On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:31:46AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 07:30:11PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On Monday 14 August 2006 11:04, Seth Goodman wrote: > >>> On Monday, August 14, 2006 6:20 AM -0500, George Borisov wrote: > >>>> Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > [snip] > > There's a peculiar phenomenon I discovered in the late 70's. People who > > have trouble with their computers (in the places I dealt with it was > > large mainframe CDC machines) are very reluctant to switch, because they > > see themselves having to go through the whole ordeal again -- at least > > they *know* how they have to twist themselves into weird shapes to get > > along on the old systems. They just won't believe things could be > > better with another system. > > It's called: > the Devil you know is better than the Devil you don't know. > > A very powerful, and often practical, mindset. >
But it often works out as the Devil you know is better than the angel you don't know. -- hendrik P.S. There's room for a long off-topic rant about demons being fallen angels, but it might be better not to pursue it -- unless, of course, it has some relevance to Debian. > > Only when they are forced to switch by > > powerful external forces (in my cases, this was usually to a VAX. > > IN one case even a PDP-11 runing Unix was superior to a CDC > > mainframe) will they realize what a trap they had been in. > > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > Is "common sense" really valid? > For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that > whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins > are mud people. > However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFE4drSS9HxQb37XmcRAmI9AKDVQvKp0aohkUwcKY7tknNYjtosbwCfZLxA > 4cL3roQ4Wk4KVDQFoWStBZ8= > =CdCz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
