A Rant on Technology

Ahem. I would just like to speak a few words to the people who waste their lives reading this time-killing, life wasting, brain dissolving crap. The role that technology plays in our lives has become so large that we actually rely on it. So, when it stops doing what you tell it to do, you are pretty much screwed. Companies like Microsoft and Apple seem to have a notion that making their operating systems CPU mongers and memory hogs will make the people happy. It does not. Most people don't have great processors, nor do they have large amounts of memory, so when you are trying to edit a video for school and Windows Movie Maker says it ran out of memory so you can't export your video, you're hosed. That's another thing. Compatibility. Technology giants seem to have qualms about "sharing" anything with other companies. Video editors always have to save in their own format, Apple doesn't play .mpg files, Windows Media Player doesn't do .mp4, and especially that stupid port on Apple products. They had to make themselves their own port so that people had to buy it; they couldn't just use it from something they already had. Android does a great job of avoiding that, because they use USB cables. The only thing about that is that the different types of USB is going too fast. USB .5 lasted for about 6 months before they stopped using it and started using miniUSB. Then, Samsung made some crazy ass port that I have only ever seen on a Samsung phone, and HTC has some port that looks like a bracket ( [ ) but can also fit a miniUSB. The worst compatibility issues are between programs that are made by the same company. For example, Windows Movie Maker 2.6 and Windows Live Movie Maker are in no way compatible. They have different file extensions, and the interface is different. There's one thing they CAN agree on though; they are both terrible for anything that is more than a home video of your kid dropping cake all over the floor. I think that everyone should get together and make everything compatible so we wouldn't have these toiling technology troubles.