In the same sense that burglars and their victims have a relationship?

You Windows users are still using the command line? Why not switch to Linux where we have a choice of numerous UI's to suit every taste (and quite a few that propably suit none - fvwm95, anyone?)

You must have an iPhone. X is not the problem. And Google are deeply in the pit of hell as the rest of the problem makers! They, like all the other "high tech" morons, keep bloody reworking the UI.

If Linux is to have a chance, someone has to do a Gnome2/XP like interface, and not keep changing it. Serious users want drop down text menus with meaningful function names. They do not want wierd looking coloured blobs with no inherent meaning that vanish with each new release to be replaced by a completely unrelated, wierd coloured blob, that does something the same, only different. Nor do they want (Google, I am looking at Android Lollipop) something that looks like a Fisher-Price toy and doesn't work - for business!

For most non technical users Its like car manufacturers kept moving the pedals around with every new model. (They used to do that, till the governments stopped them).

You have no idea how many people have to go to classes to learn how to "press the left mouse button". If I were running a large government department, I would mandate "drop down text menus whose location, structure and font will not be changed for the next 20 years" for all software bids.

Who the hell uses "modern touch screen devices" in the workplace other than the McDonalds sales team?

Most workplaces use a PC for

a) Word
b) The Intranet
c) Some businesss specific Access app (probably for their timesheets).

Access to pron^H^H^H^H the internet is only marginally more available than in North Korea, and probably more effectively monitored.

Most workplaces are not doing software develiopment or research. They are doing actual work and that involves lifting and carrying, bending down, walking around and absolutely nothing that involves a computer.

"Most people" do cleaning, care work, cook food, drive trucks, farm, repair stuff (excluding those who do drugs and don't have a workplace at all). There are most certainly more supermarket shelf stackers than software developers. Hell, even primary school teachers barely use a computer, and that is probably still runnng XP in most state schools. Hint: Get out of the damned basement!

Two centuries ago, it was wonderful.

Not because it was effective, but because it was inert.

Going to a homeopath meant that you weren't getting killed by establishment medicine.

Then the 19th century rolled around, the AMA and the like concocted the modern MD, which had one of the two distinguishing features of what it meant to be a "Doctor", and displaced what existed before. (It requires acquiring significant knowledge in a field, but not contributing, distinguishing it from "real doctors." Oddly, they have that phrase backwards.)

Anyway, homeopathy was an historically important safe place, whose time has come and gone.

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I usually buy direct in store. Shipping time zero. Prices have adjusted, at least around here, so that in-store prices aren't much different from the online ones.

Typically I'm browsing at a book store on the way home from work, and discover a book I might like. I could order it and get it a few days later, or walk out the store, book in hand. I'm an adult, with disposable income, so a hundred yen or two price difference doesn't matter to me. Being able to get the book right then does. Amazon is great for finding out what other people think about the book before I buy it.

Another example was my used oscilloscope. Buying second-hand things online is a gamble, and returning it is a major pain (get a cardboard box, arrange for the return and get and fill in a return label, be home to do the delivery). I went to a local shop instead. They hooked it up right in the shop to make sure it worked and to show me the basics of using it. And had there been a problem they would have come by in a car to pick it up directly. Much better. But Amazon did tell me which of the available models were better for me.

Some people do not manage remove servers over long periods.

You install three identical servers: one running the public facing web server, one running the database server, connected by a separate, private network. The third one is available for the new version of the software to be installed, and then activated. Once the software is upgraded on all three, you keep it runnning as a hot standby. If reliable service to clients is not worth more than the cost of running a hot standby, you probably would not have any servers in a colo.

Because they have to eat and pay the rent. Here in London, because both major parties believe a housing shortage will help them*, and lies about it, rents are often more than 50% of salary.

It is not easy to get a job. If it was, things would change fast - mostly imigration would increase to bring in even more people who don't understand the cost of living until too late.

Conservatives thing rising prices will make existing home owners vote for them as it makes them "richer".
Labour think housing shortages will make those in social housing more desperate to vote for them.

I'm happy to see improvements in the review system. I rarely buy anything from Amazon (shipping takes time, returns are a hassle), but I often use their pages to check reviews and compare items before I buy them.