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3rdragon1. I feel really bad for her.
I just had a woman come in, and I couldn't help her at all. I think she's lost her entire paper. It was in her e-mail, and she opened it rather than downloading it, and then just hit save, and I think it's gone. The new version isn't in her e-mail and isn't on her computer, and isn't on her H drive either (not that I thought it was, but she felt that it had maybe somehow magically made the jump because someone had told her that you can access the H drive from your home computer, and I was very dubious but checked for her anyway). In short, I couldn't do anything for her. I hate it when I can't help people, particularly when they're nice people who don't lash out at the consultants even though they're under a lot of pressure in a miserable situation. I gave her the number for the USC, but I really suspect that they won't be able to do anything either. And I know what it's like to lose something you've put that much work into, and I don't think it changes anything that you've lost it through user error rather than computer malfunction (mind you, I didn't tell her that; I think she's figured out that she should save it properly next time, and I don't need to be some snappy college kid telling her that it's all her own fault that it's gone).
So yeah, that depressing.
2. Vista is REALLY WIERD.
I've heard about Vista, and about how it's terrible, and how they tried to make it like mac and crit failed, but I'd never actually tried to use it before or even seen it. They got rid of all the menus. All of them. And replaced them with funny bubbly pop-ups that looked like they wanted to have pictures but didn't know how that I didn't have a clue how to navigate. That isn't trying to be like mac, that's trying to be like one of those one-laptop-per-child laptops whose name I've forgotten. Only it failed at that, too, because Windows is a more complex system and so can't deal with a simple pictorial navigation system. In short, so far as I could tell from two minutes of interaction, it's exactly as terrible as everyone says it is. No wonder my dad doesn't want to buy a new computer with that on it. At least if both he and mom switch to mac at about the same time Isaac won't have to deal with going back and forth between OSes at different houses. And that looks fairly likely (Mom is serious enough that I've gotten an e-mail that starts, "When we talk, I want advice on buying a mac . . ."), and dad has mentioned that he needs a new computer, so my anaylsis is that he'll get one within a year or two.
I just had a woman come in, and I couldn't help her at all. I think she's lost her entire paper. It was in her e-mail, and she opened it rather than downloading it, and then just hit save, and I think it's gone. The new version isn't in her e-mail and isn't on her computer, and isn't on her H drive either (not that I thought it was, but she felt that it had maybe somehow magically made the jump because someone had told her that you can access the H drive from your home computer, and I was very dubious but checked for her anyway). In short, I couldn't do anything for her. I hate it when I can't help people, particularly when they're nice people who don't lash out at the consultants even though they're under a lot of pressure in a miserable situation. I gave her the number for the USC, but I really suspect that they won't be able to do anything either. And I know what it's like to lose something you've put that much work into, and I don't think it changes anything that you've lost it through user error rather than computer malfunction (mind you, I didn't tell her that; I think she's figured out that she should save it properly next time, and I don't need to be some snappy college kid telling her that it's all her own fault that it's gone).
So yeah, that depressing.
2. Vista is REALLY WIERD.
I've heard about Vista, and about how it's terrible, and how they tried to make it like mac and crit failed, but I'd never actually tried to use it before or even seen it. They got rid of all the menus. All of them. And replaced them with funny bubbly pop-ups that looked like they wanted to have pictures but didn't know how that I didn't have a clue how to navigate. That isn't trying to be like mac, that's trying to be like one of those one-laptop-per-child laptops whose name I've forgotten. Only it failed at that, too, because Windows is a more complex system and so can't deal with a simple pictorial navigation system. In short, so far as I could tell from two minutes of interaction, it's exactly as terrible as everyone says it is. No wonder my dad doesn't want to buy a new computer with that on it. At least if both he and mom switch to mac at about the same time Isaac won't have to deal with going back and forth between OSes at different houses. And that looks fairly likely (Mom is serious enough that I've gotten an e-mail that starts, "When we talk, I want advice on buying a mac . . ."), and dad has mentioned that he needs a new computer, so my anaylsis is that he'll get one within a year or two.
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Date: 10 Jun 2008 06:04 pm (UTC)That said, I still haven't played with Vista yet. When/if I get another computer it's definitely going to be a Mac.