thing that gets me, yeah fine get a smegging PC with a ripped off copy of XP and your mates pirate copy of photoshop and cubase or something.... what do most people use it for? games. and the odd letter.
there are no coverdisks with demo apps on like octamed or "just use" packages like dpaint that... well.. even tho kids could use it, people with some talent could do some kick a55 stuff with. no manual required.
hell a coverdisk version of protracker got me through my GCSE music (with the highest grade for the school that year), got me into learning about midi, and samples. and does anyone remember amiga basic/arexx programming tutorials in magazines that you typed in yourself? basicly you learnt stuff?
do you get that in PC gamer? does a playstation2 have that functionality? we've got a generation of l33t 5killz gamers pushing for the highest polygon fill rate.
i think a stomach on a sofa with a pair of eyes and a pair of opposable thumbs for the joypad is the current future of evolution for the human race.
maybe i'm just jaded from the IT industry and the current intake of students at the college i'm working at. i have never seen a more obnoxiously ignorant group of people in my life. (as a whole). if thats the playstation generation, then we're F*cked. :-(
for example. standing outside having a smoke with trolly load of computer equipment. bloke comes upto me asks for smoke, start talking about what he's doing there. he says hes on an I.T. course. i joke about the fact you seem to have to have brain surgery to teach here. he takes me seriously with "really?, what do they do?" i say "full frontal labotomby" he says "whats that?".
now any normal person would get the joke at the 'brain surgey' bit. its no wonder i can only get work for the measerly pittance i'm on at the moment if these people are supposed to be I.T. engineers in training, and flooding the market place with muppets.
I stopped short of telling him to stop wasting his time at college and go and work on the BMW mini production line (where most of the wasters from my school went - those that didn't go to prison, or into crime gangs, or killed).
The A500 and systems like it (atari ST/E, acorn, etc. etc.) was perfect for its time. and that time has gone i'm afraid. the market just isn't there anymore... well, it is, but its just not interested. its suckling at the teet of big corporations, and its fat and happy.
sorry rant over. :lol:
