Here's what I hate:

[vraiblonde]

Software developers are geeks and not average computer users. Therefore they do not make their software with logical features and the ability to get from point A to point B easily. They have convoluted minds, which translates into a convoluted product.

Then, when they "upgrade", they add stupid stuff that nobody but them cares about, yet neglect the features that would make more sense.

Grrrr.....

Adobe is the exception to this - they rock! But so far everyone else sucks and creates their product for nerds like them, not people who will actually be using the software.

 

[GWguy]

Software developers are geeks and not average computer users. Therefore they do not make their software with logical features and the ability to get from point A to point B easily. They have convoluted minds, which translates into a convoluted product.

My admin says that all the time...

 

[Larry Gude]

So...

Software developers are geeks and not average computer users. Therefore they do not make their software with logical features and the ability to get from point A to point B easily. They have convoluted minds, which translates into a convoluted product.

Then, when they "upgrade", they add stupid stuff that nobody but them cares about, yet neglect the features that would make more sense.

Grrrr.....

Adobe is the exception to this - they rock! But so far everyone else sucks and creates their product for nerds like them, not people who will actually be using the software.

...convolution in cartoons is all well and good but not when your livelihood is at stake, eh?

 

[Toxick]

Software developers are geeks and not average computer users.

Thank you.



And we take The Oath before we start.


I do solemnly pledge that I will not add to the further dumbing down of America in the Computer Age by writing software that caters to the slobbering troglodyte. If the software was hard to write, it should be hard to use. This has the dual purpose of filtering out the riff-raff, and adding to our own superiority complex. I will forever remember the triad of truth: Star Trek technology will soon be a reality; Anime is the only true visual artform; And real sex has nothing on virtual sex.

Amen.

 

[RadioPatrol]

having problems with vBulletian ?

 

[Kain99]

You are absolutely right! I cannot count the times I have cussed a new product.

 

[ocean733]

I used to be a proud computer geek. The geeks have gotten past me and I am no longer a geek

 

[belvak]

Software developers are geeks and not average computer users. Therefore they do not make their software with logical features and the ability to get from point A to point B easily.

Thus the need for a 24/7 Tech Support line, fielded by people from another country, that have trouble speaking English.

Thank you. And we take The Oath before we start.

 

[Rael]

I do solemnly pledge that I will not add to the further dumbing down of America in the Computer Age by writing software that caters to the slobbering troglodyte. If the software was hard to write, it should be hard to use. This has the dual purpose of filtering out the riff-raff, and adding to our own superiority complex. I will forever remember the triad of truth: Star Trek technology will soon be a reality; Anime is the only true visual artform; And real sex has nothing on virtual sex.

Amen.

Awesome words, right there! Can I borrow that term (slobbering troglodyte) ?

 

[Gwydion]

Software developers are geeks and not average computer users. Therefore they do not make their software with logical features and the ability to get from point A to point B easily. They have convoluted minds, which translates into a convoluted product.

Then, when they "upgrade", they add stupid stuff that nobody but them cares about, yet neglect the features that would make more sense.

Grrrr.....

Adobe is the exception to this - they rock! But so far everyone else sucks and creates their product for nerds like them, not people who will actually be using the software.

I'm assuming you didn't own a computer 20 years ago when you had punch cards.

If everything was simple, then there wouldn't be much to "everything."

 

[basher]

Software developers are geeks and not average computer users. Therefore they do not make their software with logical features and the ability to get from point A to point B easily. They have convoluted minds, which translates into a convoluted product.

Then, when they "upgrade", they add stupid stuff that nobody but them cares about, yet neglect the features that would make more sense.

Grrrr.....

Adobe is the exception to this - they rock! But so far everyone else sucks and creates their product for nerds like them, not people who will actually be using the software.

heyyyyyyyy, don't hate! I always do my best to add the best crap that you don't know how to use. Our govt. client would say he wants this and that but doesn't realize how much effort and time it would take to implement it. It's easy for a person to say it can be done than for the person that will actually be doing the work. Sometimes I have to fix someone else's unreadable code, that was done 10 years ago and no longer works here, before I can do the job.

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

Software developers are geeks and not average computer users. Therefore they do not make their software with logical features and the ability to get from point A to point B easily. They have convoluted minds, which translates into a convoluted product.

Then, when they "upgrade", they add stupid stuff that nobody but them cares about, yet neglect the features that would make more sense.

Grrrr.....

Adobe is the exception to this - they rock! But so far everyone else sucks and creates their product for nerds like them, not people who will actually be using the software.

Sounds like engineers who design a system for a submarine and put the master power switch two inches above the deck in the passageway.

 

[vanbells]

Software developers are geeks and not average computer users. Therefore they do not make their software with logical features and the ability to get from point A to point B easily. They have convoluted minds, which translates into a convoluted product.

Then, when they "upgrade", they add stupid stuff that nobody but them cares about, yet neglect the features that would make more sense.

Grrrr.....

Adobe is the exception to this - they rock! But so far everyone else sucks and creates their product for nerds like them, not people who will actually be using the software.

What Adobe software are you using?

 

[jazz lady]

Software developers are geeks and not average computer users.

I resemble that remark.

Therefore they do not make their software with logical features and the ability to get from point A to point B easily. They have convoluted minds, which translates into a convoluted product.

Then, when they "upgrade", they add stupid stuff that nobody but them cares about, yet neglect the features that would make more sense.

Grrrr.....

Adobe is the exception to this - they rock! But so far everyone else sucks and creates their product for nerds like them, not people who will actually be using the software.

It's because we hate you all and want to make your life miserable.

 

[vraiblonde]

It's because we hate you all and want to make your life miserable.

I knew it

 

[Larry Gude]

Ah ha!

I knew it

But you hold the power to foil all their worst laid plans! If you turn your hate into pity for the futile path they've chosen in life, you turn their quest to get under your skin into a Quixotic enterprise. Once they know you no longer hate them, but feel sorry for their misguided existence, their motivation evaporates and then they redirect their energies into being more sensible.

Turn the tables on them! Start hating well thought out and effective software! Or at least say you do. They'll flock to it like Lemmings to the sea! "We'll get her now!" they'll say as they make better and better products!

And you just sit back and smile, having used their own ill intents against them to win!

 

[GWguy]

But you hold the power to foil all their worst laid plans! If you turn your hate into pity for the futile path they've chosen in life, you turn their quest to get under your skin into a Quixotic enterprise. Once they know you no longer hate them, but feel sorry for their misguided existence, their motivation evaporates and then they redirect their energies into being more sensible.

Turn the tables on them! Start hating well thought out and effective software! Or at least say you do. They'll flock to it like Lemmings to the sea! "We'll get her now!" they'll say as they make better and better products!

And you just sit back and smile, having used their own ill intents against them to win!

Welllllll GOOOOllllyyyyyy, you talk just like one of them thar city folk whats got edumecation. You talk purty. Jever think about getting a job at one of them newsypaper places? Maybe even rights a book....

Damn....



J/K. I had to look up Quixotic.....

 

[clevalley]

Software developers are geeks and not average computer users. Therefore they do not make their software with logical features and the ability to get from point A to point B easily. They have convoluted minds, which translates into a convoluted product.

Then, when they "upgrade", they add stupid stuff that nobody but them cares about, yet neglect the features that would make more sense.

Grrrr.....

Adobe is the exception to this - they rock! But so far everyone else sucks and creates their product for nerds like them, not people who will actually be using the software.

From a user standpoint - Adobe has come out with some slick stuff lately, but let me tell you something about Adobe from the sysadmin side of the house.

Adobe's install and deinstall procedures are sucking BIGTIME. They have gotten really sloppy on deinstallation leaving remnants of code in the registry. This is not rocket science to remove as the install procedure logs all the files it installed as well as registry changes.

We have been noticing that an upgrade comes out and we (or the end user) goes to install it, it gets buggered up and you start to have problems - case in point, Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.1 - we have been deploying Acrobat Reader using remote tools (approved by Adobe) to over 300 workstations... the past few upgrades, the install procedure fails - this is because there is soooo many artifacts left behind from previous installs that the deinstalls do not take care of it mucks it up.

Adobe releases a "de-install" executable which propagates through your registry to remove any instance of "Adobe Acrobat" so you can freshly install a new copy... 'effing dumb-asses... how hard would it be to do that in the end of the de-install, or the beginning of the installation...

...and, AND, AND that is just one example of one vendor and one application - there are many, many more examples from other vendors doing stupid crap. The software is only as smart as the person programing it - we can thank A LOT of this to overseas development... do you know there is code in Adobe products going back 4-5 releases - and I mean core engine code.

:rantover: - As you would say Vrai :humpf: