Simplify, man!

After yesterdays simplified look at Politics, my love of simple things has extended yet further to other areas of life.

Sadly, my annoyance has too.

Why can't everything in life just be plain and simple? I must try in future to keep all my posting as simple as possible to allow the maximum audience enjoyment I think.. in a time of universal deceit, simply telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.. and I'm a revolutionary, baby!

Is it beyond the realms of human ingenuity to simplify the small print on a credit card commercial?, just to give people a fair shot at figuring out if its wise for them to get one [It almost never is for the record] would make life so much more pleasant for people.
Complications ruin life, nowehre more so than technology. Daily you or I may come to our computers, push the switch and expect everything to work. This way of thinking is probably ok, if you apply it to say, a new car. When does a new car ever break down? Hardly ever, thats when.We have been reduced to seperating "good" and "bad" cars on very minor details, but with computers its a totally different situation.

Modern computers are far more powerful than ones that have been sent into space aboard the space shuttle, things can..a nd will go wrong. This in itself is not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.

This because it's not the breaking that pisses us off, its the inability to diagnose or repair said malfunction in 90% of cases without aid. Why is that? Needless complexity I'd say. Now, I'm not for one minute saying we should make simple computers out of organic peace wood and bits of beard, I'm saying we need to reign in the people who make and program them. The computer nerds.

Think about it, when your computer gets the blue screen of death, or displays some indecipherable text about "General Protection Fault xx000.110.020xx" or "Illegal Operations" then promptly bursts into flames, you must remember that some imbecile knows what the problem is and must then have written the text you just read. The fault could be repaired in some cases by as little as tinkering around in Control Panel.. but does it ever tell you that?

"General Protection Fault xx000.110.020xx" could, in all probability mean "Theres a bit of dust in the graphics card slot, give it a blow and all will be well". They KNOW what these faults are, but they NEVER tell you? why is that?

Then theres the case of my previous computer, which would, whenever it felt inclined, switch off. I would switch it back on, only fo ti to condescendingly inform me that appear to have shut down my computer incorrectly and would I like to view the help file? Why?!?

Well, I suspect, its revenge. These are the people whom you probably teased a little in your youth, for sitting alone, in the dark, in a basement, on World of Warcraft, Masturbating over a level 70 mage in a bikini. This is their revenge. They have made this perplexing technical language, then a help system that doesn't work, purely so you have to rely on them. So your life is inconvenienced purely for some poorly thought out and underserved abuse you may or may not have dished out them in high school.

If you didnt go to the prom with the spotty ginger kid, its YOUR fault too. He's probably now in charge of programming your ipod, which is now going to break for no real reason. That'll teach you.

So, I've had a brainwave. Hardcore OS. Forget windows, forget linux and forget Mac OS, we need an OS for the people, by the people who can be arsed to learn how to make it.

Just think how much better and cheaper your life would be if instead of "General Protection Fault xx000.110.020xx" you got, "look, I'm a bit warm, switch me off for an hour or so, alright?".

That would just cut out the waiting on the phone for the tech support guy to inform you that you are infact, a simpleton. Just a thought.