Not Smart Is Not Stupid
I am in favour of software that tries to make your life easier, but hate, with a passion, developers that are so in love with their helpful feature X, that they ram it down your throat (You WILL use this feature and LIKE it!) and give you no easy way, or often, no way at all, to bypass or disable said "helpful"/"smart" feature.<p>Case in point: I recently bought an excellent large(ish) Dell monitor. Lovely bit of kit, but after a few days had me wanting to throw it out of the window. The reason was the power saving mode. The monitor is supposed to have the ability to "intelligently" understand you are not using it, switch the screen off and go into a sleep mode. All good and well until one discovers that the specific combination of graphics card, multiple monitor setup and video connectors one is using confuses the poor beast and it will happily shut your monitor down while you are actively using it.<p>The kicker that was driving me crazy was, of course, there is no way to disable this particular functionality!