Sauced?
I had a few moments yesterday while I was waiting for some downloads – on another box, I do know something about CPM [1] after all – and was idly surfing the web and I ran across this:
One may, I suppose, laud the MacGynerness of having a device that both communicates and draws sustenance over the same cable, but what appellation does one assign to designers who give the user no control over the two?
An analogy immediately rises in my consciousness. The male human genitourinary track has a “cable” that has two functions: the transport of urinary waste liquid out of the body; and the transport of reproductive coding information entities from the male to the female. Obviously the two functions need to be discriminated. But if the system had been designed by APPLE, at least based on this instance, consider the consequences for the human species.
This is not to say that MegaHard and other corporate oligarchies’ designers have not done equally egregious things. But I do say that this one strikes me as something between roll-on-the-floor humorous to forehead-fracture-frustrating.[2]
[1] CPM in this case is acronym for Critical Path Method, not Cardio-Pulmonary Massage, although the two do have some aspects in common. And a computer that has had a critical path – as its connection to the web – stifled may seem to be in need of the latter.
[2] roll-on-the-floor is, I hope obvious. It is necessitated by the need to have some means of preventing the urinary discharge function occurring explosively and embarrassingly as one laughs so hard that other bodily functions become suborned. forehead-fracture-frustration occurs when one is driven to think such awful thoughts that one bets one’s forehead against a vertical surface (as a wall) for relief, often resulting in a skull fracture from without instead of within.
