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Brian Danger Hicks <hick0142@tc.umn.edu>
Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:38:00 -0500
Re: [Pigdog] geekery
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commence Joab Jackson quotation:
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 16:54, Siduri wrote:
>
> >
> > At AC2004, forty-two leading futurists, technologists and business
> > strategists will explore the accelerating interconnectivity of the Physical
> > World,
>
> Pfft. I'm sick listening to pontificatin' interconnectivity futurists
> who couldn't do a SAMBA share between a Windows and Linux box. Too many
> people make a living off the quirk that the future is that it can't be
> fact-checked.
This is because the existance of, and continued updates to SAMBA is an
affront to everything you have to believe to be a futurist. To be a
futurist you have to believe that technology companies are too busy
making AMAZING NEW THINGS to go through the trouble of making sure
that PRODUCT A is incompatable with not only somebody else's PRODUCT
B, but also incompatable with older versions of PRODUCT A. And the
producers of PRODUCT B should be too busy making AMAZING NEW THINGS to
even bother to play the game of the producers of PRODUCT A. I
shouldn't have to wade through dense config files and out-of-date
HOWTOs every time Microsoft drops a new Service Pack just so my
roommate can listen to my ogg files. This should all be a SOLVED
PROBLEM, DAMNIT. We'll never have sexbots if everybody is too busy
obfuscating and de-obfuscating old protocols.
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Brian Hicks <mailto:hick0142@umn.edu>
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