced has a trademark: BiannualForcedDeathMarch(TM) (http://www.tmrepository.com/trademarks/biannualforceddeathmarch/).