On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:29:10 -0700 "H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote: > > Yet for whatever reason corporate types just love WebEx. Every meeting > and cow-orker's son's birthday party is on WebEx. Ugh. Nowadays I just > resort to looking over the cow-orker's shoulders when reviewing WebEx > videos instead of defiling my PC with that crap. >
If corporate types love it, you know it's bad: - Flash - Acrobat Reader - COBOL - PHP - VBScript / VisualBasic (ie, "Cobol of the 90's") - Visual SourceSafe - Lotus Notes - Blackboard (HUGE around colleges, or at least it was when I left) - Oracle (Even if it's not a terrible DBMS, it's certainly overpriced) > > [...] > > I miss the 80's: Devices worked and idiots didn't use computers. > > LOL... I agree with the sentiment. My dad has a pair of Apple II's > from the 80's, and they still work. He does his accounts on them > sometimes. I still have a IIc. The Apple II's, IMNSHO are the *one* worthwhile product line Apple's ever had. Probably b/c it's the only one (to my knowledge) that was more Woz than Jobs. Love those machines. I regret that I never have a chance to use it anymore. > Compared to a 3-year-old PC of today, which is probably > already dying a horrible death of HD failures, fan failures, CPU > overheating, software breakages that's gotten it into a state that > requires reformatting and reinstalling to fix. Heh, actually, my 10-year-old 32-bit single-core XP desktop is still going strong, and is in active use (though it has had some upgrades: more RAM, tons of HDD (totalling ~2.5TB), a SATA add-on card, a USB 2.0 add-on, a DVD-burner). Although as of a few months ago it's no longer my primary system since I got a super-cheap 2-core 64-bit laptop - the speed is nice on the rare occasion I deal with video, but the real killer feature is simply that it's a laptop.
