It also happened to be air-cooled (I am not sure for the motivation for that design choice but I bet it had something to do with simplicity). One of its key features was its extremely simple mechanical design. The VW Beetle was a car reknowned for reliability. Take an example from engineering/consumer history: And as other people pointed out - as the technology hits mainstream it will only get more crappily made and lead to a higher failure rate.Īnd for what? A few extra MHz? Before +200 MHz goes and makes that much of a difference in your life, you need to examine all the parts in your computer from the RAM to the motherboard chipset to the freakin' BIOS firmware version before you should think about that +200MHz. What's so wrong with that? Why do people have to go and make things so complicated? Putting green liquid and water pumps and tubes and the like inside a computer is just an ugly, nonsensical thing to do in my book. A little fan, an aluminum heatsink, and a motherboard sensor to tell you when the fan stops a-turnin'. Even God-made systems break down, just much slower.Īnyway, my point is that keep it as simple as possible if you want to avoid catastrophe. That's what happens with man-made systems. Hell, for that matter all systems break down eventually. And no, I am not broke - I can afford a new car but when you live in NYC, buying a new car when you are going to park it on the street is insanity.Īt any rate - now I can look forward to the same lovely green surprise from my COMPUTER? No thanks! Computers are getting complicated enough without having a puddle of green liquid-kryptonite potentially spilling all over my desk and carpet, thank-you-very-much. In the 10 years that I have been driving crappy cars I have experienced the puddle of lovely green disappointment twice. I looked down on the floor under the dash and saw a nice green puddle. English Deutsch Français Español Português Italiano Român Nederlands Latina Dansk Svenska Norsk Magyar Bahasa Indonesia Türkçe Suomi Latvian Lithuanian esk. It isn't enough that this morning I got into my car, was about to put the key into the ignition when I noticed the funny smell. Towards the Detection of Encrypted Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Traffic.
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