Timothy L. Pickering wrote: : You can see the train coming, : folks. Are you going to get out of the way, or just get run over? : : (I'm only moderately paranoid about Microsoft.) : They're gonna get run over, never doubt it. And it won't really be their fault. Think of computer consumers as deer and software products as succulent foliage which unfortunately grows best in the areas cleared by the railroads (Microsoft, Netscape, Apple, Unix) where it can get the most sunlight (advertisement). No matter which way you turn, there's a train coming. Hopefully some are monorails. -Brian -- ============================================================================= | .---------.| Brian W. Beck | E-mail Addresses: | |/\ | || Biochem/Biophysics | brian@bert.chem.wsu.edu | || \\ WSU || Washington St. Univ| brian_beck@wsu.edu | |\ - *|| 639 Fulmer | URL http://elmo.chem.wsu.edu/~brian | | | || Pullman, WA, USA | VOICE (509) 335-4083 | | \___________|| 99164-4660 | FAX (509) 335-9688 | ============================================================================= ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)