Re: Who's fault is hardware compatibility?

From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:15:20 -0500

My only gripe is with a company that purchases another company. They then
allow the acquired products to languish or die (note Symantec and others).

When was the last time Partition Magic was updated? It's not like they have
a competing product (as the did with Drive Image vs.: Ghost).

One of my favorite all time programs was PCTools. Symantec bought it and
killed it. I think it was miles ahead of Norton Utilities (which they also
purchased). 

-- 
Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
"Vanguard" <no_email> wrote in message 
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> "Ed55" <Ed55@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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>> 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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