Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards
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hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 07:30:11PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> On Monday 14 August 2006 11:04, Seth Goodman wrote:
>>> On Monday, August 14, 2006 6:20 AM -0500, George Borisov wrote:
>>>> Anthony M Simonelli wrote:
[snip]
> There's a peculiar phenomenon I discovered in the late 70's. People who
> have trouble with their computers (in the places I dealt with it was
> large mainframe CDC machines) are very reluctant to switch, because they
> see themselves having to go through the whole ordeal again -- at least
> they *know* how they have to twist themselves into weird shapes to get
> along on the old systems. They just won't believe things could be
> better with another system.
It's called:
the Devil you know is better than the Devil you don't know.
A very powerful, and often practical, mindset.
> Only when they are forced to switch by
> powerful external forces (in my cases, this was usually to a VAX.
> IN one case even a PDP-11 runing Unix was superior to a CDC
> mainframe) will they realize what a trap they had been in.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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