Roughly four months ago—September 21, to be precise—, I contacted my ISP’s helpdesk, for an enquiry regarding a new line of products they were offering. They never got back to me, so I just assumed they ignored the e-mail. After all, they do have an absolutely horrid reputation, and I myself had been victimized a couple of times already. However, earlier yesterday, they responded to the four-month-old e-mail as if it were common practice. Not an apology or anything. I wonder if this is just their policy, the fact that their helpdesk assistants don’t know their behinds from their elbows, or an unfortunate yet utterly rare sequence of events. I’m inclined to go with either of the first two.
On a side note, you won’t be able to read this post yet, for a while at least, since my site broke again for some reason, and Darkscape support hasn’t gotten back to me yet. I assume it won’t take four months.
Well, I may be really anxious to get a Wii, but I wouldn’t go that far. Maybe if they threw in a kickass TV to go with it. Man, I really want that thing. I’m hoping for a mean price drop.
Ever since I started using foobar2000, there was one last thing that irked me. For some reason, selecting several audio files in Windows Explorer and trying to open or enqueue them at once would always crash explorer.exe. Since the issue only occurred with foobar2000, I just assumed that was the cause and tried to remember to drag files to the playlist instead of opening them, because that worked fine. As it turns out, the real cause was Notepad++’s shell extension, and the only reason why it only happened with foobar2000 was probably because that’s the only application I use to open multiple files at once. Anyway, after uninstalling Notepad++, everything was indeed nice and dandy. I’d never really used it to begin with. It was just sitting there, in case I felt like switching text editors someday. For now at least, I still prefer the simplicity of EditPlus, even though there’s a lot of room for improvement.
Top 5 reasons why the iPhone should be a dud:
Reason the first. Smoke and mirrors, as always with Apple. Whipping out a prototype and rubbing people’s noses into some vague specs does not define a gadget. I’d be very surprised if the damn thing actually ran OS X like they claim, and not some proprietary firmware hacked together by chinks and made to look like OS X—like, oh, I dunno, the iPod?
Reason the second. Absolute lack of innovation. The only thing that’s new about it is the touchscreen stuff, and let’s face it, they didn’t do a very good job at that. You really don’t want to do your typing onto a full QWERTY keyboard crammed onto a 3″ screen—especially without tactile feedback. And what’s with the “5 years ahead of the competition” thing? I don’t suppose they consider LG a competitor then? Yeah, who’s heard of them, right? And where’s the 3G? Where’s the VoIP? And, most of all, where’s the FCC approval?
Reason the third. Design. For fuck’s sake, you fanboys need to wake up and smell the damned coffee. The iPod nano’s screen vs. body proportion issues are bad enough, but why is it that I seem to be the only person to notice that the chrome edges and huge rounded corners on the iPhone are just terrible?
Reason the fourth. Arrogance. This time, I’m not talking about the whole “Look at us, we re-invented the wheel” routine, even though there was plenty of that yet again. No, what I’m referring to specifically is using Cisco’s patented product name before reaching an agreement and then calling them “silly” (yes, that’s a fucking quote) if they sue over it. Especially since you can barely mention the A fruit without getting sued by Apple Legal. Woops, now I’m gonna get sued.
Reason the fifth. Fanboys. I don’t know why I keep reading the comments on faux hipster hives like TUAW and Mac Rumors. “Hey, look at me, my MacBook just overheated but whatever, Steve Jobs is my guru! Everything he says and does is awesome!”
Top 5 reasons why the iPhone won’t be a dud: All of the above. Steve Jobs could throw up on stage and within minutes, people would be buying iVomit on eBay. Jesus fucking Christ.
Score: +∞, Insightful.
Nothing about the iPhone yet? Indeed. Rest assured I’ll have my say when time is no longer of the essence.