life after Windows....

William Black writes:

The days of geeks and 'power users' have long gone.

There are more of them now than ever before, although they are an increasingly
small minority of the total population of computer users as a whole.

The computer became a domestic appliance years ago.

If it were a domestic appliance, it wouldn't require technical support, and it
wouldn't crash or have bugs.

When was the last time you had to call technical support for your microwave
oven, or load it with new firmware?

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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William Black writes:

The days of geeks and 'power users' have long gone.

There are more of them now than ever before, although they are an
increasingly
small minority of the total population of computer users as a whole.

The computer became a domestic appliance years ago.

If it were a domestic appliance, it wouldn't require technical support,
and it
wouldn't crash or have bugs.

That's like saying your car wouldn't need servicing and your washing machine
doesn't need a new motor now and again.

Erm...

Do you own either?

--
William Black

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

William Black writes:

That's like saying your car wouldn't need servicing and your washing machine
doesn't need a new motor now and again.

No. Bugs are design defects, not things that wear out. Motors and other
serviceable parts are things that wear out, not design defects.

How often do you have to replace your washing machine to resolve design
defects?

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Mxsmanic wrote:

William Black writes:

The days of geeks and 'power users' have long gone.

There are more of them now than ever before, although they are an increasingly
small minority of the total population of computer users as a whole.

The computer became a domestic appliance years ago.

If it were a domestic appliance, it wouldn't require technical support, and it
wouldn't crash or have bugs.
My Mac doesn't.

When was the last time you had to call technical support for your microwave
oven, or load it with new firmware?
I did for my GPS.

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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William Black writes:

That's like saying your car wouldn't need servicing and your washing
machine
doesn't need a new motor now and again.

No. Bugs are design defects, not things that wear out. Motors and other
serviceable parts are things that wear out, not design defects.

Never heard of a motor car being recalled for an in service modification?

Mine was, twice...

--
William Black

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

Mxsmanic wrote:
William Black writes:

That's like saying your car wouldn't need servicing and your washing machine
doesn't need a new motor now and again.

No. Bugs are design defects, not things that wear out. Motors and other
serviceable parts are things that wear out, not design defects.

How often do you have to replace your washing machine to resolve design
defects?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot

--
Dirk

http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK
http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party
http://www.onetribe.me.uk/wordpress/?cat=5 - Our podcasts on weird stuff

William Black writes:

Never heard of a motor car being recalled for an in service modification?

Mine was, twice...

It has never happened to me.

Dirk Bruere at NeoPax writes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot

Software rot depends on change. If nothing change, no "rot" occurs.

erilar writes:

I did for my GPS.

I didn't ask about your GPS (which suffers from much the same defects as
computers), I asked about a microwave oven.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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William Black writes:

Never heard of a motor car being recalled for an in service modification?

Mine was, twice...

It has never happened to me.

You live an attic and work as a Paris tour guide (in shorts and hiking
boots)

I doubt you run a car.

I also doubt you've ever bought a new car.

They can't recall it if they don't know who has it...

--
William Black

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.