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technology features you love or hate

^ Yeah I love that too.

But I hate how the power switch on my shuffle is designed to grip to greasy fingers when mine are always dry. I have to resort to digging my fingernail in above it.

I also hate how since my old comp died on me I can't update tracks or rescue the ones on there because iTunes is not sync'd.

Love my bluetooth headset.

Hate how I can't hear my alarm thru it.

Love the bandwidth shaping ability of BWMeter, my tenants needn't suffer another inet hog ever again.
 
Yeah, I have to agree with that 100%!!!!! I have been using my girlfriends computer, because mine broke. So all the music on my Ipod will disappear if I try to put new songs on it using her machine. I HATE THAT. I want to add a few albums to it, but I can't. That is a feature I hate.
 
I dislike the ON/OFF switch. Things should be in perpetual ON mode until they die, adjusting power consumption from the minimal amounts required for each task down to almost nil on standby.

Speaking of ON/OFF switches... I dislike hate the internal combustion engine. No explanation required. It's a disgrace.

I like appreciate the world wide web. I am ecstatic to be living in an age where communication through both open and closed borders is building amazingly vast new overlapping networks of people from around the globe. If we're going to be one, might as well start talking some time, eh? [edited; got way too long there]
 
I hate Comcast's television interface. I get more service interruptions than I used to with dish, and when the box loses power, I lose all programming information in the channel guide. The PVR is integrated poorly, and the remote is unintuitive and has no illumination or glow in the dark buttons.

Its all a pretty big fuck you from them to me, and it it wasn't for the slowski's, I'd hurl a brick through their headquarters glass.
 
Love:

mp3 players with full (self)manageable library functions, preferably searchable. iTunes has it, but foobar does too (and doesn't eat up all your RAM). There are even better players for linux.

Like Bel', dynamic maps. Great for dealing with bike routes.

gmail. Like the threaded e-mails, and its search function has saved my ass.

open source knock-offs of products that I can't afford.

hate/dislike:

windows treats you like a child, but then doesn't give you enough information to fix it when it fucks up.

spinning data storage. I find it silly to actually deal with CDs and DVDs when transfer over networks would make more sense. I also hate the limited lifespan of hard drives and that they tend to lose data when they fail. This won't be a problem when solid state storage becomes more common.

ebola
 
I love modern communications devices... being plugged in all the time is pretty cool.
I love how when i get a call, my iPhone fades out whatever podcast I was listening to and when the call is done, fades back in to where I was.
I love open source software. Linux, Drupal, OpenVPN, Apache, Samba, Asterisk... all amazing pieces of work created by cooperation rather than greed.
I love how, despite all the technology, radio communication is fundamentally how it was when invented by Tesla/Marconi over 100 years ago.
I love how the power of the processor, particularly the DSP, has made so many things that were previously out of reach of the ordinary person, affordable.

I hate the 'IT Industry'. Never have so many undeserving people been given license to fuck their fellow man over.
I hate any company (usually telcos) that makes poor call centre personnel take responsibility for their crap.
 
nowonmai said:
I hate any company (usually telcos) that makes poor call centre personnel take responsibility for their crap.
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amen.

i worked in technical support for a long time. i visited a partner company once who had a policy that, for one week every year, every member of staff in the company - up and including the ceo - had to work in end-user technical support.

:)

alasdair
 
I like how Google Talk only pops up saying you have a new email when you move the mouse if you've been idle
 
aanallein said:
I hate Itunes more than anything else on this planet.
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Agreed. Wholeheartedly. And now that my iPod has been 'marked' by a particular instance of iTunes which no longer exists I'm having real issues with loading new music onto the damn thing. For some reason, the drag-n-drop interface in Winamp doesn't want to work, and I'm guessing that it has something to do with the fact that I used iTunes in the past and it is now locked out to other apps.

Even if I were to reinstall iTunes, which is never going to happen on a machine that I'm using, I'd have to format the iPod since trying to use a different installation of software that I already own to upload music that I own to a device that I own is clearly piracy. Grrrr.

Also, I hate when devices of any sort beep at me. Microwaves, ovens, phones, whatever. I have functioning tactile sensors in my fingers, so therefore I know that I've pressed a button without being yelled at than you very much. Whenever I can I disable this feature, but more often than not this also disables any alarm or notification sounds as well (such as an oven timer) which are necessary.

I agree as well with the hatred of the internal combustion engine. Outdated, dirty, noisy technology that could have been replaced decades ago if most people were willing to try something else without being forced.

Generally though, I love most technology. It's just a lot more fun to complain.
 
there's a difference between a feature and a whole application. i can understand sticking with something which is great but has one or two annoying features but why would anybody continue to use a piece of software they hate completely?

alasdair
 
I'm assuming you are referring to Itunes. I really have no option here. I don't pirate music. I have very few songs. Both of my Ipods were gifts so I didn't have a choice in the type of mp3 players I received. I have an Ipod Nano and an Ipod Video. I have a laptop and a desktop. ALL I WANT IS TO HAVE THE SAME MUSIC ON ALL 4 DEVICES. All I want is to be able to drag and drop shit into my mp3 players as if it were a flash drive. The interface on Itunes is cumbersome, slow, and completely lame as all hell. I have been annoyed and frustrated 90% of the times Itunes has been open on any of my devices.

I will never EVER buy an Apple product again. If I receive one as a gift I will return it.
 
Pander Bear said:
I hate little LED lights on everything. Its bad enough that most of my stuff is drawing power while its "off". Its beyond tolerable that it has to let me know by blinking, or glowing at me in an otherwise dark room. My LCD tv has a very bright blue oval when its off, and nothing when its on. What sense does that make? If I wasnt afraid of damaging the screen, I'd take it apart and disable it. The macbook does the same thing when it goes on to standby-- a throbbing white light at eye level while I sleep. Call me strange, but I find this all very off-putting in a dark room
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I recently bought a power meter you plug into the wall and then plug your appliciances into so you know how much wattage, KwH etc you are using and how much it's costing. I did this due to a HUGE jump in our electricity bill and it's easy to check my contribution since my computer is plugged into a single socket.

I was suprised to find my quadcore computer, with 3 hard drives, a printer, a widescreen monitor and a Wii (turned off) and a digital TV decoder (in standby) took only 200W. However, I was shocked to find that even when everything was off, it still drew 17W. 17W all day every day! That's more than a power saving light uses to light an entire room!

Now, when I leave my room or when I want to sleep at night (the LEDs on my monitor annoy the hell out of me when I'm trying to sleep. Infact my motherboard actually lights up with blue LEDs when turned off and it makes the back of my computer glow!) I turn the computer off at the mains. Every 12 minutes is akin to having my computer on for an entire minute, so even when I'm not there during holidays, it's still using 2 hours of full activity a day! 8o
 
I fucking HATE it when companies upgrade perfect working tried-and-true software because they need to make more money off it (cough VISTA CAN SUCK MY ASSHOLE cough).

Personally I find any major release from just about any company takes a good 6 months before its working properly and a solid year before It's worth a damn, and a lot these fuckers release new versions several times a year!
 
In OS interfaces:
The right click context menu is a wonderful thing. I'm always thinking I'm going to get a tool to customize it further. Somehow never get to it.

In landline cordless phones:
I love an off switch for the ringer. I'd love to find one that I could shut the ringer off for a set period of time, for naps or periods of dedicated productivity. Too often I often forget to turn the ringer back on.

In refrigerators:
Love ice dispensers, pull out freezer drawers, doors that beep if the fridge door isn't closed all the way.

In coffee makers:
prefer a timer and auto shut off.

I'm impressed with things like lap tops sensing free fall and shutting down the hard drive before it hits the ground. Plug 'n play and hot swappable things are wondrous. I'm sure I'm forgetting all kinds of things because they are so basic to my everyday life.

I'd love a multi-service instant messenger client that includes voice. I'd like a TV where I could push a button and Bill O'Reilly received an electrical jolt or had wet, slimy manure poured over his head. I think this one is marketable.
 
aanallein said:
I'm assuming you are referring to Itunes. I really have no option here. I don't pirate music. I have very few songs. Both of my Ipods were gifts so I didn't have a choice in the type of mp3 players I received. I have an Ipod Nano and an Ipod Video. I have a laptop and a desktop. ALL I WANT IS TO HAVE THE SAME MUSIC ON ALL 4 DEVICES. All I want is to be able to drag and drop shit into my mp3 players as if it were a flash drive. The interface on Itunes is cumbersome, slow, and completely lame as all hell. I have been annoyed and frustrated 90% of the times Itunes has been open on any of my devices.

I will never EVER buy an Apple product again. If I receive one as a gift I will return it.
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You can use any number of ipod managers (software) with those products, any number of freeware cd rippers, and any number of non-DMA online music stores. There is no reason to stick with iTunes if you dislike it.
 
Pander Bear said:
I hate Comcast's television interface. I get more service interruptions than I used to with dish, and when the box loses power, I lose all programming information in the channel guide. The PVR is integrated poorly, and the remote is unintuitive and has no illumination or glow in the dark buttons.

Its all a pretty big fuck you from them to me, and it it wasn't for the slowski's, I'd hurl a brick through their headquarters glass.
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You do know it's not Comcast's interface, per se, it is the boxes' designer, Motorola (most common cable box out there, it seems). Their cable boxes are a fucking travesty.
 
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