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   Scott Dorsey to mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
   Re: Dell prepares to rebrand   
   16 Jan 25 00:33:48   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Mike Spencer   wrote:   
   >kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:   
   >   
   >> It took years to figure out the old names.  Now I have to figure them all   
   >> out all over again?   
   >   
   >"Life-long learning" is supposed to be about learning *new* stuff,   
   >not about learning the same stuff over and over again, just with new   
   >names, new icons, new GUI features  for the old stuff.   
      
   Oh, I understand.  Management gets so upset when I refer to "cloud   
   computing" as "that obsolete timesharing stuff."   
   --scott   
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