Computers=SUVs?

 

Ok, I'm confused!


Chris, thanks for the link. I think I'll try that for the notebooks.

 

Pretty close. I really dislike PCs. My next computer will be a Mac. I'll withhold final judgment on all computers until I try a Mac for a year or two.

My pet peeve is that PCs are non intuitive (at least for me). why do I have to learn a whole new language and way of thinking to get the most out of my computer? The features that I use once every 6 months or a year require that I re-learn them every time I need them because I simply cannot remember all of the sub menus I have to click to get to what I need. Help menus are infuriating. Most of the time they provide no response to my query or a list of 5 or 6 irrelevant subjects.

I've very rarely seen software that actually loads the way the software manual says it is supposed to load. Yet computer advocates constatly claim that everything on a computer takes "only a minute" to do. Lies! When someone tells me I can put something on my computer in "just a minute" I invite them to my house and offer them dinner to do it for me. Three people have taken me up on this offer and not one was able to load the software and get it to work in a "minute" or anything on this side of an hour. Then don't get me started on "tech support" call centers....

I have not had good luck with most computer applications. I'm sure I am not patient enough, but I don't want to be patient. I want my computer to do what I want it to do right now.

 

I deeply dislike SUVs. Some months ago tried to convince the human race to crush all their SUVs. The movement never caught on. (Go figure.)

Look above and you will see page one of my manifesto against computers.

 

I have to agree pretty much. I alternate days between thinking Bill Gates is the savior for putting a PC operating system within understanding of most of us and thinking he's the anti-christ when said operating system doesn't work to my liking or crashes.

On SUV's, I agree on the large ones (having owned Suburbans for 20 years prior to my little CRV). I'd make an exception for the small ones because unfortunately many of us are in need of a vehicle with which we can haul things periodically, whether it's our daily run to Home Depot or taking 5 large dogs to the vet. And my CRV gets 25+ mpg, so it's better than many of the regular cars on the road today.

 

That was the problem with the whole movement. Many people agreed in concept, but everyone had a proposed exception. I was concerned that once I started exempting particular models it would result in a never ending request for exclusions so I took a hard line. It turns out everyone wanted to exempt their own SUV and were not willing to start the crushing at home (selfish bastards). When it was discovered my own wife had an SUV I lost all credibility (yeah, like I had any) and the movement fell apart. Now I crush models of SUVs and swear at my computer.

 

What can one haul in an SUV that one can't haul in a mini-van?

 

Their ego.

 

Mini-van, SUV, what's the difference if you're talking the small SUV's and not the Hummers, Escalades, Navigators, Suburbans, etc.? My small SUV is no larger than a minivan and gets the same or better mileage I would guess. Why draw the line in the sand there? Why not use mpg instead?

 

It is amazing the reaction you get when you refer to a
"Soccermom-Urban-Vehicle" as minivan. I like to point out that it's a rugged outdoorsy vehicle if and only if it has either a dead dear on the hood or a bass boat hooked to the back bumper. You should hear the Young Urban Posers protest... ;-) <edited-I forgot the smiley>