On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 01:07:55PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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 ;)? This really belongs on the OT list but I'll reply anyway. Ralph, do you think monks in a Carpathian monastery lovingly hand crafting parts can maintain the same tolerances as CNC machinery can? Or are you against interchangeability? Assuming they could hold these tolerances, how many people/companies could/would pay for them? Face it. You can only take this "good old days" schtik so far. -- Bob Holtzman Your mail is being read by tight lipped NSA agents who fail to see humor in Doctor Strangelove Key ID 8D549279
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