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To: JBTFD who wrote (172798)	6/14/2002 1:04:07 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

That idea was explored by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. Quite a prescient book.

To: JBTFD who wrote (172798)	6/14/2002 1:21:26 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 436258

planned obsolescence An interesting idea. Car manufacturers (and mechanical engineers) have been specialists in that area. The modern view is if you make a car that doesn't last 15 yrs and 200K miles, you do not buy that car. Unless your some hot shot with money to burn and just want to impress the "babes". Of course...by the very nature of that problem...there are very few customers. So the second hand car market in the UK is in the dumps. I could pick up a nice reliable car for less money then the yearly insurance rate. Thats OK in my book. -g- As far as I know, ...planned obsolescence.. has not been part of the chip industry. Obsolescence occurred naturally in PC's etc. I understand the concern though. It's a matter of trust...

To: JBTFD who wrote (172798)	6/14/2002 1:36:14 PM
From: John	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

You're right, and it is happening right now with PCs, man, manifested by sloppy drivers. Case in point: I have a perfectly good HP 820Cse color deskjet printer I purchased in 1998. I've maintained it well. It worked flawlessly until I installed Windows XP Pro last October. Now, it is a shadow of its former self. HP won't issue a new driver for it, and the native driver Micro$not carries for it in XP is worthless. Many others are encountering the same problem. I will never buy another HP product, ever again, as a result of this incident. But what are we going to do? Their competitors utilize the same policies in an effort to attempt to force end users to make unnecessary upgrades. Imagine getting only 3 years service from a damn home printer. I only paid 129 bucks for it, but it was a damned good printer for my purposes. That's okay though... Angry citizens are chewing into the industry's profits on the software side, as they have for some time, by way of peer-to-peer multi-source sharing. It's laughable. Got WinMX 3.1? -g- And what's with this "services based economy" BS? When have you received good service from any American corporation in the last two decades, without paying a great deal of money for it? And even when you do pay, you still get shoddy service. Con-Artists R US, right? I'm elated to see the telecom industry falling apart. I'm only saddened that so many of its CEOs will escape unscathed to a good life with a lot of investor's cash safely in hand. Got morphine? John