The other day I bought a new toaster. This thing is amazing; it can
toast a piece of bread faster than any other toaster on the market.
Everyone I know has this brand of toaster, so I bought one too. At
first I thought it was really cool how well it could toast bread. It
was truly better than any toaster I ever owned before.
Now I'm not so sure.
The other day my space heater went out. It has been really cold in
the city, and I couldn't live without the extra heat. I got the
brilliant idea to use my toaster as a space heater. My space heater was
only rated at 15,000 BTU, but my toasted said it could do 20,000 BTU. I
figured that I'd be even warmer than before, until I read the fine
print. It says that I can only use it as a toaster. Leaving it on for
long periods of time may be dangerous.
Now I hate my toaster: It really let me down when I needed it. Sure,
it still makes great toast, but I can't use the heat to keep my feet
warm. That is just totally wrong. It's just a heater after all; why
didn't they just design it to stay on a little longer.
This whimsical story was penned to make a point about wanting one
product to do the work of another.
Tony Dennis
rants on the Inquirer's website that his computer's hard drive
crashed and he couldn't restore his music collection from his iPod.
Tony, I feel your pain of having a hard drive crash. It has happened to
us all. Because it is so common, you should have planned for it and
made a backup copy of all the important content, including your
music.
I am assuming that after the hard drive crash your iPod still had
all the songs on it, and that the iPod continues to work fine in every
aspect, but nothing from Apple has ever claimed that you could restore
music from an iPod. If you thought it did, you were simply wrong about
how it worked.
Yes, it should be capable of restoring your music, but Apple didn't
design it that way. Wishing that someone's product worked differently
doesn't make you right. No one lied to you about the abilities of the
iPod, and it is still works the way Apple sold it.
Tony, if you had wanted to, you could have used the space on your
iPod to make a backup of your hard drive. This backup would not have
been playable, but you could have restored any data, music, or other
files.
You obviously didn't use this feature. Instead you think it more
appropriate to cry to the world how wrong Apple is and how the iPod
isn't good enough. It is Apple's fault that you had to pay for a
program to fix your problem.
Tony, get a grip. There are many backup solution you could be using:
weekly backup software, hard drive RAID, burn a copy to CD or DVD, or
buy Apple's new Time
Capsule. (As soon as I could afford it, I stuck two 500 GB drives
into my computer and turned on Apple's built-in RAID software.)
Apple really has gone out of its way to help people like you and me
back up our data. I hear Time Machine or .mac and the
new Time Capsules are great backup solutions. Tony, Apple helps all it
can, but in the end you are responsible for your own backup plan.
