Disposable
Went to Glorietta and purchased the CD-RW / DVD-ROM drive since my internal drive for the desktop PC has been quite obsolete. And I am no longer using such slow desktop PC; my favorite machine is this Sotec laptop PC. So, what I need is the external derive that can be connected to my laptop via USB. I bought this Sotec laptop last May 2003. It has been more than one year since then.
Although I do not know the appropriate lifetime of this kind of computer, I feel this laptop has worked quite very well without any major problems. This is amazing. In my experience, though it might be exceptional, any computers that I used before had encountered several major problems. The worst case was that HD was crushed due to unknown reason and a lot of, really a lot of my writings (I did not have any back-up) had been disappeared. To be exaggerated, that was one of the worst tragedies I have ever experienced. The barely and only good thing was that I did not lose the draft of my dissertation.
Compared to those past computers that are made by the famous large, mainstream computer companies (much larger than Sotec), my present laptop PC has been exceptionally working very well. Maybe just I am lucky only this time. In fact, millions of computes have been produced everyday; in this condition it must be really the matter of luck if you could have the computer that lived exceptionally longer without any major problems.
Computer (or rather word processing system) is one of our writing tools with a lot of miraculously convenient functions unlike pencils, pens, and typewriters with pieces of paper. In stead or because of such fabulously convenient functions, one of the flaws, if anything, will be its short lifetime. If it could live for more than five years, then we, the users of the computer can be considered lucky enough. However, it must be completely obsolete if we could use it for such long years. Again in my experience if we use our computer for more than 12 hours everyday, then the average lifetime of its HD seems more or less three years. The lifetime is three years and even if it could live longer than that, it will be surely and completely obsolete by then. How sad!
This thing just reminds me of one movie, Blade Runner (1982: by Ridley Scott). In the near futures there are a number of humanoids called replicants who are exceptionally smarter and stronger than the ordinary people. In every point and aspect replicants exceed humans except for one single point – that is, they can live only for three or four years.
We do not care if pencils and pens are considered as disposable. But if it is an expensive fountain pen or classic typewriter, then we cannot throw it away, rather should be proud of its long-lived history. I have met a friend of mine who is still using his old fountain pen that was given by his father.
Now, pencils and ball pens can be disposable. Fountain pens and classic typewriters are not. Then, how about computers? Probably they are also disposable since we do not attach any sentiments to them. In the same way, people in Blade Runner did never attach their sentiments to their replicants except for the guy (acted by Harrison Ford) who had loved one female replicant. And some smart replicants who are beginning to be aware of their own death, inevitably think whether or not they are disposable.
In the totally enlightened egoless dimension, we might be probably free from such fearful death and disposable dilemma. But we, weak humans, attach ourselves to our own ego, separate-self or dualistic physical, self-conscious entity, etc. This can be the source of fear, worries, love (love of Eros) and any kind of emotional attachments. But in one way or another, because of such emotional attachments we can say that we live in our imperfect lives – the world of polarity; there can be happiness because of unhappiness.
We are not angles but made of clay that is pulled by desires, pushed by delights and twisted by sadness, and so on. The female replicant was probably afraid of her death because she did not like to separate from her beloved partner. Some smart replicants did not like to die because of his ego and newly emerged identity or metaphysical self-consciousness. At the very end, however, there would be the time when they and also we humans can finally accept the death despite the fearful attachments.
Disposability of pencils is similar to the death of angles-- death is meaningless for angles because angles are not supposed to have any attachments to their worldly affairs; they are infant and ethereal. Disposability can be fearful death only when an angle has become human that has his own ego and self-consciousness and probably falls in love with someone (prepersonal becomes personal). Humans are so intelligent, powerful and emotionally attached, nevertheless (or because of that) they have to die soon that makes them so painful. However, there might be the time when they can transcend and embrace all those pains, paradoxically their death is no longer painful and they can truly celebrate the perfection of the imperfect life in accepting the inevitable death (personal becomes transpersonal).
Disposability of computers just reminds me of the painful death because they are also so smart, powerful and probably emotionally attached (because of the contents made in the HD) but sadly short-lived.
Although I do not know the appropriate lifetime of this kind of computer, I feel this laptop has worked quite very well without any major problems. This is amazing. In my experience, though it might be exceptional, any computers that I used before had encountered several major problems. The worst case was that HD was crushed due to unknown reason and a lot of, really a lot of my writings (I did not have any back-up) had been disappeared. To be exaggerated, that was one of the worst tragedies I have ever experienced. The barely and only good thing was that I did not lose the draft of my dissertation.
Compared to those past computers that are made by the famous large, mainstream computer companies (much larger than Sotec), my present laptop PC has been exceptionally working very well. Maybe just I am lucky only this time. In fact, millions of computes have been produced everyday; in this condition it must be really the matter of luck if you could have the computer that lived exceptionally longer without any major problems.
Computer (or rather word processing system) is one of our writing tools with a lot of miraculously convenient functions unlike pencils, pens, and typewriters with pieces of paper. In stead or because of such fabulously convenient functions, one of the flaws, if anything, will be its short lifetime. If it could live for more than five years, then we, the users of the computer can be considered lucky enough. However, it must be completely obsolete if we could use it for such long years. Again in my experience if we use our computer for more than 12 hours everyday, then the average lifetime of its HD seems more or less three years. The lifetime is three years and even if it could live longer than that, it will be surely and completely obsolete by then. How sad!
This thing just reminds me of one movie, Blade Runner (1982: by Ridley Scott). In the near futures there are a number of humanoids called replicants who are exceptionally smarter and stronger than the ordinary people. In every point and aspect replicants exceed humans except for one single point – that is, they can live only for three or four years.
We do not care if pencils and pens are considered as disposable. But if it is an expensive fountain pen or classic typewriter, then we cannot throw it away, rather should be proud of its long-lived history. I have met a friend of mine who is still using his old fountain pen that was given by his father.
Now, pencils and ball pens can be disposable. Fountain pens and classic typewriters are not. Then, how about computers? Probably they are also disposable since we do not attach any sentiments to them. In the same way, people in Blade Runner did never attach their sentiments to their replicants except for the guy (acted by Harrison Ford) who had loved one female replicant. And some smart replicants who are beginning to be aware of their own death, inevitably think whether or not they are disposable.
In the totally enlightened egoless dimension, we might be probably free from such fearful death and disposable dilemma. But we, weak humans, attach ourselves to our own ego, separate-self or dualistic physical, self-conscious entity, etc. This can be the source of fear, worries, love (love of Eros) and any kind of emotional attachments. But in one way or another, because of such emotional attachments we can say that we live in our imperfect lives – the world of polarity; there can be happiness because of unhappiness.
We are not angles but made of clay that is pulled by desires, pushed by delights and twisted by sadness, and so on. The female replicant was probably afraid of her death because she did not like to separate from her beloved partner. Some smart replicants did not like to die because of his ego and newly emerged identity or metaphysical self-consciousness. At the very end, however, there would be the time when they and also we humans can finally accept the death despite the fearful attachments.
Disposability of pencils is similar to the death of angles-- death is meaningless for angles because angles are not supposed to have any attachments to their worldly affairs; they are infant and ethereal. Disposability can be fearful death only when an angle has become human that has his own ego and self-consciousness and probably falls in love with someone (prepersonal becomes personal). Humans are so intelligent, powerful and emotionally attached, nevertheless (or because of that) they have to die soon that makes them so painful. However, there might be the time when they can transcend and embrace all those pains, paradoxically their death is no longer painful and they can truly celebrate the perfection of the imperfect life in accepting the inevitable death (personal becomes transpersonal).
Disposability of computers just reminds me of the painful death because they are also so smart, powerful and probably emotionally attached (because of the contents made in the HD) but sadly short-lived.
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