Article: 5085 of alt.peeves Message-ID: <3B0B2193.D774A0A4@ev1.net> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:33:56 -0700 From: Charles Richmond Reply-To: richmond@ev1.net Organization: Cannine Computer Center X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.peeves Subject: Re: the need to "install" software - a rant References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: rsvp-208-187-66-239.ac01.dlls.eli.net X-Trace: newsa.ev1.net 990578074 rsvp-208-187-66-239.ac01.dlls.eli.net (22 May 2001 19:34:34 -0500) Lines: 29 Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen.news.verio.net!dfw-peer.news.verio.net!phl-feed.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!nntp.gblx.net!europa.netcrusader.net!192.148.253.68!netnews.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!newsfeed.twtelecom.net!newsa.ev1.net Xref: archive.mv.meer.net alt.folklore.computers:28 alt.peeves:5085 Eric Smith wrote: > > > > [snip...] [snip...] [snip...] > > And fairly often the installer program doesn't anticipate how my system > is configured, and the installation fails, usually with a cryptic error > message that provides no useful information about the problem. > > Am I the only person who's gotten pissed off about this state of > affairs? Why do people put up with this crap? Is it just because the > "unwashed masses" don't know any better? > I have an answer for you...I stole it from another post, but failed to get the attribution for it: > > This is known as a "triumph of crapitalism": when enough people are > satisfied with crap, it becomes difficult to obtain better items at > any price. > By the way, you forgot to mention that Micro$uck installers are going to muck with the Registry file...now there's flirting with death if I ever heard of it... -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond | +-------------------------------------------------------------+