Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>You don't need a CD for the Proceedings anymore!
>
>It should obviously be, (drum roll......) an "E"-Service!
>
>(That's also worth an "E"-Ticket ride in the old Disneyland.)

Behind the light-hearted spirit of Tracy's comments, there are also
some deep questions.  Let me play a bit of Disneyland's advocate.


Ahem... Are you ALWAYS connected or do you ever go on vacation
without "intelligence at the other end of the wire"? :-)

Alternatively, do you download 600 MB worth of stuff into your hard
disk from some E-service or another or do you carry a thin CD in your
CD carrier (sharing space with your Opera and Rock & Roll collection)?

By the way, Apple has been publishing ALL of its 1990s Mac OS
versions on DVD (about 25 *GIGA* bytes per CD-sized DVD).  With just
a handful of DVDs, I carry with me much more than I ever wanted to
know about 10-years-worth of operating systems.  It would take a very
fat E-services server and considerable bandwidth to provide this
gargantuan amount of information as I fly across the Indian Ocean
(granted, for reference only and not for serial scans :-)

Tracy raises excellent questions and (at this point in time) I don't
know all the trade-offs involved -- so, I tend to grab "one of each".
At least, we now have many choices.  How many of you have your
"Denver 1978 HP3000 International Users Group" Proceedings?  Wow!
Things have changed quite dramatically since then.

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