Ways in which computers don't seem to be getting any better.

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The thing that puzzles me most is why startup times don't seem to be any quicker than they ever were. Is there a reason for this? Would they boot really quickly if I was using a modern setup up with a really old operating system? Even if they would, it still seems like they could work at improving this. At home I usually just send my mac to sleep, which obviously solves things, but I can't do that at work and anyway, every so often you need to restart properly.

Anyone have any thoughts on that, or other things that annoy you?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

On the iMac we have, if you want to delet an email, when you press delet, it askes you if you're sure you want to delet the email. It does it for every single email you want to delet.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You should press 'delete' then.

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

My iMac boots up cold in about 20 seconds.

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

HOCKEY PUCK MICE

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't use the Mac any more.

But when I did I didn't get any email.

My mom would though and I'd here it beep and it have a small window ask if she wanted to delet the email. Very annoying to here. I thought there was something wrong with the computer.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

delet? is that what happened when you moved from your apartment?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

N., I've thought about this. I have a PC and it just seems that windows keeps building on the earlier operating system set-up. Do any files that make up the foundation of the software actually get deleted when you upgrade from one edition to another? (I don't know much about this, which should be obvious by the way I'm phrasing things.)

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

On the older iMacs (circa `99), there were no fewer two power buttons: one on the keyboard and one on the monitor. On the new iMacs, there's only one, and it's located at the bottom of the base behind the flatscreen, so you have to sort've reach back and feel around for it (as opposed to it being conveniently located on your keyboard). When I asked the goateed technogoober at Digital Society (don't go there, they suck!) where I bought it why this was the new case, he reasoned that it was because to many people were hitting the keyboard-located power button by mistake. So, because of careless idiots who don't pay attention, we new iMac users now all have to settle for the more inconvenient method of powering up.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

anymore, hear, has, delete, hear

(xpost to aja)

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Delete

Fine

Are we all happy shiny people now?

― Aja (aja), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Oof, my above post was rife with spelling/grammatical errors. So much for me lambasting people for being "careless idiots who don't pay attention".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't mind the new iMac power button. I mean, it's not like you're reaching behind a giant G5 box or something. Plus, it keeps the uninitiated from trying to fux0r your computer.

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Porn's gotten better and more plentiful. But people are lonely, alienated from their wives, and jerk off in dark offices late at night.

― andy, Friday, 20 February 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn!!

I made spelling errors!!!

I'll never make it as a writer!

Oh wait, I can pay people like you to proof read my writing for me.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

delet? is that what happened when you moved from your apartment?

de-leased in the comatorium

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

offices? toilets surely

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/oa/pubs/thermy/jpg/thermyin/ham.jpg

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

my main XP gripe (since win95 i think) is scrolling in a folder with hundreds of files. I hate it when it autoscrolls too far!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish every image would have a thumbnail regardless of if it was created on your computer or not.

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Spencer, that is a pain. But at least it's not as bad as Nero's CD burning program, which resets itself to the top of the folder WHILE you're in the middle of scrolling down the list of files. UGH!

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I KNOW THIS PROBLEM!

My other Nero grip is that if you save the tracklist and then move the .mp3 or .wav files around, when you reload the tracklist in Nero, they DISAPPEAR! the only way to know what your compilation looked like is to open up the file in Notepad and resize it so you can maybe figure it out!!! GRRRR

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

BLOATWARE

every hardware improvement cycle gets sludged down by ever more ambitious but sloppier software that expands to fill all the space/speed available to it and doesn't properly clean up behind it

plus users don't maintain/spring-clean the hard-drives => computers end up like barnacle-encrusted ships struggling along weighed down by crap

(given the forthcoming demographic shift the def. of 'better' in tech. may well change anyway...eg phones may need to get bigger again...computers will have gigantic phonograph-horn attachments shouting 'ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DELETE THAT' at users etc.)

― i_give_up, Friday, 20 February 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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