YADVR (Yet Another Daily Vista Rant)
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Inspired by the Instant-On feature thread. Seeing how Microsoft is unwilling to fix broken Vista usability and chooses to spend its time implementing features no one will ever use, I'm going to start posting daily vista rants. Each day I'm going to rant on some annoying Vista feature that should have never seen the light of day or should have been fixed already. I have enough material for about a week to come, after that I suppose rants will become more sporadic. Today's rant is about dvd drive auto eject feature in Vista. Since windows 95 when you clicked on CD/DVD drive in explorer, it would give a nice and descriptive warning that there is "no cd in the drive". In an effort to make computer more user friendly Vista now automatically ejects the drive tray if there is no drive in it. I'm sure somebody at Microsoft thought this was a nice idea, except it isn't. I have a case with a door which I like very much because it muffles sound from optical drives (ironically). Now every time I click on CD/DVD node by mistake, the tray opens and hits the door. Two things happen, either the door flies open, or I hear a thud and have to hurry up to open the door so that the tray may open. Sooner or later it is going to break the tray ejection mechanism, and I sure as hell do not want to pay close to two hundred dollars to replace my Plextor Premium drive that I use to rip audio CDs. Now, you'd think Microsoft provided a way to turn off this feature. Not so. After googling the only way to "fix" it is to disable built in burning capability in Vista. Why would somebody tie auto eject feature to built in burning ability is way beyond me. Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
JazzJackRabbit wrote:
Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
The tray ejects when I click on the dvd icon. The Indians. They are the reason. :rolleyes: I'm appalled. I enjoyed reading the entire rant, but this conclusion is just baseless, senseless. Not because I live in India, but because it is baseless. I would have said this if any other country was mentioned too.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal - Friedrich Nietzsche .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. [Microsoft MVP - Visual C++]
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Inspired by the Instant-On feature thread. Seeing how Microsoft is unwilling to fix broken Vista usability and chooses to spend its time implementing features no one will ever use, I'm going to start posting daily vista rants. Each day I'm going to rant on some annoying Vista feature that should have never seen the light of day or should have been fixed already. I have enough material for about a week to come, after that I suppose rants will become more sporadic. Today's rant is about dvd drive auto eject feature in Vista. Since windows 95 when you clicked on CD/DVD drive in explorer, it would give a nice and descriptive warning that there is "no cd in the drive". In an effort to make computer more user friendly Vista now automatically ejects the drive tray if there is no drive in it. I'm sure somebody at Microsoft thought this was a nice idea, except it isn't. I have a case with a door which I like very much because it muffles sound from optical drives (ironically). Now every time I click on CD/DVD node by mistake, the tray opens and hits the door. Two things happen, either the door flies open, or I hear a thud and have to hurry up to open the door so that the tray may open. Sooner or later it is going to break the tray ejection mechanism, and I sure as hell do not want to pay close to two hundred dollars to replace my Plextor Premium drive that I use to rip audio CDs. Now, you'd think Microsoft provided a way to turn off this feature. Not so. After googling the only way to "fix" it is to disable built in burning capability in Vista. Why would somebody tie auto eject feature to built in burning ability is way beyond me. Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
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Inspired by the Instant-On feature thread. Seeing how Microsoft is unwilling to fix broken Vista usability and chooses to spend its time implementing features no one will ever use, I'm going to start posting daily vista rants. Each day I'm going to rant on some annoying Vista feature that should have never seen the light of day or should have been fixed already. I have enough material for about a week to come, after that I suppose rants will become more sporadic. Today's rant is about dvd drive auto eject feature in Vista. Since windows 95 when you clicked on CD/DVD drive in explorer, it would give a nice and descriptive warning that there is "no cd in the drive". In an effort to make computer more user friendly Vista now automatically ejects the drive tray if there is no drive in it. I'm sure somebody at Microsoft thought this was a nice idea, except it isn't. I have a case with a door which I like very much because it muffles sound from optical drives (ironically). Now every time I click on CD/DVD node by mistake, the tray opens and hits the door. Two things happen, either the door flies open, or I hear a thud and have to hurry up to open the door so that the tray may open. Sooner or later it is going to break the tray ejection mechanism, and I sure as hell do not want to pay close to two hundred dollars to replace my Plextor Premium drive that I use to rip audio CDs. Now, you'd think Microsoft provided a way to turn off this feature. Not so. After googling the only way to "fix" it is to disable built in burning capability in Vista. Why would somebody tie auto eject feature to built in burning ability is way beyond me. Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
I agreed with all of your post, except the very last line.
JazzJackRabbit wrote:
Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
Just what are you claiming? That this feature was thought up and written in India? How do you know this? :suss: "Feature X is stupid, so it must have done by an Indian." If it turned out tomorrow this feature was implemented by an American programmer, would you make such sweeping statements against your own countrymen?
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JazzJackRabbit wrote:
Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
The tray ejects when I click on the dvd icon. The Indians. They are the reason. :rolleyes: I'm appalled. I enjoyed reading the entire rant, but this conclusion is just baseless, senseless. Not because I live in India, but because it is baseless. I would have said this if any other country was mentioned too.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal - Friedrich Nietzsche .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. [Microsoft MVP - Visual C++]
Look below. :sigh:
Cheers, Vıkram.
"You idiot British surprise me that your generators which grew up after Mid 50s had no brain at all." - Adnan Siddiqi.
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JazzJackRabbit wrote:
Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
The tray ejects when I click on the dvd icon. The Indians. They are the reason. :rolleyes: I'm appalled. I enjoyed reading the entire rant, but this conclusion is just baseless, senseless. Not because I live in India, but because it is baseless. I would have said this if any other country was mentioned too.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal - Friedrich Nietzsche .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. [Microsoft MVP - Visual C++]
Microsoft is rapidly hiring Indians, it has been pushing for H1-B program expansion for years with Bill Gates testifying before Congress, and it has been moving their development centers to India. It might not be a convincing argument, but it certainly isn't a baseless one. Aside from that, can you offer any other logical reasoning behind this "feature"? And keep in mind, it's not just this one feature, there are lots more to come in the next days.
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I agreed with all of your post, except the very last line.
JazzJackRabbit wrote:
Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
Just what are you claiming? That this feature was thought up and written in India? How do you know this? :suss: "Feature X is stupid, so it must have done by an Indian." If it turned out tomorrow this feature was implemented by an American programmer, would you make such sweeping statements against your own countrymen?
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JazzJackRabbit wrote:
it would mean they are regressing on the evolution scale.
BS. The command line kid is American and I am cursed to deal with him.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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I fixed all my Vista rants by upgrading to XP.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001We're even, I fixed all my XP rants by upgrading to 64bit Vista. ;P speaking of... I tried to launch a Virtual machine I use regularly at home (Vista U64) on my new workstation at work (XP-32).... ugh... :doh: I really wish they would have let me design my own machine this time. oh well, they have to learn somehow.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Microsoft is rapidly hiring Indians, it has been pushing for H1-B program expansion for years with Bill Gates testifying before Congress, and it has been moving their development centers to India. It might not be a convincing argument, but it certainly isn't a baseless one. Aside from that, can you offer any other logical reasoning behind this "feature"? And keep in mind, it's not just this one feature, there are lots more to come in the next days.
JazzJackRabbit wrote:
but it certainly isn't a baseless one.
yes it is. The fact that you have a garage for your car does not make you a mechanic by default. I have obviously seen more idiotic Americans than you, we have no need of a foreign country to find idiots from, which is the point of rants against hiring MORE from anywhere else, we already have our fill of idiots and they were already, unfortunately, ours to keep.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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JazzJackRabbit wrote:
it would mean they are regressing on the evolution scale.
BS. The command line kid is American and I am cursed to deal with him.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
Actually I was replying to this statement: "If it turned out tomorrow this feature was implemented by an American programmer, would you make such sweeping statements against your own countrymen?" So you just proved the point. The command line kid is clearly regressing. Or at the very least not evolving.
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Inspired by the Instant-On feature thread. Seeing how Microsoft is unwilling to fix broken Vista usability and chooses to spend its time implementing features no one will ever use, I'm going to start posting daily vista rants. Each day I'm going to rant on some annoying Vista feature that should have never seen the light of day or should have been fixed already. I have enough material for about a week to come, after that I suppose rants will become more sporadic. Today's rant is about dvd drive auto eject feature in Vista. Since windows 95 when you clicked on CD/DVD drive in explorer, it would give a nice and descriptive warning that there is "no cd in the drive". In an effort to make computer more user friendly Vista now automatically ejects the drive tray if there is no drive in it. I'm sure somebody at Microsoft thought this was a nice idea, except it isn't. I have a case with a door which I like very much because it muffles sound from optical drives (ironically). Now every time I click on CD/DVD node by mistake, the tray opens and hits the door. Two things happen, either the door flies open, or I hear a thud and have to hurry up to open the door so that the tray may open. Sooner or later it is going to break the tray ejection mechanism, and I sure as hell do not want to pay close to two hundred dollars to replace my Plextor Premium drive that I use to rip audio CDs. Now, you'd think Microsoft provided a way to turn off this feature. Not so. After googling the only way to "fix" it is to disable built in burning capability in Vista. Why would somebody tie auto eject feature to built in burning ability is way beyond me. Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
Interesting. My Windows Server 2008 it does not behave this way, when I click on a drive it shows the old dialog. Since they share most of the code, there should be a setting somewhere. Don't you like riddles? :)
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Actually I was replying to this statement: "If it turned out tomorrow this feature was implemented by an American programmer, would you make such sweeping statements against your own countrymen?" So you just proved the point. The command line kid is clearly regressing. Or at the very least not evolving.
JazzJackRabbit wrote:
Or at the very least not evolving.
correct. in that much. There are those who will not evolve. I have been accused of the same by those who have really no earthly idea what I do because I barely cover a fraction of my job functions. It isn't about regression really, nor about country. We've got idiots, they've got idiots. We've got smart people, they've got smart people. Although the smarter people do not always earn more, the idiots usually (not always) earn less. Companies seeking to lower their costs by hiring inexperience programmers generally hire idiots, usually because the guy thinking only of the salary of the programmer and not the overall balance of skills vs. salary is an idiot.... therefore idiots breed more idiots in a company.... Which has nothing to do with countries. The countries just get pulled in because the idiots are searching for more idiots and hey! they are idiots, so they look farther than they have to. :laugh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Inspired by the Instant-On feature thread. Seeing how Microsoft is unwilling to fix broken Vista usability and chooses to spend its time implementing features no one will ever use, I'm going to start posting daily vista rants. Each day I'm going to rant on some annoying Vista feature that should have never seen the light of day or should have been fixed already. I have enough material for about a week to come, after that I suppose rants will become more sporadic. Today's rant is about dvd drive auto eject feature in Vista. Since windows 95 when you clicked on CD/DVD drive in explorer, it would give a nice and descriptive warning that there is "no cd in the drive". In an effort to make computer more user friendly Vista now automatically ejects the drive tray if there is no drive in it. I'm sure somebody at Microsoft thought this was a nice idea, except it isn't. I have a case with a door which I like very much because it muffles sound from optical drives (ironically). Now every time I click on CD/DVD node by mistake, the tray opens and hits the door. Two things happen, either the door flies open, or I hear a thud and have to hurry up to open the door so that the tray may open. Sooner or later it is going to break the tray ejection mechanism, and I sure as hell do not want to pay close to two hundred dollars to replace my Plextor Premium drive that I use to rip audio CDs. Now, you'd think Microsoft provided a way to turn off this feature. Not so. After googling the only way to "fix" it is to disable built in burning capability in Vista. Why would somebody tie auto eject feature to built in burning ability is way beyond me. Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
I have a friend that works at Microsoft (recent hire) who said the work ethic there is best described as "lazy". It sounds like they are rotting from the inside out. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/24.html[^] http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html[^]
Todd Smith
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Inspired by the Instant-On feature thread. Seeing how Microsoft is unwilling to fix broken Vista usability and chooses to spend its time implementing features no one will ever use, I'm going to start posting daily vista rants. Each day I'm going to rant on some annoying Vista feature that should have never seen the light of day or should have been fixed already. I have enough material for about a week to come, after that I suppose rants will become more sporadic. Today's rant is about dvd drive auto eject feature in Vista. Since windows 95 when you clicked on CD/DVD drive in explorer, it would give a nice and descriptive warning that there is "no cd in the drive". In an effort to make computer more user friendly Vista now automatically ejects the drive tray if there is no drive in it. I'm sure somebody at Microsoft thought this was a nice idea, except it isn't. I have a case with a door which I like very much because it muffles sound from optical drives (ironically). Now every time I click on CD/DVD node by mistake, the tray opens and hits the door. Two things happen, either the door flies open, or I hear a thud and have to hurry up to open the door so that the tray may open. Sooner or later it is going to break the tray ejection mechanism, and I sure as hell do not want to pay close to two hundred dollars to replace my Plextor Premium drive that I use to rip audio CDs. Now, you'd think Microsoft provided a way to turn off this feature. Not so. After googling the only way to "fix" it is to disable built in burning capability in Vista. Why would somebody tie auto eject feature to built in burning ability is way beyond me. Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
Actually this has *always* been a flaw in all versions of windows in another way: if there is no disc in a drive, be it a floppy or cd, it should just present it with some kind of no disc icon and not let you select it because it's a nuisance to be able to select it in the first place.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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JazzJackRabbit wrote:
Or at the very least not evolving.
correct. in that much. There are those who will not evolve. I have been accused of the same by those who have really no earthly idea what I do because I barely cover a fraction of my job functions. It isn't about regression really, nor about country. We've got idiots, they've got idiots. We've got smart people, they've got smart people. Although the smarter people do not always earn more, the idiots usually (not always) earn less. Companies seeking to lower their costs by hiring inexperience programmers generally hire idiots, usually because the guy thinking only of the salary of the programmer and not the overall balance of skills vs. salary is an idiot.... therefore idiots breed more idiots in a company.... Which has nothing to do with countries. The countries just get pulled in because the idiots are searching for more idiots and hey! they are idiots, so they look farther than they have to. :laugh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Inspired by the Instant-On feature thread. Seeing how Microsoft is unwilling to fix broken Vista usability and chooses to spend its time implementing features no one will ever use, I'm going to start posting daily vista rants. Each day I'm going to rant on some annoying Vista feature that should have never seen the light of day or should have been fixed already. I have enough material for about a week to come, after that I suppose rants will become more sporadic. Today's rant is about dvd drive auto eject feature in Vista. Since windows 95 when you clicked on CD/DVD drive in explorer, it would give a nice and descriptive warning that there is "no cd in the drive". In an effort to make computer more user friendly Vista now automatically ejects the drive tray if there is no drive in it. I'm sure somebody at Microsoft thought this was a nice idea, except it isn't. I have a case with a door which I like very much because it muffles sound from optical drives (ironically). Now every time I click on CD/DVD node by mistake, the tray opens and hits the door. Two things happen, either the door flies open, or I hear a thud and have to hurry up to open the door so that the tray may open. Sooner or later it is going to break the tray ejection mechanism, and I sure as hell do not want to pay close to two hundred dollars to replace my Plextor Premium drive that I use to rip audio CDs. Now, you'd think Microsoft provided a way to turn off this feature. Not so. After googling the only way to "fix" it is to disable built in burning capability in Vista. Why would somebody tie auto eject feature to built in burning ability is way beyond me. Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
It's probably the same genius who believes only admins should be able to defrag a drive. Sweet merciful cr@p let me get my hands on you...
Cheetah. Ferret. Gonads. What more can I say? - Pete O'Hanlon
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Inspired by the Instant-On feature thread. Seeing how Microsoft is unwilling to fix broken Vista usability and chooses to spend its time implementing features no one will ever use, I'm going to start posting daily vista rants. Each day I'm going to rant on some annoying Vista feature that should have never seen the light of day or should have been fixed already. I have enough material for about a week to come, after that I suppose rants will become more sporadic. Today's rant is about dvd drive auto eject feature in Vista. Since windows 95 when you clicked on CD/DVD drive in explorer, it would give a nice and descriptive warning that there is "no cd in the drive". In an effort to make computer more user friendly Vista now automatically ejects the drive tray if there is no drive in it. I'm sure somebody at Microsoft thought this was a nice idea, except it isn't. I have a case with a door which I like very much because it muffles sound from optical drives (ironically). Now every time I click on CD/DVD node by mistake, the tray opens and hits the door. Two things happen, either the door flies open, or I hear a thud and have to hurry up to open the door so that the tray may open. Sooner or later it is going to break the tray ejection mechanism, and I sure as hell do not want to pay close to two hundred dollars to replace my Plextor Premium drive that I use to rip audio CDs. Now, you'd think Microsoft provided a way to turn off this feature. Not so. After googling the only way to "fix" it is to disable built in burning capability in Vista. Why would somebody tie auto eject feature to built in burning ability is way beyond me. Must be the result of all the outsourcing to India.
If you want to change the clock itme on Vista it takes several more clicks now just to get to the edit screen. It used to be on XP you could just double click on the clock, change the time and click apply. There also doesn't seem to be a way to sync the clock. I change the time sometimes for testing an application and want to see it back aftwareds and I used to use the sync function. Now it appears to be MIA. :((
Todd Smith
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Microsoft is rapidly hiring Indians, it has been pushing for H1-B program expansion for years with Bill Gates testifying before Congress, and it has been moving their development centers to India. It might not be a convincing argument, but it certainly isn't a baseless one. Aside from that, can you offer any other logical reasoning behind this "feature"? And keep in mind, it's not just this one feature, there are lots more to come in the next days.
JazzJackRabbit wrote:
Microsoft is rapidly hiring Indians, it has been pushing for H1-B program expansion for years with Bill Gates testifying before Congress, and it has been moving their development centers to India.
Microsoft has NOT been moving their development centers to India. It has just 1 development center in India. I have more access to Microsoft and its private information that you do. What if I tell you that the Vista UI part was entirely developed at Redmond? Now, I'll wait for you to come and tell me that it was an Indian who wrote it at Redmond. How brilliant! :rolleyes:
JazzJackRabbit wrote:
Aside from that, can you offer any other logical reasoning behind this "feature"? And keep in mind, it's not just this one feature, there are lots more to come in the next days.
I don't care about any of those the features and it is not *me* who has to give you a logical reasoning of why something in Windows is stupid. You must ask Microsoft. I just replied to you for a different reason which must be quite obvious to understand.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal - Friedrich Nietzsche .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. [Microsoft MVP - Visual C++]
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JazzJackRabbit wrote:
but it certainly isn't a baseless one.
yes it is. The fact that you have a garage for your car does not make you a mechanic by default. I have obviously seen more idiotic Americans than you, we have no need of a foreign country to find idiots from, which is the point of rants against hiring MORE from anywhere else, we already have our fill of idiots and they were already, unfortunately, ours to keep.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
Very nicely put sir.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal - Friedrich Nietzsche .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. [Microsoft MVP - Visual C++]
