I try to get too depressed looking at the news, but with 10 dead American soldiers over the weekend, I have to speak out. When will the madness stop? Are we really going to try to hand over Iraq in less than 3 months? Who really thinks the country WON’T end up in cival war as soon as we leave? It is all madness, based on lies, by an un-elected president. Another thing, you think one solid month of job growth will counter almost FOUR YEARS of losses. The jobs that were created were all low paying, service jobs. I’m sorry, a 7 dollar an hour job just can’t replace my 23 dollar an hour job.
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Stuck in a rut
Computers and the high tech world are stuck in a rut. The computing world is boring. Is there anything you can do today that you couldn’t really do 10 years ago? Listen to music? Make movies? Well, people were doing that over 100 years ago. Organize your life? Keep notes? Need a tablet PC to do that? Not really, you can do it with a sheet of paper. I have watched computers grow from the 64k machines of my childhood to the multi-gigahertz machines of today, and I am amazed how little more you can do with computers now. Except for the internet (but there were BBS’s and e-mail back then), there has not been much change. I still use a word processor, which is still not really WYSIWYG. I still use spreadsheets, and I still play games. All the same things I was doing when I was 11 years old. In fact, some things were easier back then, like drawing programs. I loved drawing on the old computers. Now I hate it. We need something new, something you really can’t do in the real world. I don’t know what it is, but whoever comes up with it will be a billionaire.
Posted by admin on April 6, 2004 in General Comments, Linux
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