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you know what i hate? when people have their email clients set to wrap at a wider size than everyone elses, making the text stretch ever so slightly over to the next line before starting again On 6/15/06, Nicholas Clark <nick@xxxx.xxx> wrote: > There are many reasons to hate Windows. But this one was new to me: > > I have been issued with an unlovely Dell running Windows for teletubbies. > > I plugged a USB mouse in with one hand, while still using the machine with > the other. > > A little speech-bubble like thing pops up saying "Windows has detected a new > human-computer interface device" > > > And then the fucking thing hung for 5 seconds. Presumably while it found > drivers. It's only a mouse, dammit. Haven't you seen a mouse before? Might > a USB mouse be a fairly standard thing? > > If you plug a mouse into a Mac, it just keeps working. > > Presumably teletubbies can only do one thing at a time, so Windows is built > down to that level. > > Oh, and every time I plug or unplug the mouse Windows make stupid noises at > me. Yes, yes, the machine has a sound card. Do you need to keep reminding me? > Just shut the fuck up and be useful. Which is probably too much to ask. :-( > > Nicholas Clark >There's stuff above here
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