Rhetorical refrigeration question

[unixronin]

...Would it be too much to ask to be able to buy a refrigerator/freezer with a bloody THERMOSTAT for each compartment, instead of just a stupid "warmer/colder" dial?  Would it be so unthinkable to be able to set the refrigerator to, say, 36°F and have it just maintain 36°F?

I mean, this should be something you set once for each compartment and forget about it until you replace the refrigerator.  Instead, we get a pair of stupid little plastic dials that affect each other in non-intuitive ways and which you have to keep constantly futzing with as the weather gets warmer and colder and the food load changes, in an effort to maintain sensible refrigerator and freezer temperatures, when the same job could be done automatically by two fifty-cent thermostats and a brain-damaged embedded controller.

Is this complete ass, or what?

Comments

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

He thinks he found what you're referring to. Thank you.

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

Heh. I worked at Apple Computer from July 1988 to March 1997, and while I am not a MacOS developer (their APIs are horrifying), I did pay attention...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yup, I've done a little bit of Mac development work myself.... worked on Macs among other platforms at STI, and my team wrote a DOS-like CLI shell for the Mac at EWU. I remember sorting out all the toolboxes and managers was a pain in the ass.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Heh. We've got several friends working at Apple these days and another who is interviewing soon. I sort of browbeat unixronin in to getting some Macintoshes for the girls. Most of their games use Quicktime and have a horrible tendency to crash/blue screen on Windows. But as almost every single CD comes Win/Mac ... get a Macintosh and watch it run fine.