[D-community-offtopic] sad but true, Linux sucks, a bit

[Celejar]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:07:55 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 12:05 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:58:11PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 17:36 +0000, Iain M Conochie wrote:
> > > > Gazing into my crystal ball, there will be a 3D interface that will
> > > > blow us all away, and the kids will laugh at us for using a mouse /
> > > > keyboard.
> > > 
> > > Not necessarily! We eat using classic knifes since several hundred years
> > > and btw. a good knife isn't produced by a computer controlled machine,
> > > but handcrafted by a craftsman.
> > 
> > But these, sure as hell, aren't sold in grocery stores.
> 
> Correct! And I suspect that it isn't allowed to sell and buy a good
> knife in Germany anymore without a "firearms licence" (this joke doesn't
> work in German, we don't have a "firearms licence", here it's called
> "weapon license"). IOW to get a good pastry chef's knife you need the
> same "weapon license" you need for a katana or pump gun. So people are
> used to use carp to cut a steak and they win the impression, that
> computer controlled machines can punch out good tools ... they simply
> don't know how good the quality of tools was just a few decades ago and
> they believe all the hype that in the digital age everything is better.
> It simply isn't better, quality of technology nowadays is as worse as it
> never was before, let alone social quality. When did they build the
> first katana ;)?

Your references to the katana illustrate a problem with your argument:
the supposed superlativeness of the katana is apparently something of a
myth, and the necessity for all that cool-sounding folding of the metal
was simply due to the Japanese use of inferior pig-iron - IOW, the craft
of katana forging was largely about compensation for inferior
technology:

http://swordsmithvs.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/katana-vs-european-swords/
http://www.thearma.org/essays/longsword-and-katana.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_20634_6-things-movies-get-wrong-about-swords-an-inside-look.html
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KatanasAreJustBetter

Celejar