"Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein)"
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> wrote in message
> Just because most people are morons doesn't mean I have to be one,
> too. Have you ever compared the image quality of a Betamax to VHS?
*years* ago when I had both.
Most people who were into video big time were of the opinion that Betamax
was better, but I couldn't tell the difference.
> Same with Winblows. I don't mind using it as a client, but no way in
> hell I'd deploy it as a server.
It would depend on largely what you wanted to do.
For a high end server Linux is unbeatable, but for an end user it's about
as
useful as wax toilet paper. Walk into any computer shop looking for
software
and you'll find *rows* of **** for Windows to suit every possible need and
next to nothing for Linux, and that's it's biggest problem. If it was
anywhere near as well sup****ted in the software department it'd put
Microsoft out of business over night.
Whenever these discussions come up I'm reminded of a friend of mine who
had
an old Sun Micrographics machine (I think that's what it was) that he
bought
at an auction after it was de-commissioned. He used to brag about it
having
a 21 inch monitor (back in the days when most high end PC's had a 15 inch
CRT monitor) and how it's Silicon Graphics video card cost 311 grand when
it
was new.
As "funky" as all that high end machinery was all it could do was run
Linux,
and about all that allowed him to do was turn it on and admire it's
beauty.
The rest of us Windows 3.1 users were actually enjoying ourselves :)
> By the way, believe it or not, the BetaMAX "market" is still alive,
> albeit only among high-end users of video cassettes. A friend of
> mine's father repairs BetaMAX recorders ****pped to him from all over
> the world, and he is making $$$ hand over fist. Last time I saw his
> entertainment room, he had 9 studio quality betamax recorders stacked
> on each other, with a robotic assembly that fed the systems blank
> tapes when the tapes in the recorders become full.
Given the price, speed, reliability and availability of hard disc
recording
devices these days, you'd have to wonder why anyone would bother with
*any*
kind of tape.
Still, it doesn't surprise me. I mean, to keep it topical for this group
(being aus.cars), there are people who insist Alfa make a great car and
worthy of spending money on.
The rest of us just laugh :)
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Regards,
Noddy.
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