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Steve
There was a time when you could buy a vcr that only recorded on the day..
but that wasn't enough.. you wanted to set record a week in advance in case
you forgot something.. then a month.. but it was awkward to do from the
front panel, so you asked for a remote.. but that was still awkward because
the panel on the front was difficult to read from the couch.. enter the lcd
display.. oh.. and picture in picture so you could watch the recorded movie
and still keep up with the game.. or maybe the other way around.. and don't
forget the surround sound link from the stereo and a remote that does it
all, TV, VCR, Stereo.. getting a little complex eh.. not a problem.. add a
bar code reader.. now you just scan the programme guide.. whoa up, Granny
can't work the remote.. maybe you should have a second one with just basic
controls, because she'll never get the hang of the full color lcd display
and all of the sliding covers..
Awww nuts.. lets get a DVD player,, did ya see the one that allows you to go
forwards and backwards through the movie you are recording, while you watch
three other channels, all interactive.. it is even loaded with the latest MS
software codenamed Wedaf.. 'Windows for Excessive Domestic Appliance
Features.. that should be easy enough to configure.. at least until the kids
find out that by pressing a few keys, they can programme a wash cycle where
once the football game used to be, and lock you out of the program..
When life was simple, we were bored.. so we set in motion the monster that
is progress when we asked for more.. what we forgot along the way was how
difficult it was to understand the instructions for recording on the day..
or even tuning the vcr to the TV..
...And I'm allowed because it is was my birthday yesterday, and I still can't
work the vcr.. the manual is like 'War and Peace' in pictures, printed in
seven languages, six of which I have no clue.. what happened to the little
red button that you could press and know that you would get a recording
while you go out to fix a computer system where an innocent operator is
claiming that they did nothing prior to the deletion of an entire Unix OS
that saw an end to the entire RAID structure while they replaced a tape in
the Magstar drive that has mysteriously jammed because they didn't put it in
the wrong way..
))
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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user
"Steve Riley [MSFT]" <steriley@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:40636632407327567235072@news.microsoft.com...
> Perhaps an important question to ask is: why do they need to learn?
>
> Why do web sites need to download software to my computer? Have we become
> so addicted to, um, "flashy" interactions that we are unsatisfied with
> basic delivery of reasonably-formatted text?
>
> I'm not intending to sound curmudgeonly here (but my 39th birthday is next
> month, so I'm permitted to, right?). I don't have all the answers to these
> questions, but they nag me. I'm certainly a believer in using the power of
> the Internet and software to make peoples' lives better and to accelerate
> business, but whatever happened to simple information delivery and
> consumption?
>
> </nostalgia>
>
> Steve Riley
> steriley@microsoft.com
>
>
>
>> Very true, when will people ever learn. <sigh>
>>
>>> Herein lies the problem for most people;
>>> "Balle urged users not to follow download links from untrusted
>>> sources."
>>> Until people stop clicking on OK whenever it pops up without knowing
>>> what exactly they're agreeing to, this will remain a problem on any
>>>
>> browser.
>
>
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