Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: "Scott A. May" Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: disappointment vs. joy with CDROM Date: 15 Jun 1994 03:40:07 +0300 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 39 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: Reply-To: "Scott A. May" NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Comments: To: Young-Kyu Yoo Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list CDROM-L To: CDROM-L Redistribution In-Reply-To: <9406142335.AA23366@bigcat.missouri.edu> On Tue, 14 Jun 1994, Young-Kyu Yoo wrote: > IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING, things MAY be easier. However, it is > unconscionable to suggest a new computer user buy a PC for multimedia use, > CD-ROM use included. Frankly, I'm sick to death of Mac users' defensive posturing. A real sign of insecurity, pal. Keep it to yourself. > A story about a PC expert: > > Recently I watched a friend (he owns a company that configures and sells PC > systems for DTP) spend 5 hours attempting to get sound and colors working for > Microsoft's Cinemania CD on a PC. He eventually got it to work in color but > threw up his hands with respect to the sound. Your friend is clearly a multimedia idiot. I have more than 90 CD-ROM titles of my PC and have NEVER had trouble getting any of them to work. Plug and play. > A story about a PC pseudo-expert: > > If read Pournelle's column in the latest issue of Byte, you get a good taste > of the many hardware and software compatibility frustrations a PC > user experiences on a regular basis, especially if he/she is trying to > do the multimedia thing with CD-ROM, SoundBlaster, et al. Pournelle is an idiot. Brilliant writer, master egotist, and an idiot. He approaches everything like a bull in a china shop. If you knew him better, you'd understand this. > P.S. I'm a software engineer with experience in assembly language > programming, C, C++ and Objective-C on Unix systems and I've found > very little more frustrating and more arcane than software and hardware > setup under DOS and Windows. That just means you're not a very good software engineer, doesn't it? SAM