Chapter 2
You need
more ram?
Acceptance and knowledge are empowering if not
enlightening.
No one in the PC market and now most of the technology sectors want to talk about
this so honestly. Its just not
in their best interest financially.
Now with the Internet following the same pattern lets keep it going whether it
works or not, but makes a huge profit for us. The philosophy, the snowball of
technological dysfunction, is growing daily.
Has anyone
ever told you in customer service when you call to complain that "my computer
or Internet connection isnt working." and they respond
with
“
You need more ram”or “your hard drive is
too small”.
Follow the pea under the shell and they call this technical support. I was one
of the first people to build and own a computer and I can tell you they will
rarely answer honestly and say, your computer is broken, please return it for
a refund.
Even if it is the reason, its because the software is broke, oops I am sorry
I mean has a bug, no not bug, I mean upgrade, no I mean your using the old version.
The best piece of technical support I can give
everyone is when your PC isnt
working and I don't care what the problem is save
data and reboot. Your PC is temporarily
broke or tired. Reboot. I have “repaired”hundreds of PCs with this
technique I used to even charge for it.
The
self propagating mantra of “you need more ram”is the first thing
taught technical support students, now in over 50
languages.
When I first bought a Microsoft IBM INTEL PC of my very own I remember booting
up my first piece of software. it was a chess program called chessmaster 2000
I had played on the Amiga
previously and enjoyed so much.
There it was a beautiful
graphic of the chess pieces then I clicked enter.
Oops what is this? The pixels were here and there and it was unplayable and then
it crashed. I had no idea what happened. So I asked fellow PC users and they
said “did you check the requirements to play it? Do you have enough ram?
How big is your Hard drive? Did you install the
driver?”I was dumbfounded . I called technical support and received exactly
the same response.
I didn't need any of these things for the Amiga to play exactly the same game
and the Amiga wasn't anywhere near as powerful as this PC? But yet somehow it
was more efficient and superior in graphics and
sound and certainly didn't crash.
I knew then I was in a IBM/Microsoft world, where broken computers and poorly
designed software was the norm and on top of that it was my fault because I didn't
buy enough ram.
I was not happy and I decided to edit the software and the windows operating
system. Some people call it hacking, to see if I could make the software work
without adding memory. My fellow users were astonished and mocking me when I
told
them what I was doing. “You cant do that you need more ram its just that
simple”. I responded with "maybe the software is written poorly and
the operating system is using too much ram to
operate.". Day after day I toiled with several IBM/Microsoft experts gaining
interest in my pursuit and increasing their verbal abuse. Well I fixed Chessmaster
and there I was playing Kasparov at the highest level on the very same PC without
hardware alteration of any kind. Soon my fellow PC users witnessed this and were
stunned at my endeavour. They all lauded me but only a couple said maybe this
mantra of “more ram”is not true.
I witnessed this mantra becoming omnipotent. I even caught myself repeating it
to other users daily. I was assimilated into the Borg resistance was futile.
I just realized I hit the save button every 4 or 5 minutes while creating this
document the insecurity is rampant. I don't remember ever saving until I was
closing when I was using the Amiga. Many of the same comparisons are made by
Mac users however the
Intel incorporation will end their happy tale soon.
Microsoft
and Intel are dominant and thats a fact we live with. But “more
ram”we don't have to live with that anymore.
Try it with me. Will call it open source technical support. Next
time your PC doesn't work or someone in technical support drones
the mantra “more ram”just reboot instead. Send your findings
into me at ktn@keystothenet.com I
will record and archive them. And for all you PC gurus and hackers break the
software down and hack the windows O.S. and get the software working on a system
that is lower or significantly lower than the requirements written on the box
and send me a report or
better yet a copy of the software or workaround.
We will build a library of efficient software that demonstrates that the mantra
is
untrue. Will start a new mantra “we don't need no more stinkin
ram ”
Microsoft windows releases a “new”O.S. Like Winxp or now Vista but
their not selling you the latest most technologically advanced software they
have. Not a chance not even close. They sell you what ever you will buy and that
technology is more than 16 years behind the times. It is also guaranteed to need
technical support (because its broken)and definitely new ram or bigger hard drive
and more than likely a new computer entirely. Why would they do this? To make
more money of course.
Its old technology and it doesn't work and your buying it, hell your excited
and running to the store to buy it. The bigger question is why are you buying
it not why are they selling it. At least their reasoning
makes sense.
I hear teenagers raving about their video games a lot. I go and check them out
all excited to see the new stuff. What a let down. First of all there not even
video games their animated pixels and poorly done animated pixels. Pick up a
copy of the AMIGA32 video games from 16 years ago. They actually had video and
great sound. These new video games are dull scrolling slightly 3d pixelated versions
of super mario that cost a lot more and take ridiculously huge amounts of ram
and expensive high end computers to even run this garbage. What are you thinking
kids this stuff is old boring and no
where near as good as before.
You think this is the best they can come up with in video games? First person
shoot em up RPG with horrible monotonous boring script writing. They tease you
in the commercials and even in the intros or breaks during the actual playing
of the game with actual video. As if this is special high technology. Really
you think so? Go back a decade or so to see this special technology in action
its actually really old technology
repackaged . Talk about regifting.
Consumerist drones all of us by the millions now without the ability or desire
to discern truth or quality in product anymore. Oops fell back into my star trek
thought pattern again.
The joysticks today are pathetic tiny little color coded buttons with curser
pointers at least they have
graduated from the keyboard now.
I remember playing my F18 fighter game on my big screen tv with the walls shaking
from the sound as I blew up another MIG playing on my Amiga in my living room.
Using a beautiful joystick not tiny keypads or arrow keys where I could feel
and sense the movements of the plane until my neighbors called the police on
me telling them they heard gun shots coming from my condo. Yes the quality was
so good I could play it directly from my computer with a SVHS output to my 40
inch big screen and it was perfect. All of this came standard with my computer.
I didn't buy special joysticks,high end graphic or sound cards That was 16 years
ago try that today. The point is, even if you get close to matching that quality,
so what, that was a long time ago what happened? Why wasn't this technology improved
and developed instead of squashed and hidden. I don't know why don't you ask
Bill Gates?
The answers are clear and most of the reasons are greed and more greed. We respect
and even honour these people today talk about assimilated.