And I'm told I am being too negative! Non-techies are not to generalized as "people who suck." You're actually supporting my point that this forum has a way of programatically alienating non-developers.
Anyway, I want to thank M Wagner again for helping me with the suggestion to revert to 5.4.1. That worked perfectly with my sb1. Listening to it right now. Honestly I was completely ready to give up on my sb1 after several versions of the software had bugs in the standard functionality of the device. This isn't just about ver 6.2. I hope someone within the company is reading my posts as a substantive sign that many consumers dont have time for bug reports, re-installing and forum posts. "your average consumer" stinkingpig Wrote: > dryden555 wrote: > > >In short, I wouldn't reccomend a slimdevice for a non-techie. > > > >The problem: > >Open architecture is not always a 100% positive. The voices on this > >forum are heavily from developers. Users like myself get a lot of > >friendly support on the forum which is cool. > > > >But developers dont mind bugs as much as the rest of us users who > >bought the device do. We dont have time for uninstalling and > tweaking. > >We just want the standard functionality to work out of the box. We > >generally dont care about bugginess in esoteric plug-ins. > > > >No one will agree with me in this developer-centric forum but, > >seriously, these great hardware devices are far too much trouble for > a > >non-technical person. You'll never see them in BestBuy because there > >would be a 90% return rate on them. Users would be utterly clueless > >when they encounter the first bug. > > > >Sorry for the negativity but sheesh the bugs really got to me! > > > > > > > > > the world is not a perfect place. this is because it's full of people, > > who suck. Increasingly these people use computers, which also suck. Add > > in the fact that there's a work component in just about everything, and > > work obviously sucks. So there ya go. Listen to some Morrisey albums, > and appreciate the Slimserver bugs as memento mori reminders. > > Another way to put it... what piece of consumer gear would you consider > > acceptably usable? Say the 300-disc Sony CD changer that I replaced > with > my first SliMP3 because it couldn't play half of my CDs? How about my > mother-in-law's Linksys DSL router that crashes every month, or my > neighbor's NetGear DSL router that couldn't talk to the DSL modem > without a firmware upgrade? My wife's two-year old Sony Vaio laptop > with > the failing screen and dead keyboard? Or her iPod that helpfully > deleted > all of its audiobooks when she switched computers? The Magellan GPS > that > takes twenty minutes to locate satellites and figure out that you've > moved it to a new location? Oo, I know, the simple kitchen mop with a > replaceable head... heads that are never, ever, ever in stock in the > same county where you bought the mop. > > -- > Jack At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! > "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin > so across the Western ocean I must wander" -- trad. -- dryden555 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dryden555's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17864 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
