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bemildred

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2. This is why I don't like putting computers in everything.

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sun Jan 19, 2014, 03:50 PM

Jan 2014

It makes them less self-contained, more fragile, impossible to repair at times, and more expensive. And it's mostly driven by marketing and profit, it's cheap and you can add bazzilions of "features" to sell with. How many clocks are there in your house now? How many times do you have to reset them?

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The End of Ownership: Why You Need to Fight America�s Copyright Laws [View all] unhappycamper Jan 2014 OP

well you could always make your own software instead :-) nt msongs Jan 2014 #1

This is why I don't like putting computers in everything. bemildred Jan 2014 #2