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• My third and final example of what I regard as
phone abuse is the familiar phrase once you
actually get through to customer services and
real people. How often have you heard this,
“Sorry please ring back in a few hours. Our
system is down.” Whereas the first two problems
above are really just symptoms of a now fully
emerged “Culture of the computer-money
complex” – the “system down.” problem speaks
to me, as a Chartered Computer Systems
Engineer with a long history of actually designing
fully 100% working computer systems years ago,
of a much deeper problem, as follows: -
• Probably even now, still the worst offender in this
is the very market leader, whom I will ironically
name by my affectionate term for them in this
discussion: ‘Megabollox’. The above company
will have been sold their computer system, either
to replace a previous paper based system, or
more likely these days, with the march of time
and such ‘Progress’ – an upgrade from another
earlier version of such a system. Megabollox
have caused an entire sales culture of selling new
computer systems by appealing to the buyer with
the sheer quantity of ‘bells, whistles, gadgets and
gizmos’ that come with it – generally termed
‘features’. The trouble is testing all of these vast
quantity of such ‘features’ on just one system so
they all always work together or in unison, not
just in isolation from each other. Again
Megabollox have started another major notorious
trend with their software – they release it to a
naïve gullible Joe Bloggs public, barely tested
beyond the pre-production ‘beta’ testing phase –
and let that public, already hard sold yet another
‘jazzy, exciting Megabollox product’ do most of
the testing for Megabollox instead. Yet for
Megabollox, have they already done everything
technically feasible years ago in 2002 with their
‘Windows XP’ product?
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