Computer Follies, part 1
by Rahul ~ April 15th, 2008. Filed under: Computing, Stupidity.Computers are one of the greatest inventions of humanity, designed by some of humanity’s most brilliant people. With all due respect, though, their brainchildren, while enormously useful, have been subjected to some serious pain due to developers’ negligence. Here are a few examples from my personal experience.
Canon’s ZoomBrowser software for its digital cameras is truly terrible, and with other, superior tools such as Picasa, it’s also a tad bit redundant. Maybe the developers knew that when crafting the software…
Aaah, the heady old days of Firefox 1.0. This is a minor glitch fixed in 1.5, but it still retains its humor. Considering the amount of number-crunching going on in the browser, I’m surprised they didn’t catch this before, while the otherwise excellent browser was still in beta.
One of Windows Vista’s improved (or worsened) features is that it is more of a granny OS than anything since the days of Microsoft Bob. For instance, now the OS is kind enough to let you know that it is crashing*.
I like myself a lot, thank you very much! A rather bizarre glitch on the Facebook app Honesty Box.
Once, while browsing on Answers.com, I came upon this gem. Be careful, guys, when writing your code. Remember all the cases! And while on the subject of ads:
(Click on the image to enlarge). A rather odd juxtaposition, don’t you think? Lending Tree & mortgage fraud…
The future of software is in good hands!
* Before I get my house stormed by Microsoft zombies… explorer.exe was crashing in this case, not the entire OS.
**I’m not affiliated with any of the companies/products mentioned above. I took these screenies too =).
April 17th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Spreading the word, huh?
April 17th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Wow. That’s kind of sad. I love the last one. Reminds me of the PC magazine column “Backspace”, you should submit some there!
April 17th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Haha, there are so many of those. Interesting things happen when non-standard things get inserted into a standard template!
April 18th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
LOL, you know when sometimes you open a random folder on windows and it says gives that flashlight symbol and says “searching”. Sometimes I simply open “my computer” and it says that! So it’s basically telling me that it’s searching for my computer :-\ Very WTF…
BTW, how did you set up this website?
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 pm
It’s true that slaves are difficult to find nowadays, especially those of the sex variety. eBay is an OK place to find them but you often have to buy internationally and shipping just isn’t cheap enough…Craigslist is a lot better. Of course there’s many more available internationally, you just can’t check out your purchase in person before hand…I recommend http://www.anastasia-international.com/ . Good luck! ;D I have to say that I don’t know as much about the female sex slave industry as the male boytoy one. -Sarah
May 10th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Russian mail-order brides? Gee, thanks!
May 17th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
@Sarah.
Just go to Nepal, or northeastern India.
Plenty of slaves for every taste.
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10566777
June 16th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
…the sex slave thing again?????
jeez that’s gettting old
June 17th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Is it?