Is That What It Looks Like?
Warning: Today's link is short and profane.
People who use Word are probably familiar with the paper clip that flies down, says "It looks like you're writing a letter" and offers help.
Often I'm not writing a letter. And you know what? Even if I were, I wrote many of them successfully before I owned any Microsoft products.
Has anyone ever accepted the help of that paper clip? I've never heard of such a thing. I bet just sending the clip away has wasted thousands of hours.
posted by LAGuy @ 1:42 AM
3 Comments:
I have an earlier version of Word (at least 7 or 8 years ago) on one of my old computers and my memory was you could pick different animated characters besides the paper clip to bring these messages-after I played with the settings, I wound up with either a little cartoon dog or or an Einstein-like personage. Over time the annoyance of these I believe these features increased my feelings of anger toward neighborhood pooches and maybe some feeling of anti-academia. Maybe thats why we have only the paper clip now- so the anger can't be other-directed. But they must keep it for a reason-someone somewhere must like this (I mean somebody out there is buying Hello Kitty products too). Sometimes though I think its MS showing us its powerful enough to have complete and utter contempt for its customers (no thats what they have upgrades for)
Along with grocery store loyalty cards, this is simply part of the preparation for The Convergence.
The Covergence- does that happen before or after the Singularity? Or am I confusing that with he Rapture?
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