At 06:01 PM 7/30/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Rather than fuel the ES fire, I'll be more sensible and say anyone who uses
>a Mac, Acorn series computer, or any other pretend home computer have
>just as many rocks in their head as Linux or BeOS fools who at least had
>the good sense to get a PC originally but went on to fill their HDs with
>c**p.
Oi! I resent that! :-)
>FYI- God= Bill Gates (MicroSoft)
You sad, sad person. Sure, be loyal if you want, but you can't be serious
when you call people who choose alternatives, even for alternatives sake,
rock-heads. Without alternatives and choice and competition, the market
breaks down and innovation recedes. I would say this is exactly what
happened in the PC market from the late eighties to the mid-nineties. Were
it not for the popularism of the Internet and the resurgence of innovators
like Sun and Apple and Linus Torvalds, we'd probably all be years behind in
technological advance. My point is: Microsoft would stand still if they
could, and to a great degree, they have. And without Intel burning the
floor, they would be going backwards.
And to put this on topic, I think End Search is kind of cool. It allows me
to search for a song in the second half of a disc more rapidly- almost like
making it two sided- like a tape. :-) Of course, a numeric entry would be
better, but when are we likely to see that on a portable?
My two cents,
Kade- still an Acorn user, so with a computer much less pretentious than
yours.
--
Archer
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/6413/
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