From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2018110718030752427-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > It's a planned obsolescence tactic.   Many many ways to nudge you into   
   > updating, and those evil corporations know them all.   :-)   
      
   Then we shouldn't go along with them and instead make them obsolete!   
      
   > It's about image and marketing.  Nothing else.   They are just the   
   > techies, and it's just a service counter.   
      
   Yeah, all only a show, with their *only* objective being their relentless   
   Desperately Wicked hearts' pursuit of the Root of ALL Evil...the Love of a   
   DAMNED FILTHY *LIE* called 'money'!   
      
   > if nothing bad ever happens, how would we learn to deal with when it does   
   > ?   
      
   We have FAR MORE than Enough, actually TOO MANY examples right now - we   
   don't need any more!!!   
      
   > Right. And if I didn't have to use this thing to make music I'd not need   
   > what I have either.   
      
   PCs can do that just fine.   
      
   > I could buy any ol' pc out there and read email or look at porn on the   
   > web.  Isn't that what pc's and the web are for ... in most people's minds.   
      
   They're for whatever you want to use them for.   
      
   > the fact that I need a small portable that works reliably is why I have   
   > what I have.   
      
   "Reliably" means only until something goes wrong, and I don't know any   
   computer, or any other machine, that's immune to that ;)   
      
   > If someone could configure a pc laptop to do what I do, well then great.   
      
   That can be done.   
      
   > Bet it would cost just as much as what I have.   
      
   Go with Freeware instead of overpriced Rip-Off 'proprietary' Fascist   
   software!   
      
   > I looked once for a comparable windows machine.  Turns out that for the   
   > same or so specs, it would cost the same as an Apple. Sure, I could have   
   > less of a cpu, and slower ram, and a smaller drive, and a lower resolution   
   > screen, and less or slower ports  ... any of those would drive the price   
   > down.   
      
   Build one and put in it what *you* want, gamers do that all the time. They   
   overclock the CPU, use start of the art expansion cards and in general go   
   nuts with it, but I'm sure you'd have a much easier time building one for   
   Music.   
      
   > But then, it wouldn't do what I do. I'd need to start thinking about a   
   > hardware guitar sim. And hardware synths.  Or maybe Windows can do that   
   > now, probably can. Bet it costs just as much.   
      
   Maybe Linux can.   
      
   > Then add in that I'll not live long enough to move all my songs to some   
   > other platform, and it's just not sensible at all to make a change.   
      
   Perhaps the software already exists to practically convert from one system   
   for another, sort of like WINE for Linux which enables windows programs to   
   be used in Linux, pretty cool.   
      
   > right, you're aiming at bigger things. I'm happy to not ne dead yet.   
      
   I don't have time for dying - too much living to look forward to ;)   
      
   > I often suspect this is hell.  Literally.  This is Hell.  We're in it now.   
      
   Eternity starts right here, and it has started, and those who *insist* on   
   going to Hell don't care to wait to be judged and sent there, they do all   
   they can to make this world a Hell on earth right now!   
      
   > Got a call today from a nice retirement place. Wanted us for a few jobs   
   > next year.  Too late, of the dates they offered, only one was still   
   > available.  We're suffering from too much work .....   
      
   JimD   
      
   I wouldn't mind that, and touring ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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