@runar, a confrere, who is an editor, so he has to keep up with the latest word-processing formats, complains that with every upgrade in program or computer, he can do less and less.
It’s called software/feature bloat. For 95% or so of users, PCs were powerful enough ten years ago. And if they aren’t abused, a PC can easily last ten years. So to get people to keep buying new software/hardware, they keep adding features, which require more powerful hardware. Doesn’t matter that most people never actually USE or NEED most of these new features. I fight almost daily with MS Word thinking it knows better than I do what tabs and indents I want. Phones are the same way. I’ll keep using my 5 YO ‘just a phone’ till it goes belly up. I don’t want a camera or internet browser or music device. I just want a phone.
Dkram almost 14 years ago
Don’t let it throw ya Boody.
\\//_
Simon_Jester almost 14 years ago
Motorola, right?
mntim almost 14 years ago
We call this the learning curve.
reverence almost 14 years ago
Trust me, you are not alone.
kevinc70 almost 14 years ago
I take more pictures of the inside of my pocket then anything else.
peter0423 almost 14 years ago
That’s why I keep the keyboard locked unless I’m actually using it.
prrdh almost 14 years ago
Justin, maybe you’ll have to explain to Millennials what a ‘call’ is.
bmonk almost 14 years ago
And to the Gen Xers why we say we “dial” a phone.
peter0423 almost 14 years ago
Or why, when we record a show on our DVR, we say we’re “taping” it.
ottod Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Bret Favre?
runar almost 14 years ago
“I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.”
— Bjarne Stronstrup (originator of C++ programming language)
My father never learned to say “refrigerator” instead of “icebox”.
bmonk almost 14 years ago
@runar, a confrere, who is an editor, so he has to keep up with the latest word-processing formats, complains that with every upgrade in program or computer, he can do less and less.
andymeijers almost 14 years ago
It’s called software/feature bloat. For 95% or so of users, PCs were powerful enough ten years ago. And if they aren’t abused, a PC can easily last ten years. So to get people to keep buying new software/hardware, they keep adding features, which require more powerful hardware. Doesn’t matter that most people never actually USE or NEED most of these new features. I fight almost daily with MS Word thinking it knows better than I do what tabs and indents I want. Phones are the same way. I’ll keep using my 5 YO ‘just a phone’ till it goes belly up. I don’t want a camera or internet browser or music device. I just want a phone.
quacimoto almost 14 years ago
give me back my cb handle
bmonk almost 14 years ago
@andymeijers, that’s all well and good–but he has to keep upgrading to be able to receive articles from his writers.
Trisha_Evenstar almost 14 years ago
Boody get an iPhone, it’s easy to figure out & use ;)