These days I always request the physical versions by post, if available. When people post you things, they often pop extra freebies in the envelope: stickers, postcards, discount vouchers, etc.
I now even use email for chatting for important things. It's called "deltaChat", and has the additional advantage that most people have no idea how ito install it, so I only have to deal with very few contacts there... BTW do people still listen to podcasts?
I have a policy of never responding to surveys and over the years this stance has positively contributed to a lack of spam.
At work, I refused to fill in a 'confidential' survey on working conditions. Those who took the opportunity to 'speak their mind' were later 'let go'. No connection at all to the confidential survey... How do I know this?
Isn’t the problem that those who respond to such queries are merely only a subset of the original recipients, who are then introducing a bias into the response statistics… 94% of all statistics are made up, but we saw a 17% decrease in those who said ‘no’, a 34% response in those who said ‘maybe’, and the rest said ‘yes’ but we had 65% of those who said ‘Is that the same as Outlook?’in the additional response text box.
A bit like ‘For those users who have agreed to send us all their usage data, we see they don’t use the keyboard shortcuts but use the drop-down menu instead using a mouse, so we can drop the shortcut keys as no-one uses them!” Think of the quality assurance tests we can drop for that one!
I’d love shortcut keys to be mostly “illegal” (in the DJT sense). Accidentally bashing a shortcut and not knowing what the heck I’ve done is quite confusing. But I’m sure I’m in the 5.73456% who have that problem.
If only manufacturers could agree a common keyboard layout beyond QWERTY, I’d probably avoid the same symptoms when switching between ASU’s, Lenovo, HP, etc.
It’s amazing how annoying shortened Enter keys, moved delete key are, swapped Carl/Fn keys are. Crap! That’s the power button on this layout! You …. ^*¥%@#!{§€’s.
Today’s product said to have AI in it: an oven. The alleged AI is linked to a camera inside the oven so it can tell you when it has reached the right shade of burnt. This clearly relieves you from having to open the actual oven door or smelling that your dinner is burning. I suspect AIs response to “is it cooked yet?” Could be like asking directions in a culture where the response “I don’t know” is not a done thing.
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From the local Chambre de Commerce: "Tick the box if you would rather receive our magazine via email instead of by snail mail". Duly ticked the box.
Now I get both!
These days I always request the physical versions by post, if available. When people post you things, they often pop extra freebies in the envelope: stickers, postcards, discount vouchers, etc.
...although "often" may be a trifle over-optimistic, eh?
Aw, man, you didn't press five!
Gotta mind those sharks. They have "lay-zers".
I now even use email for chatting for important things. It's called "deltaChat", and has the additional advantage that most people have no idea how ito install it, so I only have to deal with very few contacts there... BTW do people still listen to podcasts?
Do people still comment on online articles?
No.
Do people still respond to surveys?
I have a policy of never responding to surveys and over the years this stance has positively contributed to a lack of spam.
At work, I refused to fill in a 'confidential' survey on working conditions. Those who took the opportunity to 'speak their mind' were later 'let go'. No connection at all to the confidential survey... How do I know this?
Didn't Mao Zedong use this technique to start the Cultural Revolution?
Some people are saying: that's what they wanted you to think.
I'm just asking the question.
Isn’t the problem that those who respond to such queries are merely only a subset of the original recipients, who are then introducing a bias into the response statistics… 94% of all statistics are made up, but we saw a 17% decrease in those who said ‘no’, a 34% response in those who said ‘maybe’, and the rest said ‘yes’ but we had 65% of those who said ‘Is that the same as Outlook?’in the additional response text box.
A bit like ‘For those users who have agreed to send us all their usage data, we see they don’t use the keyboard shortcuts but use the drop-down menu instead using a mouse, so we can drop the shortcut keys as no-one uses them!” Think of the quality assurance tests we can drop for that one!
I’d love shortcut keys to be mostly “illegal” (in the DJT sense). Accidentally bashing a shortcut and not knowing what the heck I’ve done is quite confusing. But I’m sure I’m in the 5.73456% who have that problem.
If only manufacturers could agree a common keyboard layout beyond QWERTY, I’d probably avoid the same symptoms when switching between ASU’s, Lenovo, HP, etc.
It’s amazing how annoying shortened Enter keys, moved delete key are, swapped Carl/Fn keys are. Crap! That’s the power button on this layout! You …. ^*¥%@#!{§€’s.
Seems to me that the correct response is "How the hell would I know? Ask someone else!"
Today’s product said to have AI in it: an oven. The alleged AI is linked to a camera inside the oven so it can tell you when it has reached the right shade of burnt. This clearly relieves you from having to open the actual oven door or smelling that your dinner is burning. I suspect AIs response to “is it cooked yet?” Could be like asking directions in a culture where the response “I don’t know” is not a done thing.