There are a couple of hard facts that can be distilled here, however.
1. User friendly is funny to some people. 2. User friendly is not funny to some people. 3. People get really angry when other people don't agree with them.
I see it like this. When I worked tech support, I lived half of those calls. I thought it was funny. Hell I still do. I also think that 80% of the strip isn't funny at all. I think that the tech support call strips are funny, and some of the MS strips are funny, and the rest just get groans. I think a valid point was raised with the "family circus" analogy- To SOME people , User friendly is funny. To others, it is silly and sickeningly cute.
Mel brooks said it best when he said "Tragedy is when I have a hangnail, Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole."
Humor is almost always at someone or thing's expense! Soemtimes it is yours. Laugh a little.
I agree, lets get on it. At the other end, are there any campaigns or concerted efforts to get some others to open up? I am tired of getting form letter responses from ATI and Kensington (my trackball only has 2 functional buttons) telling me there are no plans to support anything other than windows. i am most certainly interested. Can someone organize or point me in the right direction>?
". The problem with third world countries is not that the big bad United States won't share their technology, it is that third world countries have economic and social systems that make a modern free-market economy unworkable. It is hard for businessmen to build factories or office buildings or internet connections when it is about to get nationalised by the government or destroyed in the next Civil War. "
at the risk of going WAY off here, one of the main reasons these countries have unworkable economies and social systems is the proliferation of multi-national companies (uh oh buzzword : ) incorporated within the US, that have plants and factories in these countries. These companies pay workers $10 / month, charge $9/month for room and board, send the finished products (at a final cost of $95/item) to the good ol US _without_ import tax, and sell the product here for $120 per item.
its hard to build businesses and offices and provide internet service while the people that liove there are a bit to concerned with eating to be concerned with chat rooms
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THIS is insightful ^^^^
The question really is, what do we do about it?
For most of us, the answer is bitch and moan and go back to (insert mindless timekiller here)
I for one would like a better answer.
Unfortuneately, well, I can't come up with one, that doesn't involve armed resistance.
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This is entire article / thread is a huge troll.
There are a couple of hard facts that can be distilled here, however.
1. User friendly is funny to some people.
2. User friendly is not funny to some people.
3. People get really angry when other people don't agree with them.
I see it like this. When I worked tech support, I lived half of those calls. I thought it was funny. Hell I still do. I also think that 80% of the strip isn't funny at all. I think that the tech support call strips are funny, and some of the MS strips are funny, and the rest just get groans. I think a valid point was raised with the "family circus" analogy- To SOME people , User friendly is funny. To others, it is silly and sickeningly cute.
Mel brooks said it best when he said "Tragedy is when I have a hangnail, Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole."
Humor is almost always at someone or thing's expense! Soemtimes it is yours. Laugh a little.
ds
I agree, lets get on it.
At the other end, are there any campaigns or concerted efforts to get some others to open up?
I am tired of getting form letter responses from ATI and Kensington (my trackball only has 2 functional buttons) telling me there are no plans to support anything other than windows.
i am most certainly interested. Can someone organize or point me in the right direction>?
Right.....like the "beastie boys"?
those losers couldn't get a gig to save their life.
: P
whhops that. "a final cost of $_.95_ "
sorry : )
". The problem with third world countries is not that the big bad United States won't share their technology, it is that third world countries have economic and social systems that make a modern free-market economy unworkable. It is hard for businessmen to build factories or office buildings or internet connections when it is about to get nationalised by the government or destroyed in the next Civil War. "
at the risk of going WAY off here, one of the main reasons these countries have unworkable economies and social systems is the proliferation of multi-national companies (uh oh buzzword : ) incorporated within the US, that have plants and factories in these countries. These companies pay workers $10 / month, charge $9/month for room and board, send the finished products (at a final cost of $95/item) to the good ol US _without_ import tax, and sell the product here for $120 per item.
its hard to build businesses and offices and provide internet service while the people that liove there are a bit to concerned with eating to be concerned with chat rooms