Originally Posted by
Pharos
From me originally:
"That is also my position Russell, I'm put off taking the plunge because of the myriads of options available, with no clear winner giving me; value for money, ease and flexibility of use with a good interface, and above all, quality of sound.
Surely a simple and best option can be developed which cuts through."
Geoff's reply:
"The real world is not like this."
I do not understand what I am depicting to which you are referring, and do not feel this comment to be erroneous.
I think that such 'revolutions' do occur, despite the ongoing gradual progress you describe, only some of which is progress.
Although apparently good at languages, I have little interest in computing, having other priorities with my time, and regard the 'discipline' as lacking intellectual rigour, this illustrated by computer people's usage of a single word in a sentence meaning different things in each case. I also have found duplicity and illogical processes in the thinking of computer people, an example shown on a dialogue interface on a website only an hour ago.
Although with a background in science and engineering, and a career in the latter just beneath C. Eng. level, I have educational aspirations in other directions, with guitar, piano and song writing as ambitions, and have also put ten years into speaker design work, and do not want yet another discipline to study.
When I use a knife to cut bread, I do not want to have to study the materials of the blade and handle, and the design structure or development, unless it is of particular special personal interest.
As a retiree is, I have no availability of access to specific valuable formal education, and one in which I have to rely on the 'hearsay' advice from others on this topic.
Surely there is somebody whose specialist knowledge is on just this growth area.
It is however evident to me that computing is going to dominate not only technology, but also our lives.