What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 10:33 AM Thursday 4/24/2008, you wrote:
>On 4/24/08, Ronn! Blankenship <ronn_blankenship at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > >What else is like this... endless "upgrades" to convince people that their
> > >perfectly good old product is obsolete?
> >
> > Digital TV, frex?
>
>  Isn't digital TV an entirely new product? Or are you suggesting
>everyone has cable already so it is pointless?
>
>  Martin


Nope.  I'm talking about people like Nick's little old lady, whom 
(I'm guessing) does not have cable (If not her specifically, there 
are millions like her who don't.) and who has to sometime in the next 
9.5 months make another trip to the store and fork over part of her 
Social Security check to buy at least a converter box (not free even 
with the coupons) if she wants to keep watching the news or 
whatever.  Obviously of course the corporate folks hope she and the 
millions like her will start subscribing to cable and replace her 
old, perfectly functional TV with a new HD set in order to keep 
watching whatever they watch.  And the claimed reason the switchover 
is mandated by law is to free up the bandwidth used by analog TV 
broadcasts so it can be auctioned off (bringing in more money to the 
Federal government) to companies who want to provide new wireless 
services, as if the roads have gotten so much safer recently that 
drivers need more wireless gadgets to distract them from the task of 
driving and give them something to look at other than the road.


. . . ronn!  :)