On 10/21/10 1:58 PM, "Wallace Adrian D'Alessio" <fluxstrin...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Richard Gerome <onecoolka...@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hey Brian, I agree with you on that it is cool but: why is it we can't
>> still run our old machines too without more trouble whenever they come out
>> with faster and better stuff??? I don't care if it's slower I just want to do
>> what I always did... They force us to buy the newer stuff by making our older
>> stuff run worse... I have a friend with an old TiBook running Panther who
>> can't use it anymore and he can not afford to upgrade it to Tiger and get few
>> more yrs out of it... He lives in South America and I've been looking for a
>> Tiger disc and more memory for him cheap enough for me to afford and mail it
>> to him so we can still stay in touch by emails and Scipe (mailing him letters
>> would prob take a week from the USA) and by then the news up here to him is
>> too late... Not only are some of us retired and living on fixed incomes some
>> of us had to file for bankruptcy and are not making anything at all... In his
>> case he lost his home and business and had to move back with his relatives
>> down there... Us poor people always have to suffer and get creative just to
>> keep up... Today you need a computer to get a job because they are now
>> online... They don't even hire you now because they do a credit check too
>> ("hey I'm here for a job not a loan") I got into this credit problem because
>> of loosing my job in the first place... WTF is this all about???
>
> Content with prettier eye candy sells ideas If you cannot keep up with the
> current "style" your content looks flaky and suspect. Think here of
> mimeographed political flyers when Xerox came out. The medium in itself is a
> semaphore subtexting and toning whatever it expresses.
>
> Rather than the democratizing effect that personal computers should have, if
> you cannot keep up financially your ability to put a message out is
> compromised.
>
> Your comments about the struggle on the street level I can well identify
> with.
> Steve jobs has lost touch with the needs of the masses he sought in the old
> days.
>
Thank you.
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