C-I-L-L My PC, by Tyrone Green
Why didn't network-based applications take off? I mean for all of us & not just for the 5 ERP/CRM early corporate adopters the remaining ASPs fight over? Why couldn't I be sitting in front of a sleek, lightly-loaded appliance? No OS and bloatware worries. Ah, the 90's...
My current state of mind - frustrated! - is due to, I think, the latest software I loaded onto my home PC. "Home Design, Architectural Series - 18" (version 18???), from Punch! Software. Good name for a company who sells frustration-ware.
It's supposed to have 'live walk-through visualization' features. You create your dream kitchen (according to the home improvement industry, many of us dream about appliances), hit a button and WHAM! - you're cybernetically strolling from your comfy living room to your newly envisioned wine thermal storage unit (a TSU. It's not a small refrigerator!), with automated cheese pairing ASIC. They used to call that 'fuzzy-logic,' but apparently that terminology isn't pairing so nicely with food items.
So I load up and begin to use the Punch-An-Architect game. I come up with genki renovation ideas. I measure existing dimensions. I enter data. I erect little blue lines on electronic design paper. I select Objects to have in the kitchen. I customize sizes! It's like, happening! Then, poof, that's where it ends. I'm denied Visualization!
The best I can do, is make the room walls semi-transparent and view my new kitchen from my neighbor's backyard. Ooooh, that's fun.
Worse, not only is this software not quite working, now other programs, old reliable programs, have decided to walk-out, in solidarity with Punch!'s job action. Who knew simple java scripts were unionists?
The Live Visualization feature from Punch!, runs a java script to open a new window for rendering the room image. Now, if I click on a webpage link that needs to open a secondary window (like the Chat function, on most stylish blogs these days), my browser is stumped. Dumb browser; update, you say? Wrong answer - IE6 is newly installed and still having difficulty with this most basic function. Punch! has punched out the lights on some Windows .dll or some other silly dot-suffix thing I really don't care to know about. Sure, there's always work-arounds - like writing a response here, to the commentators from the last post, instead of using a java script that opens Haloscan chat, when I click on the frickin' link.
If software apps, like this Be-An-Architect!, were server-based apps, we'd know where to point the finger when things crapped out.
I just re-understood why the dotcom B2C ASP model is RIP.
Why didn't network-based applications take off? I mean for all of us & not just for the 5 ERP/CRM early corporate adopters the remaining ASPs fight over? Why couldn't I be sitting in front of a sleek, lightly-loaded appliance? No OS and bloatware worries. Ah, the 90's...
My current state of mind - frustrated! - is due to, I think, the latest software I loaded onto my home PC. "Home Design, Architectural Series - 18" (version 18???), from Punch! Software. Good name for a company who sells frustration-ware.
It's supposed to have 'live walk-through visualization' features. You create your dream kitchen (according to the home improvement industry, many of us dream about appliances), hit a button and WHAM! - you're cybernetically strolling from your comfy living room to your newly envisioned wine thermal storage unit (a TSU. It's not a small refrigerator!), with automated cheese pairing ASIC. They used to call that 'fuzzy-logic,' but apparently that terminology isn't pairing so nicely with food items.
So I load up and begin to use the Punch-An-Architect game. I come up with genki renovation ideas. I measure existing dimensions. I enter data. I erect little blue lines on electronic design paper. I select Objects to have in the kitchen. I customize sizes! It's like, happening! Then, poof, that's where it ends. I'm denied Visualization!
The best I can do, is make the room walls semi-transparent and view my new kitchen from my neighbor's backyard. Ooooh, that's fun.
Worse, not only is this software not quite working, now other programs, old reliable programs, have decided to walk-out, in solidarity with Punch!'s job action. Who knew simple java scripts were unionists?
The Live Visualization feature from Punch!, runs a java script to open a new window for rendering the room image. Now, if I click on a webpage link that needs to open a secondary window (like the Chat function, on most stylish blogs these days), my browser is stumped. Dumb browser; update, you say? Wrong answer - IE6 is newly installed and still having difficulty with this most basic function. Punch! has punched out the lights on some Windows .dll or some other silly dot-suffix thing I really don't care to know about. Sure, there's always work-arounds - like writing a response here, to the commentators from the last post, instead of using a java script that opens Haloscan chat, when I click on the frickin' link.
If software apps, like this Be-An-Architect!, were server-based apps, we'd know where to point the finger when things crapped out.
I just re-understood why the dotcom B2C ASP model is RIP.
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