Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (933 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 10:19 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2010/06/19 11:32 (GMT+0200) Sven Burmeister composed:
> > Starting to save today is always better than starting tomorrow because no 
> > matter how long it takes to get back what you invested it will always be 
> > one 
> > day earlier than if you started tomorrow.
> That's fine for total saving. Including also all forms of
> landfill/transportation/recycling costs one might discover an unsupportable
> cost/benefit ratio. Spending dollars only to save pennies is typically 
> foolish.

But spending dollars to save *TIME* [and equivalent frustration] is
always a worthwhile;  and if I save a bit of power, that's just an extra
benefit.

> > Progress is not a bad thing and progress does 
> > involve letting go of some things to gain others.
> This is true, but don't confuse progress with change. 

Agree.  But replace a P4 system with an i7 system and there is no
confusing that for mere change;  its *progress* when procedures that
took minutes complete in seconds.

> They are not interchangeable.

Nope.  But newer systems are clearly progress.

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Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> LPIC-1, Novell CLA
<http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com>
OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba

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