> "Emlyn (onetel)" wrote:
> >
> > Spudboy wrote:
> > > In a message dated 7/21/00 6:21:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > rhanson@gmu.edu
> > > writes:
> > >
> > > << As you may have noticed, the term "singularity" is used many
different
> > > ways.
> > > But it seems you think that there is more than a 90% chance that the
> > first
> > > uploads would kill you. Is that because you are special, or do you
think
> > > >90%
> > > of everyone would be killed? Do you expect that because that is what
you
> > > would
> > > do if you succeeded in being one of the first?! Think carefully; I
may
> > > have to
> > > start the "Anyone but Emlyn" faction. :-) >>
> > > I wonder if Emlyn has been exposed to the MicroSoft Effect, which
> > invariantly
> > > involves vanilla, software, that somehow never works quite right, but
> > later
> > > versions do much better?
> > >
> >
> > I thought the microsoft effect was where a seriously flawed toy
operating
> > system takes over the world and influences every development in it's &
> > related fields for all time to come, because it is first.
>
> Actually it wasn't the first, but the boys with the first thought they
> were 'artists' and made it purposely expensive to be able to play with
> their toy, so all the kids who they wouldn't let in their sand box went
> over to little Billy, who said, "I WANT IT" and so it was done...
>
> Mike
>
I'll be for free.
Emlyn
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