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  1. Seamless computing (Re:I beg to differ.) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on BBC Examines Open Source Business Model
    "Getting these black boxes to work together ought not be so difficult as to warrant delving into the source code. Things should work right out of the box. Apple is one example of a company that tries to live by that motto."
    Well, here's the problem. Applications that work (think?) right out of the box, and in fact the entire Apple experience, are intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit down with a browser, like Safari, that doesn't require a rat's nest of plugins to enable basic functionality, and comprehend its sensitive, tasteful aesthetic. It's a rare instinct, this appreciation for beauty and truth; accountants and other such pencil-pushers haven't a prayer.

    In summary, unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Seamless computing is for different thinkers.

    * * * gallery updated 5 Nov. 2005 * * *
  2. Seamless computing (Re:I beg to differ.) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on BBC Examines Open Source Business Model
    "Getting these black boxes to work together ought not be so difficult as to warrant delving into the source code. Things should work right out of the box. Apple is one example of a company that tries to live by that motto."
    Well, here's the problem. Applications that work (think?) right out of the box, and in fact the entire Apple experience, are intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit down with a browser, like Safari, that doesn't require a rat's nest of plugins to enable basic functionality, and comprehend its sensitive, tasteful aesthetic. It's a rare instinct, this appreciation for beauty and truth; accountants and other such pencil-pushers haven't a prayer.

    In summary, unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Seamless computing is for different thinkers.

    * * * gallery updated 5 Nov. 2005 * * *
  3. Seamless computing (Re:I beg to differ.) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on BBC Examines Open Source Business Model
    "Getting these black boxes to work together ought not be so difficult as to warrant delving into the source code. Things should work right out of the box. Apple is one example of a company that tries to live by that motto."
    Well, here's the problem. Applications that work (think?) right out of the box, and in fact the entire Apple experience, are intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit down with a browser, like Safari, that doesn't require a rat's nest of plugins to enable basic functionality, and comprehend its sensitive, tasteful aesthetic. It's a rare instinct, this appreciation for beauty and truth; accountants and other such pencil-pushers haven't a prayer.

    In summary, unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Seamless computing is for different thinkers.

    * * * gallery updated 5 Nov. 2005 * * *
  4. Seamless computing (Re:I beg to differ.) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on BBC Examines Open Source Business Model
    "Getting these black boxes to work together ought not be so difficult as to warrant delving into the source code. Things should work right out of the box. Apple is one example of a company that tries to live by that motto."
    Well, here's the problem. Applications that work (think?) right out of the box, and in fact the entire Apple experience, are intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit down with a browser, like Safari, that doesn't require a rat's nest of plugins to enable basic functionality, and comprehend its sensitive, tasteful aesthetic. It's a rare instinct, this appreciation for beauty and truth; accountants and other such pencil-pushers haven't a prayer.

    In summary, unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Seamless computing is for different thinkers.

    * * * gallery updated 5 Nov. 2005 * * *
  5. Seamless computing (Re:I beg to differ.) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on BBC Examines Open Source Business Model
    "Getting these black boxes to work together ought not be so difficult as to warrant delving into the source code. Things should work right out of the box. Apple is one example of a company that tries to live by that motto."
    Well, here's the problem. Applications that work (think?) right out of the box, and in fact the entire Apple experience, are intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit down with a browser, like Safari, that doesn't require a rat's nest of plugins to enable basic functionality, and comprehend its sensitive, tasteful aesthetic. It's a rare instinct, this appreciation for beauty and truth; accountants and other such pencil-pushers haven't a prayer.

    In summary, unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Seamless computing is for different thinkers.

    * * * gallery updated 5 Nov. 2005 * * *
  6. No, NO. by game+kid · · Score: 1, Funny · on MS To Launch Internet Versions of Office And Windows

    They're not just gonna hurt Google. They're gonna fucking kill them!

    ...or maybe not, but they (and Yahoo!) did made their personalized-portal-type things before teh Go0gley*...God knows what'll happen.

    *Google, NOT this Go0gley.

  7. "Pirated" copy of the article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on BSA Piracy Study Deeply Flawed

    See how you like it, Mr Economist!

    http://mushroom.atspace.com/bsa.html