The first thing that crossed my mind when read that article was something along the lines of 'white-collar redneck'.
Can you imagine what it will be like when this goes mainstream? It conjures up images of grungy trailer parks and rusted out mobile homes wedged up on cinder blocks, with good 'ol boys with names like Billy-Bob sittin' out front, swilling homemade moonshine.
WRT your last point, if the interface is well designed and very transparent, it shouldn't pose much of a problem. The Palm is actually very easy and intuitive to use. It's far easier with a stylus/pen than inputting all the data by hand on a computer (maps better to a notepad metaphor?)
Anyway, I personally feel that there is too much focus on getting technology into schools these days. They should be spending more of their budgets on books, literature, and more traditional methods of teaching, perhaps enhancing/supplementing them with technology but not replacing it.
Hmmm. Why not a lighter, more reliable piece of software that's easily extensible with, say, a macro language. Then anyone who wants those extra features can add their own.
Oh fer Chrissakes! Haven't we been doing this for years? Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't we been pumping our radio, television, and telephone signals into space ever since these things have been invented?
I'm just waiting for the day when the IGPD (Intergalatic Police Dep't) sends us a $20,000,000,000,000,000,000 fine for noise pollution.
Don't let people like that dissuade you from getting an unbiased comparison of OSes. Your comments sound eerily similar to the experiences of a lot of Linux 'newbies' who get heavily flamed for asking a few simple questions.
It's getting to the point where analogies(?) like this don't really make sense anymore. For one thing, a lot more people understand what a gigabyte is these days. Second, how can you really visualize the sheer magnitude of 100 Gbytes == 60 truckloads of printed text?
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The first thing that crossed my mind when read that article was something along the lines of 'white-collar redneck'.
Can you imagine what it will be like when this goes mainstream? It conjures up images of grungy trailer parks and rusted out mobile homes wedged up on cinder blocks, with good 'ol boys with names like Billy-Bob sittin' out front, swilling homemade moonshine.
Definitely not for me.
WRT your last point, if the interface is well designed and very transparent, it shouldn't pose much of a problem. The Palm is actually very easy and intuitive to use. It's far easier with a stylus/pen than inputting all the data by hand on a computer (maps better to a notepad metaphor?)
Anyway, I personally feel that there is too much focus on getting technology into schools these days. They should be spending more of their budgets on books, literature, and more traditional methods of teaching, perhaps enhancing/supplementing them with technology but not replacing it.
Can't you get prescription snow/cycling goggles? (i.e. the amber tinted wrap-around kind?)
Hmmm. Why not a lighter, more reliable piece of software that's easily extensible with, say, a macro language. Then anyone who wants those extra features can add their own.
It wouldn't have made a difference how he had spelled "loser" since this is a song...
Oh fer Chrissakes! Haven't we been doing this for years? Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't we been pumping our radio, television, and telephone signals into space ever since these things have been invented?
I'm just waiting for the day when the IGPD (Intergalatic Police Dep't) sends us a $20,000,000,000,000,000,000 fine for noise pollution.
Don't let people like that dissuade you from getting an unbiased comparison of OSes. Your comments sound eerily similar to the experiences of a lot of Linux 'newbies' who get heavily flamed for asking a few simple questions.
Hmm. Rather hard to teach a cat to 'speak'. :)
Doesn't even have opposable fingers to (hold a pen and) take notes!
It's getting to the point where analogies(?) like this don't really make sense anymore. For one thing, a lot more people understand what a gigabyte is these days.
Second, how can you really visualize the sheer magnitude of 100 Gbytes == 60 truckloads of printed text?
I'm guessing that by the time the movie opens, at least half the people in line will be lining up to see the next days showing?
There's bound to be spelling errors. Not everyone on the web speaks english as their first language.
I think he was probably referring to those dreadfully annoying people who WriTe EvERytH1nG lIke tHis AnD think they're rEAlLy c00l.
Geez, I'm starting to annoy myself.
The advertising would drive you insane.