On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 07:15:53 -0400 Douglas Quebbeman
<dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com> writes:
> We had a kid in the neighborhood who was a great show-off...
> he used to ride his bicycle head-on at cars, doing a wheely,
> then veer off at the last second.
Hey! That could have been me! We put together a bike from
misc parts, but didn't have a proper rear wheel (a 'front' wheel
was substituted). The result? The Kamikaze Bike:
No Brakes. No Pedals. No Fear. I piloted that sucker down the
street in front of our house (it was a fairly steep hill).
I crashed and burned into a hedge at the bottom, but oooooh
what a rush.
> I figured if he survived to adulthood, then there'd be a
> job in marketing for him.
Well, I survived into adulthood, and became a programmer--
go figure.
> Marketing merely raises the ultimate costs of a product, so
> perhaps you'll understand why I don't have a very high
> opinion of it. Or of a generation or programmers who rose
> to serve marketing's needs.
Marketing has another *very* undesirable effect-- It allows
lousy products to succeed, and good products to fail (for
lack of).
I would rant and rave about how these 'successful' products
then frequently become 'standards', but I won't beat that rotting,
stinking horse anymore.
OB Classic:
Yesterday I scored a VaxStation 4000/90 with 2 x 600mb drives,
and 128Mb of RAM (or thereabouts-- it has 8 x 16Mb simms).
Jeff
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Received on Thu Aug 16 2001 - 08:20:01 BST