Re: sad but true, Linux sucks, a bit

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 12:05 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:58:11PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 17:36 +0000, Iain M Conochie wrote:
> > > Gazing into my crystal ball, there will be a 3D interface that will
> > > blow us all away, and the kids will laugh at us for using a mouse /
> > > keyboard.
> > 
> > Not necessarily! We eat using classic knifes since several hundred years
> > and btw. a good knife isn't produced by a computer controlled machine,
> > but handcrafted by a craftsman.
> 
> But these, sure as hell, aren't sold in grocery stores.

Correct! And I suspect that it isn't allowed to sell and buy a good
knife in Germany anymore without a "firearms licence" (this joke doesn't
work in German, we don't have a "firearms licence", here it's called
"weapon license"). IOW to get a good pastry chef's knife you need the
same "weapon license" you need for a katana or pump gun. So people are
used to use carp to cut a steak and they win the impression, that
computer controlled machines can punch out good tools ... they simply
don't know how good the quality of tools was just a few decades ago and
they believe all the hype that in the digital age everything is better.
It simply isn't better, quality of technology nowadays is as worse as it
never was before, let alone social quality. When did they build the
first katana ;)?