Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:24:16 03/02/00
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dear jeroen: That sounds very lirical: the frontiers to be reached, the mountains to be climbed "because they are there", etc. Well, is also somewhat lunatic. If only we lived 1000 years or if only the day had 56 hours. What in fact happens is that beyond certain decent limit, anything else you get does not help you to improve nothing, but precisely the contrary. You lose your time learning how to use he new program instead of using better the old one. Or even you does not play anymore "because they are so strong anyway" and then you expend hours of that limited resource that is time, the only thing Bill Gates or IM will not give to you nor will update for you, looking how a program beats another program and then running to this site to tell the news. The theory of "let' s go forward to see what happens, without limits" is OK for the humanity, not for individual human beings. We have not the time humanity probably has. So our problem is how to get a good mix between our resources, scarce time and a decently good tool to get the most. And clearly this mix is awfully wronged if you lose the perspective and put too much weight in just the tool. Of course I say all this not as a liberator, but as a sinner. It will be not me who will stop buying, but at least I have a clear idea of how bousterous it is, not to say insane. from one mad to a companion of lunacy Fernando
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