Hello all.... If enough of you cared to move to Apple / Mac and the software followed, there would be no need for these kind of discussions. Long Live OS X! Dick W5AK On Oct 20, 2006, at 7:09 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Jim sez: >> In many ways, as far as PCs go, most people still treat them like the >> early days of the industrial revolution, with one prime mover and >> shafts and belts to power all the machines. At least for >> microcomputers, they're embedded and invisible. To take the analogy >> further, dual boot solutions are like the farmer with the PTO on the >> tractor. You can either thresh corn or bale hay, but not both at >> the same >> time. > > Bear with me, I'll make my point here eventually, but first a > farmer joke. > The equipment salesman is showing the farmer the new GPS guided > tractor, the > farmer asks if his farm hand will be able to run the tractor, to > which the > salesman replies, "Fella' takes a man and a dog in the cab at the > same time > to run this rig. The man is there to feed the dog and the dog is > there to > bite the man if he touches any of the controls" > > This joke is not so crazy as it sounds. My Almonds Orchards were > planted > with just such a system made by Raven Technologies. It was sort of > Halloween > weird to watch the tractor navigate the planting machinery thru the > morning > fog down rows 1/4 mile long to an accuracy of better than a 1/2 > inch. Micro > controllers, and full blown computing systems are everywhere now in > Agriculture. They control irrigation systems with remote water > monitors, > compute evpotranspriation rates with data collected from the internet > weather and turn on an off sprinkler systems over entire sections > of land. > Then report back status to the farmer (manager as we now call > them) on cell > phones. > > But here's the bottom line. You can make all the quaint old farmer > in his > blue bib overall jokes you want, but no farmer I know is so stupid > as to > send Raven Controls Inc. money two or three or four times tomorrow > for the > controller software that they already bought ONCE yesterday! > > If you want this nonsense from MS to stop, you just have to say > NO ! No > Vista, no pay XP again and again as a result of the phone home spy > spyware.. > Like the bumper stickers you used to see "JUST SAY NO!" > > -Dan K6KDK > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
