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This is one of the things that really upsets me. I hate how nothing ever works. We spend our money on things that don't do as they say, or companies that don't

This is one of the things that really upsets me. I hate how nothing ever works. We spend our money on things that don't do as they say, or companies that don't do as they should. I guess it's inherit a problem with a profit driven world where more features will always trump actually working.

keithpeter 14y ago
I'm an end user of IT at work. We have managed Windows 7 desktops and a curated range of software. It all sort of works most of the time. My use cases are relatively simple.
batista 14y ago
>This is one of the things that really upsets me. I hate how nothing ever works. And somehow you left a comment, using an OS and a browser, on a international network, that put it up so everybody in the world can read it, and I read it in a totally different country. All totally unimaginable for the common folk just 20 years ago. And all that with huge color flat monitors, optical mice, mp3s playing in the background, wireless networking, and tons of other stuff going on at the same time. Heck, you might just left the comment from your mobile phone, or I might just read it in mine. How's that for "nothing ever working"?
- Wilya 14y ago
  I'm leaving this comment from a computer that might crash on me sometime today. Or could decide to reboot to install its updates when I'm looking somewhere else. I'm leaving this comment on a site which technically could have existed 10 years ago. Wireless is working right now, that's great. It might stop working sometime today. Things like that tend to happen, on every network more complicated than "I'm sitting two meters away from my home router". That might have been unimaginable 20 years ago, but somehow, things are about as unreliable as they were 10 years ago. (I have to admit, optical mice and huge screens are nice, though. But expensive hardware with a single precise objective tends to be reliable, compared to software).
  - batista 14y ago
    >That might have been unimaginable 20 years ago, but somehow, things are about as unreliable as they were 10 years ago. 10-12 years ago: 1) Windows was Windows ME (not even in the same league as Windows 7) 2) OS X was 10.1 (or before that). Most people still used OS 9. 3) Linux was not quite ready for heavy enterprise use or home use, had worse memory management, filesystem, window managers, desktop environments, drivers and userland. So, "about as unreliable"? I beg to differ...

keithpeter 14y ago

I'm an end user of IT at work. We have managed Windows 7 desktops and a curated range of software. It all sort of works most of the time. My use cases are relatively simple.

batista 14y ago

>This is one of the things that really upsets me. I hate how nothing ever works. And somehow you left a comment, using an OS and a browser, on a international network, that put it up so everybody in the world can read it, and I read it in a totally different country. All totally unimaginable for the common folk just 20 years ago. And all that with huge color flat monitors, optical mice, mp3s playing in the background, wireless networking, and tons of other stuff going on at the same time. Heck, you might just left the comment from your mobile phone, or I might just read it in mine. How's that for "nothing ever working"?

Wilya 14y ago
I'm leaving this comment from a computer that might crash on me sometime today. Or could decide to reboot to install its updates when I'm looking somewhere else. I'm leaving this comment on a site which technically could have existed 10 years ago. Wireless is working right now, that's great. It might stop working sometime today. Things like that tend to happen, on every network more complicated than "I'm sitting two meters away from my home router". That might have been unimaginable 20 years ago, but somehow, things are about as unreliable as they were 10 years ago. (I have to admit, optical mice and huge screens are nice, though. But expensive hardware with a single precise objective tends to be reliable, compared to software).
- batista 14y ago
  >That might have been unimaginable 20 years ago, but somehow, things are about as unreliable as they were 10 years ago. 10-12 years ago: 1) Windows was Windows ME (not even in the same league as Windows 7) 2) OS X was 10.1 (or before that). Most people still used OS 9. 3) Linux was not quite ready for heavy enterprise use or home use, had worse memory management, filesystem, window managers, desktop environments, drivers and userland. So, "about as unreliable"? I beg to differ...