David Boles wrote: >> Not around here. Repeated assertions, on this list, that DVD drives are >> not that expensive smacks of "let them eat cake." > > > Really? They cost more than that where you are? How much more? I am > talking > about ordering from The Internet, you order, you pay, you install (takes > a screwdriver) and not from the local 'swindle shop' down the street. But surely one should not HAVE to buy extra hardware in order to INSTALL a program ... I can understand one might have to get something to RUN a program. I find this whole CD business completely baffling. (It does not affect me personally, as I install by NFS, so I think I have an objective view.) If in fact very few people want installation CDs, as claimed, then one repository would have sufficed - it wouldn't be necessary to circulate them round the world. Of course, if the claim is nonsense and actually many people wanted the CDs, then that does not hold. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
