Comment Literally the essence of all evil. (Score 1) 385
"Computers are fragile, unintuitive things — a hodge-podge of brittle hardware and opaque, restrictive software."
Sir: I have worked with and used computers for almost 40 years. I have seen time and time again proof of your statement.
The brittleness of the hardware is getting worse in some respects ( crappy power OEM power supplies and cable connections ), but getting more robust in others (USB and SATA ).
but the most obsurd industry trend is the shipping of crappy half baked OS and productivity software, long before all the bugs have been worked out, hoping that the churning of sales will prop
the development effort up enough to siphon off huge profits.
Security is an absolute afterthought joke. I reinstalled XP a few days ago and had to apply over 175 patches. If this was any other mission critical application it would be the laughing stock
of the industry, instead of the standard.
(btw, I have also converted more than 25 vista users back to XP, and aside from one driver problem for a track pad, all the users have been estatic. )
When the problems get insurmountable, I tell the user to call a priest....
but always recommend that they get hardware service locally, so that they can see the face of the person repairing their computer:
"Hello, this is Christine...<male voice, with thick Indian accent>..."
"Are you sure your name is Christine, and you don't want to pull another one out of the hat?"
"Im not sure what you mean"
"Ahh...forget it."
Sir: I have worked with and used computers for almost 40 years. I have seen time and time again proof of your statement.
The brittleness of the hardware is getting worse in some respects ( crappy power OEM power supplies and cable connections ), but getting more robust in others (USB and SATA ).
but the most obsurd industry trend is the shipping of crappy half baked OS and productivity software, long before all the bugs have been worked out, hoping that the churning of sales will prop
the development effort up enough to siphon off huge profits.
Security is an absolute afterthought joke. I reinstalled XP a few days ago and had to apply over 175 patches. If this was any other mission critical application it would be the laughing stock
of the industry, instead of the standard.
(btw, I have also converted more than 25 vista users back to XP, and aside from one driver problem for a track pad, all the users have been estatic. )
When the problems get insurmountable, I tell the user to call a priest....
but always recommend that they get hardware service locally, so that they can see the face of the person repairing their computer:
"Hello, this is Christine...<male voice, with thick Indian accent>..."
"Are you sure your name is Christine, and you don't want to pull another one out of the hat?"
"Im not sure what you mean"
"Ahh...forget it."
