I was looking for a MW oven 25 years ago, and when I asked about
reliability, the guy at the store said that none of the touchpad
ovens last long, as the touchpads fail. He said he had one Litton
left with a dial timer. He deemed that machine as the most reliable
available. It still works great. Id does NOT play muzak, talk back
or do anything but microwave food. It is wonderful.
About 10 years ago I bought an ancient (65-72 maybe) Amana microwave
for the cottage. It still works wonderfully tool
These un-needed electronic gadgets on cars would not be so irritating
if they did not interfere with the basic wiring harness and function
of the car. Unfortunately, no car Mfgr cares what happens once the
vehicle is out of warranty, as long as there is a better than 30%
probability of the original sucker(oops: owner) of the car buying
another from them.
The Mercedes 110 chassis series was simple, clean, safe, economical
and utterly reliable. Most of the people who bought them were young
engineers who appreciated the economy, reliability and safety.
The first rule of engineering is Keep It Simple, Stupid. Programmers
like to call themselves "software engineers" but they are not
engineers in any respect. A study done at ISU a few years ago showed
a night and day personality/psychological difference between
engineers and programmers.
One reason that apple products are still superior is that there is
some acknowledgement in the company's design works that simple is
good. That concept has never been discovered or applied in redmond,
thus the famous bloatware of M$. (and the resultant army of IT folks
needed to support it)
While previously geographically confined primarily to Redmond, WA,
and the SanJose, CA area, severe [PD] epidemics are now places like
Stuttgart, and Munich in Germany, the entire country of Japan, ...
[PD is programmers disease, a severe terminal, untreatable disease
that results in the insertion of all kinds of worthless "features"
just because they can slip it by someone to show off a new gimmick
they learned]
No kidding! They got a new microwave oven at work. The wretched
thing beeps out some kind of lame tune when it's done. (Those
sonalert beepers are bad enough all by their lonesome, now let's
hear 'music' on them...) Guys have wasted irreplaceable minutes
of their life navigating the menu buttons to try to turn it off,
and sometimes they succeed, but then the oven goes and forgets
what it's been told and it starts all over.
It's an _oven_! The world is full of MP3 players, home theater
audio systems, etc., and we need an _oven_ that peeps like a diseased
chick when your food is ready? Puts me off any thought of eating,
and more toward pitching the thing, food and all, through the
nearest window.
-- Jim
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