This is just an observation of the ongoing debate of the
classic vs. old SI. It seems to me it is indicative of the unwillingness of people in general
to accept "new" in any facet of their lives..
I can't agree. Everybody who is on SI has accepted, and in most cases embraced, the new technology of computers. Luddites like my mother-in-law, who refuses to get a computer, aren't here! For myself, I eagerly embrace many new technologies -- I started on TRS-80s and bought one of the original IBM PCs. I eagerly embrace DVD drives, multi-gigabyte hard drives (heck, the first hard drive I ever bought was 5 megabytes, and after we had gone from the original 32K to 64K to the huge 128K floppies we couldn't imagine how we could use that much disk space. Ha!), disk brakes, four wheel drive, microwave ovens, you name it. But I don't blindly embrace new for the sake of new. I still think vinyl has qualities CDs will never have. I prefer Coke Classic. I have Wordperfect 8 loaded on my computer but I still use 6.1 because, damnit, it WORKS. And I WANT MY OLD SI! |
