[rescue] Wooohhhooo XP -> 0 to BSOD in 12min23sec

[Steve Sandau]

I understand this. I ran a "real" typesetting/graphic design business
about 10 years ago when "desktop publishing" (aka
I-can-do-it-myself-and-it-looks-like-crap-but-it's-free) killed the
typesetting business.

When that happened I just skipped to working on computers. What the heck
do we do now???

Idiots are part of life, and they will always be marketed to and catered
to... Companies who want to sell something have to convince as many
people as possible that they can use it. I think we'll always be stuck
with people using things that they shouldn't even know about let alone
operate.



George W Adkins wrote:
> 
> > And it doesnt help when you get comments like "these people make me sick"
> > because those people know exactly what you think of them and thus will
> 
> These are exactly the people who have no business using the hardware in the
> first place.  It's like giving a drivers license to someone who has random
> panic attacks if they go outdoors.  Personally I _want_ these people to know
> what I think.  then maybe they will dry up and go back to IBM Selectric
> typewriters or pencils and Steno Pads.
> 
> It all boils down to this:  If you can't handle it, then get the hell out of
> the way and let other people get to work.  These people take food out of my
> mouth.
> 
> The attitude that 'Oh, it should be so easy that anyone should be able to do
> it' is killing the sector.  By dumbing systems down to the lowest common
> denominator
> 
> <METAPHOR>
> you are selling kits so that anybody can gring eyeglass lenses out of coke
> bottles, the result is that the bottom falls out of the optometrist business,
> and the optometrists who are left are stuck getting paid half-wage to run
> around trying to fix everyone's crummy coke-bottle glass eyewear.  Not only
> that, but now everyone is perfectly happy with not being able to see beter
> than 20/200, and when presented with 'real glasses' as an alternative,
> they're 'too expensive' or 'too hard to take care of...' because most people
> now think that glasses are supposed to be crappy quality, and everyone just
> throws them away for new ones instead of cleaning the lenses on the pair they
> have now.
> </METAPHOR>
> 
> George - the out of work optometrist...
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Steve Sandau
ssandau at bath.tmac.com