Re: I can't beleive this

["Steve Lamb" <morpheus@rpglink.com>]

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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 01:29:50 -0700, Ray wrote:

>hundreds of other examples from almost every large vendor but what it comes
>down to is that millions of people are throwing away good money on junk
>because they simply don't know any better.

    Name me a market where that isn't the case?  Computers, also, aren't the
only one where the mass marketed crap overtakes the technologically
superior.  Beta, anyone?

    I mean, look at all of the car manufacturers.  America, right now, is
buying mostly SUVs and pickup "trucks".  Most of these people will never see
anything *but* pavement, won't haul anything worth mentioning, and are
throwing away money on what is, in essence, utter crap for the task at hand.
That task is getting from point A to point B on nearly 100% paved surfaces.
Got kids, get a minivan, better cargo capacity.  Don't got kids, get a
semi-sports car since they were designed with performance on paved surfaces
in mind.  

    However, even in that market we're seeing the mass marketed crap taking
over compared to those who want something designed for the task at hand.
Aside from the Mustang, the Camero, and the Eclipse, how many real sports
cars are out there?  RX7, MX3, MX6...  I think the Nissan 300Z is gone.
But, hey, LEXUS has a "luxery" SUV out.  Lexus.  Luxery, Utility Vehicle.  I
don't get it, I really don't.  :/

>I've never had an application lock up Linux.  I have had individual programs
>lock up but everything else just keeps on working.   I have had a couple of
>hardware related problems but in my line of work I accumulate a lot of old
>hardware and usually try to recycle it.

    I've never seen an application lock Linux in the 3+ years I've run it.
I've only seen one application kill FreeBSD in the same 3+ years I've been
working at my ISP, and that was because of a known NFS bug in FreeBSD itself.
Everything else was hardware related.

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