xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) (02/27/90)
I have a great idea. Rather than merely toasting each other for not adopting the design of the AC power system from where it was invented, but instead choosing an incompatible standard, so that we can fight 120 volt versus 220 volt, and 60 Hertz versus 50 Hertz wars forever; rather than just flaming each other for not adopting TV standards from where the technology was invented, but instead choosing an incompatible standard, so that we can fight PAL versus NTSC wars until hell freezes over; let's all play Not Invented Here, and drag our feet all the way to the standards meetings a while longer, so we can adopt different and incompatible HDTV standards, upward compatible only with our own jingoistic existing TV broadcast industries, in formats completely worthless for assisting digital display and computing (no Powers of Two _here_, no sir, we don't believe in them), so that we can go on raving about how this stuff written by the other guy/gal that works for every Amiga computer available for testing within a thousand miles of the author won't work on _my_ Amiga computer, well into the twenty second century and beyond. Isn't this _fun_? Sheesh! Quit bellyaching and get involved. And if anyone wants to mention the only country in the world that has been officially metric for over a century and never implemented the standard, I have a flag here I want to wave a while to change the subject. ;-) -- xanthian@ads.com xanthian@well.sf.ca.us (Kent Paul Dolan) Again, my opinions, not the account furnishers'.