polish

MS Rant coming up...

I use MS Office for Windows in Parallels because it's feature set is (deliberately) miles ahead of Mac Office. I don't trust the MS Office's auto update, as we have had really major problems with some enforced updates that causes serious issues as it was not possible to roll back. I don't want a monthly upgrade cycle. I want something that works, is secure, and has an interface that doesn't change too often.

I loathe Windows 10. I mean really loathe it. Windows 7 wasn't so bad. It was mostly consistent, whereas Windows 10 does things without telling me, the Start menu has been ridiculously buggy, changes things without asking, and frequently used to become unavailable, requiring a restore from a previous saved build. MS's attitude to customer choice and confidentiality is completely ****ed up. Stupidly, each time I deal with another W10 issue I say next time I will go back to W7. I'm getting used to ignoring the "Stupid user" interface, and going straight to the Control Panel, where I can, but sometimes it's not possible.

I have kicked Office for iOS off my devices because I simply don't use the apps. They have huge frequent updates, and demand login credentials all the time. I use a password manager and very strong passwords, so there is no way I can remember the password for every poxy account. That's partly the point of having a password manager: I'm not going to give out the password because I don't know it. So I have to spend a couple of minutes just to open a document on the spur of the moment.

Don't get me started on OneDrive for Business/Sharepoint. (Shame. Too late...) Frequent failures to sync. I simply couldn't trust it, and much like iCloud, not really cross platform, even with Parallels. So I run my own server with Resilio Sync and WebDav which works fine for  most things on iOS except B****y MS. (Dropbox would be a solution except for privacy & cost)

OneNote is quite good for cross platform, between Win10 and iOS, with Apple pencil support for handwritten notes. But it still keeps logging me out just when I need to take a quick note. And then I have to go through the long process of getting my credentials and pasting username and password into the app. Do they have any idea how annoying this is for someone who cares about security?

Almost everything else is Mac. And I would love to switch everything to Mac. So here I am: making daily comparisons between W10 and MacOS. And there is no comparison of the platforms. Microsoft Office has pro features I need, but in every other respect, Microsoft is not just inferior, it is loathsome.

davidw said:

polish said:

There are 1.5 million Americans with Lupus, mostly young people. That's 0.47%. 0.47% of Samsung's 489,000 employees would be 2,299 people with Lupus. And this story is about 200 people with leukemia, lupus, lymphoma OR multiple sclerosis? Filed in the round cabinet in the corner.

But not all of Samsung employees works in factories making LCD's and semi-conductors. They also make refrigerators, washer and dryers, small kitchen appliances, cameras, software, computers, autos, helicopters, TV's, etc..  Plus not all workers in LCD and semi-conductor factories work with toxic chemicals. If the 200 cases are confined to employees working with toxic chemicals in their LCD and semi-conductors factories, then you can toss that 2,299 number out the window, when using the .47% for all of 489,000 Samsung employees. There might only be 20,000 workers in the target group and when using the .47% number would only yield 97 employees, so 200 would be twice the average in the US.

Even using your estimate of 20,000, your calculations to prove your point are nonsense, as the 200 includes people with ALL those diseases, not just lupus. in any case 2x could easily be accounted for by ethnic/genetic differences. For example in the UK, Afro-carribeans have 4.7x the incidence of lupus compared with white people. This story fails at the first hurdle. To me it just looks like worker agitation to get free healthcare. I'm not saying Samsung shouldn't offer that sort of support; just that it is wrong to smear them with misleading claims.

There are 1.5 million Americans with Lupus, mostly young people. That's 0.47%. 0.47% of Samsung's 489,000 employees would be 2,299 people with Lupus. And this story is about 200 people with leukemia, lupus, lymphoma OR multiple sclerosis? Filed in the round cabinet in the corner.