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Originally Posted by JesseQuinn
glad you posted, S already knows I adore him but you don't know I so enjoy your posts
you mix funny as fuck and intelligent and do that whole acerbic wit thing really well. what you write is fun to read
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Wow, really? Okay, don't be alarmed, a psychiatrist is on the way.
(Or 'en route' as TV scriptwriters love to say, despite American actors being unable to pronounce it. Have you ever in your life said to someone, "I'm en route"? Has anyone? "Oh, there's a party? I'm en route right now!")
Anyway, enough of my forthcoming Live At The Comedy Store gig (tickets still available), credit where it's due, the hilarity tends to write itself here, or rather people often provide it unintentionally.
I'm glad at least some of what I post is fun to at least one person though (me), especially someone I like and respect (yes, same joke, me), because it must be annoying for some people (I mean, yeah, me again; I have to hear this shit in my head every fucking day).
I love reading your posts, which is not just repeating the compliment; I almost said so in my previous reply, but I always write too much (hi!), so tried to stick to just raging about updates, a particular pet peeve of mine.
Since you often write stuff I think/agree with anyway, and/or saves me the trouble of posting myself, it's not hard to appreciate a fellow genius at work. ;)
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beyond that I appreciate your solidarity. me and my mom were able, through much struggle and perseverance, to pick up where we left off (power to the people  )
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Right on! You have nothing to lose but your cha- uh, chat connection when someone wants some hanky spanky? (K Marx, from 'Lesser Known Writings', 1882)
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then I went to see my client but holy fuck skype thinks we're so ADHD we're not capable of having two chat windows open at the same time?
would imagine peeps with actual ADHD are like, "whoa, don't put this- oooh look, a squirrel"
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FTFY
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who thought this was a good idea and have they ever used skype?
S nailed it, it just gives them something to do
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Maybe they're ex-Apple, where loss of functionality is the accepted price of simple^H^H^H^H^H^H a cool glowing logo.
As opposed to traditional Microsoft philosophy: lack of functionality with no obvious advantage.
That Skype still works as well as it does is a testament to it not being developed by/at Microsoft, but since innovatively gobbling it up ten years ago, they've gradually transplanted it to their own infrastructure and dogma, so expect further 'corrections' to occur.
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but yeah, these people have no vision. like if you're gonna fuck shit up there is always a dance floor, or start a revolution or something. tell the higher-ups you're working on a 'disruptive' vision
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Exactly. Fucking shit up is great, with a proud history, and here they are wasting it on 21st century phone pranks. (Though I'd probably excuse them if it was that, and not just ineptitude.)
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on a serious note though, anyone find any work-arounds for this? it's really annoying me
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I love the idea (100% fact) that your workaround only works because it's some forgotten/ignored corner of Microsoft that never receives updates. TL;DR for tech innovation, right there.