[Vm-dev] Mars, stuck on callbacks (again)... need opinions

Josh Gargus josh at schwa.ca
Fri Dec 24 00:41:45 UTC 2010


On Dec 23, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> 
> So, why simply don't ask user, if he wants to use JITs or not? Why
> limiting the  choice?
> 
> Maybe JIT for casual enjoyment is too much.. but if you go 10-15 years
> back and show iphone to people, they would say:
> -  what a waste.. why it using color display? why so expensive, why
> it has wifi? it is running an operating system? for what tasks? to
> call my mom i need OS on phone?.. and so on so on..
> because people at that time were wanting just make a calls using cell phones :)
> 

I understand the point that you're making, but I had to laugh at this.  It would be a pretty odd person who had the reaction above.  I think a more typical reaction would be: holy crap, where can I get one of those?  :-)

Cheers,
Josh


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