OT: Data Smog

[Fyron]

But new MS products that are poor copies of years old (if not decades old) products produced by others are always hip and exciting!

[Baron Munchausen]

aiken said:

Holy dead cow, they invented /bin/bash! Again.

With 'special features' of their own devising, of course. Embrace and extend, though it will suck anyway. I saw a hilarious sig on Slashdot a few days ago: The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.

[AgentZero]

Instar said:
Part of this problem I think is of computer UI. I can describe a task in 10 seconds that would take me 30 mins of work to do on a computer. The new Microsoft Shell looks cool (MSH or Monad). It might speed tasks up a lot.

Ah, but tis always a case of 'easier said than done'. Very few tasks can be explained in more time than it takes to do them, unless one describes a simple task in exhaustive detail.

And people always have, and always will, tell you that it was better in earlier generations. People in today talk about how much better it was in the '50s, people in the '50s talked about how much better it was in the '30s, etc ad nauseum. Following this logic, the best time was when we all wore loinclothes and lived in caves. But obviously it wasn't that great, since the unrelenting march of progress is powered by a desire to make things better. And if you look at it historically, things in the '50s were better than they were in the '30s, and things today actually are better than they were in the '50s. So I say to anyone who says otherwise, 'Right now is the best time in history to be alive. Deal with it.'