dryden555 wrote:
In short, I wouldn't reccomend a slimdevice for a non-techie.
The problem:
Open architecture is not always a 100% positive. The voices on this
forum are heavily from developers. Users like myself get a lot of
friendly support on the forum which is cool.
But developers dont mind bugs as much as the rest of us users who
bought the device do. We dont have time for uninstalling and tweaking.
We just want the standard functionality to work out of the box. We
generally dont care about bugginess in esoteric plug-ins.
No one will agree with me in this developer-centric forum but,
seriously, these great hardware devices are far too much trouble for a
non-technical person. You'll never see them in BestBuy because there
would be a 90% return rate on them. Users would be utterly clueless
when they encounter the first bug.
Sorry for the negativity but sheesh the bugs really got to me!
the world is not a perfect place. this is because it's full of people,
who suck. Increasingly these people use computers, which also suck. Add
in the fact that there's a work component in just about everything, and
work obviously sucks. So there ya go. Listen to some Morrisey albums,
and appreciate the Slimserver bugs as memento mori reminders.
Another way to put it... what piece of consumer gear would you consider
acceptably usable? Say the 300-disc Sony CD changer that I replaced with
my first SliMP3 because it couldn't play half of my CDs? How about my
mother-in-law's Linksys DSL router that crashes every month, or my
neighbor's NetGear DSL router that couldn't talk to the DSL modem
without a firmware upgrade? My wife's two-year old Sony Vaio laptop with
the failing screen and dead keyboard? Or her iPod that helpfully deleted
all of its audiobooks when she switched computers? The Magellan GPS that
takes twenty minutes to locate satellites and figure out that you've
moved it to a new location? Oo, I know, the simple kitchen mop with a
replaceable head... heads that are never, ever, ever in stock in the
same county where you bought the mop.
--
Jack At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture!
"I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin
so across the Western ocean I must wander" -- trad.
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