I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Maybe some of you know this post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison and the PC game, released 1995 for DOS computers. I played this game for countless hours. It wasn't a shoot-'em-up game, but a game that required a braincell or two. ;-)
Story Line: The war of all wars was fought by THREE Super-Computers capable of running the war more efficiently than humans. One of these machines became self aware, absorbing the other two computers, and killed off all humans except four men and one woman.
In its immeasurable hatred of humans, AM, as the super-computer calls itself, spends every available moment torturing them.
To make the short story even shorter:
Ted, the sole survivor, realizes that AM transformed him to a worthless blob of flesh without any bodily functions, but a working brain. He resigns himself to the fact that...
...AM has won, simply … he has taken his revenge
I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream!
Why am I telling you this?
Because I feel like TED - and MICROSOFT IS AM!
A few weeks back I wrote the blog Windows 10 - Beware! Big Brother Is Watching You, telling you that this here dumb ass upgraded to Win 10 and all the problems I was having, from day one on.
Well, this happened today.
In the middle of working on a website, I lost Internet connection, so I thought. I have a Comcast/Infinity wireless router and went through the motions. You know, rebooting the router came first. That didn't help.
Next, I tried my daughter's laptop, and lo and behold, IT WORKED JUST FINE. On my machine, I couldn't log on to Yahoo (this website is not available), I couldn't log on the gmail, nothing worked.,
Then it hit me. Just a short while ago I was reading a blog on Forbes about the future with MS, and how they uninstall 3rd party apps, etc.
Sure enough, Edge, the built in MS browser DID WORK. I am not going to bore you to death with what I had to do to get Chrome working again. Took me the better part of this sunny Saturday.
All good, I thought. NOT SO!
Now the Windows 10 Menu IS NOT WORKING and neither are the power, sound, notification, time/date icons in the taskbar.
A quick google search reveals that this is a known and ongoing problem, which occurs during or after automatic updates, with a bunch of search results and tips how to fix this. Of course, Big Brother seems not interested to provide a fix.
There goes my Sunday, because none of the fixes are simple or quick. You can check it out yourself, if you are interested. Search: Windows 10 start menu not working.
Also check out the Forbes article (I didn't bookmark the page, unfortunately) for more info what's coming at Win 10 users.
Now for the funny part. Here is a link to the PDF of Harlan Ellison's short story
http://styrofoam.voidaudio.net/ihavenomouthandimus...
The game only worked on DOS machines and was never updated. However, I found out that gog.com did a re-release, but didn't have time yet to look into it further.
Here is a screenshot from the game...I remember it well.
As far as Microsoft and Windows 10 is concerned:
I am done with it and MS. Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Mac, here I come soon.
Have a nice Sunday
John Worthy
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And it's stuff like this that makes me happy I switched to Mac many years ago. You'll never turn back.
That's too bad John. It must be very frustrating. I hate to say this but I use Windows 10, upgraded from 8 which I hated, on my laptop and knock-on-wood have not had a problem. It might pay to take your computer to an expert for evaluation.
Saul
Did you know that this process was first started by Apple? Maybe you should enlist the aid of someone who knows what they are doing. Good luck in learning the Mac software. I sell and service EVERY brand of computer. 99% of issues that my company fixes is caused by the user.
It can be frustrating when things happen and you don't understand why.
Just the response I did not need, but expected from a typical Microsoft troll. Must be the stupid user's fault, not knowing what they are doing.
Can you enlighten me HOW I CAUSED the Start Menu to cease working, or better yet, offer a simple solution how to fix this mess, instead of insinuating that I am too dumb and stupid to use this precious piece of shit OS.
Waiting eagerly
John Worthy
PS: According to the Master of Win 10, all the search results from people that caused the problem on their machines, are the result of stupidity.
January 24, 2017:
I hope you're still here with us! I have something to say...
I happened to find this this morning.
Whilst there may be truth to what is said here (notice I said "may"), the way it has been delivered is beyond arrogance, derisiveness, and disrespect. It is downright biting.
It is yet one more incident of this type of crap this person, during his reign here at WA, has fumigated.
You know John, I know this is an old blog now, but I've read it today and I love the way you handled it!
Never did get an answer back from him did we? Microsoft Windows 10 is riddled with problems and imperfections. They have patches for this - called "Windows Updates." Notice how frequent they are? Well, they've masked this these days. Not so many updates anymore because they are all lumped into monthly "Cumulative Windows Updates!" Yes, they're still there!
I guess this guy finally got bored with the "dumbness" of the people here in our community and has flown the coop! Good riddens! We don't need that kind of input from anyone - even if what is in his staunch comments may have some truth in them.
Hats off to you! I've had to go on, back and forth with this individual in mine, and others' blogs - but you did it with one comment!
Ah John, my heart goes out to you. Hope you get it sorted without wasting too much time on it :)
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I am using windows 10 and some of it properties do not allow all functions to work on my computer. I have just done without them. I am glad that you have made me more aware of this. I will check into it. Thank you.