29 Mar
2018
29 Mar
'18
2:24 p.m.
> HOWEVER, a variant of "Boyle's Law"
warns that software and content
> will expand to fit all available space and speed.
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, allison via cctalk wrote:
We have proof and it is us.
Or, as Walt Kelly ("Pogo") said, "We have met the enemy, and he is
us."
I posited that 2 decades ago in a wired article.? My
CP/M machine booted
in seconds while waiting for
the winders box to decide if it would/could.
"The new machine is so much faster, that it can almost get out of its own
way!"
It is hideous.?? But you need the picture. <insert
snark>
How should I react to the college administator who told me, "You're not
seeing the big picture"? :-) I was considering defenestration.
HTML has
helped that along.
HTML is not nearly so bad its slightly bigger than runoff only
wordier.
However that we need HTML for a screen of text is, yes, bad!
I blame WYSISWYG, and Postscript!? WYGINS? (for those that forgot, What
You Get Is No Surprise)
from the days before high resolution printers. > One college administrator managed that with ease.?
He created the memo
> . . .
> But, that was almost a decade ago.? I wonder whether he is now
> attaching MP4s?
Eep, the man is batty.
I feel guilty about not having defenestrated the college administration.
Dancing
kangaroos and yodelling jellyfish has let form triumph over
content!?? When will we finally have smell-o-vision?
Please no, smell-o-vision.? I
can see the hackers going for the cross
between skunk, pepperspray,
and some toxic chemical mess. ? Obviously a Blacktooth perpiheral. Yes,
certainly, the hardware is much faster, and has more storage space.
Yet, the task takes longer, and storage space runs out just as quickly.
Thats the
whole sad story.?? It is why I still run CP/M, RT-11 and even
a DECMate!? All hail fanfold!
Allison