[Gllug] Small rant

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:01:35AM +0000, John Hearns wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 08:15 +0800, Richard Cohen wrote:
> 
> 
> > Honestly, one of the hardest things for non-techies (i.e. my parents)
> > to get about computers is that no, you cannot just keep using it with
> > current software until it breaks.  For a long time, people were fed
> > with metaphors like "the software is like a video cassette, and the
> > hardware is like the VCR" which just doesn't stand up - yes, your
> > computer bought 5 years ago will keep running the same software until
> > it dies, but you can't just put today's software in it and expect it
> > to work - they honestly don't see the difference between today's beige
> > box and one from 5 years ago.  We see inside the box, all they see is
> > beige :-)
> Ah! I get it!  So you are saying that labelling operating systems as 95,
> 98, 2000, 2003 is a GOOD thing (*)
> Hoist by your own petard...
> 
> Seriously, I agree with what you say.
> Maybe we need number plates on the outside of the boxes.
> TW05 TUX (made in Taiwan in early part of 2005)

Oh, I now get it. That is why you need to buy new DRM compatible music systems
to play the new 'CDs' that are coming out. So you mean that I should stick
with my CD collection that I had before I bought my latest music player.

> (*) come to think of it....
> 
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Alain Williams
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