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to: Tim Boyer
from: Gary Wiltshire
date: 2006-02-24 03:58:42
subject: Re: what is wrong with the world?

From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:08:03 -0500, Tim Boyer  wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:35:59 -0500, "Geo"
 wrote:
>
>> "Tim Boyer"  wrote in message
>> news:841qv1lglgi0aov4h9et1spqv8buj5948b{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>> Shit, ghostscript does Postscript _and_ pdf - and is under 4 meg total.
>>
>> My point exactly, what is wrong with the world today?
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>
> 
>
> Because kids today don't know or care about saving system resources
> because
> they don't _have_ to know or care about saving system resources.  If it
> doesn't
> run, just spend $100 on another gigabyte of memory or 250 gig of disk,
> and try
> again.
>
> Quake 4 takes over 340 megabytes.
>
> Of MEMORY!  Shit, I didn't get 340Mb of _disk_ until the mid-90s!
>
> 
>
> (Don't mind me.  I turn 50 in 1 hour 54 minutes.  I've got a bottle of
> Macallan
> 12-year-old scotch in front of me, and I'm working on seriously damaging
> it).
>

Happy Birthday!

I'm just a year and a month +- a few days behind you.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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