From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 23 12:14: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC7214C12 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:13:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27109; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:13:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:13:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n65.san.rr.com To: David Schwartz Cc: Summoner , chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Why We Should All Use Microsoft Software In-Reply-To: <000401bed53b$3685fcd0$021d85d1@youwant.to> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > > > Scary thing is, I swear I've heard an MS-addicted friend of mine say > > almost the same things on multiple occassions. The really funny > > thing is he's always complaining about his machine crashing multiple > > times each day. > > > > Some people actually think that computers just "crash all the time", > period. Yeah, sadly that's one of microsoft's legacies, and actually an impression that they actively try to foster. I was explaining to my dad that I have servers that don't reboot for months at a time, until I update the software on them. He was flabbergasted. I also read a very interesting article on the impending doom in the japanese macro economy. One of the very senior banking executives that they interviewed said that part of the problem is that the current crop of "young" (by japanese standards) executives have learned disturbing habits from there experiences with computers and video games. I can't do justice to the quote, but it was something to the effect that they have learned that when things crash, all you have to do is hit the reset button. In context it was quite chilling. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message