As those close to me know, I recently underwent a “Left Big Toe Nail Avulsion”, to alleviate the pain of an Onychocryptosis, or Unguis incarnatus. This was what was written in that weird language those doctors and nurses use so that patients will find difficulty in understanding them. Luckily, I like reading up on these things, and I realise this simply meant that I would be undergoing surgery on my left big toe to remove the nail because of an ingrown toenail.
Anyway, this happened two weeks ago, and today I had to go back there for a checkup. I thought there would be a proper analysis of the toe, and maybe a written report on how the toe was doing. Instead, they led me to a room, with a thousand people inside, sat me on a bed, and examined my toe for about a minute, said there was nothing wrong with it, sent me back out and asked me to wait at the reception area. After half an hour, they called me and asked me to pay twenty-two dollars. For what?! Twenty-two dollars for a “Professional” to unwrap my gauze? No wonder these doctors earn so much while we peasants are suffering. These thieves are sucking us dry.
When they were done robbing me, I took a walk to the nearby Popular, and discovered a weird thing. In the picture above, ignore the games. Look at the three black cable ties. They are linked together, holding three USB Card readers together. At first, they were just hanging on some rack. I wanted to buy one, and all three of them came off. I suppose the cable ties are there to…… I don’t know, irritate people? Maybe they are there to prevent people from stealing the object. If so, that’s the dumbest security device in the world. It’s the same as locking a few bikes together so that people won’t steal it. If someone wanted to steal it, they would steal just one. Now, they are forced to steal all of it, since they are all linked together. How, then, does this help the company? So, in light of their dumbness, I decided not to buy the thing from them. The fact that I couldn’t find any “Friendly Popular Customer Service People” might also have something to do with me not buying. I wasn’t going to bring all three to the cashier, where some Chinese speaking old woman will not be able to understand that I only want to buy one, not three.
Lesson 1 : Hospitals are thieves.
Lesson 2 : Popular sucks when it comes to “Security”.
Lesson 3 : Get English speaking Cashiers.
As you can see, I didn’t know what to call my post. As such, I decided to leave it blank, and anyone reading can feel free to use any title they want. Of course, you need to imagine that you CAN actually change my title, since obviously, you can’t. Well. I understand that the above words have absolutely no meaning. I might as well have typed random random words, and arranged them so that they look like a proper paragraph.
Much like this : Chicken door shake time start into appendix compact button. Insecurity area timber, fan car location. Play aid gear prickly! Metal ingratitude nominal gateway! METAL INGRATITUDE NOMINAL GATEWAY!
Now, it’s harder than it seems to actually randomly type words. Your mind somehow links them, and you keep wanting to type something that makes sense. I guess that’s how the human mind works, always striving for sense and logic in any situation.
Well, on to more important issues. I have only two more tests coming up before I graduate. Two more tests and one final exam, that is. Now for some sentimental stuff.. I’ve been in ITE only 2 years, and it seems like I’ve been there forever. I think I’ve learned more in these 2 years than I have in any other time in my life. That’s what interest can do for you, I guess. Make a guy learn things which are irrelevant to everyday life, like Social Studies, Geography and History, and he won’t get anywhere, unless, of course, you are in JC, then these things will come in useful, since everyone coming out from there will be Geologists, Historians and SocialStudyists. :D
p.s. I found the car above on the internet. It’s a really nice car. It’s also horrendously expensive.
Vienna, of course, is Windows 7. To be more specific, Windows 7, Build 7000. I downloaded Windows 7 quite a while ago, a few days after the Beta was released to the public. I didn’t use it, until yesterday. I don’t know why. I think I forgot about it. Anyway, it looks good. It’s a bit laggy, but now, after a bit of tweaking in the registry, it’s working fine. I like the new taskbar. It gets rid of the Quick Launch bar in previous versions of Windows, and merges multiple instances of the application together, leaving only one icon of the said application left on the taskbar. Nice. Neat. Takes getting used to though.
Windows Media Player 12 comes with Windows 7. On the surface, it doesn’t look that different from WMP 11, aside from the fact that the buttons are in different places, and that there is a “Media Guide” thing in the bottom left, which doesn’t work in Singapore. I don’t know if this is because of my childishness at having a new OS to play with, but I feel that the sound quality is greatly improved when compared to Vista.
Windows 7 is also supposed to support multi-touch technology. Sadly, I don’t have anything I can use to take advantage of this feature.
Now, this is just a beta, and yet, when I check my System Properties, I see the word “Ultimate” next to “Windows 7”. Does this mean that when it finally goes into the market, there is going to be a whole lot of versions again? That sucks. If it’s going to be like Vista, where there is a Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate, then it is going to be bad. This is one of the reasons why Vista didn’t really sell as well as planned. You have to more for different features? Can’t they just sell Vista Ultimate? It works just as well on every computer. I have used both Ultimate AND Home Premium, and I dare say, Ultimate works better and faster. Does this mean Microsoft is deliberately slowing down systems so that people will buy Ultimate? That’s the world’s WORST business strategy. Imagine going to McDonald’s and buying a burger. Just the bread will cost you 50 cents. Want to add meat? Sure, another 50 cents. Cheese? 50 cents more. Ketchup? Why not? And the list goes on. If that happened, people would get pissed off, because the price gets higher and higher, and in the end, it wouldn’t be worth it. They might just walk out, and buy something simpler, like for example, an Apple.
That said, I think Windows 7 will be worth it, and if Microsoft can find more ways to tweak it to make it faster, it would be the BEST OS they have come up with, and it would be the first Windows OS to be faster than it’s predecessor. If you want to try W7, you can go to the Microsoft website. They are extending the Beta Download till 12th February 2009. After that date, it will be impossible to download it, unless you do so from torrents. Good torrent sites will be those like the Bay of Pirates, or a mini nuclear explosion. :D Try figuring those out! Haha. Also, Windows 7 comes with a new font, called Gabriola, and I shall use it here.