Computers

I, like most people, got a computer to enjoy access to cyber space, pirate music and view free porn. I bought my trusty Dell with the impression I wouldn’t have to become a computer programmer. These machines are far too complex for the vast majority of users (especially disinterested ones) to ever know how they do what they do. And we are led to believe users aren’t expected to. PCs are marketed and – said-to-be – designed with the average yob in mind.

Then what’s the point prompting the typical techno-rube user with cryptic error codes and a bunch of computer jargon only the geek-set and keeners can understand? The computer already knew what I wanted it to do, before it froze up. I pressed the frikin’ send button a dozen stinking times! The error message should say this program is not working, press OK to fix it. Or better yet, just fix the blasted thing and leave me the hell out of it. Why expect me to be any help? I just pressed the same frikin’ button a dozen stinking times.

I doubt there’s another commodity so inherently problematic as computers that requires so much of the user’s intervention and intricate knowledge of its inner workings just to operate it. It is as if home computers were rushed to market before they got the bugs out, sticking the consumer with an unfinished product and the resulting headaches. Yet we keep on purchasing these half bake goods.

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