Ignore The Human.....

Don't know what it is anymore.... but it seems every damn thing these days has a "computer".... and I swear... they are becoming self-aware and are endeavoring to DRIVE ME INSANE.

Yes... that's the game... IGNORE THE HUMAN. I'm sick to DEATH of waiting for my computer to "think".... that's right. It sits there at 2.1 ghz, or whatever damn speed it is... an insanely fast processor.... and it does? NOTHING. I click on something, ANYTHING and all I get a ROTATING HOURGLASS... for 10, 15, 20 seconds or more. I type something into a field using the keyboard... it.... does..... NOTHING. Not a DAMN THING.

It IGNORES THE HUMAN.

My damn computer at work... does the same thing. There are times when either of them just get what for all intents and purposes appears to be one of the biggest fucking brain farts imaginable. They simply.... STOP.

I don't get it... I have a dinosaur at work as well... a 60mhz machine that runs on DOS 6.1 that blows every last other machine I use... right out of the water....

It's not just the PC's mind you. My ever loving DirecTV receiver does the same shit. Point the remote at it, click "GUIDE"..... see the light on the front of the recevier "blink"... and ... that's right... you guessed it..... IT DOES NOTHING. NOT A DAMN THING.

OK... push "GUIDE" again... and finall, I get the "GUIDE". Punch in a number... "02" for example. Again... the light blinks... so I know it "heard" me. It then develops it's own brain fart. Yes... apparantly "02" was either A: Not expected or B: Far and away too complicated an instruction for it to follow.... So now I press "CANCEL"... "GUIDE".... "INFO"... any number of buttons to elicit SOME form of responce...

It commits suicide..... yes... it "winks out"... and RE-BOOTS itself.... So now I get to sit there and for the next 5 minutes watch it "LOADING DATA".....

It's simple really.... all I want is for these machines... MACHINES mind you... that I OWN... to DO WHAT I WANT THEM TOO WHEN I WANT THEM TO DO IT. I don't give a flying FUCK what my computer is doing or in the middle of... if I input ANYTHING into the keyboard it should STOP... and immediately give my input the UTMOST PRIORITY.....

But no.... I swear fucking computers are becoming like the Government.... they know far better what I want them to do than I do.

Seriously though... whoever it is at Dell that designed their keyboards.... My hat's off to them.... I slammed mine so hard last night that 7 keys literally popped off the fucking thing. Pick 'em up... stick 'em back on.... and it works just fine.

Why can't we get that guy to design the whole damn thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!