On Fri, 03 May 2002 17:01:24 GMT, "¥Ô Jason_Hoehn Ô¥"
wrote:

>> The whole post below is about re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
>>

>Hee hee,.. congratulations, possibly the greatest post in the history of
>usenet,...
>
>I'm on several different Newsgroups, and all you have to do is replace a few
>words here and there (A/B, Mac/PC Xbox/PS2, CART/IRL, Coke/Pepsi ) and you
>have pretty much summed up the silliness of EVERY "us vs. them" war, in
>every newsgroup, all-time, everywhere,...
>
>I may very well keep a copy of your post,.. makes me snicker,.. ;-)

Well, it's good that you get a good laugh out of
it - and this may be the ultimate value of many
such usenet discussions, but there really may be
some value in discussing the relative merits of
some competitive products since these can exist,
there can be some interest in this type of
discussion (they are popular on usenet, probably
at least partly for good reasons ;-), and there can
be resulting understanding of the real relative
merits of these products for some (based on user
experience instead of just advertising hype),
possibly useful when making purchasing decisions.
And, without these discussions, how would these
usenet groups survive much of the time? ;-) I find
it amusing that people readily partake in these
discussions, then say they are useless when it
is obvious that they are "well-attended" and
appropriate for these types of groups. It is silly
to put down discussions of "hardware" on groups
devoted to hardware discussions, for instance,
which I have often seen... In this case, I'm
writing this on a NG that is devoted to desktop
video production - so, where would it be more
appropriate to hear that Mac claims of superior
processing speed of video file rendering are
evidently false??? Especially since people often
upgrade, modify, or replace their gear to gain
speed increases that are less than the measured
differences between the Mac and PC gear tested...
So, pardon me if I now snicker at some of the
last entries in this thread.....! ;-)