15 Sep
2007
15 Sep
'07
6:40 p.m.
On 15 Sep 2007 at 13:02, M H Stein wrote:
Funny how on the one hand I read the sentiment here
that people should be required
to pass a course in advanced computer science before being allowed to plug in a
computer, and then that they should be so simple to hook up that a retarded^H^H^H^H
mentally-challenged blind^H^H^H vision-impaired chimpanzee could do it;
just no pleasing some folks...
I dunno, Mike. I'm generally capable of operating most any computer,
but my eyesight is terrible (and not getting any better with age).
I'd sure as heck would like the assurance that whatever plug I'm
sticking into a receptacle at least isn't going to result in "magic
smoke" (see my earlier comment on wall wart perversion) even if I
didn't quite read the label on the box correctly.
Making this vintage--does anyone remember the competitions the Eagle
used to run, taking a bunch of people off the street, presenting each
with a boxed Eagle (III, I think) and timing them to see how quickly
they could set the thing up. IIRC, the record was in the sub-one
minute range.
This was in Eagle's glory days, before Barnhart mistakenly concluded
that speed really doesn't kill...
Cheers,
Chuck