Door creaks and girl farts: computing in the real world

[email protected] wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Stop designing for spaceships
Something for the weekend, Sir?  A few weeks ago I dissed the expensive new Apple MacBook Pro for trading a downgraded component spec in return for a pretty display and solid-state memory. In passing, I gave an example of this downgrade: the lack of a CD drive.…

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