Damned if you do…
…Damned if you don’t.
Of all the idiocy. I never thought that I’d poke at a large, well respected, magazine but the article here made it past editors and thus it is subject to being scoffed at. Umm… Duh? There have pretty much always been many ways to turn off a Windows based PC. Those are options that are there for a reason. Having them grouped together in one place is a GOOD idea and if it is to complicated for people to figure out then perhaps they shouldn’t use a computer?
It goes on to state (obviously in support of it) that the OS should decide what to do… What? No. I should decide what to do. I’m smart enough to know if I want to log off, reboot, hibernate (to actually move the information to RAM so that the PC can be started faster), or sleep (a low power state where the PC is not actually off), shut down, or to switch users.
Then they go on to quote this guy as if it is an expert opinion when from my observations they appear to just want to find something to whinge about and that just about sums that up.
Err… No, no I want sleep and hibernation to not be “trivially merged” thank you very much. No, I don’t want an Apple, if I did I’d buy one - thanks. I’d like to be able to make my own choices, thank you very much. If people don’t know the differences between them then they probably should learn - if they can’t or won’t then they probably shouldn’t use a PC. This growing sense of entitlement about technology and the internet is absurd, frankly people who can’t figure out what options they need or want to click should either press them all to see what they do or, better still, take the time to learn about them before clicking on them. (Hopefully before buying them, going online with them, and gleefully clicking “YES” to everything they see.) Or, of course, they could just buy a Mac and run the same software that everyone else does with the same settings and somehow feel convinced they’re secure, unique, and making wise choices.
Anyhow…
It is my opinion that instead of taking the time to whine about stuff that they don’t understand people should spend time learning to do whatever it is they do better or learning about things prior to writing about them.
And yet another publication goes down the tubes and becomes as pointless as a tabloid. Journalism is about fact, the article is claiming to be “news.” Call a spade a spade and that is an opinionated editorial written by someone who has no business writing about the computer industry. I don’t care what they have for qualifications, the results are obvious proof that they are more likely to understand knitting than they are computers.
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