Back in the day before cellphones I unfortunately sat in front of a girl who talked. So one day I was finally annoyed enough with her talking over the teacher, so I turned around and said rather loudly, "WOULD YOU SHUT UP, WOMAN!?" She was so shocked that the quiet guy in class said something that she looked at me blankly and actually did shut up. I might have passed that class because of that event. I'd have done the same to a girl who was clicking away at her phone. But realistically if I was the teacher, the easiest and most effective thing to do would be to fail her, class participation was probably a part of her grade and if she didn't ace the rest of it, it would've been well within the teachers authority to fail her. But just as easy as kicking her out of class, sending her to the principals office, and having administration call her parents would've been equally effective at dealing with her, teaching her that this was inappropriate behavior, while still allowing her to eventually get her education, and perhaps not send her down the road of a delinquent. What would be interesting is to follow up on her in 5 to 10 years and see if she's a contributing member of society, or if she's on welfare with octuplets.
I really like Ubuntu, it is fast, it's useful, and it's hugely effective on older hardware. But if you're a power user on Windows you're suddenly a newblet on Ubuntu. Even if you're not afraid of mucking around in text config files that doesn't mean that you can use your tablet as a notepad like you can with Window Journal, it doesn't mean you can connect your computer to the internet through your 3G phone when you aren't near wifi, it doesn't mean you can use the nifty fingerprint reader to login to your system, it doesn't mean you can login to the hidden SSID secure login encrypted access wifi network at your school or office, and it doesn't mean you can play Blu-ray discs on your brand new high tech system with Ubuntu.
Don't get me wrong, if Evolution worked 80% as well as Outlook, I'd have switched my work computer to Ubuntu months ago, just to spite Norton Internet Security 2007 and our IT guys who insist on not caring when NIS shuts down outlook, forcing it to restart.
In the end, I just need a few things to get better in Ubuntu and I could see Microsoft cease to exist almost entirely, but it's just not there yet. Sure I'd love to help, but I'm a interaction guy, not a driver programmer. And if I was writing drivers, someone would surely kick my ass for doing it poorly.
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Back in the day before cellphones I unfortunately sat in front of a girl who talked. So one day I was finally annoyed enough with her talking over the teacher, so I turned around and said rather loudly, "WOULD YOU SHUT UP, WOMAN!?" She was so shocked that the quiet guy in class said something that she looked at me blankly and actually did shut up. I might have passed that class because of that event. I'd have done the same to a girl who was clicking away at her phone. But realistically if I was the teacher, the easiest and most effective thing to do would be to fail her, class participation was probably a part of her grade and if she didn't ace the rest of it, it would've been well within the teachers authority to fail her. But just as easy as kicking her out of class, sending her to the principals office, and having administration call her parents would've been equally effective at dealing with her, teaching her that this was inappropriate behavior, while still allowing her to eventually get her education, and perhaps not send her down the road of a delinquent. What would be interesting is to follow up on her in 5 to 10 years and see if she's a contributing member of society, or if she's on welfare with octuplets.
I really like Ubuntu, it is fast, it's useful, and it's hugely effective on older hardware. But if you're a power user on Windows you're suddenly a newblet on Ubuntu. Even if you're not afraid of mucking around in text config files that doesn't mean that you can use your tablet as a notepad like you can with Window Journal, it doesn't mean you can connect your computer to the internet through your 3G phone when you aren't near wifi, it doesn't mean you can use the nifty fingerprint reader to login to your system, it doesn't mean you can login to the hidden SSID secure login encrypted access wifi network at your school or office, and it doesn't mean you can play Blu-ray discs on your brand new high tech system with Ubuntu. Don't get me wrong, if Evolution worked 80% as well as Outlook, I'd have switched my work computer to Ubuntu months ago, just to spite Norton Internet Security 2007 and our IT guys who insist on not caring when NIS shuts down outlook, forcing it to restart. In the end, I just need a few things to get better in Ubuntu and I could see Microsoft cease to exist almost entirely, but it's just not there yet. Sure I'd love to help, but I'm a interaction guy, not a driver programmer. And if I was writing drivers, someone would surely kick my ass for doing it poorly.