On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 10 December 2013, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
We could make TVs as complicated as phones (remember when phones were simple?)
Mine still is, I deliberately chose a simple one. ;-)
There's an old joke going around about someone wishing that their Windows computer was as easy to use as their phone. And now their wish has been granted, but in an "evil genie" style - now their phone is as hard to use as their computer.
I once heard Tony Hoare say that in the early days the computer was the size of a room and the documentation would fit in your pocket, but now it's the other way round. And that was a good 30 years ago.
But I digress ...
poc