"And high-tech companies -- stop messing with us on your treadmill
of upgrades while making the old stuff obsolete. It may be that any
software company that didn't routinely upgrade its product would go
out of business. But what if the rest of the world worked this way?
Oh, I lost a sock. I need to get a whole new wardrobe because the
replacement sock is version 2.0.1, and the stores now only sell
version 2.0.3." -- Jamie Hyneman (of MythBusters),
"7 Tech Headaches -- and How to Fix Them", Popular Mechanics",
February 2008 (quoted text appears on
third page of the web version)
[thanks
to
perspicuity
for the link]
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