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Jamais Cascio on Gadgets and the Future
Armchair Anarchist writes "Futurismic has just posted the first column from its new monthly contributor, the renowned Jamais Cascio. Cascio is best known as a co-founder of Worldchanging.com, but is also a prolific blogger (at his own site 'Open The Future'), writer, public speaker and pundit on many aspects of futurism and foresight. This new piece sees him discussing the way futurist thinkers tend to focus on gadgets and technology, and advocating the use of more critical approaches."
"You are telling others to do research, when you don't even know or recognize what Linus did?
/. each day, because of my Karma rating. This inspite of /. management telling us that we should not be concerned about it. Soooo now I am off to make even BIGGER fools of /. management, by using proxies, other 'accounts' and other sorded ways to post :]"
You sound like 'Bill Gates', with your arrogance & ignorance!!"
Where did I tell anyone to do anything? Yes, I know what Linus does and has done (for the most part).
Bill Gates, never known as an especially good programmer, was/is one of the world's great entrepreneurs, and through his hands-on style most likely pooped out more contributions to code than you'll ever imagine. While I'm no fan of MS I'm not stupid. Bill G wrote the original Basic interpreter than was included in DOS from the beginning. That in itself is as original as Linus's poor Unix kernel clone.
"If it wasn't for Linus, we either would not have Unix on x86, or we'd be waiting for someone to come up with the OS so the masses could use it."
You're kidding, right? Unix on x86 far predates Linux. I was personally a release manager and key developer for one such distribution in the late 80's (SVR3.2 and SVR4). Efforts such as XFree86 had their origins before Linux. Today we have many Unix-like systems on x96 besides Linux. Ever heard of SCO?
"As far as Gates acheivements.. just because someone is the best at being a lier, fraud, thief and foool, doesn't make them great or good.
His money is from other peoples misery."
This doesn't justify a response. You know nothing of the history of the PC (or much of your three R's).
"The only reason it is taking Unix and it's varients sooo long to catch on, is because it was orignally designed for the worlds fon network and universities, and therefore was for scientist and nerds.
Linux and other Unices are for those who 'want it', and we are really not thaht interested whether lazy people see the benefits in learning it."
I wager I was using Unix before you were born, yet you refer to yourself as part of the "we" elite of computer OS users. Get over it.
"-- Safely entrenched at the bottom of 'Terrible Karma' I have just used up the second of my 'two' posts that I am 'aloud' on
Judging by your marginal knowledge and questionable literacy, I'd say two posts for you is generous.