Re: Who's fault is hardware compatibility?

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From: Vanguard (no_email)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:40:49 -0600

"Ed55" <Ed55@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B86942BA-07D2-45DA-B31F-79ECB58B915A@microsoft.com...
> Vanguard -- Show some respect! Not every person in this forum is
> computer
> savy and computers aren't everybodies life.
> If we were all experts in this field, then there wouldn't be much need
> for
> this forum. -- Ed55

And how much sympathy does someone get who yanks their intake manifold
off their car engine and then hasn't a clue of how to put it back
together because they have no expertise regarding engine overhauling?
Was it the car maker's fault that the user didn't know what they were
doing? Tinkering with a spare car is different than screwing up your
only means of transportation, but screwing up either is YOUR fault.
Yeah, blame Microsoft because the user didn't know what they were doing.
The OP wanted to know who ELSE to blame for THEIR lack of expertise or
experience. The OP didn't want help. The OP wanted to whine about
inevitable obsolescence. Everyone is a newbie regarding something
related to computers. Learn and burn, move on, but don't go blaming
someone else for your mistakes or lack of experience.

We all make stupid mistakes regardless of our level of expertise. I
remember a Unix admin who changed permissions for root and locked
himself out from making any changes to the system. He shot himself in
his own foot and it wasn't the OS maker's fault for not protecting him
against committing that action. A buddy worked for a month on his
computer trying to get AGP video to work (PCI worked okay), exchanged
the motherboard, sent it in for repair (but there were no problems), and
eventually I got interested and walked over to find he hadn't pushed the
AGP video card all the way down into the AGP slot. Was it the
motherboard or AGP slot maker's fault that the user didn't push the
video card all the way into the slot? No, it was his dumbass mistake.
I restored an MBR backup (because I wanted to restore a non-standard
boostrap program) but forgot that the restore of sector 0 also replaced
the partition table so now the partitions were invalid and I had to edit
the partition tables so they pointed to the proper offsets and had the
correct partition type. Was it the hard drive or OS maker's fault that
I screwed up? No, that was my dumbass mistake. Is the market's fault
that someone who participates in that market doesn't understand the
nature of that market? Don't go blaming someone else for your lack of
experience or for your mistakes. Just slap yourself on your forehead,
say "Well, duh", admit your mistake, and decide to suffer or move on.

Obsolescence is inevitable. What manufacturer will indefinitely support
whatever they produce? I'd like to hear from the OP, or you, or anyone
else that whatever they produce they will support for their rest of
their life and so will their children and their children's children. I
didn't see evidence that the OP was forced at gunpoint to relinquish
their old and working hardware and/or software. The OP expects to
upgrade for free and do so for however long after acquiring the original
products? Get real.

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