Electric complaint

[rejectomorph]

Of all the books I have read, I have never once had the pages suddenly go blank because there was a power surge. When reading a magazine, I have never had to click on a button to avoid having it vanish because I had not turned a page within a prescribed length of time. Of all the words I have written on paper, I have never lost one because of a browser crash.

Computers may be convenient, they may take up less space than a public library, or even a bookcase full essential of reference works. But they have a hell of a long way to go when it comes to reliability and ease of use.

Comments

Capacitors!

[eideteker.livejournal.com]

Man, you think they'd have some way to back everything up. It's not like we haven't had capacitors for when the power goes out for what, a couple of centuries now?

Re: Capacitors!

[rejectomorph]

A few more lines of code in the LJ client would be a big help. My e-mail program has an autosave feature that is pretty reliable. It can't be that difficult.