On 6/24/2011 5:52 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/06/24 17:12 (GMT-0400) Brian K. White composed:
Lots of things get more complex at the microscopic level in trade for so much more simplicity at the macroscopic level that you no longer actually have to think about the microscopic level since that parts now automatic.
This sounds much like the pitch from Xorg people about its automagification, and the Kernel people about its KMS. In fact, its much the same as the pitch about computers, which enabled things which were never before possible, but now requisite impositions by gummints. Makes me wish I lived in that brief era between inventions of Gayetty's medicated paper for the water-closet and full US AC electrification.
It's true that progress often isn't. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org