Rob Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:08:20AM +0000, s. keeling wrote: > > > > 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. > > Are you kidding? I can get for free (out of a dump) a computer that 30 > years ago people would have killed to own; that 50 years ago governments > would have killed to own. Of course, 30 or 50 years ago, nobody was > running Windows, so let the arguments about "better" continue...
That's great, isn't it? My latest box is a PIII-733 that I picked up for C$69.00. I paid C$3500.00 for the same thing new in a laptop five years ago. With Vista (Ptooooo!) coming in, we can expect a lot of great "trash" coming our way soon. :-) -- 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]
