On Jul 30, 2009, at 3:01 PM, ktn wrote:
Actually I think Nabble is great for those of us who can't handle
the traffic of the whole mailing list.
I dunno, I looked at Nabble once when i was away from my computer and
wanted to see quickly if there was a reply to a thread. The only word
that came to mind was 'cesspit'. It's better than phpBB, but that is
what is known as 'damning with faint praise'.
But then again, I am naturally inclined against web-boards and the like.
And I wonder, what has REALLY gotten better since the '80s? Google,
cell phones, and Priuses is all I can think of off the top of my
head. Powershell seems like Bash finally invented for Windows...
Well, bash has gotten a lot better since the 80's. And OS X is a lot
better than System V. FreeBSD is quite nice. I'll take slrn over rn/
trn any day, and just about any mail client over mail/mailx/pine/elm.
Also, vim/nvi is a lot nicer than vi and nano is better than either
unless you are hardwired for vi like I am. We have procmail now, long-
in-the-tooth as it is, and well, OS X over any 80's OS, not even close.
In the 80's I was using 300baud modems and 1200 (!!!) baud modems to
get online, and that was in the LATE 80's. Today I have ~20Mbit
downstream. Yes, a little over 2 Megabytes per SECOND.
Cameras are a lot better and don't need film. TV is better (both in
image quality and quality and quantity of shows). I have an 80" screen
for my projector, that's better.
Eyeglasses are a lot better, as are casts for broken bones and pretty
much every surgery you can think of. MRIs are better, heck, the entire
medical field has gone through a sea change in the 30 years.
In fact, not much has gotten worse. Music, especially the music
business is a lot worse, but it was already on the downslope by the
early 80's. Politics, yeah... big slide there. but in terms of
technology? I would never go back.
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