Wonder (was Re: just outta curiosity)

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Tue Apr 10 12:03:21 2001

At 12:41 AM 4/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
>
> Hmm. I've never found computers tedious. I also don't run
>Windows. I think there's probably a connection there. :)

Windows is hardly tedious; "irritant" is a better description.

> And no...nobody *NEEDS* to use Windows. I love getting into that
>argument. "But I NEEEEEEED it!" My favorite response is usually
>something like "you mean you'd be unemployed and destitute if this one
>bad product from this one bad company didn't exist?"

Sigh. I could not afford to pay a yearly Matlab license for a
unix machine with personal money. I did manage to buy a Wintel license
for personal use a couple years ago in a group purchase.
And no, octave and Scilab are not yet up to the task.

> That really pisses some people off. Others have gone and installed
>decent OSs on their PeeCees that very day. :)

I do prefer unix for my numerics work whenever I have a choice.
Still, my home PC is full of Win32 ports of Unix packages :-) .
No msoffice or anything like that if I can avoid it.



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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Tue Apr 10 2001 - 12:03:21 BST