Why do professional athletes continue to have all these "hideous" injuries? Yeah, I suppose they push thier bodies a lot harder than I do, but then, having a life outside of sports will to that to a guy.
One's choice of profession necessitates different problems and issues. Their "hideous unrecoverable computer problems" cause them to fix those issues (or cause others to fix them), thus helping you by creating better software in the future. What you are seeing is the process itself of the improvement. Bethankful these guys are experiencing these issues and publicizing them--if they were'nt, we'd still be using DOS 3.3.
A few months ago in Austin, I monopolized an entire table of friendly coworker bar banter with a rant about Apple’s lock-in.
Give me that man's address ... he'd be a big hit at parties.....
I note that his article -- and the various links -- are a series of bitches and complaints about other people's software. The guy's got himself a religion.