Recently I was talking to my relative who works at the American Airlines counter at the airport. He was telling me that the kiosk computers, that are in most airports now, haven't made a dent in how busy the counters are. Bottom line, he says, is that people are afraid of using computers. I have a totally different opinion. Just happened to fly a bit ago and used a kiosk to get a boarding pass. My opinion is that the User Interface is ALL wrong and that is what scares people off. Problem #1. The starting page had...
Overheard from the discussionon Slashdot about PDF and Adobe Acrobat: NOOOOO!!! please not another upgrade. It nags me three weeks before an upgrade. NO, I DONT WANT TO FUCKING UPGRADE!!! And three weeks after an upgrade. I ALREADY FUCKING UPGRADED IT!!! Then it resets all my file extension defaults and starts opening everything in Acrobat Reader 8 even though I've told it a million times to open with Acrobat Pro 5. Fucking piece of shit must die. Note to Acrobat developers, if anyone asks what you do, lie. It could be me. I will fucking kill you and...