Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 05:27:14 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Konstantinos Konstantinidis" <kkonstan@duth.gr>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <00d901c17fa0$9d81f800$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a0 0000a@atkielski.com><3C110351.4748B559@duth.gr><005001c17f6c$e60c0ef0$ 0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org> <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a05101004b8373f5230e8@[10.0.1.16]>
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Brad writes: > No. They are provably irrational. Can you > say "Betamax"? Can you say CD, or DVD? > It is provably superior in every way to VHS, > and to this day it continues to be used by > professional video camera operators ... Betacam SP and its digital successors resemble Betamax in the form of the cassette only, as far as I know. They are quite substantially removed from the consumer form of Betamax, although these professional formats do indeed have their origin in that type of cassette. Professional formats are not dictated by technical considerations alone, however; U-Matic is still around, and it's garbage. It's wise to be careful about saying "provably superior" with reference to anything. > Moreover, it is also provable that this > irrationality is non-linear -- the larger the > group of people, the less rational they become > ... But people do not buy their home or office computers as a mob. Since you place a great deal of emphasis on all of your assertions being "provable," can you point me to a few proofs? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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