Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Too bad Pangloss was wrong

Follow up to yesterday's rant.

In the best of all possible worlds, computers and software would always help us without hassles. Instead, they stand in our way at every turn. How much lost productivity has the world experienced because people spent needless hours trying to get past computer roadblocks?

How much brain power has been wasted reinventing solutions to problems that shouldn't have been problems in the first place? Is that too much to ask: that stuff should just work?

Apparently so. As the popular line goes: "Get used to it."

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