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Annika1980 wrote:
> On Dec 8, 5:47 pm, Jurgen <jurgen-h...@lycos.com> wrote:
>
>> "I just ordered a new computer for processing really big images really
>> fast"http://www.apple.com/macpro/
>>
>> Bye, Bye PC, Hello Mac.
>
> Be sure to get the 32GB memory upgrade for only an extra $9,100.
>
> All of a sudden the 5D2 looks cheap.
>

It's only money!
Some people think having money is the important part of it all. It's not.

Money is just a tool that gets us the toys we want and occasionally
need. Any excess is a waste of resources.

Here's an example.
Brother in law to widow at brother's funeral:

"Did you fulfil his last wish and bury him with all his money?"

Wife:
"Yes I did. It wouldn't all fit in the coffin with him so I wrote him a
check!".

Money is no good when you're dead buddy.

I'd rather die in debt than watch over my relatives squabble over who
gets what. When I see something I like, I just buy it.

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 19:52:33 -0800, Bill Graham wrote:

>> I think it was Bill Gates that is reputed to have said something
>> like that, referring the IBM PC's approx. 640kb (not 16kb) of usable
>> memory. Others say that it's an urban myth.
>
> Well, software people pride themselves on using a minimum of storage for
> their coding......I wonder if Bill Gates thought he could fit Windows into
> 640K of memory?

Nah, not even if he wrote it in Basic-86.

Oops. Scratch that. I once ran Windows 3.0 on top of the CP/M
which controlled my little AA alkaline powered HP 200lx palmtop.

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:10:50 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote:

>> But you need em to get that Usenet speed up to terminal velocity. 8-way
>> processing is the best way to view Usenet.
>
> Are you a spider?

Yesss, precious. We hateses her 8 legsss. Yesss we does.


<shhhhh> You don't want Larry, aka Rita, aka Shelob to hear you
ask this as she's nearing the peak of her nasty, bloated, vicious
phase and might slap you with one of her pedipalps.

Alan Browne wrote:
> Jurgen wrote:
>
>> Money is just a tool that gets us the toys we want and occasionally
>> need. Any excess is a waste of resources.
>
> You sound like an investment banker telling a company to use its cash
> hoard for acquisitions or dividends but never for reserve.
>
> And all the co's that followed those orders are going down like flies.
>
> Cash is king only when you have much more than you need to spend.
>

And don't we all have that in later life?

"ASAAR" <> wrote in message
news:
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:38:55 -0600, Ron Hunter wrote:
>
>> Wasn't it Steve Jobs who said: "No home computer user will ever need
>> more than 16k of memory."???
>
> I think it was Bill Gates that is reputed to have said something
> like that, referring the IBM PC's approx. 640kb (not 16kb) of usable
> memory. Others say that it's an urban myth.

Bill Gates says it's an urban myth:

Q. Did you ever say, as has been widely circulated on the Internet, "640K
[of RAM] ought to be enough for anybody?"

No! That makes me so mad I can't believe it! Do you realize the pain the
industry went through while the IBM PC was limited to 640K? The machine was
going to be 512K at one point, and we kept pushing it up. I never said that
statement-I said the opposite of that.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/gatesivu.htm

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:08:33 +1100, Atheist Chaplain wrote:

>> Oops. Scratch that. I once ran Windows 3.0 on top of the CP/M
>> which controlled my little AA alkaline powered HP 200lx palmtop.
>
>
> sweet
> My foray into C/PM was with my first Microbee, it had a whopping 640k of
> ram, a 5 1/4 single sided drive and a dual side 3.5 drive, all on a nice
> green CRT. I used it to program in Turbo Pascal (though not very well )

Was that one of the 60k CP/M-80s that used bank switchable memory
or CP/M-86? Before I graduated to CP/M and an 8" IBM floppy my
computer's I/O was a home built paper tape reader, a Tarbell
cassette board and a Soroc terminal, later replaced by a nifty
ADDS-90 terminal. I tried but gave up on Pascal because none of the
available implementations included much more than a very simple math
library, and the compilers were pretty stupid. It seemed that no
matter what the program mistake was, the compiler complained about
improper semi-colons. I ended up buying Microsoft's Basic compiler
("Bascom") and a couple of C compilers, by that time running on an
AT&T/Olivetti PC compatible. It also had a nice, sharp monochrome
green screen. All long gone except for the software on the original
floppies.

Eric Stevens wrote,on my timestamp of 9/12/2008 8:12 AM:

>
> I don't think many subscribers to rec.photo.digital will use banks of
> multi-core processors for their images.

you'd be surprised...

Jurgen wrote:
> Alan Browne wrote:
>> Jurgen wrote:
>>
>>> Money is just a tool that gets us the toys we want and
>>> occasionally
>>> need. Any excess is a waste of resources.
>>
>> You sound like an investment banker telling a company to use its
>> cash
>> hoard for acquisitions or dividends but never for reserve.
>>
>> And all the co's that followed those orders are going down like
>> flies.
>>
>> Cash is king only when you have much more than you need to spend.
>>
>
> And don't we all have that in later life?

In your universe maybe.

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J. Clarke wrote:
> Jurgen wrote:
>> Alan Browne wrote:
>>> Jurgen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Money is just a tool that gets us the toys we want and
>>>> occasionally
>>>> need. Any excess is a waste of resources.
>>> You sound like an investment banker telling a company to use its
>>> cash
>>> hoard for acquisitions or dividends but never for reserve.
>>>
>>> And all the co's that followed those orders are going down like
>>> flies.
>>>
>>> Cash is king only when you have much more than you need to spend.
>>>
>> And don't we all have that in later life?
>
> In your universe maybe.
>

Anyone who retires broke has only themselves to blame for a reckless
life. I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who never planned on how
they'd live when work ended.

Jurgen wrote:
> J. Clarke wrote:
>> Jurgen wrote:
>>> Alan Browne wrote:
>>>> Jurgen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Money is just a tool that gets us the toys we want and
>>>>> occasionally
>>>>> need. Any excess is a waste of resources.
>>>> You sound like an investment banker telling a company to use its
>>>> cash
>>>> hoard for acquisitions or dividends but never for reserve.
>>>>
>>>> And all the co's that followed those orders are going down like
>>>> flies.
>>>>
>>>> Cash is king only when you have much more than you need to spend.
>>>>
>>> And don't we all have that in later life?
>>
>> In your universe maybe.
>>
>
> Anyone who retires broke has only themselves to blame for a reckless
> life. I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who never planned on
> how they'd live when work ended.

Spoken like someone who has never been blindsided by life.

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