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SimonHammer
Dear Commoners, I thought I'd have a quick whinge, see if anyone else feels my pain? The title, I hope, makes my general concerns clear + if you're thinking he's obviously just rubbish with PC's, some kind of half-wit, + making excuses for his shortcomings, you might be on to something? But you'll have to read my moan to find out or you'll only being assuming, innocent until proven guilty is widely perceived as a man's right + I'm working on having that here. I first started using a PC 5 ish years ago + I was a true beginner, no real clue what the mouse did, for example, ignorant as bliss but right up for it! To say I struggled, in the early days, is like saying the Arctic is a bit nippy, + my idea that the PC itself would somehow guide me + almost serve as a kind of tutor was sadly not the case but I certainly never imagined how very wide of the mark I was as the operating system (Windows 7) wasn't designed to provide those kind of qualities, little, to no thought whatsoever, was put into the idea. This goes right through the industry, in my opinion, + some basic facts exist because of it. To use a PC to any real effect, efficiently + without the rage + scurrilities, that I'm so often guilty of turning the air blue with, will only happen after considerable time spent acquiring the large knowledge base you must have. The most important component isn't the processors, the hard drives, or the amount of Ram, or anything else, it's the User, I'm totally convinced about that, for me that's beyond question. As I slowly moved along on my PC odyssey, + I do mean slowly, the lack of autonomy amazed me, nowadays it just annoys me! Error codes, diagnostics, + other evils I see far too much of, in my mind shouldn't be my concern, they should be fired off to someone/where that can use them to provide a solution, solve a problem, troubleshooting drives me mad + finding trouble is an area my PC aptitude must rate up there among the prodigies + naturally gifted, I'm that good. The Events module(?) I always find frustrating, I can find all this information, on whatever issue is ruining the fun at that particular time, none of which I'm really interested in as it's solutions, answers, I'm after + they seem to be 'state secrets' in comparison to the cause. You can't tell me anyone is trying to make these things easy, more time was spent on Windows 7, hiding things away + making them as inaccessible as they could mange, than was ever spent working with the opposite kind of goal in mind. It's a 'culture' that exists industry wide, software often has no instruction at all, as if it's just not necessary, I've seen user guides/manuals that defy belief, incomplete, incorrect, incomprehensible, it's as if providing such documentation is seen to be unimportant + this staggers me, am I expected to instinctually have the know-how? E.S.P. maybe? In Japan, a can of coke has written instructions + diagrams, so not even the illiterate go thirsty.
To drive a car you don't need to be a mechanic, or engineer, you don't even need to know where the engine is. Let's say a PC is that car, I'd then have to say, you needn't be a mechanic or engineer professionally, you could have if you'd chosen to be, instead you're one of those enthusiasts who keeps some classic thing of beauty on the road by virtue of having your head under the bonnet on a regular basis + where you know your carburettors from your camshafts. You need to be one of those guys or you're not getting out of the car park. This reliance on the user is missing the point, isn't it? I'm asking. I think a tool that needs a high level of skill from the user isn't a very good one as who's doing the work? And if technology is only really for 'technicians' that's no good, what if doctors only cared for other doctors? And so on, which is why PC people seem to me to be failing, the rest of us + the field itself, so my woeful inadequacies when at the controls of my PC are down to them + in no way are due to anything I need to take a good look at myself for, I can rightfully blame someone else.
So that's nice. I did think it couldn't be me, you might disagree?
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To drive a car you don't need to be a mechanic, or engineer, you don't even need to know where the engine is. Let's say a PC is that car, I'd then have to say, you needn't be a mechanic or engineer professionally, you could have if you'd chosen to be, instead you're one of those enthusiasts who keeps some classic thing of beauty on the road by virtue of having your head under the bonnet on a regular basis + where you know your carburettors from your camshafts. You need to be one of those guys or you're not getting out of the car park. This reliance on the user is missing the point, isn't it? I'm asking. I think a tool that needs a high level of skill from the user isn't a very good one as who's doing the work? And if technology is only really for 'technicians' that's no good, what if doctors only cared for other doctors? And so on, which is why PC people seem to me to be failing, the rest of us + the field itself, so my woeful inadequacies when at the controls of my PC are down to them + in no way are due to anything I need to take a good look at myself for, I can rightfully blame someone else.
So that's nice. I did think it couldn't be me, you might disagree?
Continue reading...