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| WEEK 27, 2008 |
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Sunday June 29, 2008 (a bit anticipated) The USA citizens are still very proud of themselves, although they are all aware USA has lost a lot of "face" in the World due to the unfortunate social-cataclysm named, "G. W. Bush". On the other hand, they did it to themselves so ... We watch attentively the USA Presidential campaign, though we are certain many of our readers have noticed that we do not comment on it. We do that intentionally, and we have few good reasons, as follows. First, we do not want to influence in any way the USA electors. To us, the USA Presidential elections are social-psychology examples, and we prefer them unaltered in any way. Secondly, as we have mentioned in one Amazing Article, USA has one great task to accomplish in the future. This "USA destiny path" is so strong that we, honestly, do not dare to interfere with it in any way or form. [Obviously, many of our readers develop the feeling that we are too bombastic, too bold, or too ... whatever at Corollary Theorems. We want to apologize for that, and to explain--briefly. In the moment we will publish our book "Latanconcop", the entire World will start "seeing" our life differently; in other words, our social-mentality is going to be changed irreversibly, though not necessarily towards the better--this is similar to the innocence lost. People are going to discover few REAL "mental powers" secrets which are going to change our life forever. Note that "Latnconcop" was scheduled to be published in 2005 but ... Anyway, at Corollary Theorems we ALREADY KNOW "Latanconcop", and that is the reason we "allude" so much and that boldly in all our Articles. Now, if you are a very good social-psychologist you could tell what is the true character of one person just by watching and listening to him/her for few seconds on TV. You would know, for certain, everything that he/she intends to do in the future as, say, the next USA President. Note that what the USA Presidential candidates say they intend to do is different from what they actually do afterwards, from within the White House. Next, if you do have some mental powers, you could do a little more, in addition to "reading" people's minds; you could know the future, and the destiny of a person, of a country, or of Homo Sapiens. Further, if you are a Scientist, in addition to the two previously mentioned qualities, you could tell a little bit about the future of our Real Universe. Mark this formula please: Real Universe = Atomic Universe + Subatomic Universe + the Certitude Factors + the Reasons] To come back to where we started, we have noticed during the USA Presidential campaign that the candidates use the old USA slogans: "freedom", "the land of all possibilities", "democracy", etc. The USA "people" absorb those words as if they try to find some good reasons, to encourage themselves, and to build up self-esteem. Sorry for this, dear USA brothers and sisters, but NONE OF THOSE GREAT WORDS IS TRUE. USA has become THE LAND OF ALL IMPOSSIBILITIES! This is a sad reality, but we should take it as a good, historic, social-psychology lesson. CONSUMER ALERT: WINDOWS VISTA Writing about Microsoft's OS Vista is a terrible waste of our time. However, we would like that you understand the Global Picture--details work only towards building the Global Picture. Started with Windows 95, the "PC Revolution" has changed our life completely, though not entirely towards the better. Taken as "tools", the PCs are exceptionally benefic for our Civilization; when the focus is on the PC itself, they are a terrible nuisance. We work at Corollary Theorems with many PCs, in the same time, and they have different OS because we use them to write/test software. For about one year we worked with Windows Vista, and we are terribly disappointed. We decided our Vista PC is going to work only as "slave" for the Internet interface; our "master" PC is running on Windows XP. We will highlight here briefly few of the "characteristics" the Vista system has. Now, we are aware that Microsoft will improve their product in the coming years, therefore our words are valid only for the existing, 2008 Vista versions. 1. Vista is unbelievably slow; we estimate it is about 500..1000 times slower than XP. To exemplify, in order to copy our website of 100 MB on a USB Flash drive it takes 3 hours on Vista, though only 3 minutes on XP. If we want to copy our entire work folder of 4GB on a DVD-RW, that is a 4 days job on Vista, and one hour on XP. Note that the most important quality of a OS is its speed. The problem with Vista is, it is a "live" OS. That "thing" works for itself permanently on indexing, defragmenting, reading "definitions", on collecting data, on building statistics, and only Microsoft knows what else. All you can do is look at it and admire its sick blue-green Aero shades. We have seen Vista "copying" data at the incredible speed of 17.5KB/s; try to calculate how many days it takes to fill a 4GB memory disk--in comparison, Windows 3.1, the first Windows OS we used, was working at supersonic speeds. Now to be honest, that amazing "data copying latency" happens from time to time, not always, but IT DOES HAPPEN particularly when it is least expected. On the other hand, there are countless, counter-productive, permanently harassing issues, as follows. 2. Particularly annoying is the highlighting in Vista. You click at the beginning of a word, and then you drag the mouse to the RIGHT trying to highlight a word. Well, Vista has a horrible tendency to extend the highlighting to the LEFT! That is IN-CREDIBLE though not all of it, because it happens quite often that Vista will highlight by itself more than one word. Fact is, Vista is supposed to "learn your habits", therefore everything you do/click is "defined", indexed, stored in countless files, and then reported to "somebody", or just kept secret for some "favorable opportunities"! 3. Copying and Pasting in Word 2003, running on Vista, has become a complex, difficult task explained in tens of irrational Help notes-balloonies. If you want to master the "new techniques" then you need to allocate many of your productive work-days for that particular, previously insignificant task. 4. The most difficult appears to be controlling the mouse pointer in Vista. Although we use Microsoft-built, cable, optical and ball mice, the pointer jumps by itself allover the screen whenever it "feels like it". In addition, expect to click on a folder to open, and then you have to wait for THREE MINUTES until Vista opens it--it happened many times that Vista started a program after TEN MINUTES!!! In addition, the pointer DOES NOT change when you hover over a button or link: you have to move it many times back and forth until you "catch it". There is no such thing as "precision" in Vista; everything is relative there. Our honest conclusion is, Vista was designed specifically as a perfect killing-time machine. [Rumor goes that G. W. Bush himself has collaborated to designing the "nukular" part of Vista as payback for the advanced millions in electoral funds. However, this is just a rumor so, please, don't take it as true fact despite any striking ... Well.] 5. If you want to change your desktop settings, Vista takes about 2 minutes to implement the new changes, and you can do nothing except for admiring the B&W screen. In XP, implementing the new changes takes about 0.1 seconds. 6. In order to customize Vista you need a "Vista specialist", only that specialist cannot be easily discovered at your PC Manufacturer or even at Microsoft Customer Support. Those great specialists work--we suspect, for the time being--only for Bill Gates. Please abandon all hopes of "customizing" Vista for some top-performance--that is simply not possible. 7. The entire mechanism of pop-up balloons, tips, and the Help itself on Vista is diabolical, and work-time consuming. We wasted two work-days trying to discover the check-box needed to stop real-time Windows Defender check--as indicated in the Help file--but there is none. However, if you have a "good job" and you need something to help you pass the time, Windows Vista is way better than any puzzle-words. 8. We need to put an end to this, to stop wasting our time. Overall, the "new style" of menus, windows, options, tree lists, thumbnails, and ... everything doesn't work well, they are missing critical control elements--as is the delete button--and they are TOTALLY ILLOGIC! |
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| Our intention was to write few more "Consumer alerts" about HP and PNY
Customer Support, but we do not have sufficient time for that. As a note,
the Hewlett Packard Customer Support is a mockery of a service. Long gone
are the days when they had true PC specialists employed; today, they hire
only high-school graduates. All they do is, they take you through few lists of
unrelated issues, and they end it up telling you to take the hard-drive out to
your reseller! Note the Global Picture. For about four years, both Microsoft and Hewlett Packard have employed tons of young programmers. There is nothing wrong with being a young programmer, and we are certain there are few very bright ones among the lot. However, the existing employment/recruitment system will let-through only the less trained, the least capable individuals--this is the Democratic Mechanism of Selection at work. Note again that both Microsoft and Hewlet Packard are the top giant Companies in the World. Money is not a problem to them, yet the people they have employed to do "a good job" are ... Well! This is possible only in THE LAND OF ALL IMPOSSIBILITIES. By the way. Lately, HP sells PCs running Vista that are DOWNGRADABLE to XP! You name that "progress"? After 4 years of Microsoft work on Vista! Sure--why not; everything is possible. ***
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