> From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Or, there is the argument that "I paid about as much for this computer as I > did for my refrigerator, and all I had to do with the refrigerator was > bring it home and plug it in and it worked fine for the next ten years > without my doing anything to it. If I'm going to spend that much for an > appliance, it darn better well work just as well for at just as long > without me having to fix it every few days." >
Computers are several orders of magnitude more complex than refrigerators, the same way a NASA shuttle is more complex than a catapult. Just the CPU has how many hundred million switches? > > And then there are the cases where Junior uses Daddy's computer while Daddy > is out of town (despite explicit instructions not to do so), and of course > Junior opens the e-mail promising an "Awesome screen-saver" . . . _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
