24th April 2007, 7:40 PM
Look we all know you work in one of those "troll farms" where people make fake personas on message boards and then sell various company lines, and we're okay with that, but seriously, this is a pretty stupid addon.
No, I don't have to buy it, I'm explaining why here. I'm not just going to say "well I disagree" with every single product put to market. If something just seems really stupid, like that "heart beat detecter" security system they are putting in cars, I call them out on it.
It "could be anything" eh? And again, you ignore the point, you are basically saying the reason people should buy this device is so that someone who doesn't own a pair of headsets and spends more time at work instant messaging than WORKING doesn't have to "splurge". This is not something useful to the buyer so much as random people online on the off chance that one of them can't hear you. And, oh yes, why not just let them use a USB keyboard they likely already own in those cases where it actually is, for whatever reason, needed? This thing is hardly actually practicle. You can't type and use any buttons at the same time. Heck, you have to do the "hunt and peck" all over again because I sure as heck know my thumbs are only trained to hit the space bar.
That's just not how a sensible person rolls.
Again, MS isn't "evil" for making this. People can buy it if they want, I'm just calling the device stupid.
No, I don't have to buy it, I'm explaining why here. I'm not just going to say "well I disagree" with every single product put to market. If something just seems really stupid, like that "heart beat detecter" security system they are putting in cars, I call them out on it.
It "could be anything" eh? And again, you ignore the point, you are basically saying the reason people should buy this device is so that someone who doesn't own a pair of headsets and spends more time at work instant messaging than WORKING doesn't have to "splurge". This is not something useful to the buyer so much as random people online on the off chance that one of them can't hear you. And, oh yes, why not just let them use a USB keyboard they likely already own in those cases where it actually is, for whatever reason, needed? This thing is hardly actually practicle. You can't type and use any buttons at the same time. Heck, you have to do the "hunt and peck" all over again because I sure as heck know my thumbs are only trained to hit the space bar.
That's just not how a sensible person rolls.
Again, MS isn't "evil" for making this. People can buy it if they want, I'm just calling the device stupid.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)