How silly

[simont]

It turns out my iPod wasn't defunct after all. It just needed turning back on!

Apparently, for the last three and a half years, every single time I thought I was turning it off or on, I was in fact putting it in and out of a state more akin to a laptop's ‘suspend’ function. On Monday it took it into its head, for reasons unexplained, to power itself off properly, which meant that pressing what I thought was the On button but was actually the Unsuspend button did nothing. To actually turn it on, one has to apply a Vulcan nerve pinch to two particular buttons and hold it for eight seconds, whereupon it spends a minute or so booting up before being willing to do anything.

I thought Apple were supposed to be masters of creating computing devices that a non-expert could use. If you can't even find the on switch without looking on the Internet, something is wrong!

(Unless, I suppose, any non-expert would have known to do that immediately, and I only failed to because my mind was too highly trained?)

Comments

[aquarionical.livejournal.com]

At the point where my iPod controls raptors, I'll demand a proper off switch.

While the "hibernate" mode has a battery life of hundreds of hours, I'm happy with current behaviour.

[simont]

On the contrary. If my iPod controlled raptors, I'd want a UPS!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

An ipod that controlled raptors would be pretty cool :)

I should specify that, contrary to how it sounded, the way most people think is not necessarily inferior to the way I think. By default, I instinctively assume it is, but there's no actual evidence that eletronics that works the way it did 15 years ago is superior to electronics which is reliable and userfriendly, and a reasonable interpretation would be that it isn't :)

(That is, what you said. But it always _happens_ to bug me, for no objective reason except a nagging feeling that it's not really under control and it'll end up biting me in some way later, even if in almost all ways its lots better. However, I suspect Simon will feel the same way.)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Currently my portable music player is some kind of defence against those occasional people who yell offensive things at random women in the street, of whom Sheffield has quite a few. If an ipod controlled raptors sufficiently to make them not eat me or my shopping, I'd so buy it.