Re: sad but true, Linux sucks, a bit

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

On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 12:13 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> 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.

Why does a manually wound coil for guitars does sound better than a
mechanically wounded coil does? The mechanically wound coil is more
precise! Don't underestimate human touch. The human brain is a
super-computer, no computer build by humans is able to compare with our
brains.