Get a Mac, mac!
On 2/22/08, Harold M. Goldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know, once upon a time, the computer was designed to make life easier > for all of us. When did the device start dictating life? We have become so > deadened to the effect of the OS over our lives, the software publisher's > 'decisions' regarding what happens next and how, that we don't even whine > when we note software doing stuff that is sufficiently annoying if our > children did it we'd make them stand in a corner. > Tell me why I have to tolerate a Palm reset completely taking my handheld > offline for a minute or so, or random software causing resets which hand and > go nowhere? Why does my practice management software crash silently in the > background all the time (and the vendor tell me all I have to do is upgrade, > even though reports of upgraded users are 'more of the same?') Windows has > been crashing around us for years and years and years, and still as Don > points out, they have 75% of the market. The Vista pioneers are suffering > from no-device drivers and other pains or compatibility issues. > I open a brand new file dialogue box in Word and it still can't remember > which directory I just opened moments before, it plows back to the same old > darn directory every time. > Outlook wants to tell me how many emails I have and I don't even run > outlook. > Yeah, there are lots of things I could do to fix things. I could read > manuals. I could hire trainers. I could actually learn the software in > detail. But, folks, I want to practice law, not be a computer programmer. > I want to help my clients, not my vendors. I want to do what I want to do > how I want to do it and not have the darn tools get in the way. > There are times when I am convinced the Amish have it right. > Yeah, I love my Treo, but that doesn't mean I don't want to hurl it at the > wall once in a wall. I like my computers, but I also am glad my building's > windows are sealed shut. Vista? TimeMatters 9? Agendus 12? Go AWAY! I > have work to do! > End rant. (Sorry folks, new to the list and 3rd rant this week. I'm not > normally like this. Really, I'm not.) > Harold > > -- ============================== War Eagle
