Eric The Viking
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It's like the annoying Windows Update Process (why didn't they just write it properly in the first place? ) : every morning you're greeted with a string of messages about stuff your Android did overnight, or stuff that it's dead keen to do right now, that you need to give permission for.
This morning it was the Samsung "Push Service" wanting to update itself. I'm not entirely certain what Push does - something to do with signals, I think (that's the software sort, not Railtrack). Saying, "just get on with it, I want to do the crossword!" isn't enough. You have to make a virtual visit to The People's Capitalist Republic of Samsung ("third bunker on the left, sir"), where you give permission in person for arcane wonders to be done to your device. There's a lot of bowing and handing over of virtual business cards, but no virtual put-puts to avoid, nor houses being moved by bicycle. Maybe that's China, but I digress...
Being an avid student of foreign cultures, and with the obvious concern that I might not get the chance again (the whole lot might disappear beneath a virtual mushroom cloud at any moment), I took the opportunity to have a little virtual wander about whilst I was there.
The web page has a "review" section, thus named, I assume, because "Visitors' Book" doesn't translate into Korean easily. This was worth a closer look in its own right. Although it's hard to review something the use of which you cannot fathom (unless it's got pictures in the Hand Tools forum, naturally), well-meaning British tablet users have evidently tried. This is much in the same spirit as one writes, "wonderful scenery, can't wait to come back" when you were really only there because the car broke down the night before. Guest books on a hall table make you feel guilty all morning if you haven't put something in there.
The thing is, Samsung Push evidently does so much more than I realised. One user thanks Samsung for their lottery win, another for waking up married to Angelina Jolie (although staying awake might have been preferable, but I'm probably just old fashioned), and a third for suddenly being middle class, complete with large mortgage and people carrier. The results are wide ranging, it seems, but vexingly unpredictable.
I was really alarmed, though, by one of the most recent reviews, which clearly demonstrated just how powerful software has become in our modern world. It's rather scary in fact, and I should perhaps quote it in its entirety:
"Amazing product: I downloaded Push yesterday, and Margaret Thatcher died."
Gulp. I'm not sure I want to go back any time soon, however Jolie the virtual scenery is.
E.
This morning it was the Samsung "Push Service" wanting to update itself. I'm not entirely certain what Push does - something to do with signals, I think (that's the software sort, not Railtrack). Saying, "just get on with it, I want to do the crossword!" isn't enough. You have to make a virtual visit to The People's Capitalist Republic of Samsung ("third bunker on the left, sir"), where you give permission in person for arcane wonders to be done to your device. There's a lot of bowing and handing over of virtual business cards, but no virtual put-puts to avoid, nor houses being moved by bicycle. Maybe that's China, but I digress...
Being an avid student of foreign cultures, and with the obvious concern that I might not get the chance again (the whole lot might disappear beneath a virtual mushroom cloud at any moment), I took the opportunity to have a little virtual wander about whilst I was there.
The web page has a "review" section, thus named, I assume, because "Visitors' Book" doesn't translate into Korean easily. This was worth a closer look in its own right. Although it's hard to review something the use of which you cannot fathom (unless it's got pictures in the Hand Tools forum, naturally), well-meaning British tablet users have evidently tried. This is much in the same spirit as one writes, "wonderful scenery, can't wait to come back" when you were really only there because the car broke down the night before. Guest books on a hall table make you feel guilty all morning if you haven't put something in there.
The thing is, Samsung Push evidently does so much more than I realised. One user thanks Samsung for their lottery win, another for waking up married to Angelina Jolie (although staying awake might have been preferable, but I'm probably just old fashioned), and a third for suddenly being middle class, complete with large mortgage and people carrier. The results are wide ranging, it seems, but vexingly unpredictable.
I was really alarmed, though, by one of the most recent reviews, which clearly demonstrated just how powerful software has become in our modern world. It's rather scary in fact, and I should perhaps quote it in its entirety:
"Amazing product: I downloaded Push yesterday, and Margaret Thatcher died."
Gulp. I'm not sure I want to go back any time soon, however Jolie the virtual scenery is.
E.
