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- From: rnm@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Marsanyi)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: INDUSTRY: FLASH! "VPL is dead, long live VPL . . ."
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.030354.14182@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 00:20:50 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec13.030354.14182
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- >do you seriously expect a scheme that
- requires people to dress up like bug-eyed beings from outer space in
- order to even get started on their real and important work to be a
- long-term success? And if so, why?<
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- Not a rebuttal, a mild-mannered comment: musical instrument manufacturers
- have been making such assumptions for years. Do you seriously expect a
- scheme that requires (aspiring musicians) to (spend twenty years of their
- lives learning how to rub horsehair over catgut while holding a
- strangely-shaped wooden box under their noses) in order to even get started
- on their real and important work to be a long-term success? Yes, as
- experience bears out. Not everyone wants to be a violinist, but if you do
- the work, you get the results.
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- --rbt
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