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To be repreSENTin’ the 99% who have to suffer crappy computers because The Man be o-PRESSin’ them y’all (that percentage just as much of a wild exaggeration as the OWS mantra…) — all seriousness aside (as Steve Allen used to say):

For those fellow Beatle-Biblethumpers who like me have a crappy connection, I just want to say I feel their pain.  Often (too often) when I come to the Forum, and click around, go room-hopping, just chillin, checkin out what my fellow homeys the BBs is sayin’ yall (thrust one gloved hand forward gun-shooting-like-the-hoodies-in-the-Hood-kiddies style, while the other hand is spinning the wax) — I find that my computer slows down something fierce, and sometimes I’m waiting like 10 to 15 minutes just to do a simple operation that should take 10 to 15 seconds at worst (and even 10-15 seconds would seem too slow to the privileged 1-percenters in their fancy limousine laptops up on their penthouse Browsers breathing that golden wireless air…)

(Example: just now, I wanted to make one little edit, and I had to wait almost 60 seconds while my mouse cursor started spinning its blue ball and my screen kept going white, etc…)

But, I guess most of the time I manage, and manage to enjoy the fine company here and their stimulating convos (if not, I’d probably not hang around).

Thanks cbatcu.  It’s not so bad some days.  That’s one thing that annoys me most about computers, they are not consistent in their flaws.

cbatcu said

Funny Paper said
Thanks cbatcu.  It’s not so bad some days.  That’s one thing that annoys me most about computers, they are not consistent in their flaws.

Neither am I. Does that make me a computer?

 

That’s the thing — you expect inconsistency in a human, but a computer should not be inconsistent.  Imagine if at odd times, at random when you never could predict, and you could never get to the bottom of why exactly, the living room light or kitchen light you flick on goes on fine, then the next two times it wavers in and out, then the next three times after that it works fine again, then it doesn’t work for 2 hours the following day, then it works fine for a few days, etc. 

With simpler technology you know when something is flawed or broken, and you can pretty much rely on it behaving consistently broken or flawed, and it’s rarely a great mystery why they are breaking down or malfunctioning.  Not so, apparently, with computers.  Sometimes it’s maddening.