From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:00:42 +0200 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9v3 won't start (PBS...Bad format or I/O error) Message-ID: <20000716180042.A19944@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <200007131534.LAA20007@er6.rutgers.edu> <396E2AD7.F1D6E5D6@arl.army.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <396E2AD7.F1D6E5D6@arl.army.mil>; from Douglas A. Gwyn on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:17:27AM +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dea41bfe-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:17:27AM +0000, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote: > > Have you ever noticed how practically everything in this field > keeps getting modified until its good features are submerged, > then it stabilizes so we are stuck with the crufty version forever. It's a marketing ploy (think back to the automobile industry of the '50s for a precedent) and it works. My personal corollary is that the technofreak, a person who has to have tomorrow's technology at all costs, is best explained as someone who does not understand today's technology and prays that tomorrow's technology will be easier. It is technofreaks that drive the market. ++L