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Lancing.
I'm not quite so angry I'm shaking anymore, which is good. Maybe I'll get to sleep without alcohol to help.
I turned on my new computer and fiddled with it for about twenty minutes, nearly an hour ago, and I still want to throw it across the room and beat it with a baseball bat in the driveway.
The root of the problem is that it has Windows 7 as the operating system. And before anyone chimes in with some comment on Macs or Linux or Unix or punchcards or the abacus, don't. Please don't. It's more than I'm just very angry with computers right now: the problem, which you can't seem to grasp, is that the issue isn't the hardware or the software or the amazing capabilities but the simple matter of how the information is presented on the screen.
Read that again. How the information is presented on the screen. The GUI, if you like. If I can't figure that out, or the display that comes up as soon as I've named the computer and plugged in the time zone makes me recoil, I'm not going to want to keep using the product.
I fail to see why that's such a hard concept for so many people to understand. No, it's not about the operating system 'working me' and no, it's not about copyright law, and no, it's not about gaming, and no, it's not about pretty much anything else like that, either.
It's about whether or not I can find what I'm looking for, and whether or not it'll give me a headache.
I'd be less worried about this if I knew my school's computer lab could swap out Windows 7 and put Windows XP on instead without messing with the computer's wireless settings.
Yes, yes, word processing and media and internet box, that's what I want in a computer. But I can't do any of that if the machine itself is, for my perception, broken.
Thank you, good night, and fuck you.
I turned on my new computer and fiddled with it for about twenty minutes, nearly an hour ago, and I still want to throw it across the room and beat it with a baseball bat in the driveway.
The root of the problem is that it has Windows 7 as the operating system. And before anyone chimes in with some comment on Macs or Linux or Unix or punchcards or the abacus, don't. Please don't. It's more than I'm just very angry with computers right now: the problem, which you can't seem to grasp, is that the issue isn't the hardware or the software or the amazing capabilities but the simple matter of how the information is presented on the screen.
Read that again. How the information is presented on the screen. The GUI, if you like. If I can't figure that out, or the display that comes up as soon as I've named the computer and plugged in the time zone makes me recoil, I'm not going to want to keep using the product.
I fail to see why that's such a hard concept for so many people to understand. No, it's not about the operating system 'working me' and no, it's not about copyright law, and no, it's not about gaming, and no, it's not about pretty much anything else like that, either.
It's about whether or not I can find what I'm looking for, and whether or not it'll give me a headache.
I'd be less worried about this if I knew my school's computer lab could swap out Windows 7 and put Windows XP on instead without messing with the computer's wireless settings.
Yes, yes, word processing and media and internet box, that's what I want in a computer. But I can't do any of that if the machine itself is, for my perception, broken.
Thank you, good night, and fuck you.
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