As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.
Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
China’s rulers … have come to see their purpose less as generating enormous change and more as maintaining the system and enhancing their performance.
In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.
The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.
System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.
It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.
My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them. And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. We've seen it time after time after time.
This is the system that we have. I didn’t make the system. This is the system that we have.
Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
Everyone has technical issues - you have them until you die - but you have to be aware of them in a certain way.
If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
We will never forget the lessons that we learned as a result of San Bruno. It's really caused us to focus on safety with a laser-like sort of manner. There's always more work to be done.
We closely track the systems Boeing builds for us, and they're some very capable systems. So that's been my focus. It is something that I look at every month. I look at the metrics for all major combat systems and our platforms, which Boeing builds many, and they're successful platforms.
There are people and interests that do not want change. It is not in their interest for this system to change.
The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.
I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada.
We trained for a lot more malfunctions than any ever happen.
Corporations want stable, reliable, and easy-to-maintain systems.
The system is broken, and we can fix it. It's not hard. We just have to do the work.
I have four Macs, four iPads, and two phones, and I upgrade them all to the newest build pretty much every day.
