Ever given a regular non-techie a windows 98 CD and asked them to install it? How about a WinNT CD? How about Netware (gads).
How many regular non-techie computer users actually managed to get their C64 or Apple II or original PC computers up and running?
remember Load "$",8,1; or BRUN?
Who are these regular non-techie computer users. Do they really matter? Do we want them in the Linux community? Linux has been amazingly successful without listening to marketing featurebabble, and instead focusing on making software that works.
I'm sick of hearing these "Linux users flamed me because I said something they thought was stupid" articles/posts/rants.
Seriously whats wrong with a little fear. All these journalists fear Microsoft will stop inviting them to next weekends free booze junket in Orlando, or Anahiem.
I say let the rabble rouse a little. Let these journalist know that they advocate other operating systems and criticize Linux at their peril.
Yeah and these were both more expensive, propreitary solutions which lacked the features consumers wanted. Linux is open, cheap, powerful, and efficient. These are three very market freindly attributes; which will make LINUX dominate the world
In previous Clinton/Gore campaigns we've heard alot about the "War Room". How have you tied the war room to the web site for this campaign? How do you anticipate this evolving over the next few months.
I take this a confirmation of my suspicions. MS will announce its own MS Linux release by the end of the year. Remember their reaction to the web browser and the Internet..."Embrace and Extend". In this case they'll release their own Linux with support for COM. Of course they'll just increase the cost of all Linux versions of apps to cover the lost NT/win98 revenue. For example Backoffice will be $6000 instead of $5K. Ain't it grand to be a monopoly.
You know it occurs to me if only the DRDos folks had GPL'd and opened sourced their OS in the early days (after MS stole everything and kept them out of the PC market), we might have avoided this whole MS nightmare anyway.
Of course the US government still is one of the largest users of WordPerfect; and the Navy bought thousands of licenses for OS/2. Hopefully Linux will have better success.
Ahh the everyone is a sheep but me theory. We are all slaves to the mass market. But the the hot book among the marketing drones is The One to One Future. it seems that all those one-to-many control the masses advertising campaigns arn't working like they used to. Why? Because we've gone from 4 networks to 400. Occam's Razor. ..which is the simpler explanation that 270 million US citizens are mostly sheep chasing after dreams created or controled by a few powerful executives and politicians? Or are these executives just fulfilling the common dreams and desires of the majority of americans. If it is the purpose of the diabolical conspiracy to acheive a utilitarian happyness, then how is this different than individuals collectivly acheiving their own happyness? But is this really the central power which we have known in the past? 300 years ago the entire world governed through some means of despotism. 140 years ago the United States still had slavery. 100 years ago women couldn't own property in a majority of US States. 40 years ago blacks and other minorities couldn't go to the same restaruant or ride in the same seat on a bus as a white man. 5 years ago most americans hadn't heard of the World Wide Web. And the web has given a voice to more people and more communities than have ever had a voice before.
Its time we threw this preposterous question of the evil conspiracy which governs the world on the same rubbish heap as the question of how many toads cause a woman's labor pains.
I'm sure your unhappy with the direction of things and that's your right. But don't think that we are all victums of some system which you alone are smart enough to escape.
The truth is we all have things we'd like to change. And fortunatly we live in a country where we have a right to speak out like anyone else. Just ask Gov. Ventura
I've always wondered that myself. Just because he's written some science fiction doesn't mean that his long winded plattitudes regarding the future progress of civilization should be regarded. As I recall Sterling and Gibson both have these really dark views of the future where technology and corporatism have transformed the world in to a vile place filled with cyborgs and mercenaries, while this makes for a fun read; it may have nothing to do with the future which we are creating. If anything the last 100 years have proven their vision wrong. The last 100 years saw the triumph of individualism. An overall decline in centralized power. And a move towards open systems. Despite the best attempts at corporatations to patent, consolodate, and rule us we have somehow managed to thwart them. The PC became the domant computing platform on the desktop over centralized mainframe computers. The motorcar became the dominant mode of transit over "mass transit". And of course one day soon LINUX will overpower Microsoft in the operating system market. While I don't take the triumph of individual liberty for granted, I do think that eventually open and free systems will defeat closed and controled ones.
The real challenge isn't that we crawl out from under a rock and innovate, but that we figure out someway to live together in our new found freedoms. There was a time when people actually worked together in groups of thousands of people to acomplish a single goal. Like putting a person on the moon or building pyramids. In this new age of 10,000 nations and 6 billion corporations we need to find a away to make create common purposes for the whole world so we can do really cool sh@t like go colonize Mars and elimnate death.
It seems that this article is mostly about inventions (ie the Wheel, Portable fire, etc). And not gadgets. M-W.com defines a gadget as "an often small mechanical or electronic device with a practical use but often thought of as a novelty" The only one in this article which really qualifies as a gadget is the hand dryer, but who really likes those things anyway. Of course to correct this article I offer my top ten gadget list (in no particular order): 1. The PDA 2. Stereo Headphones 3. Cellular Telephones 4. Lego Mindstorms 5. Sony Aibo 6. Rubiks Cube 8. Nintendo Gameboy 9. Zippo Lighter 10. Anything in the Sharper Image Catalog
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How many regular non-techie computer users actually managed to get their C64 or Apple II or original PC computers up and running?
remember Load "$",8,1; or BRUN?
Who are these regular non-techie computer users. Do they really matter? Do we want them in the Linux community? Linux has been amazingly successful without listening to marketing featurebabble, and instead focusing on making software that works.
I'm sick of hearing these "Linux users flamed me because I said something they thought was stupid" articles/posts/rants.
Seriously whats wrong with a little fear. All these journalists fear Microsoft will stop inviting them to next weekends free booze junket in Orlando, or Anahiem.
I say let the rabble rouse a little. Let these journalist know that they advocate other operating systems and criticize Linux at their peril.
Remember nothing beats free except "I'll pay you"
In previous Clinton/Gore campaigns we've heard alot about the "War Room". How have you tied the war room to the web site for this campaign? How do you anticipate this evolving over the next few months.
I take this a confirmation of my suspicions. MS will announce its own MS Linux release by the end of the year. Remember their reaction to the web browser and the Internet..."Embrace and Extend". In this case they'll release their own Linux with support for COM. Of course they'll just increase the cost of all Linux versions of apps to cover the lost NT/win98 revenue. For example Backoffice will be $6000 instead of $5K. Ain't it grand to be a monopoly.
Somehow this whole thing is going to end up with a long thread about beowolf clusters.
You know it occurs to me if only the DRDos folks had GPL'd and opened sourced their OS in the early days (after MS stole everything and kept them out of the PC market), we might have avoided this whole MS nightmare anyway.
Of course the US government still is one of the largest users of WordPerfect; and the Navy bought thousands of licenses for OS/2. Hopefully Linux will have better success.
You'll find that the bill is really quick a work of literature.
Its time we threw this preposterous question of the evil conspiracy which governs the world on the same rubbish heap as the question of how many toads cause a woman's labor pains.
I'm sure your unhappy with the direction of things and that's your right. But don't think that we are all victums of some system which you alone are smart enough to escape.
The truth is we all have things we'd like to change. And fortunatly we live in a country where we have a right to speak out like anyone else. Just ask Gov. Ventura
The real challenge isn't that we crawl out from under a rock and innovate, but that we figure out someway to live together in our new found freedoms. There was a time when people actually worked together in groups of thousands of people to acomplish a single goal. Like putting a person on the moon or building pyramids. In this new age of 10,000 nations and 6 billion corporations we need to find a away to make create common purposes for the whole world so we can do really cool sh@t like go colonize Mars and elimnate death.
It seems that this article is mostly about inventions (ie the Wheel, Portable fire, etc). And not gadgets. M-W.com defines a gadget as "an often small mechanical or electronic device with a practical use but often thought of as a novelty" The only one in this article which really qualifies as a gadget is the hand dryer, but who really likes those things anyway. Of course to correct this article I offer my top ten gadget list (in no particular order): 1. The PDA 2. Stereo Headphones 3. Cellular Telephones 4. Lego Mindstorms 5. Sony Aibo 6. Rubiks Cube 8. Nintendo Gameboy 9. Zippo Lighter 10. Anything in the Sharper Image Catalog
Who else but nerds would be more concerned with a world leader resigning than with the big odometer rollover.