Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Re: Cobalt Wish List If you must respondtothis do it off the board! (CobaltList)

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> > A VAR can be a terible waste of money.
> I don't know about this one, Zeffie. I realize you said "can be" and not
> "is," but most of the time it's a question of the age-old saying... If you
> have to ask whether you need a VAR, you probably do.
> Someone who buys a Cobalt Qube, for example, and uses it only in
> configurations touching nothing but the GUI, and who's lucky enough not to
> run into any snags, has escaped the need for a VAR. Someone who's good
> enough at the game (like Dom or Jeff or yourself) to not need further
help,
> or who is willing to slug it out by his clueless little self (like me) may
> intelligently determine that he derives no value (or, in my case, no fun)
> from a VAR. I don't have a Qube so it works... I have one so *I* can make
> However, the vast majority of people, I think, *do* buy it so it works all
> the time, and *don't* have the required expertise to fully support it
(Qube,
> RaQ, whatever) themselves. For these masses, a VAR is, most likely, a
> investment.
> Rodolfo J. Paiz

I guess I'm just dreaming of the day when support is so strong we can
upgrade our equipment by pressing the upgrade button or install programs,
libs, etc all through a gui.  Something like the windows update service but
on a better platform.

Zeffie