Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:31:46AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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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.
>
But it often works out as the Devil you know is better than the angel you don't know.
-- hendrik
P.S. There's room for a long off-topic rant about demons being fallen angels, but
it might be better not to pursue it -- unless, of course, it has some relevance to
Debian.
> > 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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