The more hateful part of the dialog is the idea that not clicking is interpreted as "I'm too lazy to click so I guess you can restart now." One fine afternoon, I went upstairs for a cup of coffee and came back to a freshly restarted PC. I guess I didn't need those code changes.
On 8/28/07, Timothy Knox <t...@thelbane.com> wrote: > I hate Microsoft Windows with a passion, but that in and of itself is too easy > to be worthy of mention here. Fish. Barrel. Dynamite. Boom! > > However, the Windows box I am forced to use at work (for testing certain kinds > of streaming media, players for which do not exist on Linux) recently > prompted a > much more detailed and specific hate. > > First, the annoying "Updates are available for your computer. Click here to > install them" bubble would appear, repeatedly, every so often. Finally, being > sufficiently annoyed with the bubble, I clicked there, and installed them. > > It finished by saying something to the effect of "Windows must now restart > your > computer for these changes to take effect." The dialog had two buttons: > "Restart > now" and "Restart later". Well, I was not ready to "restart now" so I clicked > "restart later". Apparently, that is not the right name for the button. > > It should instead be named, "Come back in no more than two minutes, and ask me > again, and again, and AGAIN!" AAAARGGGH! I can't stand it any more! Why > doesn't > it occur to the folks at Microsoft that I just might be, yanno, busy right > now, > and not really ready to "restart now". How about interpreting "restart later" > to > mean, sleep for an hour (or more), then try again. Better still, why not let > me > specify a time when I won't mind if it restarts, like oh, say, 3AM? But no, > Microsoft knows better than me how urgent this is, that I need to restart > *now* > doggone it, *NOW*! > > "Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, > and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally > hundreds > and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping > and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*. I can't stand it > anymore! They're *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*!" > > -- > Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com> > 90% of everything is crud. And for software the other 10% is worse. > -- Nicholas Clark > >
