Pema

Great - Spring Cleaning Time

While they are at it deprecate the iPhone 16 line as well. While we patiently wait for what ought to be the whizz bang line of
iPhones: 17. I bought the 16 Pro. It was abysmal and took it back the next day. I was so dismayed I even - ok for second - 
considered going back to my once trusty Pixel. 
I am an Apple devotee from way back but that does not make me a baah baah sheep. I know when I see a dud. 

avon b7 said:

Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?

The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process. 

Absolutely spot on. 
This is vintage Microsoft sloppiness going over 50 years now. Releasing substandard code, causing chaos first on the desktops, then when office networks became the norm and then the enterprise and now global. 
Why we are still saddled with the worst o/s ever written I will never understand?

Windows is basically a graphic interface bolted on to DOS. Anyone who has ever followed the path from DOS to Windows 2000, Windows XP and now the latest incarnation Windows 11 knows that it has never been a stable O/S. The only reason that it is still pervasive is because Gates licensed it for a small fee to any PC maker. The hardware was never a concern for Microsoft. You could install DOS/Windows on your toaster if you like. So long as you pay the $25 fee per box. You are good to go. 

Apple, ever the company to maintain quality control, would not split the two. Well, ok, there was a brief period when the Pepsi Cola moron ran Apple that the company licensed the OS to a guy in Texas I believe who agreed to a very stringent hardware contract. But that arrangement fell apart after a year. And since then Apple, after Jobs came back from Next, has grown into a $3 Trillion company, always maintaining the highest standards. 

We have the equivalent of DOS/Windows in the phone space. It's called Android. You build any junky phone and slap Android on it and you are good to go. 

This particular outage had to do with Windows but also with the way Windows is managed from the cloud. A single component of CrowdStrike called Falcon was not thoroughly tested and it cascaded down to every Windows install out there. 

And it will happen again. Get rid of Windows and you solve half the problem. 

So, what else is new? Or News? MS DOS, MS Windows, always the achilles heel of the tech world. But because Mr Gates forced the both down pc makers throats then it spread like a virus. For those who don't recall, you could build a PC, no quality control there. Get a motherboard, a breadbox, slap a display on top call it Joe's PC and you are in business. But, and this is the big but, hardware alone is no good without the software. So Mr Gates tells the pc makers, ok, folks you want to put MS DOS on there, fine there is a licensing fee per PC. And that trend continued with Windows. 
Apple was different the hardware and software came bundled together so they worked seamlessly. 
There was one time in Apple's history where they almost became extinct and that when Mr Pepsi Cola - some idiot that Steve Jobs hired from the soft drink company to manage the company - licensed the Apple OS and a builder in Texas I believe put together the hardware and then slapped on the Apple OS. That relationship lasted as long as a one-night stand. 
Long story short, Mr Pepsi Cola forced Steve Jobs out, Jobs created Next on top of Unix. Apple floundered, MS tipped $150 million into Apple, Steve came back resurrected the company on top of the Unix Shell with the Mac interface. And from the Bondi Blue Mac and the iPod and as they say the rest is history. Apple is, IMO, due to become a $5 Trillion company. 
Microsoft's O/S was some rubbish that Ms Gates purloined from a guy in Seattle. It has always been sheit. Full of security holes, bugs you name it. MS ought to have dumped the whole kit and caboodle, and become what they have proven to be good at, Cloud. My Nutella's specialty. Except good old Windows has opened up a breach into the cloud and scuttled the works. 
I am no big fan of Android but it is heads and shoulders above Windows. 
Perhaps MS needs to team up with Google and license Android to run their PCs and Azure to manage the Cloud. 
Otherwise there will be days like these. 
 

Lydiansolo said:

Pema said:
Totally pointless. And if you have read the book by Scott Turow and watched the movie with Harrison Ford and Greta Scatchi you would know that he is acquitted on a technicality and the wife did it. Which was an excellent ending.

Didn't see that movie but did catch the one with Greta Scacchi

 

Give me a break. Scacchi, Scatchi. Tomato, Tomato-e. I am an Anglo not that familiar with foreign names. 

clexman said:

Spoiler alert. I guess if he’s in a second season, he’s not guilty in the first. 

Totally pointless. And if you have read the book by Scott Turow and watched the movie with Harrison Ford and Greta Scatchi you would know...
What in the hell are they going to come up with to create a new season? Let's hope that it is not based on Scott Turow's later books. They have been plainly awful. Churning the same characters through the same county on an utterly forgettable plots. 

I can't imagine Rusty Sabich is going to have another affair in which he is implicated killing the lover. Oh wait, his wife has an affair with the barman from the tele series - which btw was not in the original book or movie - she gets pregnant. We already know that Rusty has a violent temper. He finds out about the affair and that his wife is pregnant with the baby from the barman, goes into a vengeful killing spree and wipes out the barman and the wife. Because the latter two are black and Rusty is white he is accused of murder with the added component that it a racially-motivated killing. It spurs the Chicago South Side to at first peacefully demonstrate then to launch violent rampages throughout Chicago, burning, looting - you know like Watts. 

But wait Rusty, while guilty as hell, hires a dream team - like OJ - and get away with killing the wife and the barman. 

Don't call it Presumed Innocent instead call it Innocent? Yeah Right!