? of the Week: What's YOUR Biggest Gripe With Technology?

[no1slistening]

Is it the constant crashing of an OS? Too many pop-ups when surfing for porn? Cell phone always cutting out? Or maybe you're fed up with e-mail spam? Perhaps your satellite dish keeps losing its signal.

Whatever gripes you have about technology, I want to hear 'em!

The Gripe Line: 206-666-3458
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[dcolanduno]

I'm going to go with the Cell-Phone issues.

They keep promising more and more 'features' on the **** phones. Promises of high speed internet, and other fancy things.

But, all I'd love is not having the **** thing cut-out when all I do is walk around, or drive around a corner...

[Craig]

Information overload.

Craig

[vox_monitor]

file organization

I don't like how hard it is to find what I'm looking for.

I don't like the fact that files aren't automatically named and organized in an intuitive way, where it is easy always to find what you want.

I'm ok with the computer naming **** for me, even if it costs me a bit of control, so long as it works really intuitively.

I hate searching for stuff. I hate folders in folders in folders.

I hate having to listen to wav files. I hate having to decide what audio to keep and what to toss. I hate running out of hard drive space. I hate not having a good clipboard that I never have to see a window for and that holds 50 things, regardless of the type of media i'm cutting and paste-ing and that works bewteen different apps.

I hate having only one, not very big monitor. I want two huge flatscreens, and to be able to drag and drop from one to the other.

I hate the mouse. I want to be able to just say what I want, or better yet, just point with my finger.

I hate having to wait for anything. Everything needs to be real time. I want my computer to be so fast that I can't launch a process - any process - and then launch a second one before the first is complete. Ever. I want any attempt to do so to be like trying to jump in bed before it gets dark after turning off the lights.

I hate passwords - especially ones that are generated for you and are like: 672kkf5K

I hate having to login to anything, or register just to read content.

I hate not getting interesting email from real people, which happens a lot on the weekends.

I hate not knowing how to code something that I need to do.

I hate multi-trackers - they are always bulky and crash prone.

I hate real player.
I hate quicktime. It sucks.
I hate internet explorer.
I hate flash, but only because it won't "remove permanently" in firefox.
I hate the fact that launchy doesn't do photoshop.

But most of all...

I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE data loss.

More than anything, I hate data loss. Which means I HATE web mail. Which has cost me way too many emails that I've written, pushed send, and oops, timed out, gone forever.

enough for now.

e

[Hittman]

I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE data loss.

I’m about to try to rescue data from a hard drive that was thoroughly trashed by installing an update to Zone Alarm. Zone Alarm six is a nasty virus disguised as a once useful program.

I hate companies that trash your hard drive and then say they’ll be happy to provide support for $2.95 a minute.

[boneheadz]

I hate everything being crammed into one. I want a cel phone, a MP3 play and a PDA. When I go to work, all of them go into my briefcase, in the evening I just have the cel phone and because the phone and PDA have a camera only the MP3 player goes to the gym. I also hate that everything has a camera in it. Why?

bone

[dcolanduno]

I also hate that everything has a camera in it. Why?

Paris Hilton

[boneheadz]

I also hate that everything has a camera in it. Why?

Paris Hilton

I love Paris so don't be dis'n her :)

bone