On Feb 28, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Alan Rudy wrote:
> Let's turn it again... aren't the following among the primary
> driving forces
> behind the need for ever-greater computer speed and capacity 1) the
> staggeringly bloated size of the dominant operating system, 2) the
> ridiculously fractured niches of proprietary software, 3) the
> hegemony of
> the freestanding (rather than cooperatively networked) home/laptop
> computer
> and 4) our society's capital-driven incapacity to develop or satisfy
> our own
> video, musical, sexual, and friend-ly needs within our own immediate,
> uncommodified relationships?
1) I use a Mac, 2) I think the software I use is pretty good, 3) I like having my own computer, and don't want to share it with anyone else, and 4) I'm very happy with my uncommodified relationships, but I love being able to get/listen to good music performed by highly skilled professionals. So...no.
Doug