My first programming primer (Fortran ... them days) had a very concise 
delineation of the difference between neat programming and the much 
more common alternative -- "given a big enough engine, even brick will 
fly". I never cared for the american "muscle" cars but was always 
fascinated with the slick european sports cars. I guess that is the 
same attraction I have for OpenBSD. I also find that the currently 
popular obsession with CPU cores, GHz and GBs is nothing more than the 
computer version of the muscle car. (yes, I am aware that there are 
specialized applications that do require the use of a monster-sized 
dump truck with an engine to match, but in reality how many places have 
a genuine need of a database that even with fully optimized design 
requires that much physical RAM?)

On 8 Jun 2010 at 1:43, Dexter Tomisson wrote:

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> No,
> "640k ought to be enough for anybody"
> 
> On 7 June 2010 22:12, Bret S. Lambert <bret.lambert@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 09:52:50PM +0300, Dexter Tomisson wrote:
> >
> > "It's the future, where's my goddamn flying car?"