Klarinet Archive - Posting 000809.txt from 1999/11

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Dichotomitis (rant)
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 16:23:11 -0500

From: "Audrey Travis" <vsofan@-----.com>
> Boy, am I ever glad I bought an iMac. It was already Y2K friendly when I
bought
> it in August. Of course, with planned obsolescense (how the heck DO you
spell
> that word?!) it may not last too much past the new year, but at least I'll
still
> expect and look forward to getting the klarinet list on Jan. 1, 2000.

You mean like the iMac that I bought my son in August? The one that was
superceded by the _new_ iMac? The one I spent $1250 on and then they lowered
the price to $900 a couple of months later? The iMac that runs slower than
almost all the el cheapo PCs plugged into Case Western's fiber system when
on the Internet? The one that shows a bomb pretty often?

Like Apple's any better than anything else ...

The Y2K thing isn't a hardware thing, folks. It's a software thing, and in
most cases on older PCs it's going to be an annoyance more than anything -
my 486 is going to be running just fine, I'm just not going to pay attention
to the date (I don't anyway - the clock was running slow, so I just keep it
back at 1995).

Lelia's complaint about having to upgrade all the time is a bit specious
IMHO - if it was "good enough" 5 or 6 years ago, why isn't it "good enough"
today if you're using it for, let's say, word processing? Oh - you mean you
want to surf the Web now? You want that word processor with more goodies?
That accounting program to keep track of all those royalty dollars ( :^) ?

Oh - you mean you want it to do _more_ than it did 5 years back? Ahhh -
there's the rub!

Mark C.

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