The Curse of Being a Power User

It seems that nobody really loves the power user. Software producers code in barricades to restrict us from really using the hardware that hardware producers have sealed up and bolted closed to stop us from using it to its full extent in the name of protection and safety of the majority of end users. Nothing drives me more bonkers (nothing more at the minute)...

Case in point: Logitech
I've always loved Logitech products. Its the brand I always recommend to whomever asks about buying a keyboard or mouse and I don't think I'm alone in that. Having said that, I've been very frustrated lately but Logitech's drivers for their keyboards & mice. I used to have a MX/LX700 wireless keyboard & mouse. Love 'em to pieces. Well, actually they're still intact. My beef is that Logitech blocked me from remapping various keys on the keyboard. Specifically the horizontal scroll buttons and the zoom buttons. Seriously, who uses those? I understand their function, I just don't get why Logitech would remove my ability to remap them. You CAN remap the keys if you're willing to slog through some XML and edit the user.xml file (Docs & Settings\App Data\Logitech\Setpoint\), but that's really just a piss-poor way to do it.

I replaced my keyboard with a Logitech G15 (which is awesome) and was happy to see they threw out SetPoint for it and built an entirely new and entirely satisfactory keyboard mapping & management suite. Then I replaced my mouse with often-hyped Logitech Revolution MX. Lets be clear on one thing first. The mouse is a formidable piece of hardware. The button placement, the mouse shape, the feel, everything is spot on. It makes you stunned, however, to find out that this brilliant piece of hardware is once again crippled by SetPoint. A $100 mouse, and they figure its reasonable to limit what the user can do with the mouse. What utter crap.

Oh Logitech, hear my plea: Give me full access to button mapping, or give me DEATH!
(just not actual, unpleasant death. That would suck equally as much as not having full access to button mapping)