Software is developing slowly..

What's holding us back? The monopolies? That doesn't explain why Unix is hardly any more advanced than Windows.

A topic on /b/ was joking about how you can rename a .doc filetype to .jpg and it will automatically be converted. Why isn't this so? Why hasn't Longhorn incorporated this? This is one of the SIMPLEST features that could have such a huge impact on ease of use.

But how is it that programs today have no more capabilities than those of 1995? When is this going to change?

There's a very good reason why it's difficult to convert a doc to a jpg: IT IS A RETARDED THING TO DO, ARE YOU FUCKING STONED?

No it is not, and I can think of many good reasons to do it even if it doesn't make immediate sense. For example, you want to give a presentation that includes a .doc as a reference, with parts circled in red, and your presentation software does not import all the fancy stuff from MS Word. Converting the .doc to an image (though you'd want something lossless like PNG in this case) then circling stuff in an image editor is the most obvious way to do it.

Do you really think that computers should make it hard to do stuff that doesn't make immediate sense to do?


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It is because of people like you that "lusers" exist. If "lusers" can't figure stuff out, why can't you re-engineer your systems so that they make fucking sense? Get off your elitist fantasy world, what people want is to have as little stuff as possible to understand before they can do things relevant to their lives with their computers.

Since I'm in the command line all the time
You are such an elite dude. I'm sure you also grow a beard.