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On 8/4/2024 6:09 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 8/3/2024 10:38 PM, Mark P. Nelson wrote:
>> Look, the whole point of the *personal* computer was that you didn't 
>> have to rent time from
>> IBM to figure out your profit/loss balance.
>>
>> Ever since then, every computer company has been trying desperately to 
>> revive the "You
>> only rent it" model to bolster their bottom line, no matter their 
>> public face on the question.
>>
>> We're getting closer and closer to no longer having personal computers 
>> which we own and
>> can configure/control as we wish but rather Microsoft or Banana 
>> computers for which we pay
>> a regular fee.
>>
>> Pfui!
> 
> Its not just computers.
> 

well, by now lots of things have more computing power than was used to 
get man to the moon. e.g. cars.