ANyone who uses computers on a regular basis -- all of us -- knows this sad pathetic fact: computer programmers and software developers are Geeks who do not know anything about being a normal human being. They are locked in a black box of self-awareness with no real experience in the real world. So, they program software based not on what real human beings need, but rather based on what they think we would need. And, of course, they wouldn't know because software programmers are not human at all.
That goes for the people who build Dell Computers -- the worst investment you can make in buying a computer, and those who run the few software stores left that that you can physically enter.
Some software retailers absolutely know nothing about computers. I mean absolutely nothing. The problem is they are only a few retail stores left in the world where you can speak to a human being -- okay a computer programmer is a sub-human, but still a sub-human at least allows you to focus your rage when you purchase software that doesn't work and then you can't return it because, well, the software industry is deivwn by so much greed they assume that you, the consumer will be a thieving crook like them. They assume that any return is a theft.
The computer industry lacks ethics, too. They sell garbage and then force you to purchase service packs, updates and warranties. They dodn't even warranty the products they make, which on its face shows you that they know the crap they sell doesn't workm otherwise they would stand by their product. They don't stand y their produts because the PC people use MACs and the MAC people use PC's, mainly so they can steal from each other. The software industry is a den of thieves. Theft is the hallmark of their culture.
Again despite my better judgement, I went to one, CompUSA, in Orland Park and purchased what I thought was a copy of Office Basic with Word, Outlook and Excel. It was only $186. Only! They said it was a "license"and that all I had to do, they insisted over my better judgment, was to go to the Office web site and download the software and then enter the license. No, that's not the case, of course. But I didn't learn that until AFTER I purchased the software -- which means no return. No exchange. No support. No accepting blame. The software license only works for software that is pre-installed on new computers, not downloads. Fortunately, they have a very smart -- and consumer compassionate manager -- who did allow me to pay another $216 to purchase the actual software, which they did have. (Imagine Word and Outlook costs over $400 to purchase from rip-off Microsoft. Pathetic.)
I went to Amazon.com to purchase what I finally learned was a full working copy of Office 2007 for $316, cheaper than the $399 that Microsoft sells it for online. They will send me the software the old fashioned way, on a CD Disk mailed.
That's the other problem with the industry today. They are cheap bastards. They don't give you CD's any more under the phony claim that you don't need it. you DO need it on a CD because we all know laptops are unreliable. They crash and you lose your software and you have to reinstall it and they play by the 20 percent rule to underwrite their greed. That rule is simple. If you fuck with people enough, 20 percent of them will just give up and their misfortune is the software industry's profits.
That's how Bill Gates is really the anti-Christ. His billions didn't come from hard work. It came from a system that he set up that is filled with loopholes to allow his company to shove it up your ass. All day and everyday that you are stuck with their inefficient software. He thrives on that 20 percent of profit that is literally tilen from the public. The public buys software and for most, it doesn't work right. Then, 20 percent just give up and go someother route, never recovering their money because the new system is based on the no return policy. That 20 percent is the profit that makes them billionaires.
Oh, and this all explains this new phenomena, you know, the one where the computer manufacturers are telling us they have cut down the cost of laptops. Well, they haven't cut down the cost of laptops. Instead, what they have done is eliminate the software that was bundled with the computers. That software costs a fortune, of course. So they eliminate the software and now you have to buy it when you buy their worthless laptop computers.
They only way we are going to change this is to take matters into our own hands. We need to fight back and make them pay for their theiving ways.
-- Ray Hanania
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