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Wed, Apr 10, 2013 | 07:25 BST
Project Eternity footage shows off environmental effects
Obsidian Entertainment has released a four and a half minute video showing off Project Eternity in action, specifically highlighting the engine's environmental capabilities.
Thu, Dec 06, 2012 | 10:29 GMT
Project Eternity: Obsidian reveals character art, renders and location tests
Project Eternity developer Obsidian Entertainment has released a batch of early character art, work in progress renders and some early location tests. See all of the images below, and remember they're early concepts.
Tue, Dec 04, 2012 | 12:04 GMT
Project Eternity crowd-funding closes on $4.3 million
Project Eternity from Obsidian Entertainment has proven to be a crowd-funding success, as the studio closed its funding drive with $4.3 million in the bank across PayPal donations and Kickstarter pledges. We reported that the game's funding tiers are now closed earlier today, but even if you missed the boat you can still get involved. The studio has responded by saying thanks to everyone who dug deep and supported the project. Check out the details below.
Tue, Dec 04, 2012 | 00:59 GMT
Project Eternity crowdfunding reward tiers closing today
If you're keen to nab some of the rewards available to those who help crowdfund Obsidian Entertainment's Project Eternity, you need to get on it now. A PayPal donation option, the last recourse for rewards before funding ends forever, will be closed as of 6:00PM PST today – that's just over an hour away at time of writing. If you miss the deadline, you'll still be able to contribute, but doing so won't earn you any sweet bonuses – it's basically just a pre-order. Visit the RPG's website now to view reward tiers and get involved if you're keen. Project Eternity is expected on PC in April 2014.
Mon, Dec 03, 2012 | 00:06 GMT
Project Eternity: "It doesn't matter if it's a flop", says Avellone
Obsidian Entertainment's Project Eternity doesn't have to sell well, because its backers have already paid for it.
Sat, Oct 20, 2012 | 21:08 BST
Project Eternity's Avellone worried that "Kickstarter exhaustion" may eventually kick in
Project Eternity has been a lucky goose, what with surpassing its $1.1 million funding goal on Kickstarter with close to $4 million earned; however, Obsidian's Chris Avellone is slightly worried that "Kickstarter exhaustion" may eventually take hold with potential backers.
Sat, Oct 20, 2012 | 17:26 BST
Project Eternity – Obsidian hopes the game is "the first in a series of installments"
Project Eternity is "just the first in a series of installments," if Obsidian's Chris Avellone and the rest of the team have their way.
Thu, Oct 18, 2012 | 01:19 BST
Project Eternity $4 million stretch goal confirmed
Obsidian Entertainment has confirmed that its combined funding from Kickstarter and PayPal has secured a promised $4 million stretch goal.
Wed, Oct 17, 2012 | 02:06 BST
Project Eternity Kickstarter closes with $3.9 million
Obsidian Entertainment's Project Eternity Kickstarter campaign, which requested $1.1 million, has ended just short of a $4 million stretch goal.
Tue, Oct 16, 2012 | 03:47 BST
Project Eternity Kickstarter overtakes Double Fine Adventure
Obsidian's old school RPG Project Eternity has become Kickstarter's best-funded games project, overtaking Double Fine Adventure.
Sat, Oct 13, 2012 | 19:21 BST
Project Eternity Kickstarter update adds new stretch goals, add-ons, Forton the monk
Project Eternity's Kickstarter page has once again been updated with new add-ons and stretch goals.
Thu, Oct 11, 2012 | 19:58 BST
Project Eternity Kickstarter update notes new stretch goals, first environment shot released
Project Eternity's Kickstarter page has been updated with new content, stretch goals, and the first environmental shot from the Obsidian RPG.
Tue, Oct 09, 2012 | 10:30 BST
Project Eternity: Obsidian adds first expansion & Wasteland 2 as funding reward
Project Eternity developer Obsidian Entertainment has added a new $165+ funding tier to its Kickstarter funding initiative. Backers pledging the amount or above will receive the game's first expansion as well as InXile's post apocalyptic RPG Wasteland 2. See the rewards below.
Sat, Oct 06, 2012 | 21:13 BST
Project Eternity secures 52K backers, the Mega Dungeon grows, combat discussed
The Project Eternity Kickstarter page has been updated with more stretch goals and backer rewards for Obsidian's RPG.
Fri, Oct 05, 2012 | 09:07 BST
Project Eternity Kickstarter: Avellone warns of 'half-assed' approach to crowd fuding
Project Eternity head Chris Avellone has discussed the dangers of complacency in the Kickstarter space and if you start a project, you better see it through to the end. The game has raised over $2.3 million in crowd funds with 11 days left to go.
Tue, Oct 02, 2012 | 04:18 BST
Project Eternity secures 50K backers, adds new dungeon, stretch goals, and rewards
Project Eternity's crowd funding campaign is proving a major success, with Obsidian busily adding new content to its plans for the RPG in response to fan support.
Wed, Sep 26, 2012 | 19:07 BST
Project Eternity Kickstarter surpasses $2 million, three new modes planned
Obsidian Entertainment's Project Eternity has received over $2 million in donations. The developer has posted a new stretch goal, indicating plenty of new incentives to reach the next feat.
Mon, Sep 24, 2012 | 17:29 BST
Project Eternity 'no plans for console or tablet ports', says Obsidian
Project Eternity developer Obsidian Entertainment has stated that it has no plans to bring its successful Kickstarter title to consoles or tablets.
Mon, Sep 24, 2012 | 10:54 BST
Project Eternity Kickstarter nears $2 million, new gameplay details discussed
Project Eternity is fast approaching $2 million in Kickstarter funding, marking a win for developer Obsidian Entertainment. The team has posted up new gameplay details including the importance of souls and non-combat skills in the world.
Fri, Sep 21, 2012 | 17:14 BST
Project Eternity interview: Obsidian on making RPGs awesome again
Project Eternity is Kickstarter's latest success story. VG247′s Dave Cook spoke with Obsidian's Chris Avellone find out why the game will make RPGs awesome again.


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Posted 30 September 2012 - 04:19 PM
"Can't you just forget about it, and think about other things except this all the time"
"I bet you'd love to see him again wouldn't you?"
This was said after being asked if I had seen the guy who hurt me since it happened.
These were all also said by my current boyfriend who knows what has happened to me. The last one hurting the most.
Some people really have no idea :/
Posted 01 October 2012 - 01:53 PM
I'm sorry. People say stupid things all the time and they just don't think. I find the last sentence by your boyfriend particularly cruel. No one in his right mind would say that.
If okay, safe hugs :hug:/>
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Thank you for that. I have never understood how people think that knowing how much worse the world can get, is supposed to make anyone feel better.
The stupidest comment I got was from my mom. I sent her a text message saying that it was all going to be okay and this wasn't the end of the world. Her reply: "Well that's easy for you to say." As if this wasn't about me at all.
Posted 13 October 2012 - 08:09 PM
"That would have never happened to me, I would have fought." -"Friends" (I did.)
"Are you sure it was rape and not just bad sex?" (From the police officer)
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"Are you sure it really happened?"
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" But apart from that he beaten you up in front of the kids, apart from that, hes a nice guy " My mother
" This is life. Get over it and move on " A relative
" You are 40 years old and still bothering about the old storys ? " My mother
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Posted 30 October 2012 - 02:53 PM
This is the one I hate hate hate-its been a little over 2 years for me, and I keep having people yell me-Just get over it already. That is the stupidest thing in this situation. Another is-You're still thinking about that? Don't you ever think of anything else?- Don't you realize that I live in a hell that won't stop, a reality that isnt safe anymore. I never leave my house unless I have to.....
Posted 30 October 2012 - 11:24 PM
"A mother would never do that kind of thing."
Really? Well, mine sure did.
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"A mother would never do that kind of thing."
Really? Well, mine sure did.
That's maddening, http://www.pandys.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/mad.gif I've gotten similar statements about my 'father', 'he seems like such a nice guy, can't imagine he'd do something like that'....well, I don't have to imagine, I lived it!
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Still don't know what to think about this one, I told someone (which doesn't happen very often) and he immediately made it about them, not me:
'I feel sorry for the guys who did this to you. They must regret what they did every day.'
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Posted 04 December 2012 - 10:10 PM
My mother when I called her to tell her what my father had done "You're upset just because he went for you?".
My mother when I said I didn't feel like a real or complete human being and that I had to prove any worth through my job "I always thought you were like a brain box on legs".
My abuser when he said "I didn't know it was wrong" - he was a psychologist in the school system!


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COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. - The family of a Cottage Grove woman who lit herself on fire after she was scorned on national cable TV is set to receive a financial settlement.By: Scott Wente, Forum News Service
COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. - The family of a Cottage Grove woman who lit herself on fire after she was scorned on national cable TV is set to receive a financial settlement.
An attorney for the family of Toni A. Medrano said today a settlement was reached with CNN, the HLN network and the Nancy Grace show. Grace had called Medrano "Vodka Mom" and castigated her during a segment about the woman's arrest in connection with her infant son's death. Days later in July, Medrano lit herself on fire outside her mother's St. Paul Park home and died of the injuries.
The media attention given Medrano stemmed from the suffocation of her infant boy. Authorities said the 3-week-old baby died the night of Nov. 21, 2011, after Medrano had consumed nearly an entire bottle of vodka and fell asleep on a couch with the newborn at their Cottage Grove home. She awoke 10 hours later and the baby was unresponsive.
In June, Medrano was charged with two counts of second-degree manslaughter in Washington County District Court. After the charges were filed, Medrano's case was profiled on Grace's criminal justice talk show. During the segment, Grace said the "Vodka Mom" should have been charged with murder.
Citing the sealed settlement, Medrano family attorney Michael Padden declined to specify the amount of the financial agreement or a specific reason for the deal.
"This isn't rocket science, where we were going with this from the beginning," he said.
In an earlier interview, Padden said Grace had defamed Medrano and intentionally inflicted emotional distress on the 29-year-old mother. Relatives said Medrano had watched the Grace segment and was emotionally affected by it in the days before she killed herself. Medrano lit herself on fire while alone in the backyard and then ran inside the home severely injured. Relatives tried to help her and called 911.
The settlement must be approved by a judge. That hearing is expected to occur within a couple weeks in Dakota County District Court in Hastings, Padden said. He had threatened a lawsuit if a settlement was not reached.
The settlement benefits Medrano's heirs, Padden said. That includes her five children, husband, mother, two sisters and brother.
"Obviously they're satisfied that it's over," Padden said of Medrano's relatives. "I think everybody wants closure, and this gives them closure."
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Until I started following this blog hop, I never thought about those orphan blocks. Well they won't be orphans much longer. Thanks for the ideas and great job.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the peek-a-boo quilt. That is super cute and my kids love to play hide-and-seek so I think I would love to make one of these for their bedrooms.
I love your Peekaboo. It's a quilt that would make anyone smile when they see it.
Very sweet little quilts. My favourite is the peek-a-boo.
I love your minis especillay the peek-a-boo. How clever!
Peek-a-Boo stole the show!! Gotta make one for myself!
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I have to agree with the other comments, your toppers are great and the Peek-a-boo is just wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
So cute Jane especially the peek a boo mini! Great job!
Jane your Peek a Boo quilt is certainly a cutie but I'm intrigued by the Wheel of Fortune. It's paper piecing...I'm like Samm, I find that method tricky. Whatever it is I love it. blessings, marlene
What fun Jane!! I love them all, of course :) But the Peek a Boo has to be my favorite :) :) I too like your wheel of fortune ... may have to give that one a try one of these days! Yay You!
ALL very cute! The window with curtains is VERY inspirational!! One for each holiday!! Wouldn't the kids love to see Santa looking out at them?! or a witch? or a Ghastlie?! The list goes on and on and on!!
Another "light bulb moment" - orphan blocks - hit me on the head - sometimes it takes a 2x4. Love your mini toppers and what you did with them - so creative. Definitely going to look around at Quilter's Cache again Judy C thanks you for sharing.
What a great idea for using those orphan squares--it is so cute. Love that peek-a-boo one! They are all wonderful, thanks for sharing.
What fun toppers! LOVE the squares!
This just makes me want to get out all my orphan blocks and make them into toppers! You are sew precise in your sewing. Great job!
I love... them all!! :) 30's prints my fave, peek-a-boo way to fun!! And well you know how I love the littel bandana girl!!
That is a great idea using orphan blocks for these toppers. Yours are so great too. I am going to have to get out the little orphans now and see what I have, ha!
Very cute, Jane. I especially like the Peek a Boo one!!!
Great little toppers. I also love to pop over to Quilters Cache she has sew many block tochose from.
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Just lovely table toppers - Quilters Cache is a great site to find a block (I have favorites,too). But that 'Peek A Boo' is just too adorable! Love the 3-d window treatment. Thank you for sharing more inspiration with all of us today.
Good Morning Jane....knock knock....ohhhh you are busy, in the window...I will wait.....
LOVE your table toppers..and the peek a boo is my fav along with the others here...I think having diff't things peeking from the window is a great idea... orphan quilts, I will be digging mine up too...
YOU are a rose today..a yellow one at that...it denotes friendship and happiness...yes I think it does..ok, perfect addition I say...lol
Very nice! Thanks for sharing!
I love the wheel of fortune mini. I can envision Pat anf Vanna spinning that wheel. :-). Thx fot sharing.
These little table toppers are a perfect setting for orphans to come out and shine for a time. Your creations are all quite inspiring! Well done! (I'm trying to figure out your background, but I can't.)
Beautiful table toppers! The Wheel of Fortune is a great block!
What a super idea for my orphan blocks! Thanks for an inspiring post...this has been a fun hop!
I love that you used your orphan blocks! thanks for the inspiration!
lovely minis!
Jane, your toppers are all so wonderful! Loved your finale of peek-a-boo!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful mini table toppers. Love the peek-a-boo block.Great ideas for left over blocks also.
Oh, those are all so cute. love your peek a boo mini.
They look great! Love the colours and patterns =D
Your Peek a Boo block is really clever!
nice job Jane!! sweet curtains.
thanks for showing the wheel of fortune block - I'll have to give it a try and I love the peek a boo - so cute :) lovely roses too !
I am another one who would not have thought of using orphan blocks for a mini quilt. I agree with the other gals your peek a boo is fun..I love bright colors...Thank you for sharing!
Nice Job! Thanks for sharing!
Great use for orphan blocks! Love them.
Great idea for those orphan blocks and I love the peek a boo :-)
Your mini table topper hangers are very cute. I like the idea of a peek-a-boo mini too.
Your mini table topper hangers are very cute. I like the idea of a peek-a-boo mini too.
Really cute quilts, love the peek a boo.
Your Wheel of Fortune table topper is a winner and a wonderful idea to us orphan blocks. We all have those around.
All your toppers are so pretty. Great job.
Vail in tn
Great toppers and the peekaboo one is especially cute.
Love it the table toppers that is. They are wonderful
what a great way to show off "orphan blocks" ☺ I relly like the squares and usually that's not my style--here i think it's small enough to showcase them without feeling overwhelming.
Even the hanger caught my eye--love the art deco/craftsman motif.
What sweet minis...love the Peek a Boo!!! TFS
Your little Peek a Boo is so cute! It's my favorite. It's difficult to not be distracted by the darling sweetie-pies over on the right side. Precious!
Your Quilters Palette quilt is amazing!
very nice! I love your orphans!
Love your table toppers Jane. Orphan blocks are wonderful for these minis...those little kerchief girls are to die for. Peek-a-boo is so dang cute....is that little T??? Thank you for your inspiration and for sharing in the blog hop....it has been a fun one!!
Love them! These stands are perfect for orphan blocks... I see many more in my future.
Jennifer :)
Fun ideas for creative toppers, Jane. You make me look forward to orphan blocks, knowing I will have the perfect use for them...
Thanks for sharing your inspiring ideas with us!
Peek a boo is wonderful. Now you get to look at the SAVED fabric all of the time.
Oh, I love the peek-a-boo table topper. See? Aren't you glad you "saved" that fabric for this project?
Haha, love the peek-a-boo! You cutie! And I am so proud of you - it's been fun to watch your progression of the Quilter's Palette quilt... Way to go, Ms. Jane!!
They look great!
Thanks for the inspiration.
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Dave Martyshuk, who runs 23 group homes for hard-to-house individuals through his company Martyshuk Housing, has signed a five-year lease for a property at 10219 100th Ave. The building, which sits adjacent to an architect's office and a hotel, was most recently the GO Backpackers Hostel. Many of the rooms were already set up for four people and Martyshuk plans to keep that structure when the new tenants move in.
"These people are sleeping outside and in shelters, so the idea is to bring these people off the streets or out of the bush. Get them the medical attention they need, get them hydrated, nourished, stabilize their mental health issues, then move them into group homes or into an apartment building," he said on Friday.
Martyshuk would charge $930 monthly, with tenants getting access to three meals per day, regular room cleaning, and full time on-site security. He wants to employ the model in place at his other housing facilities, where his company matches clients with social service organizations that ensure they access home care, medical care, and counselling as needed.
Martyshuk said he first entered discussions with the city last fall and was told there wouldn't be any problems from a bylaw perspective, since the site was licensed to operate as a hostel. He said he has paid a $100,000 deposit for the first and last months of a five-year lease but is now being told he needs to move through an approval process to provide all of the services he wants. He originally planned to open the space Feb. 1.
"One way or another, we've got to make this work," Martyshuk said. "The concept is there, and I think we can meet the criteria if the city is prepared to work with us and expedite."
Scott Mackie, the city's current planning branch manager, said his staff has been looking at the project for about a week and has asked Martyshuk for more information.
"Based on what he's proposing to use this building for, he has to go through an application process," Mackie said. "That will give them detail to tell if this is appropriate at this location."
For example, zoning for the area might allow hotels but not medical, health or counselling services, he said.
The 74-room building also needs an inspection to ensure it meets the safety code.
If the facility can only be approved at the discretion of planning staff, members of the public will be notified and allowed to give their opinions.
Workers were at the site on Friday, revamping the former kitchen in the hostel. Large mattresses were stacked in the building's entrance, ready to be taken away so all the rooms could be outfitted with bunk beds. Some rooms are already organized with numbered bunk beds and lockers. A bathroom is attached to each room and there is space for common TV areas on each floor.
If the 276 beds in the former hotel are filled, it would be one of the largest supportive housing facilities in the city. The Herb Jamieson Centre, in Edmonton's inner city, has a capacity of between 250 and 320 people. Martyshuk said he is confident his organization could make it a well-run facility with little impact on surrounding businesses.
He pointed to the MacDonald Lofts, a 100-person facility for hard-to-house people that his business took over in 2011. He said his company has introduced security, a sign-in system, on-site management, and access to social services that has transformed the operation.
"It's a matter of understanding the obstacles and creatively and (in a timely manner) being able to address (them)."
A detailed email announcing Martyshuk's downtown project reached many organizations in the area Friday morning. The reaction by some organizations was cautiously optimistic. Several people noted the building has long had problems, without a permanent tenant.
"You're always going to have people who are down and out and have problems in your downtown. If you try to exclude or ignore them, you're not going to solve the problems," said Jim Taylor, executive director the Downtown Business Association.
Taylor said he has met Martyshuk in the past and is familiar with his work. Some residents in Martyshuk's group homes work for the Downtown Proud! program, where formerly homeless residents clean the downtown core. It's a partnership between the business association and Boyle Street Co-op.
"When you add it up, and the city is going to take a hard look at making sure the zoning is right, and you've had the experience we've had with some of our workers living there, I'm not overly concerned. These are not people who hurt anybody. These are people who are down and out."
The president of the Downtown Edmonton Community League, Chris Buyze, said the facility could be a good use of space.
"My initial reaction is more housing options for high-risk people who may or may not otherwise be homeless, it can only be a positive thing," he said. "I'm willing to give them a little bit of the benefit of the doubt ... I think any potential issues could be mitigated."
Martyshuk plans to name the facility, Dwayne's Home, after his brother who died three years ago. His brother had a family and a successful career when he became addicted to crack cocaine.
"It could have been avoided had he been in a facility like this," he said.
Despite issues with city licensing, Martyshuk said he plans to open the facility to some tenants in February, with fewer people per room so it will work within the hotel licensing currently in place for the location.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Ways In Which I Am a Curmudgeon: Children's Books That Are Creeping Me Right The Hell Out
A mini one at home on his actual birthday...
And then a blow-out party yesterday for all of his friends. (Which included a Costco cake. BEST DECISION EVER.)
How many parties and sparkling crowns does one boy need?! My god, throw in a fragrance line and a penchant for white suits, and he would be Diddy. In truth, though, this was all just a covert excuse for me to ingest as many frosting-topped baked goods as possible, so...WIN.
Lo's birthday is on Saturday, so basically, it's an orgy of sprinkles around here lately. Not that I'm complaining at ALL, and FYI, "Orgy of Sprinkles" is going to be my band's next hit single. You heard it here first.
And speaking of the kids, I must say, I take issue with a few of the books I've been reading them lately. My problems with Love You Forever are well-documented in my guest post on Loralee's site. (In a nutshell: It's a sweet story of the eternal love between a mother and her baby, but I draw the line when said mother is a thousand million years old and is creeping into her adult son's bedroom VIA A LADDER to sing him a lullaby while he's sleeping, Creepy Edward Cullen-style.)
Also irksome is The Giving Tree. STOP THROWING THINGS AT ME, I AM A PERSON, DAMMIT. For whatever reason, I never read this one as a kid, and when T pulled it off the bookshelf one night, I was appalled by the story. It centers around a little boy who keeps making demands of this tree. "She" provides a strong branch so he can build a swing, shade, apples to sell, etc. The tree happily gives the boy everything he asks for, since she loves the boy. The boy's demands escalate as he grows older, until finally, the boy asks the tree if he can cut her down for wood, so he can make a boat.
(I know!)
The boy sails off, and returns years later as an old man, with his liver-spotted old man hand out, asking the tree for something else, and finally, the tree (which is now just a stump, since HE CUT HER DOWN) says "I have nothing left to give you." The boy asks for a quiet place to sit, and the tree provides that. The End.
(Right? RIGHT?)
I mean, I know some people like the story. And perhaps the book can be taken as some sort of psychological inkblot test, where you make your own interpretations. If so,then I find it DEPRESSING AS HELL, and eerily reminiscent of a dysfunctional relationship. Do with that what you will.
Last in the Creepy Book Lineup is We're Going On a Bear Hunt, with which the kids have recently fallen in deep, mad love. Now, we have the pop-up version, which I must say, is great, but the story, man. THE STORY. Perhaps it's just me Being A Mom, but every time I read it, I'm all enthusiastic and excited inflection-y, but inside, I'm all, "Who IS this asshole father who takes his tiny children--including an infant-- on a real bear hunt? Like, for actual bears? For real? Is that tall blond female his daughter or his wife? It's disturbing me that I can't tell. Why are they not wearing boots while tramping through the mud? Ditto the river? And A SNOWSTORM? Are you fucking kidding me? Why must they go through it? Can they not turn back? And OMFG, they are now face-to-face with an actual bear, what is wrong with this man?"
Sigh...this is totally a sign I should introduce more TV into their lives, right?
Oh, wait. Scratch that. WONDER PETS. DO NOT EVEN GET ME STARTED.
(I am, by the way, thankful that my kids love books. And they do have other favorites which don't bother me. Those just aren't as much fun to write about.)
28 comments:
- Nic said...
I watched a friend's little guy a couple of months ago and we read Good Dog, Carl AND THE NEGLIGENT MOTHER. Who the hell leaves their baby with the DOG???
Also, how is "Are You My Mother?" a storybook? More like a nightmare scenario. Plus, it teaches talking to strangers. - 11:17 PM
- OHmommy said...
Happy birthday to you little handsome dude. Costco cakes ARE the best. Seriously.... I hate cake, but OMG the cake. The Costco cake!
- Molly C said...
Holy crap. Bear hunt. LOATHE. I Loathe it. I work at a special needs summer camp. I freaking love it. I love my campers. They are AH-mazing. But the bear hunt song? Scared the crap out of one of my campers. He spent the entire summer going "bear? he a bear? NO BEAR" anytime the older male staffers walked by with a bit of stubble. Poor thing!
My campers also became rather obsessed with this book about a gopher. So we read it, and then the gopher DIES. What? No warning. he goes for a nap and never wakes up. Um. Thanks book. - 11:31 PM
- Camels & Chocolate said...
That child should, without a doubt, be a Baby Crew model. Along with Bug and Wito, of course. I can't think of a cuter campaign...heck, it would prompt me to buy the clothes, despite being childless!
- Loralee Choate said...
That guest post of yours STILL makes me grin my head off. I wuved it. (And you)
- Ali said...
DO NOT get me started on the children's books that I hate.
(this really should come as no surprise to you...)
but...Love You Forever? by far the very worst offender. and don't think I didn't tell that to Robert Munsch. heh. - 8:29 AM
- kakaty said...
I'm with you - some kids books are creepy. What's worse is that after books are done at bedtime I tell M a story...lately she's been hooked on the "Three Little Pigs" and last night, after weeks of reciting the story I looked it up on line just to make sure I was getting the story right. And OMG - did you know that at the end of the real story the Big Bad Wolf tries to get into the brick house by coming down the chimney and he lands in a pot of boiling water and the pigs COOK HIM & EAT HIM FOR DINNER??? I guess I had blocked that part of the story from my memory because - ewwwww! I think I will continue with my shortened version after all.
(and don't get me started on Noggin shows - I can't even watch Max & Ruby becuase where the hell is the mother who lets a 2 year old ride the bus to the store?) - 9:05 AM
- -R- said...
Happy birthday, T!
I have always hated The Giving Tree. Why doesn't the boy ever give anything back? And who asks their friend, "Hey, would you mind if I chopped you up with an axe?" Kind of psycho, if you ask me. - 9:38 AM
- amanda said...
I'm so glad that someone else thinks like this- my husband thinks that I'm insane. I also never read the Giving Tree until my husband bought it for our son. I was shocked at the depressing story. And why are the two little kids left alone while their mother is out in the Cat in the Hat? Maybe the Cat in the Hat was actually a social worker? Finally, I bought a Curious George set recently and my son has become obsessed, but I can't wait to explain why George smoking a PIPE (Lord knows what's in it!) is a bad idea.
- amanda said...
I'm so glad that someone else thinks like this- my husband thinks that I'm insane. I also never read the Giving Tree until my husband bought it for our son. I was shocked at the depressing story. And why are the two little kids left alone while their mother is out in the Cat in the Hat? Maybe the Cat in the Hat was actually a social worker? Finally, I bought a Curious George set recently and my son has become obsessed, but I can't wait to explain why George smoking a PIPE (Lord knows what's in it!) is a bad idea.
- Angella said...
I remember your Love You Forever post. Awesome.
The Wonder Pets are annoying, yes, but have you seen Yo Gabba Gabba? There. Are. No. Words. - 9:48 AM
- Kristabella said...
So I was at my brother's house one day and they were talking about Love You Forever. And my SIL was laughing and was all "that book made your brother cry!"
So then I read the book and I'm all WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? That book is creeptastic. The sentiment is nice, but the execution is WAY off. - 10:14 AM
- 3carnations said...
Wonder Pets is cute, but I don't like that the one character uses baby talk.
Love You Forever - That made me cry. What kind of children's book ends in a parent growing old and getting ready to die? Goodness.
We had to freeze some cupcakes and cake after our two week birthday extravaganza. - 11:06 AM
- kristinblakely said...
my god, he is SO freaking CUTE!!!
- Blythe said...
I feel that way about Runaway Bunny. (aka The Stalker Mom Book)
- The Dumbest Smart Girl You Know said...
Oh my gosh. I ADORE The Giving Tree! I even referred to it in my grandmother's eulogy. To me, it's a beautiful representation of selfless love.
- don't call me MA'AM said...
Wow. Toopweets is huge. I need to read more often... just yesterday, he was dressed up like Tiny Elvis. ;-)
Sadly, The Giving Tree and I Love You Forever were both my favorites when my kids were younger. Bear Hunt- no. My fave book as a kid was Blueberries for Sal- a little girl shares blueberries with a baby bear. I should have been terrified, but instead I just read that one to my kids when they were older. haha - 1:42 PM
- Keary said...
Go get a book called The day the goose got loose, and Maxi the Taxi Dog. Both are fun to read and my children now teenagers loved them. I wish I could remember the authors...
- Melissa said...
OMG ~ I thought I was the only oddball who was just failing to GET The Giving Tree. I mean I "get" that it's essentially what parents do for their kids - make crazy sacrifices. But I DON'T GET why we would PROMOTE the fact to them, ad bedtime, no less. Seems like the message they'd get from that story is 'take full and complete advantage of those who care about you until you have completely depleted their ability to do so.'
SO glad I'm not alone on that one! - 4:26 PM
my favorite part of the runaway bunny is when the mom says she will blow him
creepy! - 4:26 PM
- Kristen said...
Ugh. The Giving Tree makes me want to cry and vomit, all at once (cromit?). I don't have kids, but if/when I do, I'm sure I'll have a whole list of books that creep me right the hell out. No doubt.
- MommyTime said...
Ugh. There are so many creepy children's books. How about the Frances book where she won't go to sleep and her father threatens her with a spanking if she doesn't stay in her room, and than the "whack and smack" of a moth's wings on her window REMINDS her of a spanking, and so she goes to sleep? Seriously? Whack and smack? Yikes.
- Velma said...
This is cracking me up, because I feel the exact same way about all three of those books!! The Giving Tree? I knew at the age of 10 that the kid was a narcissistic creep! And when someone gave me that Munch book after my daughter was born, I was totally freaked out. (Although I do love "The Paperbag Princess.") Thanks for the laugh!
- regan said...
When I managed a B&N children's dept I would routinely pry Love You Forever from people's hands because no one should give that book to a child. I prefer the much less stalker-ish Guess How Much I Love You as a way for a parent to share their love with their child.
Also, I'm fairly certain I've dated the momma's boy from Love You Forever - 11:36 PM
- SLynnRo said...
Um, sometimes Aaron and I watch Wonderpets.
- Bridge said...
Despite my love for most children's books, Shel Silverstein (he of the Giving Tree) is just wrong. Most of the time. My favorite book when I was little was The Little Engine that Could. Our friend Shel? Here's what he did to it:
The little blue engine looked up at the hill.
His light was weak, his whistle was shrill.
He was tired and small, and the hill was tall,
And his face blushed red as he softly said,
"I think I can, I think I can, I think I can."
So he started up with a chug and a strain,
And he puffed and pulled with might and main.
And slowly he climbed, a foot at a time,
And his engine coughed as he whispered soft,
"I think I can, I think I can, I think I can."
With a squeak and a creak and a toot and a sigh,
With an extra hope and an extra try,
He would not stop — now he neared the top —
And strong and proud he cried out loud,
"I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!"
He was almost there, when — CRASH! SMASH! BASH!
He slid down and mashed into engine hash
On the rocks below... which goes to show
If the track is tough and the hill is rough, - 8:32 AM
- Bridge said...
THINKING you can just can just ain't enough.
- Stefanie said...
OK, could T's smile be any wider in that second pic? I am very happy you do not deprive your child of an occasional cupcake, unlike SOME MOTHERS out there. (I still cannot believe that article. Also, I can't decide if I wish I knew that crazy lady in person, just for kicks, or if it's a damn good thing I DON'T know her in person.)
And you are totally right about The Giving Tree. That selfish, demanding angle bothered me even as a kid. - 12:21 PM


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Wotak:Phlebas:If you see the room as a whole it's more of a 'little cabin up north' motif.wotak:
first fireI like the castle motif.
It looks like a cool living room. Castles and cabins are all the same. Good on you, knuckle.
WELCOME TO THE CAMPHONE THREAD. In this thread we are sending in the pictures from our phones to the Internet.
Here's how you do it. OK? Note that the following instructions, while complicated-looking, aren't really complicated. They're not so intuitive, however, that you can follow them without reading them.
Your photo will be posted to this thread under your username. In the future, if there's enough support for it, I'd like to figure out a way to let you control whether the photo gets posted to this thread, or a journal entry of your own. For now, this meep is goofy enough that I'm Keeping It Simple Stupid.
Update: No longer sending confirmation mails when you mail in a picture. No one seemed to need them, and they're probably kind of annoying. You should get an email confirmation to your initial registration mail, however.
Mail is grabbed on the system every 60 seconds.
if you're having problems registering, let me know. I may have to do it for you manually. Wrecker's phone's email client, for example, has no Subject field. It'll take me 14 seconds so don't be shy.
if you're having other problems, let me know. Cell carriers are rapturously maverickal so I expect this to be full of glee.
If you need a camphone password reset, let me know. There's no automated way to do that yet.
No, this won't work with SMS. You want to help me figure out a way to take advantage of a free SMS gateway that will pass MMS messages with a high rate of success, please step to this meepa.
If your phone doesn't do email, I'm sorry, but currently you are meeped. Enjoy being the castout.
If you have problems or questions, post them to this thread. I'll probably take long-winded support experiences offline, but in general I figure this is kind of wierd meep and will confuse peeps and they may benefit from your stupidity being exposed publicly.
If you have retarded comments to make about photos in this thread, post those comments to this thread, just like anything else.
On 2007-12-02 at 13:26:00, vasudeva asked to smell your meep
Phlebas:If you see the room as a whole it's more of a 'little cabin up north' motif.wotak:
first fireI like the castle motif.
spankerchief: Cozy. Good job, bro.
Thanks, Masterchief. I'm pretty handy but no where near as motivated as yourself.
Heather: good on you, son.
Thanks Mom. May I meepz upon your chest?
HOBO: How many babies can you fit in there?
Under 30 lbs: 2.5 at a time.
meepNinja:Digital zoom for the sneaky shot, I'll bet.witty_screen_name:
I know this picture can't possibly do justice for how bad this guy's rug looks in real life.This is literally the worst photo I've ever seen. I thought Blackberry's camera was meep, but meep. It looks like an 8-bit arcade game.
I know this picture can't possibly do justice for how bad this guy's rug looks in real life.This is literally the worst photo I've ever seen. I thought Blackberry's camera was meep, but meep. It looks like an 8-bit arcade game.
meep. I kept trying to get pic when he was close, but he kept loking at me. I finally had to wait until he was further away and zoom in 5x in low light. On a small screen it looked a little better. I guess i forked that up yo...
It was freakin hilarious lookin IRL though. The whole top of his head was that fake reddish color, but in the back he had this 2 inch wide strip of gray hair poking out from underneath his hair helmet.
Clavis_Apocalypticae: Next time we all go pub-crawling, I'm wearing that meep. Woe is he who giveth a tin meep.vasudeva:clavis_apocalypticae: THIS meep DELIVERSHahahaha.In a world of men, this would be worn to a bar, and no meep would be given thereupon.
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This would look mondo cool if you lined up the sides filled the center portion with clear liquid casting resin.


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Windows Phone 8 reboot woe causes outpouring of forum misery
Early adopters of Windows Phone 8 hardware are complaining that it reboots at random, up to several times a day, and that they're not being offered any prospect of a quick fix. The complaints relate specifically to the HTC 8X and, to a lesser extent, Nokia's Lumia 920, with Windows Phone 8 locking up or randomly rebooting on …
Re: duh
> If Windows was so bad then industry would grind to a halt. Given the 90% plus marketshare of Windows on the desktop...
"Industry" does not run on desktop computers. Those parts that do, are generally not real-time processes. Windows does not have "90% plus" marketshare on servers, where stability really matters.
> Many organisations have tried to move their office desktops to Linux and have ended up going back to Windows.
And many organisations have successfully made the transition from Windows, and not looked back. But those organisations don't get paid by Microsoft to make press releases about it.
Re: duh
I feel you might have overlooked the power of having a critical mass of users... Facebook users don't like way it treats them, but can't change to something more respectful because their friends are on it. eBay is under no pressure to improve itself, since people selling things will want to use the auction site with the most users. And we have all heard of how businesses locked themselves into using Windows because of applications that require IE 5.
Many small businesses use Sage products because the Inland Revenue likes it, and so 3rd party software vendors make their sector-specific software integrate with it... and Sage isn't available for Linux.
Businesses can't jump horses in mid-stream, even if a demonstrably better horse presents itself.
Re: duh
Which is why it says 90% share on the desktop duh!
Servers are not what people use directly, they are use indirectly.
Re: duh
Like I said, many have tried to change and have gone back. There are plenty of case studies around on the web.
Re: duh
In the above example, I hope they filed requests for the missing functionality, if you don't ask you don't get and unlike a product like Microsoft Office you pay your money and that earns you the right to act like a prima donna when it lacks the required support.
Apache owned OpenOffice only gets better with a flow of feedback from the people using it and finding problems with it, identifying things that can be improved and contribution from developers who are charitable enough to contribute their time to the code base to provide a realistic alternative to Microsoft Office.
Some businesses make the mistake of seeing it as a Microsoft Office substitute with very attractive price tag, but fail to see that if they aren't willing to get involved by feeding back to the community then they might as well stick with the one that comes in a box.
Re: duh
"have gone back", eh? Why not follow this up with examples for which this is true? The decision on whether Freiburg are going to go back to MS Office or not is in fact to be made tomorrow (in German: http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Freiburg-Widerspruch-gegen-die-Office-Migration-1751357.html).
As has been pointed out, other towns such as Munich, Jena and Leipzig and others have happily converted to OpenOffice and are overall content with the change with no intentions of moving back. There is also the issue that they sit on old versions OpenOffice instead of regularly updating which according to the OSB Alliance (in German: open letter in response to the suggestion of a move back to MS Office: http://www.osb-alliance.de/themen-aktuelles/detailansicht/artikel/beschlussvorlage-g12-223-anwendung-von-offenen-standards-und-quelloffener-software-open-source/) would alleviate many of their issues. They make a lot of other I find good points and we'll see how it plays out.
Re: duh
True that. The UNIX/Linux evangelical movement don't like it and pretend it doesn't happen, but you get just as much migration back to Windows as away from.
As in all these things, if you want the truth, follow the money. I've not seen Microsoft filling for bankruptcy lately.
Re: duh
If Windows was so bad then industry would grind to a halt.
A recent "Time and Motion" study where I work showed between 30 minutes and 2 hours per employee, per day lost to the inefficiencies, instabilities and inconsistencies of Windows. That's why we've banned it. We also don't allow Mac, due to its basic incompatibility with everything else... There is only one sane option!
If Windows was so bad then industry would grind to a halt.
Windows being bad literally is an industry. If it were fixed tens of millions of people would find themselves out of a job.
The parasite ecosystem is the most salient feature of Windows, and its biggest reason for existance.
Sad to have to soil the once proud word 'industry' that way.
Re: duh
Many organizations have tried to move their office servers to Windows and have ended up going back to Linux.
WP7 had the same problem - my Lumia 900 used to do the same thing but then it just stopped doing it - so it was probably fixed in one of the 2 software updates I have received.
Re: WP7
WP7 didn't have the same problem - my HTC Trophy never did that and it's about 20 months old. Yours may have - and that sucks - but that doesn't mean the OS somehow was the problem. It wasn't. Probably a hardware issue where accessing an infrequently-used component (say, GPS?) is causing a serious error.
Re: WP7
First, I have GPS disabled on my phone. Second if it was a hardware thing it would have continued, it didn't - it stopped doing it at some point after I installed an update, which would suggest it was a WP7 thing not a hardware thing.
Just because your Trophy never had the problem doesn't mean it wasn't an OS issue - just as some of the WP8 devices are not suffering from the issues discussed in this article.
Thanks anyway.
Reboot culture
Is it just me that detests the "reboot culture" of tech support?
Sure, it fixes the immediate problem (i.e. my computer is inaccessible) but it doesn't solve the actual problem or its causes in any, shape or form.
I've heard it for every problem known to man and if a reboot gets you to a working machine then it's "problem solved" according to the support lines and off you're supposed to trundle. ISP's are particularly mad on this and I have just moved to a leased line at work because the line we have CAN be fixed by rebooting the modem - but we have to reboot it 10-20 times a day. And now its creeping into daily life when your phone needs rebooting, or your media player, or you Blu-Ray player, or your games console or even your car (OBD etc.). Fix-by-rebooting is like saying "Well, if you start your car and it doesn't show the same 'I have no brakes' problem that you just experienced at 70mph on the motorway when it restarts, then your problem is solved".
And not just that, but incessant reboots to do trivial tasks are the bane of my life. I can't count the number of forced reboots I have to endure throughout the working day for NO GOOD REASON.
When tech support anywhere tell me to reboot, I pause for a minute, say "Yep, done that" and then hope they'll get on with actually solving the damn problem.
Re: Reboot culture
You are not alone - but when the culture is really 'reinstall the OS every six months' then 'reboot to fix' is trivial in comparison. I fear we are doomed.
Re: Reboot culture
That's a windows-only culture - reinstall when the thing slows down after a few months. reboot incessantly.
Re: Reboot culture
Yes, because Linux never slows down if you fill it up with cruft.
If you fill up a Windows OS or a Linux OS with a whole load of old crap, that isn't needed they both slow down. If you've got a standard Windows build and you need to re-install it every few months, you're doing something wrong. Personally I don't need to re-install either every few months, I've got Windows VMs which have been running for seven or eight years on the same build. I would note that when I do upgrade, it's form a full re-install on either Linux or Windows because no-matter what anyone says an upgrade install of an OS rarely works properly. As an aside, many linux releases have a much quicker release cycle than Windows, so pretty much all of my Linux VMs are younger than my Windows VMs.
Re: Reboot culture
My last XP image went through 4 computers, and nearly 8 years of constant use (so I still had the drivers from the very first computer still present on the disk when I broke the last laptop this year!). Hell, it was on the exact same hard drive for most of that time.
I suspect that with virtualisation etc. my current OS setup will actually last longer without any kind of reinstall (I already virtualise my copy of Windows 8 Pro because my workplace are looking at moving to it as their primary desktops and I'll need to support it - the machine actually doing the virtualisation DOES NOT run on that heap of junk).
But saying that, I still have Linux machines with a direct archaeology back to Slackware 3.1 and kernel 2.0.38, if I want to get pedantic (1996, I think).
People seem to forget that hardware comes and goes but your software SHOULDN'T. Upgrades, yes, clean-ups, yes, even complete hardware replacements - but you shouldn't be formatting your drive unless something incredibly drastic has gone wrong and you have no suitable backups.
Now, in terms of professional setups, I am a bit the opposite and will happily re-image a PC from a known-working image or use a clean image for a new base on a new model. But that's because I want those machines *pristine* and to eliminate the current disk data as a source of the trouble. That's totally different to a home user.
And I make a point of correcting anyone who pulls out the "computers get slower the more you use them" line. It's a load of tosh. It's like saying a car gets slower if you don't put any oil in it... of course it does! But if you did a little bit of maintenance every now and again on probably THE most expensive electrical appliance in your house, then it can go at the same speed it always has until the hardware itself dies.
Re: Reboot culture - windows rot
AC - you make a noob error (or are astroturfing) - "Yes, because Linux never slows down if you fill it up with cruft" - WRONG.
Actually with Linux, it does not accumulate cruft in a measurable way, unlike windows. The reason windows slows down is that the OS mixes OS data with user data, OS processes with user processes and so on, so that applications hammer the system in ways that cannot be undone. For example, applications affect the registry and registry bloat bogs down the entire windows system.
With Linux, there is a sharp separation between apps and the OS, and there is no registry (except that a fake one that some idiot tried to foist on gnome and no one uses - note that gnome isn't Linux).
Now if you install services you may screw things up but no one sees this with Linux, the system is as fast after two years as the day it was installed - I have never known Linux to slow down.
However with windows soffware seems to get its sticky fingers into all kinds of windows services and other horrors, the registry fattens up, and that's before security holes expose users (noobs mostly) to even more performance degradation via bot net agents and so on.
For most users, windows rots and becomes unusable pretty quickly, I see this all the time. Yet if newbies are on Linux, it stays secure and stays fast, because linux is a better architected, better designed system - based on UNIX. The same thing can be said of OSX and other Unix derivatives.
Re: Reboot culture - windows rot
To reply to myself, there is also anecdotal evidence that all those windows updates can degrade performance also. Another source of windows rot.
Re: Reboot culture
Having spent more time than I care to mention on 3rd line support, there is a reason for the reboot culture - it tends to "fix" the incident.
If you are genuinely rebooting on the scale you suggest, then your support *should* have been altering an incident to a problem (ITIL standard), since you have an underlying issue that needs to be resolved.
As for other comments about continuous reboots/rebuilds. I rebuilt my PC 2 weeks ago, for the first time since November 2007. It had been running Vista 64bit for all that time, mostly on long stints without rebooting - what had been changed over that time period was the motherboard (wanted a PCI-e 2.1 mobo), the CPU cooler (went from air to water cooled), the soundcard (went from onboard to Asus D2X), the memory (went from 4GB to 8GB), the graphics card (X1950 to 8800GT to 8800GTS to HD5770), the PSU (replaced with a modular supply) and the case (needed more drive bays). All of that done with the same OS install and it was running at almost the same speed at the end as the start (boot-up wise).
To all those who think you need to rebuild every 6 months, learn to build it properly in the first place and that becomes unnecessary.
Re: Reboot culture
@EvilGav and others - when I say reinstall every 6 months, I refer to the average user - Mums, teenagers etc, not so much geeks that have learned to avoid mistakes normal people make. These mistakes generally can occur on Windows to a far higher degree than other operating systems such as OSX, Android, Linux etc. Windows is insecure - that's why you see botnets controlling zombie windows machines. - Don't confuse yourselves with an average family user, who get burned again and again.
Re: Reboot culture
Ha ha, this morning I had to reboot after plugging my mouse into a different USB socket. On Windows 7. I kid you not.
Re: Reboot culture
"Yes, because Linux never slows down if you fill it up with cruft."
Being a monolithic kernel, this statement is 100% accurate.
Re: Reboot culture
Ha ha, this morning I had to reboot after plugging my mouse into a different USB socket. On Windows 7. I kid you not.
I've seen that on Windows 7 as well.
It's right up there with the NT4 (or was it Win98?) message:
Keyboard not found. Hit any key continue
Re: probably THE most expensive electrical appliance in your house
Why would servicing my SMEG fridge stop my laptop from slowing?
Hell, I probably paid more for my washing machine and dishwasher than my laptop.
Re: Reboot culture
One my favorites was when NT4 would run out of disk space: (paraphrased)
"No space available. Please delete some files".
You could at least use the command line to delete the file and free up some space but Good Lord that was a dumb error message.
Re: Reboot culture - windows rot
With Linux [...] there is no registry (except that a fake one that some idiot tried to foist on gnome and no one uses
Upvote for your post. Spot on in almost every respect. Except even though I initially thought the registry was a crap idea in Gnome, at least it's restricted to just Gnome, and it's per-user rather than being system-wide. Even though I do still think it is a bit of a mess and is over-used within Gnome, it does have one very useful feature: it means that if I ssh -X into a system and set up a gconf process then any gnome apps that I run there will have a method of permanently storing configuration changes. At least that makes it marginally easier than each app having its own incompatible config file and miles better than the alternative using xrdb (and no need for apps to restart before settings take effect)
Re: Reboot culture
Who is this General Failure, and why is he reading my C: drive?
Re: Reboot culture @ Wensleydale Cheese
"It's right up there with the NT4 (or was it Win98?) message:
Keyboard not found. Hit any key continue"
That's actually a BIOS/POST error, isn't it?
Re: Reboot culture
""No space available. Please delete some files".
You could at least use the command line to delete the file and free up some space but Good Lord that was a dumb error message."
Re: Reboot culture
Reboot culture lays at Microsoft's door. It's so pervasive now that I regularly come across the attitude that non windows servers need to be regularly rebooted, like linux boxes. That simply isn't the case!
I must also point out that there are some very dodgy statistics being quoted by some above. 90% of computers do not run Windows. Admittedly Linux hasn't really taken off as a desktop OS but server side it has a massive share of the market and that is continuing to grow. When you introduce IOS and Android you can clearly see why Windows 8 is so make or break for Microsoft, their market share continues to be eroded.
I don't want to see the end of Microsoft, but learning a little humility would do them a lot of good.
Re: Reboot culture
"when I say reinstall every 6 months, I refer to the average user - Mums, teenagers etc, not so much geeks that have learned to avoid mistakes normal people make."
This is exactly what other commentards have pointed out: the demographic for Linux users is not the same as Windows, so you can hardly expect the same type of problems.
I'm typing this on an XP Professional system I built in 2002, it's still as sprightly as always; and I can't remember when I last had an unscheduled reboot on it. I've had similar experience (so far) on my Windows 7 Professional laptop.
Don't get me wrong, I think Linux is a great O/S (I have an old netbook running Ubuntu), especially for servers; but most O/S problems are a result of users doing things that they shouldn't (e.g. installing software from dubious sites), so locking the admin features away is advisable for all O/S, but especially Windows.
On the WinMo reboot, I've had quite a few unscheduled reboots on my Galaxy Nexus (maybe scheduled by Google perhaps, but not me) resulting in missed calls etc. so I can sympathise.
Re: Reboot culture
Yah, That "Keyboard nor found" error floors me every time, but unfortunately, it's a BIOS error, not a Windows one. It goes back to IBM PS/2 systems, I think, but may have been in the original IBM PC as well (I don't have anything that old to test on, I threw my wife's 5150 away when she got a Tosh T1000 laptop for £25 about 10 years ago).
My youngest son has a different problem. He has a Microsoft Sidewinder mouse plugged into a Windows 7 system, and after about an hour, it stops working. Unplug and replug, and it works again. Plug it into ANY other OS (not tried Windows 8, admittedly), and it works perfectly for ever. And this appears to be a well reported problem. Still, it's a bit off topic.
My iPhone reboots all the time when launching apps or switching apps. After 5 years you would think they would be fixed by now.
your iphone
is broken, mate. Or (jail)broken.Nobody else's does that. Sorry.
After 5 years you would think they would be fixed by now
Most of us know that warranty expires after 2 years - you should have brought it in earlier..
Used to have an SE 910i like that
Would reset itself at bizarre random times.
Like once in the middle of a call when I was telling them that despite the snow and ice I was ok and hadn't crashed the car (using handsfree of course!) - then having to wait around 10 minutes before I could call them back to complete the conversation!
Called Sony Ericsson support who went - oh it does that! It's because it's had an update. Really - they updated it a lot then - reset almost twice a day at one stage...
How much worse can it get?
This is proof that the only operating system that works on both PC's and phones is - Linux. (There are Linux phones and also, more commonly of course, Android phones (Linux kernel).
Windows is such a bloated mess, written to designs by dysfunctional committies (Yes Cutler wrote the kernel based loosely on VMS but all the crap in and around that has been added by lesser engineers to specs influenced by marketers).
So where was I? Windows on a phone - what could possibly go wrong? Win Pho 7 was based on CE (more or less) and that was bad enough. This incompetence could cost lives. Ring an emergency number and - oh, the phone is rebooting!
Re: How much worse can it get?
Oh No! My phone's rebooting! Now the emergency services will never know that a jumbo jet's just crashed / that train's driven over a cliff / the queen's favourite corgi has eaten some raw chicken, 'cos no-one else will ring them.
Or maybe, if we're reaaaaaaaaaaally lucky, someone else might have a phone.
It's a mobile phone rebooting ferchrissakes, aren't you being a wee bit OTT?
Re: How much worse can it get?
A Google search for "Android crash" returns "About 173,000,000 results". Just saying..
Re: How much worse can it get?
Meanwhile back in reality world a logical assessment would probably conclude that given this problem appears to be limited to a couple of phone models there is probably a power configuration issue with the hardware which the OS will come to the rescue of.
One of the reasons for windows OS size is that it does try to be all things to all hardware configs. And guess what - Linux flavours are now following the same path having realised that saying to potential users "you don't want to do it that way" wasn't much of a marketing strategy.
Re: How much worse can it get?
Yes but WP8 has reboot on BOTH users!
Re: How much worse can it get?
For the record I have an Android phone (LG Optimus One) which needs a reboot about twice a week. Mildly annoying but not a very big deal. It does mean I can't rely on it as my main alarm clock. After loading a software update the frequency may have reduced but not massively, so it's likely to be an intermittent hardware fault.
I've used Linux on the desktop as my main home PC OS for about 16 years, run Windows on my work PC and use virtual machines for the rest.
Re: How much worse can it get?
@Edon - You just said that you need to re-install Windows every few months, so I think we all know how authoritative you are about the Windows operating system.
Just like lots of Windows fanboys and Linux fanboys, you make the mistake of presuming that the other is not worth using, based of a bare minimum of information self selected for what fits your worldview. Can you say "Confirmation bias"?
Re: How much worse can it get?
Applications crash on all platforms, and it's not a reflection on the platform, more on the developer (Although Apple seems to be the worst, but they never throw an error or submit crash feedback).
OS rebooting is something entirely different.
Re: How much worse can it get?
LOL. A wonderful insight from a blinkered view of the world. Windows Phone isn't the Windows desktop. It's much smoother and faster.
I've used all forms of smartphone and Windows is no less reliable than anything around.
Android isn't superb quality either, Google even missed out December from the calendar in the latest update. Such a schoolboy error.
Re: How much worse can it get?
never had an android unit crsh yet and im on my third. i just dont load rubbish apps on there which as usual are the cause of instability.


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