On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:08:20AM +0000, s. keeling wrote: > 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. Are you kidding? I can get for free (out of a dump) a computer that 30 years ago people would have killed to own; that 50 years ago governments would have killed to own. Of course, 30 or 50 years ago, nobody was running Windows, so let the arguments about "better" continue... -- Rob p.s - on the original subject, http://www.bfmartin.ca/finder/ really helps.
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