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Is "Good Enough" the Future of Technology?
himitsu writes "In an article titled 'The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine,' Wired claims that the future of technology, warfare and medicine will be filled with 'good enough' solutions; situations where feature-rich and expensive products are replaced with bare-bones infrastructures and solutions. 'We now favor flexibility over high fidelity, convenience over features, quick and dirty over slow and polished. Having it here and now is more important than having it perfect. These changes run so deep and wide, they're actually altering what we mean when we describe a product as "high-quality."'"
So? If you brought this grave problem to the attention of the average Windows user they
wouldn't have any clue what you are talking about. Trying this test with MacOS users
won't cause you to fare any better.
Some bitter old Atari ST users might actually be aware of what you're talking about.
Clearly the Lemming Trolls have to find more obscure "multimedia problems" to whine
about since the more mainstream use cases no longer favor Windows or MacOS.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
My car falls into that "category" - a cheap car that cost me $13,900. Actually $11,000 after I subtracted Maryland's and the USA's hybrid tax credit. It gets over 80 MPG for me, which is great, but what I've sacrificed to get that goal takes some getting used to. Like narrow motorcycle-like tires which follow all the grooves in the road. Tight suspension that makes you feel every bump in the road. Wipers that move so slow you wonder why you even bothered to turn them on. And a radio system that sounds anemic due to speakers that are too small.
BTW the car I'm discussing is a 2001 Honda Insight, which was discontinued to to lack of interest by Americans who back then wanted gas-guzzling SUVs. I like it because it's "good enough" for my daily commute but many Americans (and even some Europeans) would probably say it isn't good enough.
Oh and since this is a computer-oriented site:
My desktop PC is only 1/2 gig of RAM, and my laptop only 800 megahertz speed. Again that's "good enough" for me. I don't think I need anything faster for just getting online and watching videos or chatting.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
P.S.
The first thing I do after I boot XP or Vista is to open the task manager, and kill any running programs or processes that I don't need. Why all this crap is running in the background when I don't want it makes no sense to me, but killing them does free-up a lot of RAM and speed-up the computer (no hard drive thrashing).
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
It's called "inflation", only the government hides it from you. See they have something called "substitution" which means that even if today's TV you can buy for $150 is a piece of shit, compared to the TV you could buy 3 years ago for $150, then the inflation is ZERO. Doesn't matter if you're eating mac and cheese and hot dogs instead of steak anymore, inflation is zero.
Meanwhile, inflation robs your savings, forces anyone with capital to put that money at risk (and thus lose part or all of their capital), in a desperate bid to "keep the economy going".
So don't complain if your goods are now made in china, the paint rubs off if you try to clean them, and they fall apart or burn your house down - see, you can't AFFORD quality products anymore because there is (no) inflation...
Any surprise that most of this bullshit (and the general policy of LYING to the US public about the REAL numbers) was started by a jew? (Greenspan).
Don't even get me started on "hedonics".