C
Charles Douglas Wehner
We have had "artificial intelligence" and even "artificial stupidity".
Now we have "artificial mendacity".
VISTA IS A LIAR.
How does this come about? It is really quite simple, but I don't
expect the dimwits at Microsoft to understand it.
Firstly, the "global exception handler", or whatever they call it at
Microsoft, is broken. The "exception handler" deals with exceptions
and errors.
The way these things are built up can be seen from a command in C++
RETURN 0
This will normally return a zero in the accumulator. It is a standard
trick to say "all is well". The zero means zero errors. Other numbers
have to be looked up from a list of errors and exceptions.
SOMETHING - I will not say it is the interrupts - is corrupting the
registers. As a result, after return from a successful subroutine, it
announces an error. Or, on other occasions, on return from an error it
reports that all is well.
In violation of SET THEORY, Microsoft dream that their "SERVICE PACK
1" will solve all their problems, or that the "UPDATES" will put
things right. They will not.
A car is a set of parts. If you break down, a call to the manufacturer
may result in your being advised to "try to drive to a gas station to
fill your tank", or "try to drive to a gas station to charge the
battery". However, if the car will not move, this is impossible. A
manufacturer that expects you to "try" silly things is incompetent.
Vista makes regular "updates", but it is a lie. It SIMULATES being on
the Internet, and "patches" its own operating system with byte salad.
So the only safe thing to do is CANCEL the "updates". However, on my
machine, it continued to LIE, and deliver "updates" whilst the machine
was offline, and did so for five days before it suddenly stopped doing
so.
Now it says "You have cancelled the updates, but you can install them
manually over the Internet". A LIE. The machine is never connected. It
even offers wireless internet, without the requisite hardware being
there.
I had a machine with Vista on it, and took it back to the shop. A
dimwit repair-man simply put the thing on the Internet to download
Service Pack One. It hung. For ten hours, he was unaware that the
machine was doing nothing. I have no doubt he demanded overtime pay.
Next day, he had it on the Internet for a further six hours, and
pronounced it to have been repaired.
Before I took it home, I insisted that I demonstrate some of the
faults to the head of the sales department. If it failed to reveal
those faults, I would take it home. It did exactly what it had done
before. It crashed many programs. It lied, for example to say that a
directory was "temporarily not available". When the window was closed,
it would indeed access the directory.
The head of sales had seen the faults, and even the PALE SCREEN OF
DEATH. He accepted my complaint, particularly as a diagnostic tool had
revealed 43 faults - ON A NEW MACHINE. He exchanged it for another
machine from a DIFFERENT manufacturer.
When I took that other machine home, it did exactly the same thing as
the other. It is the Vista operating system at fault, not the myriad
of hardware and software manufacturers who depend on Microsoft to
deliver a stable product.
Lord Russell's paradox speaks of the "Set of all sets that does not
include itself". This set of subroutines CANNOT repair itself, as
Microsoft delude themselves. Going on the internet uses the modem
driver, the TCP/IP system, all the Windows systems used by Internet
Explorer, and a host of other subroutines.
If any one subroutine is broken, the whole "update" scheme falls flat.
The solution must come from OUTSIDE.
I went to an Internet café that uses XP. Not that XP is particularly
bug-free, but it is at least OUTSIDE of the Vista system to some
extent. I could not use Internet Explorer (a Microsoft product),
because it crashes (of course). I used Firefox.
However, the "environment variables" on the Internet include the "user
agent". Microsoft expect to see their own name there. If it is a
competitor's browser, they reject it. Here it is for IE7:
HTTP_USER_AGENT is set to Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows
NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)
So Microsoft will not let you go OUTSIDE of the problem. You cannot
use an Apple Mac, for example, to fetch the updates or service pack to
repair Vista.
With difficulty, and using an IE browser that just about worked, I
downloaded the 455 MEGABYTES of "Service Pack One". That is ABSURD.
One can contain SEVERAL COMPLETE OPERATING SYSTEMS in 455 megabytes.
I then used virus-checkers on the SD card to ensure that the Service
Pack was uncorrupted.
I took it home, to install on the new machine.
Vista said "SERVICE PACK 1 IS ALREADY INSTALLED".
It LIED.
Charles Douglas Wehner
Now we have "artificial mendacity".
VISTA IS A LIAR.
How does this come about? It is really quite simple, but I don't
expect the dimwits at Microsoft to understand it.
Firstly, the "global exception handler", or whatever they call it at
Microsoft, is broken. The "exception handler" deals with exceptions
and errors.
The way these things are built up can be seen from a command in C++
RETURN 0
This will normally return a zero in the accumulator. It is a standard
trick to say "all is well". The zero means zero errors. Other numbers
have to be looked up from a list of errors and exceptions.
SOMETHING - I will not say it is the interrupts - is corrupting the
registers. As a result, after return from a successful subroutine, it
announces an error. Or, on other occasions, on return from an error it
reports that all is well.
In violation of SET THEORY, Microsoft dream that their "SERVICE PACK
1" will solve all their problems, or that the "UPDATES" will put
things right. They will not.
A car is a set of parts. If you break down, a call to the manufacturer
may result in your being advised to "try to drive to a gas station to
fill your tank", or "try to drive to a gas station to charge the
battery". However, if the car will not move, this is impossible. A
manufacturer that expects you to "try" silly things is incompetent.
Vista makes regular "updates", but it is a lie. It SIMULATES being on
the Internet, and "patches" its own operating system with byte salad.
So the only safe thing to do is CANCEL the "updates". However, on my
machine, it continued to LIE, and deliver "updates" whilst the machine
was offline, and did so for five days before it suddenly stopped doing
so.
Now it says "You have cancelled the updates, but you can install them
manually over the Internet". A LIE. The machine is never connected. It
even offers wireless internet, without the requisite hardware being
there.
I had a machine with Vista on it, and took it back to the shop. A
dimwit repair-man simply put the thing on the Internet to download
Service Pack One. It hung. For ten hours, he was unaware that the
machine was doing nothing. I have no doubt he demanded overtime pay.
Next day, he had it on the Internet for a further six hours, and
pronounced it to have been repaired.
Before I took it home, I insisted that I demonstrate some of the
faults to the head of the sales department. If it failed to reveal
those faults, I would take it home. It did exactly what it had done
before. It crashed many programs. It lied, for example to say that a
directory was "temporarily not available". When the window was closed,
it would indeed access the directory.
The head of sales had seen the faults, and even the PALE SCREEN OF
DEATH. He accepted my complaint, particularly as a diagnostic tool had
revealed 43 faults - ON A NEW MACHINE. He exchanged it for another
machine from a DIFFERENT manufacturer.
When I took that other machine home, it did exactly the same thing as
the other. It is the Vista operating system at fault, not the myriad
of hardware and software manufacturers who depend on Microsoft to
deliver a stable product.
Lord Russell's paradox speaks of the "Set of all sets that does not
include itself". This set of subroutines CANNOT repair itself, as
Microsoft delude themselves. Going on the internet uses the modem
driver, the TCP/IP system, all the Windows systems used by Internet
Explorer, and a host of other subroutines.
If any one subroutine is broken, the whole "update" scheme falls flat.
The solution must come from OUTSIDE.
I went to an Internet café that uses XP. Not that XP is particularly
bug-free, but it is at least OUTSIDE of the Vista system to some
extent. I could not use Internet Explorer (a Microsoft product),
because it crashes (of course). I used Firefox.
However, the "environment variables" on the Internet include the "user
agent". Microsoft expect to see their own name there. If it is a
competitor's browser, they reject it. Here it is for IE7:
HTTP_USER_AGENT is set to Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows
NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)
So Microsoft will not let you go OUTSIDE of the problem. You cannot
use an Apple Mac, for example, to fetch the updates or service pack to
repair Vista.
With difficulty, and using an IE browser that just about worked, I
downloaded the 455 MEGABYTES of "Service Pack One". That is ABSURD.
One can contain SEVERAL COMPLETE OPERATING SYSTEMS in 455 megabytes.
I then used virus-checkers on the SD card to ensure that the Service
Pack was uncorrupted.
I took it home, to install on the new machine.
Vista said "SERVICE PACK 1 IS ALREADY INSTALLED".
It LIED.
Charles Douglas Wehner