Why?
Why do web pages use today and tomorrow for a day designation? Both "today" and "tomorrow" only have meaning if you know what today is. It's about 11:59 PM on Monday. I bring up the zap2it.com TV schedule. The page shows "Today". Okay that's Monday. Unless the clock has ticked over to Tuesday. I have to look at the wall clock to see what day the schedule is showing.
GMail - who is on the From list? "me". I'm looking down a list for my name, which I would recognize instantly, but instead of my name it uses "me". And if there is more than one person in the list, it displays first name instead of last name. I know many people named David, Mary, etc. Why would you choose to use the least distinctive part of the name for the short version?
Why isn't there a required or automatically generated field in HTML (that's web browser script) that is the date of upload? How many times have I searched the internet and found an answer to my problem, only to discover that the answer is 10 years out of date and useless. No mention on the web page of when it was posted or what version of the code it applies to. Android deprecates useful function so fast that answers that are more than two or three years old are useless.
Why don't people who put schedules on the web include the year?
Why does Amazon Echo take so long to turn off. I say "Alexa Off". Alexa slowly fades out the sound. I often say off because I need silence NOW, so that I can hear something else. Or something on the "radio" is offensive and I don't want to hear it (usually Dynovite ads about stinky dogs). As I wrote this, I tested it. Did they speed up the fade out? Maybe. I need to listen some more. (No, still a long fade out.)
Why do running shoe companies change their shoes every year. And why doesn't one running shoe company try changing the paradigm. Maybe they could build a big customer base with people who find a shoe that works well and want to replace it with the same thing next year.
Why do restaurants have wobbly tables and chairs, and tilted tables? They are not that hard to fix. And they annoy customers - me anyway.
Why do Linux advocates think that Linux software installation is so great. Just "sudo apt install package_name" and the system handles it. UNLESS IT DOESN'T. Then what? Don't have the package name right? Don't have the right support library in the system. Required support libraries are missing and the system can't find them? Required support libraries aren't supported in your version of Linux? Deprecated function in the new version of a support library?
Why are operating systems moving towards eliminating 32 bit software support? There is extremely useful software written in 32 bit code. There is nothing wrong with it. But it doesn't have enough users to justify being rewritten in 64 bit code.
