It's all Geek to me
Before we get back to Clean Language, I’d just like to gripe about computing.
I spend a lot of my life computing, writing material for students, building webpages, blogging, reading research articles, trying to keep up with advances and the like. The trouble is that I seem to spend nearly as much time trying to fix the sillinesses that constantly occur as I spend in productive work. I know that Windows is worse than Linux, but I spent quite a lot of time trying to fathom why Linux did strange things too.
The good thing about Linux is that it is cost free and you know that someone will come up with a fix sometime. The trouble with Windows is that even though you have paid through the nose for it and for the programs that you run on it; it still isn’t right.
Isn’t it about time that the computer world did get something right? I suppose they have with WiFi which works like a charm most of the time, but so many things just hang, fall over, do unexpected things or are just so impenetrably hard to understand that you may was well have done it by hand in the first place.
I get less trouble from my handheld than I do from my desktop and although the PDA’s running Windows it seems to have many fewer difficulties doing what it’s supposed to than the desktop running XP. I don’t have any confidence that Vista or whatever it’s called will be any better, and I’m worried that it won’t be backwards compatible with my software. I say this with a heavy heart because I’m fundamentally a Gates’ fan. I don’t mind clever people making money in relatively legal ways. I just wish everything worked as it says on the can. I’d be in awful trouble if what I ‘sell’ didn’t come up to the expectations of my customers. Is there a workable remedy? Best wishes, Derek
I spend a lot of my life computing, writing material for students, building webpages, blogging, reading research articles, trying to keep up with advances and the like. The trouble is that I seem to spend nearly as much time trying to fix the sillinesses that constantly occur as I spend in productive work. I know that Windows is worse than Linux, but I spent quite a lot of time trying to fathom why Linux did strange things too.
The good thing about Linux is that it is cost free and you know that someone will come up with a fix sometime. The trouble with Windows is that even though you have paid through the nose for it and for the programs that you run on it; it still isn’t right.
Isn’t it about time that the computer world did get something right? I suppose they have with WiFi which works like a charm most of the time, but so many things just hang, fall over, do unexpected things or are just so impenetrably hard to understand that you may was well have done it by hand in the first place.
I get less trouble from my handheld than I do from my desktop and although the PDA’s running Windows it seems to have many fewer difficulties doing what it’s supposed to than the desktop running XP. I don’t have any confidence that Vista or whatever it’s called will be any better, and I’m worried that it won’t be backwards compatible with my software. I say this with a heavy heart because I’m fundamentally a Gates’ fan. I don’t mind clever people making money in relatively legal ways. I just wish everything worked as it says on the can. I’d be in awful trouble if what I ‘sell’ didn’t come up to the expectations of my customers. Is there a workable remedy? Best wishes, Derek
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