We should let Steve Jobs take over the world.\u00c2\u00a0 At least it would WORK!\u00c2\u00a0 And
we’d be able to USE IT!<\/p>\n
I won’t bother lauding the advantages of OS X, you Windows people are never
going to believe.\u00c2\u00a0 You think that anything that looks beautiful, that is not
industrial and ugly, must be a TOY!\u00c2\u00a0 The fact that, as Steve so eloquently put
it, the OS X interface is good enough to LICK, is a negative in your book.\u00c2\u00a0
Keep clinging to that IBM notion of life.\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, IBM is no longer in
control.\u00c2\u00a0 Geeks who never leave the house, who think you should innately know how to
use their contraptions, are.<\/p>\n
Let’s take the light switch.\u00c2\u00a0 All I wanted to do was turn on the overhead
lights here at the Ritz Carlton.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I’ve been doing this all my life.\u00c2\u00a0 You push
the TOP of the button for ON, the BOTTOM for OFF.\u00c2\u00a0 But not here.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s like
these light switches were designed by engineers frustrated they couldn’t get
gigs with NASA.\u00c2\u00a0 The switches look like that giant launch panel you saw in
"Apollo 13".\u00c2\u00a0 Or, in the alternative, a 64 channel SSL mixing desk.<\/p>\n
Turns out you push the BOTTOM button for both off AND on.\u00c2\u00a0 The top button is
for RESET!\u00c2\u00a0 To bring you back to just the amount of intensity you wanted, that
you dialed in with the ADJACENT narrow dimmer strip switch.\u00c2\u00a0 But, before you
get to your personal comfort zone, when you push the top button the whole
thing goes through its entire CYCLE!\u00c2\u00a0 The lights dim and then get BRIGHT again.\u00c2\u00a0
Which, of course, takes you many flicks to figure out, because, as the cycle is
playing out you’re furiously pushing every button in this godforsaken system
to STOP IT!\u00c2\u00a0 God, if I wanted to be a lighting designer I would have
apprenticed with Josh White at the Fillmore East.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s wrong with just on and OFF?\u00c2\u00a0
Was this really an international crisis?\u00c2\u00a0 Were people really dissatisfied with
light switches?\u00c2\u00a0 Did I just not get the memo?<\/p>\n
And, of course, there’s one damn light that won’t turn on at all.\u00c2\u00a0 Turns out
the switch for the CENTER light is on the other side of the bed.\u00c2\u00a0 You get the
left and right wings by the table lamp, but if you want the spotlight in the
center, you’ve got to dive to the other side of the sleeping apparatus.<\/p>\n
And, who declared that the goal of every guest is to play "Once Upon A
Mattress"?\u00c2\u00a0 If you don’t get anything from me tomorrow you’ll know that I fell off
the bed and cracked a rib or got a concussion.\u00c2\u00a0 Really, I might need oxygen,
the altitude is so high.\u00c2\u00a0 Dropping back to the floor is akin to taking a
freestyle ski jump at the Olympics.\u00c2\u00a0 Either I’ve got the room designed for Yao Ming,
or something’s sorely amiss here.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean how much padding does one man need?<\/p>\n
SIMPLICITY!\u00c2\u00a0 VCRs did much of what TiVo does, but people just couldn’t figure
out how to record.\u00c2\u00a0 TiVo makes it easy.<\/p>\n
And what’s up with all those buttons on home theatre receivers?\u00c2\u00a0 I mean
that’s somewhere I want control, but couldn’t they cut out about nine tenths of the
options for the REGULAR person?\u00c2\u00a0 Why does every product have to be sold with
INFINITE options.\u00c2\u00a0 Hate to tell you, I never alter my desktop theme.\u00c2\u00a0 Blue is
good enough.\u00c2\u00a0 Does it really get you off to change the colors and fonts of
your desktop?\u00c2\u00a0 Does that really make you feel good?<\/p>\n