[geeks] The One True Rant (was: um, hi. I'm new.)

[Gary Nichols]

Have you ever considered a second career as a minister Dave?

Preach it brother! yeeeaaaassss!

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   This is not the issue.  I couldn't care less what other people do for
> themselves, and I'm _quite_ aware that I'm the only person over whom I
> have any control.  The problem comes from the fact that what these
> people buy into (and sell to their bosses) affects what happens in the
> industry, and by extension, to the science of computing.  THAT is what
> I care about...and THAT is what these morons are ruining when they run
> around selling poor technology (i.e. PeeCees) to people who don't know
> any better...teaching them that, for example, they need to reboot
> their machines a several times a day "because that's just the way
> computers are".  They give the whole field a bad name.