Comments on: Are you blind to a great bargain? http://www.blogbridge.com/2007/04/27/are-you-blind-to-a-great-bargain/ Free RSS/ATOM feed reader and aggregator loaded with features and user-friendly interface Thu, 24 May 2012 05:29:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: anon http://www.blogbridge.com/2007/04/27/are-you-blind-to-a-great-bargain/comment-page-1/#comment-15772 anon Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:10:39 +0000 http://www.blogbridge.com/2007/04/27/are-you-blind-to-a-great-bargain/#comment-15772 I couldn't see anything at the WSJ (just a blank page), but I think one reason people value hardware more than software (unless they really think it through carefully) is the reason that people value physical things they can see and touch over abstractions: evolution has selected for that. In the computer world though, conditioning has something to do with it too: there is tons of high-quality free software out there, but how often do you see free hardware? Given that such is the case, we would expect expectations relating to software to change much more than those relating to hardware. It must be pretty frustrating though if you're in the business of trying to put physical stuff like food on your 'plate' by writing non-physical stuff like software though ;-) I couldn’t see anything at the WSJ (just a blank page), but I think one reason people value hardware more than software (unless they really think it through carefully) is the reason that people value physical things they can see and touch over abstractions: evolution has selected for that.

In the computer world though, conditioning has something to do with it too: there is tons of high-quality free software out there, but how often do you see free hardware? Given that such is the case, we would expect expectations relating to software to change much more than those relating to hardware.

It must be pretty frustrating though if you’re in the business of trying to put physical stuff like food on your ‘plate’ by writing non-physical stuff like software though ;-)

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