Vista was crap. Driver issues aside, they simply screwed it up early on and it wasn't until about 18-24 months later, once they patched the code that was causing major bottlenecks, that the system started to stabilize. It was a clusterfuck before then.

Windows 7 is not without its issues either. There was an incredibly simple paradigm that let me teach "how to use a computer" to the computer illiterate: Left click selects (ie focus), right click gives you the options (ie: context), and double click starts things (ie: executes).

Vista botched this and it's been steadily getting worse with each successive release. Now it matters where you right click to get context, left clicking sometimes executes sometimes selects sometimes does nothing, focus is 'sort of given' on simply mousing over but if you right click it doesn't consistently give you the right context of a 'sort of in focus item'. Don't even get me started on the 'sort of focus' + 'actual focus' + context button inconsistencies. Then there's the oddities, like doing a multi-select - sometimes it drags, sometimes it multi-selects, mostly though if the first item has 'actual focus' you cannot start a multi-select on that item without first de-selecting it or going to the keyboard. If you multi-select and right click an "empty space" outside the multi-select you lose your multi-select, the first item selected or last item "used" gets a 3rd kind of focus, and you get a default context menu but if you do an identical such space inside the multi-select you get a completely different context menu.

There are consistencies but they are so fractured and so many that it becomes impossible to know what's going to happen when you perform identical actions in slightly different contexts.

Then there's the mess that is USB. I constantly bump into the problem that devices won't work unless I either put them in the last port used or manually tell Windows to forget about the device. I'm sure that's partly my fault for not selecting the "safely remove device" option but how hard is it to set a timer to check for the presence of a device that was plugged in and if it's not there/not responding, delete it from the registry.

I could go on but chances are you'll find reasons why my problems are not really problems and I should just get used to it. Problem is, I don't like bad functionality. I can put up with bad visual design as long as it works intuitively, consistently, and without special knowledge. I cannot say that of anything Microsoft has put out since XP.

The phone isn't requiring you to know what a service/daemon/TSR etc is. It simply requires that you know that the backup program backs up what you tell it to and the photo program does other things with photos. Just because the user changed the backup settings in the photo app does not mean that the backup app will suddenly revert those changes when you uninstall the photo app.

What's the saying? "Can't fix stupid", "Stupid is as stupid does", "Everything happens for a reason, sometimes that reason is you're stupid and you make bad decisions"... or simply http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-con...

And why aren't there baby seats - it can't be safe to be on the lap in the event of a crash... it's like they want babies to die.

Ya think? Probably why they're part of an anti-trust suit now.

Oh it's one of the default lines that Canadian carriers trot out when they added fees to more than 1 checked bag, then baggage in general, and so on. They never seem to have the room/weight capacity for luggage but always for passengers and freight.

Seriously. I can fit hundreds more in a plane if I put everyone laying down grouped by height/weight. How do they expect people to get in and out? Worst of all, can you imagine the creepy guys staring at the women in front of them all flight long? I'm a man and it creeps me out.

The one thing I don't get is that flights are constantly over weight, or at least that's their excuse for jacking up baggage fees, so how do they expect to handle the extra weight from 80 more people?

They may have turned it on in the app but it's just toggling a global setting that can be accessed from multiple locations/apps. The app itself isn't performing any backup, it's just an ease of access setting within the app for the backup function. At best it might need a better description within the app.

You turn on backup sync and are surprised when it backs up your files? Seems rather obvious to me

Unemployment is a sort of nirvana.

I just want to know why when they improve the speed of something by 75-500% it's considered research but when I do it it's considered a waste of time? Companies just don't appreciate efficiency.

There's already fake rhino horn powder like that, the people who pay the big money test the product to ensure they're actually buying rhino horn. By being indistinguishable they flood the top end market with fakes and the price drops because no one can tell when they're getting a fake and when they're getting the real thing.

Price matters and while they'll never be as cheap, they can be a hell of a lot cheaper than $1k for 2TB. I could put a downpayment on a house for the $25k it would cost to meet my storage needs at home.

I have about 400 in two binders, unfortunately they got tucked away in storage for a year the mice had a field day and the mold did the rest. Complete write off. The 850 or so in proper cases fared much better, takes up 2 BESTA shelves but definitely worth it.

I need more BESTAs but they don't sell the narrow ones anymore. :(

Hoarders don't "delete". I could just keep buying drives and storing crap but I only keep what's important and ditch the rest.

That's true, I've only played 73 of the 148. 55 of them are sequels that I haven't started because I haven't finished the previous game. (I tend to buy collections so it's cheaper)