Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> I quickly get irritated whenever I have to do something in XP 

I just had to replace my monitor today. I got a nice new widescreen thingie 
to work with, etc.  And I discovered something interesting.

I'm annoyed by bad design, not by the difficulty of accomplishing a task.

It annoyed me that the connector for the old monitor took 3 minutes to get 
disconnected because it was screwed down and the designer of the connector 
put an unmovable flange a quarter inch over the screw.

It didn't annoy me at all that the new connector wouldn't fit thru the hole 
in the desk I'd drilled and it took me half an hour of work with a file to 
enlarge it the 2mm it took to slide the connector through.

It doesn't bother me that it takes an hour to back up the laptop. It bothers 
me that opening "my computer" takes 30 seconds because all the drives for 
the developers are shared over the same internet connection they're 
streaming sample video over to hundreds of testers.

I knew I got pissed easily at pretty trivially annoying stuff, but I never 
realized it was trivial *needlessly* annoying stuff that did it.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
     Is God willing to prevent phrogams, but not able?
       Then he is not omnipotent.
     Is he able, but not willing, to prevent phrogams?
       Then he is malevolent.

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