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Rants: I hate Rogers. And Lawyers. But mostly Rogers.
Fri, 28 Oct 2005

As everyone knows, I'm a chatty guy.. and I do like to write with a little wit and charm. But today I'm annoyed, and sleep deprived, so you get none of that ;) Its late, I hope I spell correctly.

OKay, I've been frothing at the mouth all day, but decided to wait until much later before blogging anything up. I've not even called up Rogers support phoneline yet, since all they'd get out of me would be a string of savage profanities.

But first a short story from my past: I remember as a kid my father telling me that we had to try and grow to be well rounded and know a lot of different things - that focusing too much on just one thing might lead you into hot-water. "We should all know how to build things, and take things apart, and fend for ourselves." he wisely dictated. Well, it strikes me now that we've all failed to do just that - we've all specialized so far that we each know some topic or two very deeply, and only know the briefest of tidbits about anything else. Please prove me wrong.. tell me you know how a cell phone works, how a SLR camera differs from a point-and-shoot, how to navigate through a forest at night, and how to make a really really good soup from scratch.

And let us remember - there used to be freedom until the lawyers took it all away.

While I'm at it, a fine quote from Charles Petzold:

...just the other day I caught myself wondering who will clean out my Inbox after I'm dead.

Hell, lets make it a hatrick - I don't care if Sulu is gay. As Peter so eloquently said it, "I LIKE TEH LADIES" - do I need to hold a press conference?

OKay, back to why I think Rogers is as good as Desparately Seeking Susan.

Rogers used to be a cable company, but ol' Ted Rogers (the founder and CEO) is so rich he's decided to control everything from cell-phones to tele-phones. I keep trying to cancel services and move to other companies and he keeps a buyin' them.

Heres the recent events:

So thats it. Rogers are assholes. Ted Rogers is the King of the Assholes.

I found this on slashdot; it amused me. Cars, from the perspective of programmers:

When you get right down to it, cars are shitty in reliability compared to software. Off the top of my head, here are some major problems my car has, at least when looked at from a software standpoint:

1) My car is very venurable to break ins. You can smash a window, jimmy the locks and so on. It's easy, requries no knowledge to do.

2) My car doesn't deal with faulty input. If I set it in neutral and floor it, the engine will overheat and seize up. There's no system to deal with faulty operation like that.

3) My car has problems with user error. If I drive it in to a wall on accident, it'll stop functioning. Same if a user of another car makes a mistake and hits it.

Worse yet, the manufacturer will not fix ANY of these faults, even for a price. Even worse they KNEW about ALL of them when they sold the car.

Now compare that to software where we expect that it be essentially faultless and when a fault is found, that it be fixed quickly and for free.

Something tells me that if someone put a brick through your window, it would be them that you wanted busted, not the maker of your car. Yet if someone hacks your OS, you are mad at the OS maker, not that hacker.

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