Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux
Max Hyre <max@hyre.net>:
> Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:16 -0700, ChadDavis wrote:
> >> Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up=
>
> >> to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a
> >> real computer."
> >
> > http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg :-)
>
> Odd, the strip says ``go buy yourself a /better/ computer''. I would
> have sworn a might oath that the original said ``real computer'', as
> ChadDavis says. That's how Neil Stephenson quotes it in ``In the
> Beginning was the Command Line''[1], and I think it's better that way.
He's suggesting a nickel would get him a better computer than what he's
using. That's a pretty damning indictment. A nickel can't buy a
computer in any way, shape or form.
Always loved that strip from the first time I saw it. Great to see it
again. Thx.
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