Anyone here buy upgrades on a computer program or game on a regular basis?

[hedgehog]

My Windows 7 is 4 years old and is still loading updates to fix newly found problems all the time. I use a computer drafting program that issues a new upgrade every year with other upgrades through the year. People in my company never load the new upgrade until it has been out a few weeks. We let the early users find all the bugs, first.

I've never called any private company that wasn't "experiencing unusually heavy traffic at this time" so that i had to wait for my call "to be answered in the order it was placed"


So why all the amazement when the Obamacare web sites were overloaded this week and showing bugs here and there?

[Sunlei]

1. I do and I always wait a week or two for others to experience release days server crashes/patches.

I don't like sitting at a frozen computer, waiting in a queue, crashing or clicking refresh hoping I get in

What I do is watch the online complaints. When those stop it's time to log-on!!

[ellenfl]

2. two reasons:

the rw is still trying to bash the aca any way they can and the lw was a little surprised about the large response. either way, it's good for us. the more people try to sign up, the more the rw talking points are debunked.

[seabeckind]

3. It's an appeal to the ignorant.

And it works.

In the case of this software and having development experience, I'm not surprised. Sometimes it's possible to run load tests and simulations but in this case I don't think any behavorial predictions could have been accurate.

The biggest problem with the thing was that all the people were watching and a really big part of them were working to make it fail.

You know and I know that pointing at an interactive piece of the system and seeing it have difficulties is totally unrelated to the underlying value of the system.

But for the average fox viewer? These people haven't had an original thought since that system was rolled out based on sniffing Clinton's undies.