[windows2000] OT: A perfect world
- From: "Mauricio Fernandez" <mfernandez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:02:33 -0400
Published in a local journal (in spanish) last week. Please, just remember
that I am not a good English writer?
A perfect world
By Mauricio Fernández S.
Every one of us keeps on our hearts a perfect world. A utopian place where
everything is as should be, where everyone is happy and everybody has want
they want. Imagine this sort of life on IT world:
In a perfect world, all the computers are exactly the same, developed by
the same company and with the same specifications. If one computer broke,
ACME (the company that produces the computers), change it instantly for a
new one, recovering (magically) all the data and the programs from the old
one. If ACME produces a new version of the computer, they change all the
old ones by the new ones for just 20 dollars, which you can pay in 10
quotes.
If a perfect world, all the computers use the same operating system (named
Maclindows), which includes a full office suite (OpenPerfectOffice), an
internet navigator (Firexplorer) and a music/video player
(QuickRealPlayer). There is only one font in only 3 different sizes.
Maclindows never hangs up, and is so fast that a lot of people spend hours
on the internet looking for tricks to make it slower.
In a perfect world, users? doesn?t has any problems to change the keyboard
configuration to write in Spanish, there are no printing problems, because
Maclindows already came with the driver of the unique printer that exists
on the market. There are no limits form email size and contents, and is
totally easy to figure out which program to use to open each type of file.
Hackers only access computers to make orthography corrections, and the
only existing spam is that one of the funniest jokes in the entire world.
In the other world, the imperfect one, the real one, on this world; things
are totally different. There are thousands of types of computers: big ones
and little ones, cheap and expensive ones, fast and slow ones. Every
computer company adds different characteristics to their computers trying
to make the difference, confusing disconcerted users. Each user can build
his own computer, adding to it the characteristics they want to, and
baptizing it with his last name, or his pet name.
In this world, there are different types of operating systems, with
different philosophies and different use conventions. Every user must
choose ?between thousands of applications- that ones that they?ll use, and
resigns to never know all the existing applications, because it is totally
impossible to use all ones.
The real world if full of harmful people: some ones for wickedness (like
hackers or virus programmers) and some ones for idiots (like people who
wants to learn how to format hard drives). Everybody installs and
uninstall programs, games and any nonsense bean that came on CD or can be
downloaded from the Internet.
Perfect world versus imperfect world. For us (the IT people) there is no
dilemma here. We are gloriously happy on the second one, on the imperfect
one, on the chaotic. Good create us like problems solvers, like
imperfections fixers, like solutions generators for technological needs,
and we will never found personal welfare where there are no problems to
solve.
I was never felt remorse recognizing that we (IT people) lives happy in
the middle of the chaos, until this week, when I realize that the politics
people of my country has the same idea of happiness. They, like us, can?t
live without problems. There are only two differences: While we play with
bytes, they play with our future, and while we fight the entropy, they
stimulate it.
Mauricio Fernández S.
IT Manager
Tel. 591- 445-25160
Fax. 591- 441-15056
mfernandez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.fdta-valles.org
Cochabamba - Bolivia
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