19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
8:38 a.m.
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jan 19, 2010, at 2:14 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
What kind of people offer such machines?
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Yester I was listening to the government owned
radio and there was a man
interviewed regarding a report of computer usage in schools. The
otherwise wellinformed man said that Sweden is among the top countries
when it comes to number of computers in schools, but that the computers
are getting old, and I translate: "They are on average three years old,
and as we know things get a bit crufty then"
What load of *beep*, the advertisers mentioned above have really driven
their message home!
Consumers in our society are extremely well-trained.
I am regularly offered 2+GHz Pentium-4 machines because it has gotten around
that I'm into "vintage computing". Scary.