Claire bought a new Satellite A10 from The Laptop Company (TLC) a few weeks ago. It is, as she says, blue. It is also less than a month old. Which means that it should be patched to protect itself from the MS BLASTER virus. But it isn't.
Last week her laptop started doing some wacky things, mostly it wasn't playing nice with CDs, it just stopped noticing when they were present. She complained to TLC and they went "muh" and her. She took it in to get it sorted.
Today, the Uni IT people DID SOMETHING (holy CRAP!) and what they did was really good. They called her/nic's office to inform the occupants that a computer connecting from their office had the virus, and the firewall had noticed. Sweet. Good job IT. She doesn't know jack about computers, so asked IT guy to call TLC guy and sort shit out.
Hopefully this has occured. But why the hell was a brand new laptop sold without being patched up to date? Seems like a crock to me. Oh yes, a crock.
Also a crock is TLC telling Claire that Nero Burning ROM wouldn't work because it wasn't registered to her HD. WTF? Of course it isn't, that NERO came with a brand new CD burner, it isn't registered to any computer. The machine the drive was installed into doesn't use Nero, and is thus not "registered" to it, and it was installed 100% all A-OK onto Claire's. It worked, and should continue to work Mr TLC technician. Don't try and blame it for some crappiness on your part.
Hell yeah.
Last week I worked. Really, I actually worked. I scanned the SJS site, found some general labouring and hooked up. Thus I was Mr Carpet mover guy on Wednesday. Goto Addington raceway (c/- Glen) help another guy, and three British lads take rolls of carpets out of big container (ok normal sized container, but they are pretty big) and lay out on floor. Then arrange carpets in prescribed fashion, and make all pretty like. Do this for some time, then party on. Was good to do some work, but was better to get paid.
I think Paycheck was good. I like Phillip K Dick stories, and this story doesn't have his traditional "then I freak out on drugs for a few chapters" section. Which is nice, as they often confuse the story somewhat. I thought there were a few scenes where the music was simply too loud and messed the scene up, and unfortunately (for me) I don't think Uma Thurman is sexy enough. (Also let me remind the world that the trailer for Kill Bill Vol. 2 is the suckiest trailer EVER.)
I'm also curious as to why he had to have his memory erased? I know it was central to the plot, :P but what I mean is that they never said WHY he needed to do it. For the second job, yes it was necessary, but for the screeen reverse engineering? What was the point? The execs all knew what he did, so it wasn't that noone could know, not even himself... it was just you can't know what you did. They didn't really justify that at all.
The lead character is a bit dumb for the first section, but then again that is from our perspective where we know everything, it would be pretty weird to be in his shoes. However, given that it is a film, perhaps they could have sped his understanding up.
I liked the film overall, and was certainly entertained. I don't think it was as good as Minority Report, and whoever tried to convince me that Enternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was by PKD can sod right off. (Although, it did mean I found Imposter, starring director trademarks are funky. I want one.
Posted by luther at March 30, 2004 05:10 PM | TrackBack