Path: ...!news.nobody.at!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Altered Beast Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: rant Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:19:58 -0500 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net d9q1tEArzxQJMYokVElBbQBDeDf4th1zteCri2MszMWK5Rmd3a Cancel-Lock: sha1:PkS29Tb0tPVQG1kC+QAWW/omV6c= sha256:K9PoyR3g+CqoOJxsEukNCByPTU21Z4hc7Rgg+iAppfg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1828 Kyonshi wrote: > 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. What units are computing power measured in?