Mac Sucks Ass

Well this is just great!

It is pretty much out of the bag that once again, Microsoft released an operating system BEFORE it was finished.

Vista.

There are so many flaws with Vista that it is too much effort to list them all. It is easier to list the things that work.

Nothing.

You need new software. Your old software that works in XP will probably not work in Vista. And that is just the start!!!!

So no problem. Get a Mac right?

Well someone sent me a Mac Numbers spreadsheet file. But I do not have a mac.

No problem! I do not have the software to create PDF files, but I can view them. I can download a powerpoint viewer. I can download an excel viewer. I can download a word viewer. In fact, I can download a viewer for just about ANY file format out there.

But NOT for anything Mac! Oh no! Some asshole at Mac has decided to keep that a secret! So if someone sends you a mac format file forget about getting a viewer for it.

But if I send someone with a mac an excel format file there is software that will open it.

So why not offer a viewer for Mac files???? Huh you ass munches at Mac??? Any answer? Come on! I do not need to create mac spreadsheet files. I just want to LOOK at them.

So what is it - I have to buy your overpriced hardware that is THE SAME hardware as I can get in a PC, then have your overpriced OS installed on it, then buy your overpriced software just for the privilege of looking at files?

I hope the person in that company who decided to NOT create a free viewer for some mac files gets the worst case of inflamed bleeding infected festering gangrene hemorrhoids in the history of the universe. The ENTIRE universe. Including all the other galaxies - those we know about and those we do not.

One Of Them

I remember making fun of people with Blackberry devices. Always checking email from everywhere. Tethered to their mobile device as if life itself depended on it.

I would laugh at them and refer to the device as a "dingleberry".

But my new phone has internet access and the unlimited data plan. When I first got it I was using the data plan a whole lot. It was a new thing. But really the internet browser it has sucks ass. The Iphone browser is much nicer. Opera makes it more usable than the Internet Explorer mobile version the phone came with. What a piece of shit that is.

But still, I have found some uses for data on the phone. Like for example Google Maps. If I am out somewhere and need to find some place, I can open Opera and do a Google search for whatever I am looking for. Then go to Google Maps and punch in the address. Turn on the phone GPS and I am there. Street level mapping.

Also I can use the phone to receive XM Satellite Radio programming, but this would require an extra monthly charge. I used my three day free trial but never subscribed for anything else. But the option is there!

However, I recently did something else. I created an email account for my phone. I own a domain and the hosting company allows me up to 1500 POP3 email accounts. Well I do not need that many, but it does offer the option of multiple accounts. So I created one for the phone. Two actually, but I decided the first one was too long.

And now I find myself to be one of them. Checking the phone for email. Finding reasons to send email from various places. Because I can.

But I am still not a dingleberry person. You do not see me constantly sending and receiving emails on the phone. I am not always typing away, lost in my own little world and not noticing what is going on around me. In fact, I have not even given the new email address out to anyone. I do not really want to get what I call "instant pestering" messages on the phone.

I do not want to be one of them, but the modern world seems to demand that I become one of them. I am resisting as best I can. But one man, alone, can not fight a world war. He needs an army. At least. Actually he needs an army, and air force, and a navy.