On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 21:02:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 08:06:01PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
So my computer died on me again last week and I had to buy new
hardware. I was forced to update the software to run the new
hardware... and it is painful.
I have a high distrust of brand new *hardware*, because they
inevitably
are gratuitously incompatible with my current software and
require
new-fangled OSes bloated with features I never use. Because of
this, I
only ever upgrade once every 5 years (if not longer). And when
I do,
I'll be sure to spend plenty of time researching what hardware
isn't
horribly broken or requires a specific version of a specific OS
and
doesn't work with anything else. Vendor lock-in is evil.
I hate all software and have learned that if I want a job done
right,
I have to do it myself. Rarely, I find other people's software
is OK
with some slight modifications, so I try to do that.
I don't trust computers, I've spent too long programming to
think that they can get anything right. -- James Miller
:-)
I always find it amusing when people say "It was done with a
computer, it must be correct!" Yeah, sure.
