14 Apr
2013
14 Apr
'13
5:40 p.m.
On 22-feb-2013 20:09, Murray McCullough wrote:
Should we be surprised at how and why
classic-computing, this site in
particular, is so popular amongst the hobbyist/experimenter community
today? There is a modicum of control that?s lacking in today?s
computing, or computing-like, technology. Granted it?s ?easier? to
use/employ, nearly by all; everything, or almost, done without
consumer input but turning the infernal beast on. Or, maybe not with
the ?intelligence agents? been employed today! And even our computers
I dare say going this route. Automatic updates, etc., etc.,
happen?Making a computer or otherwise do what you want it to do,
rather than say an Apple or something akin, is fast becoming a thing
of the past. Freedom. Let?s hope it?s not pass? either!
If you ask me, computing itself is something of the past. What is
actually 'computed' nowadays on the tons of worthless 'smart phones'
and other nonsensical wastes of cycles and electricity?
I'm not even near as old as some of those posting here and I'm
already bittered (or was, certainly, more so a while back).
I've come to accept that it's a consumerist culture where
everything is disposable. (In this supposedly 'more and more'
"green" world.) So, I've started not to care much and not
attach to much to a computer.
I do have these SGIs here to remind me of better times, with
one still very capable (SGI Tezro) to actually do some work
on.
- MG