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- From: jdutka@wpi.WPI.EDU (John Dutka)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Does reading this group make you depressed? The story of a victim.
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 01:22:51 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.210438.6678@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <C03GDA.HoJ@news.iastate.edu> <58155@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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- In article <58155@dime.cs.umass.edu> barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
- > Marc, when will you learn to qualify your sentences instead of
- >making sweeping, false generalizations?
-
- Probably not even on his death bed. You forgot to add "and when your bluff is
- called, changing your argument to support your conclusions..."
-
- > You mean that there is "no really good productivity software" FOR
- >*YOUR* PURPOSES. Whatever they may be. Other people use the Amiga
- >productively just fine. If there is no good productivity software, then
- >please explain how computer professionals have used Amigas for work
- >consistently for years and years and still enjoy it. (I know plenty
- >of them.)
-
- Like me. I use my Amiga for flow visualization. I run fluid flow simulations
- on a DEC Alpha, and a program to convert the velocities to Tektronix graphics,
- saving them as an IFF with VLT, and forming the IFFs into animations with FRED
- and MorphPlus, or using AmigaTeX to get an article out for an ASME journal
- (still crossing my fingers there). Sure, the Amiga is lacking in some areas
- of productivity software, but there ARE plenty of high-quality packages
- available.
-
- > Face it -- you bought the wrong computer, and you have nothing
- >better to do with your time than complain about it. Four years of
- >complaining... that's a lot of time and effort. You must enjoy it.
- > Anybody with sense, rather than sitting around complaining, would
- >have moved on to another computer years ago.
-
- We can always hope.
-
- > Dan
- > (Still no relation)
-
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- | jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu | Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift. |
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