Broken junk
Greetings from the future!
My scanner has decided that it doesn't want to scan anymore. That's crap of course. It says I need to install software. That software exists somewhere, in a box full of software that I should no longer need, but I hadn't counted on my scanner just up and not working.
Seriously, greetings from the future, because who would of thought that we'd have the power to draw shit by hand and just...put it on the computer, but you know what, maybe in the not too distant future, I'll be able to perform this miracle without my machine needing to reinstall some phantom driver from the nether regions.
...and of course, when I open the "Wizard" the list of drivers that includes my printer doesn't. So, in the future, no one can help you. Seriously, no one. The idea of a product that just works is unreasonable. Last week I crashed my DVD player. How is that even possible? And now my scanner doesn't work unless I go cruising the web looking for a patch. What...in the future do people simply have buttloads of time that they don't care that their products need a monthly tech support session to fix.
Can I just ask the obvious question: at what point did crap that works when you buy it become a f'ing luxury? Follow up question: now that I'm strapped for cash, why should I throw money at a product that doesn't work?
Oh yeah, and arrest Dick Cheney.
My scanner has decided that it doesn't want to scan anymore. That's crap of course. It says I need to install software. That software exists somewhere, in a box full of software that I should no longer need, but I hadn't counted on my scanner just up and not working.
Seriously, greetings from the future, because who would of thought that we'd have the power to draw shit by hand and just...put it on the computer, but you know what, maybe in the not too distant future, I'll be able to perform this miracle without my machine needing to reinstall some phantom driver from the nether regions.
...and of course, when I open the "Wizard" the list of drivers that includes my printer doesn't. So, in the future, no one can help you. Seriously, no one. The idea of a product that just works is unreasonable. Last week I crashed my DVD player. How is that even possible? And now my scanner doesn't work unless I go cruising the web looking for a patch. What...in the future do people simply have buttloads of time that they don't care that their products need a monthly tech support session to fix.
Can I just ask the obvious question: at what point did crap that works when you buy it become a f'ing luxury? Follow up question: now that I'm strapped for cash, why should I throw money at a product that doesn't work?
Oh yeah, and arrest Dick Cheney.
posted by Monstro D. Whale at
11:06 AM
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We just had a yard sale and sold a printer sans cd. Of course, the person who bought it asked if it worked and if it had a cd. Well, I'm not about to dig through my stack of cds to find this thing for something I'm getting rid of. So I just tell her she can find it on the internet, and sell her the printer.
On the next yard sale, I consider selling my old scanner. But woe is me. The power adapter (and you can't use just any adapter, of course) is missing and in some pile of cables somewhere, and the cd is typically in the nether regions of the cd pile. No, not looking for them. Just going to throw the stupid thing away.
Oh, and the 'Wizard' hasn't worked for a long time now.
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