Of course one can fool oneself into thinking that one is not contributing a lot to the general pollution from computers by upgrading infrequently!
I am sitting behind my Mirror Door "Wind-Tunnel" dual-processor G4 feeling all smug because I have had it for nearly 4 years and, at present, am extremely happy with it. and wondering why I am the victim of noise pollution :) - boy, oh boy, does this thing growl! I suppose that that 'nice man' Mr Jobs will, eventually make system upgrades that will only work with the Intel Macs . . . My PCs that run Ubuntu Linux are all ex-government stock from Germany - so, until the gypsies in Plovdiv (Bulgaria) get their hands on them (and I hope the PCs are good for another 5 years) I am 'delaying the pollutive effect'. And, while I am being pompous (nothing new here) I should like to remind one and all that when I am on holiday at my house in Scotland I do any stray word-processing I have to do on my BBC micro (22 years and counting). The GREENPEACE website offers QT movies that show old computers being broken down by people in the most basic conditions - now I know that Greenpeace are basically left-wing and quasi-socialist in their political stance - and I am not! - and I don't feel sorry in the slightest for the people featured in Greenpeace's films - however, I do feel sorry for their children who were unable to chose parents with better social and financial advantages. So it would seem that the way to sort out PART of the problem would be for a crafty businessman to set up decent recycling plants in India and China and offer those poor sods work - and then if they want to go on working the way they are at present they will only have themselves to blame. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson ____________________________________________________________ "Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of meanings users attach to words and phrases." Mathewson, 2006 ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution