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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-18 16:22:58 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
   > On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 08:54:48 -0700, Bobbie Sellers   
   >  wrote:   
   >> On 10/17/25 05:47, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >>> When somebody runs over a pedestrian it doesn't even make the newspaper in   
   >>> a big city.  It might make page three of the weekly paper here in rural   
   >>> Virginia, along with the article about the high schooler who got a   
   >>> scholarship to Yale and the new hotdog shop opening.   
   >>   
   >> These days you are lucky to have a Newspaper in a major conurbation.   
   >> The accidents are frequently covered on TV in San Francisco and   
   >> sometimes the SF Chronicle will give the accident and susequent   
   >> problems space especially if the term "DUI" comes up.  The incidents   
   >> covered involving the driverless vehicles show that people are   
   >> interferring with vehicles more often than vehicles are interfering   
   >> with people. Auto-navigating Cars have not been designed to deal with   
   >> anti-car protesters.   
   >   
   > An excellent illustration of the failure of programmers to consider   
   > all the possibilities.   
   >   
   > Kind of like when Microsoft decided that "640KB RAM was all anybody   
   > could ever need".   
      
   640KB probably would be enough ... except that Microsloth keeps   
   bloating their awful software.  :-p   
      
   The Commodore 64 only had 64K of RAM, but is probably more than enough   
   for the majority of users' needs (emails, web browsing, word   
   processing, etc.)   
      
   Not that Microsloth are alone in bloating software - the original MacOS   
   could run off a 400K / 800K floppy disk and still have room for your   
   documents. Even on my ancient Mac, this MacOS now takes up around 47GB   
   (including space used for things like caches). Similarly, software like   
   Photoshop has become massive in size.   
      
   In all cases, the majority of people don't even know about, let alone   
   use, all the gimmicks in the software.   
      
   It's not just software either. Most don't use all the gimmicks that   
   over-complicate new cars, and even want to turn off those annoying   
   gimmicks. Same with appliances around the home - nobody needs a "smart"   
   / "AI" kettle!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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