Technology has clearly outstripped mankind's ability to handle it.

[Webster Green]

For instance, because of overly aggressive spelling auto-correct, the time travel application I created for my computer, only wants to send me into the furniture.

So frustrating.

[longship]

1. DUzy! nt

[MineralMan]

2. Turn off autocorrect. Problem solved.

I hate autocorrect. It has a much smaller vocabulary than I do and is always replacing perfectly good words with nonsense. Until I turned it off, it made posting on DU from my Kindle Fire almost impossible. Did I say that I hate autocorrect? I use it in Word for Windows, but only because I have entered a large number of shortcuts into it, and because it makes it simple to revert to the work you typed. It's also reasonably smart.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. What if he sets his time machine program to go back to the exact time and place.....

where you were typing that suggestion?

And then he divided by zero?


A black hole would form right over your keyboard and then we would all be screwed.

[MineralMan]

5. I am protected against such things by

an infallible error handling routine. But, if all else fails, an ON ERROR RESUME NEXT statement will prevent a disaster.

[Thor_MN]

12. Only if an On Error Goto 0, wasn't entered by mistake

That's probably the true cause of the Big Bang, infinite Time Travel apps trying to turn off error handling.

[randome]

13. Huh. My error-handling always boils down to: On Error Goto Lunch.

Or 'On Error Resume Blaming Ted'.

[MineralMan]

15. ON ERROR GO TO SomeOtherMoronWroteThisRoutine

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. Interesting.

Mine seems to be permanently set to: On Error Reach For Bourbon.


Worked pretty well so far. At least as far as I know, I have yet to leave a black hole in my wake.

[wandy]

21. Perfect! If RC NE 0 consult with Uncle Jack. If RC LT 0 add ice.

[A HERETIC I AM]

22. LOL

What if "Uncle Jack" is actually Randome or Mineral Man?

Cause those two are known to give me headaches!

[Posteritatis]

9. Agreed. Autocorrect's a plague. (nt)

[Wilms]

3. There's away around that bug.

Specify "antique" furniture if you want to visit the past.

Problem solved.

[randome]

7. Or "Send me to the furniture in the year 3000."

All sorts of workarounds!

[Zorra]

6. Yeah, sometimes lately it seems like I spend more time trying to repair malfunctioning electronic

devices, inexperienced operator errors that have caused electronic devices to not do what I want them to, than I actually experience living life.

I have had several frustrating episodes lately that have made me very seriously consider throwing all my electronics into the creek and become an itinerant beachcomber again.

And then when I extrapolate and think about surveillance devices, drones, and nuclear power plants...yikes!

[ProfessionalLeftist]

8. Bwah!

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. Like a breath of fresh air...

And frighteningly true on it's face.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Sounds like you need more exorcise.

[bemildred]

14. We have never shown much ability to handle it. nt

[SheilaT]

16. I find that autocorrect for my many spelling mistakes

to be invaluable. However, the grammar corrections are almost invariably wrong, because that little program does not know how to diagram sentences.

signed,
The Grammar Witch.

[JohnnyRingo]

17. Put a simile on my face.

Thanx for that.

K&R

[treestar]

19. What I love about Apple is that if you have it on

It corrects everything and you can't type a name unless you instruct auto correct to recognize it! It will correct names it does not know of into the nearest word. It's hilarious.

[IDemo]

20. You'll never get to the passed with that machine, either