[rescue] Perverse Question

[Dave McGuire]

On Sunday, June 15, 2003, at 09:51 PM, Eric Josephson wrote:
>>    Someone once told me "it's a Windows world".  Funny...I live and
>> breathe computers all day and all night long, and I don't use it.
>>
>>    It's all a matter of perspective...if all you use are x86 boxes, 
>> it's
>> easy to think that's all there is in the computing world.  I don't
>> think anyone in this forum, for example, is enough of a "sheep" to
>> think the Internet runs on a bunch of PCs.
>
> Sure, I can ignore it at home: just fire up the hppa-nextstep box and
> do some time travel back to the 90s.
>
> The trouble is if and when I find work again, I'll undoubtedly find
> myself plopped in front of a wintel box for x hours/week.  Sure,
> using wintel stresses me out, and programming it outright pisses
> me off, but it beats being homeless and hungry.

   It's all a matter of standards.  I'll flip burgers before I'll run an 
x86 box in production.  And you know what?  I've never flipped burgers, 
and I never will.

   And I'm not as smart as half the people here...which means nobody 
here has any excuse.

         -Dave

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