n***@gmail.com
2010-07-26 10:44:13 UTC
The first day I installed/ran linux-ETHZ-oberon it crashed twice.
Now I've been using it for N years and I can hardly think HOW to
crash if I wanted to. How is that possible?
It's because we operate mostly at a sub-concious level; and my
sub-concious tells me "don't go there !".
Years ago, people would never have dreamed of doing absurd
economic activities which the recent millions of herd-followers did.
Have you noticed the recent [couple of years] buzz-word "experience"?
"Good experience", means it "feel nice"; i.e. via your sub-concious ,
rather than via rational consideration.
Being located in the 3rd world, I can't afford to pay for pictures being
D/L-ed during http access, and I continually read 'use a full-feature
browser, for a better EXPERIENCE'.
Which reminds me of GM's ads, when they started getting
competition from non-US vehicles against their adsurd V8 cars,
for a 'proper/full-featured car'.
IMO blogs and most Web-2 apps. don't work per objective testing
against universally accepted specifications. They 'work' satisfactorily
for the mass, the same way as the english language morphs: by the
herd-mechanism. I.e. via the 'feels-OK' mechanism, the herd uses
the main-stream OS, with main-stream browser/s and if they all
get a 'feel-good experience", [like they had while the economic
bubble was building], then there's no reason to fix the stuff that's not
per spec. The most common bugs are tweeked out of the common
OSs & browsers, until it "feels good".
As we know, empirical/testing can NEVER prove that it's per spec.
But it can probably confirm a 'feels-good experience'.
PC usage like economics is a statistical phenomenon.
So, provided the average user finds it more economical in short-term
effort to follow the herd, the main-line monopolists will retain their
dominant position and prevent competing improvements entering the
market. Like anybody who was inclined to criticise the mis-behaviour
leading to the recent economic crash they'll just be slapped-down.
Now I've been using it for N years and I can hardly think HOW to
crash if I wanted to. How is that possible?
It's because we operate mostly at a sub-concious level; and my
sub-concious tells me "don't go there !".
Years ago, people would never have dreamed of doing absurd
economic activities which the recent millions of herd-followers did.
Have you noticed the recent [couple of years] buzz-word "experience"?
"Good experience", means it "feel nice"; i.e. via your sub-concious ,
rather than via rational consideration.
Being located in the 3rd world, I can't afford to pay for pictures being
D/L-ed during http access, and I continually read 'use a full-feature
browser, for a better EXPERIENCE'.
Which reminds me of GM's ads, when they started getting
competition from non-US vehicles against their adsurd V8 cars,
for a 'proper/full-featured car'.
IMO blogs and most Web-2 apps. don't work per objective testing
against universally accepted specifications. They 'work' satisfactorily
for the mass, the same way as the english language morphs: by the
herd-mechanism. I.e. via the 'feels-OK' mechanism, the herd uses
the main-stream OS, with main-stream browser/s and if they all
get a 'feel-good experience", [like they had while the economic
bubble was building], then there's no reason to fix the stuff that's not
per spec. The most common bugs are tweeked out of the common
OSs & browsers, until it "feels good".
As we know, empirical/testing can NEVER prove that it's per spec.
But it can probably confirm a 'feels-good experience'.
PC usage like economics is a statistical phenomenon.
So, provided the average user finds it more economical in short-term
effort to follow the herd, the main-line monopolists will retain their
dominant position and prevent competing improvements entering the
market. Like anybody who was inclined to criticise the mis-behaviour
leading to the recent economic crash they'll just be slapped-down.