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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?
• They were immediately assailed by a dodgy army of
hackers, and had to spend the next five years introducing
literally thousands of security features to stop Windows XP
attracting viciously hostile ‘malware’ - viruses, Trojan
horses, spyware, worms, and other assaults. That was
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