...but really more like anti-whineybutt.

I've been seeing lots of comments about Microsoft's new version of Windows (and previous versions) and how they like to close up their operating system and make it hard to change advanced options. Oh, the options are there, but they're hard to find. Linux fanboys make comments along the lines of "the Linux idea of security is keeping intruders out of your computer, and the Microsoft idea of security is keeping YOU out of your computer." Yes, that's accurate. But why is that?

Let's remember that Windows has a gargantuan market share. It's been around for a very long time, the company is very large, and you can ask anyone what "Windows" is and they'll probably tell you it's something that runs on your computer. It's easy to use, which was the purpose of its design, probably to a fault, and most people you talk to will probably be using it. I mean, that's just a fact that nobody can ignore, though some people don't like to remember that.

As we all know, the majority of the human race are total retards. They don't want to bother learning, but think they know everything already and they're just naturally destructive in their arrogance. This is who Windows is designed to work with. The total morons out there who love poke around where they shouldn't. Now, you may be placing yourself in this group and getting all offended by what I'm saying, but I'm not meaning the people who make an effort to learn and know when something they're looking at sounds dangerous and they don't understand it, so they stop messing around. I'm talking about the people who just can't help themselves and/or try to show off and/or just plain don't care.

Windows is designed to work with the morons of the world. It's hard to get into options that the user can screw up their computer with, because most people who use Windows WOULD use it to screw up their computer. Maybe I'm playing devil's advocate here, but that's how I see it. I tend to see the lighter side of Microsoft while everyone else only looks at possible ulterior motives. Of course, there are viruses and security holes that make it easy to screw things up, but that's another topic entirely.

Windows isn't designed for people who like to customize the heck out of their computers. That's what Linux is for. That's why you're using Linux instead of Windows. Are you WANTING to use Windows? Is that why you're making fun of it for not being what you want? I mean, you're using Linux and you profess to hate Windows, and you keep throwing rocks at it because it's... well... I guess because it's there.

If you put a total loser down in front of Linux, he'll start poking around and screw things up. Root passwords and prompts aside, they'll manage to break their computer regardless, if not just erase all their data. Sure, there might not be viruses, but who needs viruses when you have an OS that lets you do anything and a stupid-head sitting at the keyboard?

So, in closing. Windows doesn't suit your tastes. Fine. So stop whining about it. It doesn't suit your niche tastes, and they're not going to change, so just leave it alone. You have your flavors of Linux that number the stars in the sky, so just be quiet and go compile the latest programs from open source code and leave everyone alone who prefers an OS that's just plain easy to use.

So in a fit of late-night insanity, I decided to sign up for a thingie called National Novel Writing Month. Pretty much just a mind-game to get you to write a small book as fast as possible. It doesn't have to be good, you just have to write 50,000 words in 30 days. I figure I have a ton of story ideas swirling around that I've just been too lazy to actually write down anywhere, so this is a good excuse to try. I went back over some of the old documents I DID write down, and I think I can write down 1,666 words a day rather easily. (1,666 x 30 is ~50,000)

They say you should shoot for quantity over quality. It's sort of a rough draft. Dump your brain onto the paper and see what comes out and don't bother fine-tuning anything. We do that later. Which is pretty much what I need to do... and learn HOW to do. Obsessive perfectionist that I am. This'll prove interesting.

I put a little word counter on the sidebar over tharr so everyone can spy on how much I've gotten done. I figured out how OpenOffice Writer keeps track of words (durr, it was in the Tools menu) so I should be able to figure out how to keep things updated. Not sure how
it all works, but hopefully it'll all be gooood.

...and before you ask, NO! You can't see what I'm writing!
But here's my profile in case you wanna see.

So there's this really big bug that Microsoft found in their new version of Windows. It was scheduled to hit the disc manufacturing lines on October 25th, I guess, but it's been pushed back to November 8th now. What's the bug? They don't say exactly, and, frankly, it doesn't even matter! They did say that the bug they found caused a complete crash of Vista and you had to reinstall the entire operating system.

Anti-Microsoft fanatics are, of course, going ballistic over the "horrible bug" they found. Let's forget the fact that they found it. Let's forget the fact that they're FIXING it. No, see, it's Microsoft. They're evil. Not like Apple. Not like Linux. For some reason, people expect Microsoft Windows to be completely and 100% bug free. But you know what? They obviously don't know anything about debugging... much less debugging an entire OPERATING SYSTEM with an INFINITE AMOUNT OF CONFIGURATIONS. You try to make something like that 100% perfect. It's just not possible.

Anyway, I just wanted to point out that all the creeps on Slashdot are laughing their butts off at Microsoft's "blunder". (As if it was something they've already bought that Microsoft let leak through. Microsoft caught the bug and they're fixing it. What more can you ask? It's not even in a program you can BUY, yet!) They're laughing at Microsoft for some bug they don't know anything about. Like a few comments said, it could be a bug that nobody anywhere would ever come across. It could've been this one person who did some insanely crazy set of commands that totally borked the system. Nobody knows, so everyone just needs to cut the Microsoft bashing whenever something comes up.

Seriously... Microsoft can't do anything good without it somehow being bad in the eyes of the rabid Linux community. But, oh! Let's totally forget that Ubuntu has a serious and common bug (Digg) during it's upgrade process. Linux is far from being user friendly and this bug shows exactly that. Perhaps it's easy to fix (for some), but it doesn't matter. It wrecks your system. Apparently there was even an instance where Ubuntu erased your Home folder on upgrade. For those of you who don't know, your Home folder in Linux is where you put EVERYTHING that you ever save to disk. Photos, music, documents. It's like your "My Documents" folder. I can't find any official articles on it, but I've seen several comments regarding it. Goes to show you how often massive Linux bugs get announced.

But that bug was already fixed, you say?

WELL SO IS THE BUG THAT MICROSOFT FOUND!!

Stupid hypocrites.

After that depressing bit of Sony news, I thought I'd post this little gem.

You know that the SciFi Channel, owned by NBC, just cancelled Stargate SG1, right? No eleventh season because SciFi called it "too expensive". Fine, whatever you say. Luckily, MGM has confirmed its wish to continue producing Stargate SG1 in a couple of direct-to-DVD movies. That's good, but that's not the point of this post.

A couple years ago, SciFi decided to fund a little abomination called "Battlestar Galactica". Yes, that old 1978 TV series that rivaled feature length movies of the time. But see, SciFi decided to "reimagine" BSG. They screwed with the storyline... they screwed with the characters... they screwed with the mythology... they screwed with everything possible and turned it into a show full of people sleeping with each other in order to get what they want. It's a disgusting recreation of a classic science-fiction show that is arguably better than Star Wars.

SciFi's proud of this little piece of junk they've concocted, and the viewers who don't know any better are just eating it up. For some reason, they just can't get enough of "new BSG". Me, I feel like losing my lunch when I hear the phrase "new BSG". Such a horrible twisted reinvention. But SciFi loves it. More than Stargate, it seems. I mean, of course! Why not? It's a SciFi original series!

Well, see, they enjoy putting Stargate on hiatus during the winter season for NO reason. For nearly six months, they pause both Stargate serieses in the middle before starting it up again in March. Why? Probably just because they can and nobody can do anything about it. This year, though, they were musing about an idea to pause Stargate for LONGER than usual so as to give "new BSG" a chance to "get out from under" Stargate and stand on its own.

See, "new BSG" is sandwiched between Stargates. I believe it goes Stargate SG1, then Stargate Atlantis, then "new BSG", then a repeat of SG1 and then a repeat of Atlantis. "New BSG" is riding the wake of the ever popular Stargate. People who might've missed the first airing of Stargate will sit through "new BSG" and, oh! It's a rating! "New BSG" is being watched, yay! (At least, that's my opinion.)

Welp, guess what? With the announcement that Stargate SG1 is being cancelled, and the on-going Stargate haitus until March... "New BSG's" ratings are dropping... and it seems to be dropping rapidly and sharply. I mean, it's enough so that there's a call to write SciFi to tell them to clean up their act before everything just collapses.

I just knew this would happen. "New BSG" is riding the ratings of Stargate. It can't stand on its own and the current ratings are proving it. It's NOT a good science-fiction show. It's NOT a good show, period! I don't want it, and I don't think anyone else should, either. People that do watch it have no respect for the original 1978 series.

It's sad to think that "new BSG" used to be slated as a sort of continued version of the original series, and that Bryan Singer (one of the best movie directors ever) was going to head up the project. It was going to keep the original mythology and all the original characters, but I believe the premise was that the fleeing Colonials eventually gave up on their search for Earth and settled on a random planet. Don't quote me on that, though... ask Capella. She knows. But the fact was that "new BSG" was going to compliment original BSG! But someone higher up decided to completely recreated the story and churn out this sickening junk that everyone will think of when people mention "Battlestar Galactica".

Me, I'll always remember the original series, and I'm laughing at SciFi's perdicament. They got their wish. "New BSG" is on its own, and it's FAILING. Yes! That's good news!

This isn't a Sony Says... but, more like Sony Did.

Anyway, a few days ago, news started circulating that Sony was complaining about retailers exporting their game devices against Sony's wishes. How they can do that, nobody's quite sure. Fanboys are saying "it's their product, they can do what they want", but what Sony's essentially trying to do here is prevent people from, say, Europe... buying their stuff from Japan. The majority opinion is that Sony enjoys jacking up the price of their stuff in Europe for nobody knows what reason, and that when companies export from Japan to Europe, then Sony's not getting that extra money from the jacked up price. Importing is good for Europe, but bad for Sony, so Sony wants to stop exports/imports. Dumb.

Well... Sony got their wish. Their target was an awesome little online gaming store that went by the name of Lik Sang, based in Hong Kong, that carried quite literally anything you could ever want for your modern gaming needs. Adapters you've never heard of... modification chips... consoles... games... whatever you can name, they had it, and that's seriously no lie. Unfortunately, Sony noticed that European customers were buying PlayStations from Lik Sang for a variety of reasons. The major reason being that whatever they were buying simply wasn't availible in Europe yet, and they were being fans of Sony and didn't want to wait! That's good, right?

I mean, Lik Sang even has proof that Sony CEOs bought Sony products from them because they were simply too hard to find for themselves. When Sony can't find Sony products anywhere but Lik Sang, you know you've got yourself a perfect job. That's good, right?

Wrong. Sony didn't like that. Sony got angry. You don't want to deal with an angry Sony. An angry Sony is like an angry 5 year old. They don't listen to reason, but they'll pitch a fit and scream and holler and go insane until they get their way. Unfortunately, Sony has enough money to fund their little whiney endeavors. So what did Sony do? They sued Lik Sang. Several times. From different countries. It doesn't matter if Lik Sang could win. They just simply couldn't afford to fight in so many courts at once... so they went out of business.

You realize that Sony just successfully attacked a retailer for exporting Sony products, even though that's perfectly legal? A retailer that Sony BOSSES bought from because the products were so hard to find! (Which, incidentally, is entirely Sony's fault by delaying releases for no given reason.) Well, see, they did have a "reason" for suing Lik Sang. They claim it was because their products weren't rated safe to use with European electricity. Lik Sang tried to point out that they were selling the things with official Sony AC adapters rated for worldwide voltage, but nobody listened.

So Lik Sang, the best online videogame store, period, is now completely out of business. They're refunding everyone orders and preorders and terminating all existing transactions. Why? Because Sony wants to extort you for MORE MONEY.

Where are the fanboys now?

EDIT: Well, I guess they DID actually go to court, but the verdict is still the same.

Theater popcorn is biologically engineered to suck water from your body in an attempt to get you to buy more drinks. Unfortunately, the result of resisting the subliminal message to buy more drinks is a slow and painful death by dehydration, and the theater can just blame your sudden demise on your decision not to drink anything for the entire day so you could sit through the movie.

I don't think I'm going to eat that stuff anymore, even if it's offered to me, because I don't want to drink gallons and gallons of any liquid I can get my paws on. Ugh. Excuse me while I go drink directly from the kitchen sink.

So I've been told to take a career test to see what I want to do for a living. I never really saw the use, since I already know what I wanted to do, but I just had to pick between them all. But I thought, eh, what the heck, I'll try it, since Dad found some freebie one online. I was actually rather surprised at how accurate it was, though, as I thought, it really didn't tell me anything I didn't already know.

But for the sake of boredom and lack of content on this blog, I've decided to post the report I got! Think of it as sort of an ultimate personality test... that's actually useful.

Your highest score was on Science, which means that you enjoy working with abstract ideas, scientific equipment, and mathematical logic and reasoning to solve practical or abstract problems. You also scored highly on Writing, indicating that you enjoy creative or technical writing. You are also likely to be interested in a broad range subjects, so finding occupations that allow you to exercise these interests would lead to higher work satisfaction for you. Your high score on the Clerical scale means that you enjoy office work of a systematic nature, involving attending to details and routine duties. Clerical work often includes filing, record-keeping, word processing, operating office machines, and other office tasks.

Your lowest score was on Personal Service. You wouldn’t be satisfied in careers where the majority of your time was spent interacting with others and providing the public with services involving personal contact. You also showed low interest in Outdoors, so you’re likely to be unfulfilled in careers where the majority of your time was spent working outdoors, especially in agriculture with animals and/or plants. A low score on this scale also means that you probably don’t enjoy the challenge of potentially dangerous situations. Finally, your low score on Health Service means that you wouldn’t enjoy work that involves helping to prevent, diagnose or cure diseases through laboratory work, or by attending to the health needs of individuals directly.

My occupational interests. The core of the report, they say. (Except there's a bunch more fine-tuning results.) As you can see, it noticed I hate working directly with people, but I love Science and Writing and Clerical, which kind of surprised me. (Clerical work is like... stereotypical office work. Word processing, speadsheets, etc. Which it deduced I would like since I'm a very methodical and systematic person and I don't like change.) I got a high score in Art, which is true. I like Art, but I don't think it'd be my first pick for a living, although I ultimately wouldn't mind. It threw out a high score for Cooking, too, which was... er... unexpected. Never thought about Cooking, but it would be neat. (And hey, if Greg Dean from Reallifecomics.com can do it, then SO CAN I, dangit!)

Assertive prefers working situations in which it is appropriate to assert authority over others, and to direct and monitor their work. Persuasive enjoys work which involves influencing, advising, counseling, guiding, motivating, or directing the activities of others. Systematic prefers jobs that involve routine but challenging assignments in which order and persistent, steady effort are required. Likes job security to be established, and dislikes frequent changes in schedule and situations requiring quick decisions.

Here's where that systematic result came from... the Work Styles. Scarily accurate, but, again, something I already knew. While I can adapt to abrupt changes, it really irritates me when people do that, and it's best not done! I like being the boss, too, because then I know things are getting done properly, bwahaha.

Investigative (Thinkers) - Your Score: High
Investigative types enjoy the challenge of problem solving in mathematics, technology, and sciences, and the abstract and practical ideas related to these areas. Applied science, such as engineering, technology or computer science may also be of interest to them. They can be technically creative.

Artistic (Creators) - Your Score: High
Artistic types are often thought of as original and creative by others. Such people enjoy expressing themselves in artistic ways such as acting, dancing, creating music or visual art, or by expressing their ideas either through discussion or debate.

Conventional (Organizers) - Your Score: High
Conventional types enjoy supervising others in jobs where rules and tasks are well defined. They show careful attention to detail, are organized, follow instructions well and prefer jobs where their daily duties are regular and fixed.

Realistic (Doers) - Your Score: Med
Realistic types like physical activity, working with their hands, and are mechanically-inclined. They enjoy working outdoors and do not mind physical risks on the job.

Attentive (Servers) - Your Score: Med
Attentive types enjoy helping others, serving others' personal needs and looking after the comfort and well-being of others. They are happy in jobs requiring sociability, politeness, patience and a happy disposition.

Enterprising (Persuaders) - Your Score: Low
Enterprising types are people-oriented. They like to talk to, influence and persuade others. They are confident, adventurous, assertive and show leadership.

Social (Helpers) - Your Score: Low
Social types are interested in helping to keep others emotionally or physically healthy, or in teaching others. They enjoy giving advice and working directly with people, either in groups or individually.

So yeah. This is where they figure I'd fit in a workplace, but, of course, I already knew this! I just need to decide between Writing, Science, or maybe even both. Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics all interest me, but it would be awesome to write things for a living, too. News articles, books, anything that people would like to read. But NO directly interacting with people! However, I would also enjoy being a Customer Support Representative for a game company or online game like Blizzard on World of Warcraft. It's just something I enjoy doing. You get to indirectly interact with all sorts of weirdos and you get to tell people about all the morons you talk to! It's really sweeeeet.

So... Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Creative Writing, English... ugh. So many choices.