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Why doesn't anything WORK?!! (Rant)
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:48 am
by CameronCN
Last week I tried to print out some of my artwork to give to my Dad on Father's Day. For no particular reason, my almost-new printer decided to die. It now prints everything as blank or whacked-out lines. This is the same printer whose scanning program crashes as soon as it is started, so all scanning has to be done randomly. So then I went to use my Mom's printer, but it won't print at 500 dpi, just 300, 600, &1200, so everything looks dotty. Moving on to my Dad's printer, after several mess ups and a replaced cartrige, the best I could do is get it to print the black as sort of a dark green. So I figured I could make that a nice black using the photocopier. And it turns out it's out of toner.
So I ask, IS IT TOO DIFFICULT TO MAKE TECHNOLOGY THAT ACTUALLY WORKS?!! In addition to all of those not-worky things, my Dad's monitor flickers strangely, and my MIDI interface adds random notes for no reason that I can see. It seems that everything has to be coddled and worked around in order to do anything! AARGH! None of the things in question are more than a few years old!
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:58 am
by Sage
At least the toilet works
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:02 am
by CameronCN
At least the toilet works
Actually, it doesn't.
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:24 am
by Comrade K
But if technology worked, no-one would but buy new stuff every year, and who would keep the poor starving corporate boardmembers fed and sheltered?
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:37 am
by Sage
At least the lights still work.
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:21 am
by Kyler Thatch
Welcome to the dark side of technology. It makes your life a heck of a lot easier, except for the obscenely high failure rate.
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:18 am
by osprey
In my experience, printers are the most likely of all computer accessories to fail. They're actually amazingly complicated.
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:07 pm
by Angstwolf
My scanners have failed more often then my printers, but they're both pretty terrible.
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:53 pm
by CodeCat
The number one pitfall of consumerism: the more you have, the more you need it.
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:58 pm
by Muninn
Currently my printers not working either. It's going to be fixed but I'm in no hurry, I rarely use it.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:25 am
by Doc Sigma
My printer's not working either. It's almost 10 years old. The last version of Windows it officially supported was Windows 2000. The last time it stopped working was because the waste ink counter was too high, so I had to hack it and reset the counter. This time it's failing because it just doesn't like Vista.
(Waste ink counters are pure evil... they're designed to force you to bring the printer into the shop every ten thousand pages or so, by causing the printer to just say "lol general error bring me to teh shop")
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:04 am
by Chris
Atleast you guys have a printer
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:00 am
by Burning Sheep Productions
Aren't there print shops in your area?
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:53 am
by Doc Sigma
If you're a programmer, and like reading about things not working:
http://www.worsethanfailure.com/
Whether or not you're not a programmer, if you like reading about things not working:
http://www.thisisbroken.com/
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:28 pm
by superFRO!
If technology suddenly started working for a change, it'd cause a rip in the fabric of time and space, sucking in all our coffee, tea, coca cola and red bull supplies, leaving us energy-less and open to an attack from the cockroaches of soviet russia! Cause in soviet Russia you do not burn cockroach, cockroach burns YOU!
Or atleast, that's what my goldfish says...