reddit firstworld problems: http://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems/top/
One click on my mechanical pencil isnt enough, and two clicks is too much.
In which HP admit that their CMS is so user-hostile that they need to use a third-party URL shortener to get customers to visit it. Well done, HP.
The Apple Ministry of Information
I am flabbergasted.
So here’s the story.
At the start of the year I paid my MobileMe subscription on my NAB credit card as I have been doing since 2003.
Later in the year, Sony fucks up royally and leak pretty much everything about me including my cock circumference. I cancel all my cards as a precaution.
Later, the NAB have multiple computer failures and I move to another bank.
Then (are you still with me?) Apple announces iCloud and confirm that once you sign up for iCloud, MobileMe is about as useful as a fairy floss dick.
But! You can get a MobileMe refund!
And here’s where things get insane.
My card is cancelled, so they can’t refund it. But get this: even though I have a current card on file with Apple, they WILL NOT refund to that card. They will only refund the old card, even though I explained that it’s defunct.
And so naturally it doesn’t work, despite the ‘helpful’ Apple rep assuring me that the bank will be able to sort things out when I call them to explain.
I did call them. They’ve seen nothing. So I called Apple Australia. Except I can’t actually talk to a human being about MobileMe because apparently they find this whole process as fucking embarrassing as I do.
I got on Apple’s support site yet again and asked why they would not just credit my current card. They said they would send a cheque if the refund failed.
But it couldn’t be that sane, could it? No, even though Apple have my current address on file as well, they are sending the cheque to MY OLD BANK.
Fuck you, Apple, for making what should have been a simple transaction a ludicrous pain in the arse for both myself and the poor people at the NAB. You fucking cunts.
This article reminds me of the time that Mazda took a bunch of us to a drive day. There must have been 20 cars on the tracks, a combination of Mazda6 MPS and Mazda3 MPS models. We all had a great time except for the one guy who had modded his car. It broke down within an hour and he had to call it a day.
This is why I don’t bother with aftermarket gear. If you want performance, get it from the factory.
Now that I think about it, I have the same opinion about boobs.
Yikes, I just remembered when you had to decide whether your new website would support frames and I bought iBrowse for my Amiga so I could use them.
Fuck those times.
I would be remiss if I didn’t touch on Flash, since it is a touted feature of the PlayBook and has become a big talking point nowadays. Let me put it diplomatically. Only two parties should care about Flash: 1) Adobe, since it’s their bread and butter, and 2) Flash developers, since it’s their bread and butter. Everybody else needs to move on. As a consumer and a developer of non-Flash software technologies, I think we should demand better, and the PlayBook Flash experience is an example why. It’s just not good.
