Mike Hord wrote:
>
> There is going to be some limit, but as long as Joe Consumer downloads
> crappy shareware screen savers, Google taskbars, and other sundries,
> there will always be someone who wants to sell them a newer, "faster"
> computer rather than telling them the truth about PC maintanence.
>
> It never ceases to amaze me what people expect from PCs.  NO ONE
> expects to turn their car on, drive it for two hours a day, and do this
> every day, for several years, and NEVER perform any maintanence on
> it.  And yet, this is exactly the attitude people take with computers.

I guess you don't run a Unix or Linux box, where months, if not years
of uptime without reboot are the norm.

And software doesn't have any moving parts. Or were you expecting the
electrons to wear out?

And 'maintenance' won't fix the problem of people trying to squeeze
more and more code (aka features) into the finite space of available
RAM. Nice analogy though.

R

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