[ale] NVIDIA cards and drivers

[Sean Kilpatrick]

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On Wednesday 28 May 2003 05:01 pm, Irv Mullins wrote:
> Irv -  who is really annoyed that my car requires an *oil change* every so 
> often. What nerve, all the money I paid them, and they want me to change 
the 
> oil too? Car owners shouldn't have to go thru all this!

Ah! But the computer that runs the engine doesn't crash
randomly or require constant updates to keep it secure. <grin>

You also wrote:


> Agreed. Even Windows requires considerable effort. If the expectations
> are for something which  "just works" and ""just keeps working", maybe
> computers aren't appropriate.

This reminds me of the scene in "Apollo 13" where the engineers on the
ground are asked to confirm some calculations and the pull out their
slide rules.

Sean

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