Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> On October 12, Sue & Francois wrote:
> > This may be off topic but I just have to brag
> > I just received my cobalt cube today whoo hoo.
> > Its is not 10 years old yet but has just been made obsolete by SUN who
> > bought Cobalt a couple of weeks ago.
> > It's brand new never openned in the original box.
> > I just can't wait to setup my server. But I have to for now though.
> > That's it
> > Thank you for reading, you may return to your normal occupation now.
>
> Wait a sec. Something you said made me stop and think for a minute.
> YOU, an individual, own a thing. An action by a completely separate
> group of individuals far far away have magically made the thing you
> own *obsolete*?
>
> How is it that we, as a society, can have this happen?
<MS Bashing>
I blame Microsoft. :-)
Actually in a way I do, as the hardware got faster and more memory was
available the apps got sloppier and became everything to everyone. Not
to single MS out I'll use Netscape as an example: Do we need to have our
mail program part of the Browser? The recent Mozilla release (18) looks
wonderful but cause Linux to swap like mad on a 64M box. I like Linux
(and Unix in general and it sounds like VMS too :-) because I could
make that which was obsolete under NT work just fine for Linux (you
would not believe how idle a 386SX/16MHz is running all my HA software
and a few other things).
We've thrown away being efficient for time to market and now we're starting
to see the environmental effect. Can anyone really see the need for a 233MHz
sprinkler controller?
</MS Bashing>
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Received on Sat Oct 14 2000 - 13:59:03 BST