From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 2 5:26:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0907A37B42B for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 05:25:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB2DPRx16911; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:25:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <00bc01c17b34$d2bcd0f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: "Mike Meyer" , References: <15367.37543.15609.362257@guru.mired.org><040701c179af$4bda25f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.43943.686638.723011@guru.mired.org><003301c179ea$8925d270$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15368.2156.193643.17139@guru.mired.org><005601c179f3$a4030640$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15368.5624.255357.964607@guru.mired.org><008901c17a30$7d084f40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15369.3159.548082.862287@guru.mired.org> <000f01c17ab1$1ac8c590$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011202002100.F18351@over-yonder.net> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:25:27 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew writes: > It gets me from Point A to Point B. That doesn't > mean that "better" would not be "better". It might be better, but you obviously don't need better, you only need good enough. And that's what you bought. > So, in other words, you have no desire to make > any task any easier/quicker/more efficient than > the absolute bare minimum you can concieve at > the moment. No. I have no desire to make any task any easier/quicker/more efficient than I want it to be. For example, Office 2000 probably has 1350 more features than the old copy of Office 97 that I run. It is probably a "better" product because of this. However, Office 97 is good enough for me, and since it is good enough for me, I don't need anything better. Some people--particularly the more rabid strains of computer geek--wonder how I can possibly survive with a five-year-old PC as my principal machine. I point out to them that this machine was the state of the art when I bought it, and blazingly fast. It was good enough. And since my needs today are the same, it is _still_ good enough, even though there are "better" machines out there (much faster, and so on). I originally bought a machine that would do everything I required, and since it did everything I required at high speed then, it still does everything I require at high speed today. But some geeks don't understand that the development of faster machines doesn't make my machine _slower_ or less adequate than it originally was. > See above mentioned "Bullkaka". Would you rather > drive a Ford Focus, or a BMW 750? I'll drive whichever is good enough for my requirements. I'm not very interested in motor vehicles, so that generally means whatever is inexpensive, safe, reliable, and economical. > Why would anybody want to drive a BMW? I've always wondered about that. > I run X on my workstation. Doesn't make it any > more 'insecure' than otherwise. Then why won't it run at secure_level=3? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message