Re: Dead Usenet Walking (Was: Re: Configuring RMAN to use controlfile instead of Recovery Catalog)
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:38:03 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2011.09.30.20.38.02_at_gmail.com>
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:04:16 +0100, Eric wrote:
> On 2011-09-29, joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote:
>> I fear usenet has become dependent on google. When dejanews went away, >> usenet nearly bit the dust.
>
> I am unconvinced of this.
Me too. Chuck Norris uses Usenet. So do I. That means that Usenet will
never die. There have been many prophets of doom, I remember a guy from
IBM, in a blue suit with yellow tie, in the late 80's who came to the
company where I was working at the time and explained to my boss that in
two years paper will be obsolete and that everything will get done
through the great invention called "interoffice mail". That is known as
"email" today. Do I need to tell you that paper industry is alive and
well and that there is a laser printer in almost every office on the
planet?
Few years after that, there was a bunch of guys who announced that all
computers will catch fire and burn on 1/1/2000. That was so called
"millennium bug". I spent that New Years Eve in the office, in Trumbull,
CT. Of course, nothing happened. Then Google announced that
docs.google.com will kill MS Office because everybody will now start
using it, instead of MS Office. MS will go down in a week or so. Didn't
happen, I'm still using the good old MS Word 2007. Maybe Usenet will die
on 12/21/2012?
-- http://mgogala.byethost5.comReceived on Fri Sep 30 2011 - 15:38:03 CDT