"HeyBub" <heybub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Pete Dashwood wrote:
>> "HeyBub" <heybub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:13ss610qeihllca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Pete Dashwood wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> As noted above, if you decide to leverage some of your "old"
>>>> equipment and hit problems, I'm really happy to help. This has been
>>>> a really fun project... :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Cool. If you want a hobby. With lickty-split computers, pre-laden
>>> with Vista, available for under $300, it's not economical to put a
>>> 386 machine on life-sup****t.
>>
>> Actually, I never suggested using a 386 machine, although I would if
>> it made sense. Pentium 3 (petesp3 is actually an AMD equivalent) on
>> the other hand is quite a serious processor. How can spending $300 be
>> more "economical" than spending nothing :-)?
>
> The same way that driving across two county lines to save twenty-five
> cents on a bunch of bananas is. But see below.
>
I understand your gasoline cost could be more than 25c, but with the $300
I
can do it WITHOUT driving across two county lines. The bananas are sitting
ignored in my refrigerator.
>
>>
>> You would have to pay ME $300 to take a machine with Vista on it,
>> "lickety-split" or otherwise... (Did you see the recently released
>> email exchanges between senior MS executives, regarding Vista? Glad
>> to know that the user community was not the only sector affected by
>> this farce. I like MS and I use their products regularly, with a high
>> degree of satisfaction, but Vista is just a joke... Hopefully,
>> Windows 7 will rectify the damage. If it doesn't, I'll be going
>> Linux.)
>
> Consider the book: "Systems of Survival." The author makes the point
that
> an appropriate commercial mindset is "Dissent for the sake of the task,"
> in which disaffection and controversy make for a better product.
> Contrary-wise, the guardian syndrome is "Assent for the sake of the
task."
>
> Linux has (according to the last statistics I've seen) 0.86% of the
> desktop market. But, given your proclivity for breathing life into
expired
> non-living things, you might be quite comfortable with a knock-off of a
> 40-year old operating system designed by a money-losing division of the
> telephone company and enhanced by troglodytes who earnestly believed the
> DOS-command line was not archaic enough.
:-)
I'll see, if the need arises...
>
> If you're not using Vista, then you're suckin' hind tit.
But it tastes sooooooo good......... :-)
>
> And I'm not just saying that because I'm a Micros~1 stockholder.
>
Because you're a satisfied Vista user? Get together with all the other
satisfied Vista users in your community, I'm sure there's a handy phone
box
where you could have a meeting :-)
>
>>
>> Hmmm... that's a point I hadn't considered. As my earnings have been
>> close to negligible in the last tax year, it isn't a problem, but
>> definitely worth considering once I start generating revenue again.
>
> Your earnings are negligible because you spend your productive hours
> refurbi****ng antiquated computers, electric typewriters, and manual
> butter-churns.
Not at all. My earnings have been negligible because I didn't need to
generate any more money and chose to take time out for a year and relax
and
enjoy the summer, instead. Besides, the tax breaks are great...:-) I have
to
admit, the butter churns were not a great seller...:-)
I can't quite afford to retire permanently just yet, but I almost can. (If
not for an expensive divorce some years back I would've retired years
ago).
It is im****tant to maintain balance between life and work. Both are
im****tant.
> If I had that much spare time, I'd stand on the side of the road with a
> sign: "Will work for ***."
Sigh... some of us have to work for *** all of our lives, Jerry :-)
>
> It's much more efficient just to pay for three minutes.
>
This from a man who won't drive across two county lines to save on
bananas... :-)
>
>
>>
>> I'm not suggesting people shouldn't buy new equipment. More that, as
>> computer professionals, we should be able to leverage more use out of
>> the equipment we have.
>
> You may have a point. I once saw an article that advocated making
> developers use the crappiest machines that could still light up so the
> developers would have an appreciation for the user's experience.
Thank you. I'm definitely in favour of developers having the user
experience, but perhaps not quite so drastically as to give them worn out
tools...:-)
>
Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
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