Nonsense page 4
Computers. The technological wonder of flawless precision and logic, honed by computer scientists over the decades. And just as capable of spouting complete nonsense as the best of us.
Here, Task Manager is experiencing double vision:
More surprisingly, all the statistics fields are editable
Unicode fields. You can see that I have already marked two of them as right-to-left and back (upsetting the alignment) and I can also ask it to insert Unicode special characters:
Windows traditionally operated (and I believe still does operate) a very primitive communication system and the operating system is unable to profile programs’ needs and characteristics. For example, passing multiple files to the command line of a program that only opens one file at a time won’t generally work:
Of course, if Notepad cared it could spawn new instances of itself for each path. Or Windows could learn to tell the difference between single-document and multi-document programs.
Notepad is not a good example as it already cannot tell the difference between fixed and removable drives:
The next picture shows my old ISP Web-based mail service unable to filter complete nonsense out of the date field of incoming mail.
Curiously, the offending mails were trying to spam me milk bottle covers? That is a new one on me. Do people have milk bottle cover fetishes?
And here is the mail service deleting an error message ;)
Outlook Express has a similar problem:
Errors? I don’t see any errors.
Nor was I aware that my 1997 Mac clone has 4 gigabytes of memory installed. The following message from A-Dock translates to 4 gig of 12 meg available
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GraphicConverter has another new one on me: the secret life of the RGB GIF image:
SoundApp has apparently been playing the following tune for over 8000 minutes. You think I’d have tired of even Moments of Calm part 3 (and it’s not that calm!) by that long.
Finally, when StuffIt Expander in Windows decompress an archive, it puts an enclosing folder around the archive contents if one was not present. But it then zeroes the date on that folder:
Very useful. (Zeroes, yes. It says 1:00:00 there but in further tests it always comes out 0:00:00! No idea why.)