Comments on: Sunk While Docking http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2003/06/30/sunk-while-docking/ Just another useless personal blog Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:54:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Jenn http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2003/06/30/sunk-while-docking/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Jenn Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2003/06/30/sunk-while-docking/#comment-2 Keep on blogging, you old crotchety geek. :-D Keep on blogging, you old crotchety geek. :-D

]]> By: 0x01 http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2003/06/30/sunk-while-docking/comment-page-1/#comment-3 0x01 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2003/06/30/sunk-while-docking/#comment-3 The old double standard rears its' ugly head and roars out: "Too standardized is bad, but too decentralized is bad as well!" So the pain remains. Do we sit and watch people go apeshit because of open-ended possibility of app behavior under the management of many different environments, or do we allow choices to be abandoned in favor of ease-of-use consistency and standardization of application? For that matter, since the topic is (possibly) unanswerable questions, what is the meaning of life? Personally, I'll go with open-ended choice. I realize the hassles of making that decision, but then, I read somewhere once that "Linux is only for people who have too much time on their hands". I'm okay with that, true or not. It feels like accomplishment. Oh, and the meaning of life? 44.94. (42 + G.S.T.) -- 0x01 The old double standard rears its’ ugly head and roars out: “Too standardized is bad, but too decentralized is bad as well!”

So the pain remains. Do we sit and watch people go apeshit because of open-ended possibility of app behavior under the management of many different environments, or do we allow choices to be abandoned in favor of ease-of-use consistency and standardization of application?

For that matter, since the topic is (possibly) unanswerable questions, what is the meaning of life?

Personally, I’ll go with open-ended choice. I realize the hassles of making that decision, but then, I read somewhere once that “Linux is only for people who have too much time on their hands”. I’m okay with that, true or not. It feels like accomplishment.

Oh, and the meaning of life?

44.94.

(42 + G.S.T.)

– 0×01

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