Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:16 -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > >> Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up= > > >> to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a > >> real computer." > > > > http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg :-) > > Odd, the strip says ``go buy yourself a /better/ computer''. I would > have sworn a might oath that the original said ``real computer'', as > ChadDavis says. That's how Neil Stephenson quotes it in ``In the > Beginning was the Command Line''[1], and I think it's better that way.
He's suggesting a nickel would get him a better computer than what he's using. That's a pretty damning indictment. A nickel can't buy a computer in any way, shape or form. Always loved that strip from the first time I saw it. Great to see it again. Thx. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
