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Subject: [OM] Re: This would never happen with your OM images
From: Manuel Viet <oly@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:24:55 +0200
Le mardi 14 Juin 2005 19:44, Walt Wayman a écrit :
>
> My wife crashed her computer last year by installing a Windoze update
> package.  We hauled it in to the neighbohood geek store and they were able
> to resurrect everything, though for the handsome sum of $375.  Talk about
> something you love to hate, a computer has to be number one.  If our SUVs
> were as undependable and unpredictable as our computers, there'd be horses
> grazing in the back yard.  :-)

May I respectfully disagree with your point ? Dependability of computers is 
very high when you buy (or use) top of the line parts, as you'd do in 
photography ; my best computer would make a 16 yo gamer laugh, but it's rock 
solid, built like a tank by people who knew what computing was (a DEC alpha 
433au). Next in line, with repectable computing power, comes a Compaq 
proliant bi-PIII, with raid disks. When it comes to predictability, computing 
is a science : unixes (including Mac OS X) perform well, windows is a pile of 
junk, because unix has been developped for more than 30 years with 
reliability in mind, and windows was developped with market deadlines in 
mind. Makes a huge difference in day to day use.

You can't expect computers to perform as well as high end cameras when you put 
the price of a point'n shoot in them.

-- 
Manuel Viet

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