You really like it. It's a bit like getting a really brilliant car.
There are no instructions worth a damn. It has an interface that, to you, is utterly unusable. Learning how to use it is like playing an adventure game, though not in a good way unless you are a geek. And six months (or whatever) later, it breaks. And when it breaks, it assumes that a bunch of tiny wizened little graphical sprites will give you enough information to fix it yourself.
Yup, that sounds like the sort of consumer purchase I've always dreamed of. Roll on nuclear reactors that work like that.
Oh, I forgot ... nuclear reactors aren't built by engineers, are they? It's only unusable consumer software products that are built by engineers.
Shame none of us can speak English or design usable products worth a damn.
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Re: So Shall Ye Reap
Date: 2010-12-19 06:26 pm (UTC)You really like it. It's a bit like getting a really brilliant car.
There are no instructions worth a damn. It has an interface that, to you, is utterly unusable. Learning how to use it is like playing an adventure game, though not in a good way unless you are a geek. And six months (or whatever) later, it breaks. And when it breaks, it assumes that a bunch of tiny wizened little graphical sprites will give you enough information to fix it yourself.
Yup, that sounds like the sort of consumer purchase I've always dreamed of. Roll on nuclear reactors that work like that.
Oh, I forgot ... nuclear reactors aren't built by engineers, are they? It's only unusable consumer software products that are built by engineers.
Shame none of us can speak English or design usable products worth a damn.