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From: no-one@nowhere.com
"言身寸言身寸口才立！" wrote in message
news:cm9hc6$ebt$1@news.seed.net.tw...
> "Ben van de Echte"
> 撰寫於郵件新聞:41882465@duster.adelaide.on.net...
>>
>> "Bj鷨nar Bols鼜" wrote in message
>> news:Xns958FC3719A059BjrnarBolsy@212.83.64.229...
>>> Gary Beeton wrote in
>>> news:XlOfd.37159$nl.34357@pd7tw3no:
>>>> Hawk wrote:
>>>>> Bj鷨nar Bols鼜 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Why should your PC be any different than your TV, washing
>>>>>> machine or micro oven?
>>>>>
>
>> My standalone Pioneer DVD player shits me because when I switch it on I
>> cannot eject the tray to put a disc in until it has shown it's stupid
>> welcome message on the display.
>>
>> I find it such a stupid design flaw that I seriously want to put an axe
>> through it.
>
> 40 years ago, you can only have this transitor tube TV. You switch it on,
> and wait for centuries for the B/W screen appear. Nobody got an axe. And,
> that's not a design flaw.
>
> There are a lot of single purpose computer appliances with a instant-on
> "design", such as switches, ADSL routers, etc. Check it out, they all
> bear
> a processor inside.
>
> There's a way to burn a working OS into CD-ROM, today. With the same
> concept, you can taylor build a PC with a working OS hard burn in the ROM.
> Try that, and see what you have lost.
>
> It's not a design stuff. The technology just not there yet.
>
> Whether your Pioneer is a design flaw depends on how smart, not how
> stupid,
> it mean to be. If it just an ordinary DVD, you may use your axe. If it
> designed
> to have more advance functions, like recording to hardisk and write
> DVD-RW,
> you've just purchased those kind of functions too early.
>
It's just a damn DVD player, nothing special. I paid good money for it, but
any Chinese made cheapo DVD player has more features and instant startup so
yes, it shits me that such a basic device has such an annoying flaw.
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