-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 07:30:11PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Monday 14 August 2006 11:04, Seth Goodman wrote: >>> On Monday, August 14, 2006 6:20 AM -0500, George Borisov wrote: >>>> Anthony M Simonelli wrote: [snip] > There's a peculiar phenomenon I discovered in the late 70's. People who > have trouble with their computers (in the places I dealt with it was > large mainframe CDC machines) are very reluctant to switch, because they > see themselves having to go through the whole ordeal again -- at least > they *know* how they have to twist themselves into weird shapes to get > along on the old systems. They just won't believe things could be > better with another system.
It's called: the Devil you know is better than the Devil you don't know. A very powerful, and often practical, mindset. > Only when they are forced to switch by > powerful external forces (in my cases, this was usually to a VAX. > IN one case even a PDP-11 runing Unix was superior to a CDC > mainframe) will they realize what a trap they had been in. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE4drSS9HxQb37XmcRAmI9AKDVQvKp0aohkUwcKY7tknNYjtosbwCfZLxA 4cL3roQ4Wk4KVDQFoWStBZ8= =CdCz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]