Of course, you've taken all the style and flare out of his comment by breaking it down. You knew what it meant, so did other people, deal with it. And another matter (yes! I'm starting a sentence with "and"): If you're going to belittle a statement you might consider taking up a reasonable position counter to it rather than just being rude.
Buzzwords or not, the statement has merit. I'm 16 years old and living in the US. I've grown up in a public school system that could care less about me or anyone else. The result of this is that until I take initiative in my own education I A) Don't learn anything of academic value. B) Focus instead on what I find interesting. I've lived this for years and it takes work to break out of it.
I'm still a student, and will be (with luck) for another 10 years. I now live and work in an environment that requires that I learn something extra about the forces that created the world I live in today. There is great value in this, history is important. But what of people who aren't "forced" into this? Unless one has a great sense of curiosity (not a totally uncommon thing) and then takes an interest in how things got to be the way they are (not that common in my experience) how will people learn?
Not that this means the loss of knowledge and education in our society, but it is something to think about if we are working towards a high level of universal education.
--Michael Esveldt
"Here I stand with all my lore -
poor fool, no wiser than before"
Of course, but that's not the issue we're talking about here. What we're talking about is "computers for everyone". Everyone isn't a system administrator.
Computers need to be easy to use for the majority of the population. Right now, that isn't Linux. If you look what the most informed developers are saying you'll see that Linux is NOT the desktop environment that MacOS and (I hate to say it) Windows is. Hell, don't even bother listening to other people. Show a brand new mac to someone who isn't planning on being a geek and show them a PC (or Mac) running Linux and you'll see what I mean.
As far as desktop readiness for everyone. It ain't linux.
--Michael Esveldt
"Here I stand with all my lore -
poor fool, no wiser than before"
I think you missed the point mr. Fishing-For-A-Flame. Einstein revolutionized the way mundanes think about physics/science because he was a high profile scientist (and he had that hair!).
Here's a simply test you can perform at home:
Go to the most congested part of downtown at 5:30PM and capture 200 people at random. They won't mind, anything is better than being stuck in a car moving slower than I can crawl.
Put them all in a room together.
Stand up on a box and yell, "All right! Everyone who knows who Albert Einstein is, raise your hand!" then count hands
Then yell, "OK you ninnies! Everyone who knows who Nikola Tesla is, raise your hand! No you fools! Einstein people put your hands down first... there we go. Gooood."
Compare counts.
I think you'll find every time that more people know who Einstein is. Forget about who your favorite is when dealing with the masses (Einstein ain't my fav either, he was damn cool, but there were other people on the verge of discovering what he discovered... must have been the hair.)
Einstein is a public figure even though he's been dead for some time. That's why his picture is used.
--Michael Esveldt
"Here I stand with all my lore -
poor fool, no wiser than before"
It doesn't matter what his intent was. The fact is his comment was both offensive and demonstrated his immense ignorence. I didn't read the rest of his post because i ran into that line. Being offensive isn't the way to get people to listen to you, even if you don't mean it. --Michael Esveldt
"Here I stand with all my lore -
poor fool, no wiser than before"
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Of course, you've taken all the style and flare out of his comment by breaking it down. You knew what it meant, so did other people, deal with it. And another matter (yes! I'm starting a sentence with "and"): If you're going to belittle a statement you might consider taking up a reasonable position counter to it rather than just being rude.
Buzzwords or not, the statement has merit. I'm 16 years old and living in the US. I've grown up in a public school system that could care less about me or anyone else. The result of this is that until I take initiative in my own education I A) Don't learn anything of academic value. B) Focus instead on what I find interesting. I've lived this for years and it takes work to break out of it.
I'm still a student, and will be (with luck) for another 10 years. I now live and work in an environment that requires that I learn something extra about the forces that created the world I live in today. There is great value in this, history is important. But what of people who aren't "forced" into this? Unless one has a great sense of curiosity (not a totally uncommon thing) and then takes an interest in how things got to be the way they are (not that common in my experience) how will people learn?
Not that this means the loss of knowledge and education in our society, but it is something to think about if we are working towards a high level of universal education.
--Michael Esveldt
Of course, but that's not the issue we're talking about here. What we're talking about is "computers for everyone". Everyone isn't a system administrator.
Computers need to be easy to use for the majority of the population. Right now, that isn't Linux. If you look what the most informed developers are saying you'll see that Linux is NOT the desktop environment that MacOS and (I hate to say it) Windows is. Hell, don't even bother listening to other people. Show a brand new mac to someone who isn't planning on being a geek and show them a PC (or Mac) running Linux and you'll see what I mean.
As far as desktop readiness for everyone. It ain't linux.
--Michael Esveldt
--Michael Esveldt
I think you missed the point mr. Fishing-For-A-Flame. Einstein revolutionized the way mundanes think about physics/science because he was a high profile scientist (and he had that hair!).
Here's a simply test you can perform at home:
I think you'll find every time that more people know who Einstein is. Forget about who your favorite is when dealing with the masses (Einstein ain't my fav either, he was damn cool, but there were other people on the verge of discovering what he discovered... must have been the hair.)
Einstein is a public figure even though he's been dead for some time. That's why his picture is used.
--Michael Esveldt
--Michael Esveldt