I can't believe all these people saying the net should be nothing but text! What a fantastic tool we have to distrubute ANY information freely, and people want to voluntarily cut themselves off from a large portion of it? I don't understand, but it makes me think of an analogy.
It's cliche but...Imagine the old man saying that he ain't ever gonna buy no goddamn automobile, his horse works just fine.
I don't think enforcing people to upgrade is the right way to go about this though. But without poeple looking forward, technology becomes stagnant. Example: Your 486 might run Linux just fine if you are willing to make alot of cool stuff anavailable to you, but the majority of the general computer using public actually like those cool new features. If we stuck with 486's and never upgraded when they came out with faster chips, our computers would pale in comparison to what they are now.
There are good ways and bad ways to use anything, it's ridiculous to hate Flash, for example, just because you've seen a few bad sites that use it. There ARE good ways to use technology.
If you want to see just plain text on a webpage, fine. But you know what? That's BORING to me. I like to see the creative side of humans, not just the logical side.
I love horses, but my car let's me do SO much more...and not all of it is that bad either.
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I can't believe all these people saying the net should be nothing but text! What a fantastic tool we have to distrubute ANY information freely, and people want to voluntarily cut themselves off from a large portion of it? I don't understand, but it makes me think of an analogy.
It's cliche but...Imagine the old man saying that he ain't ever gonna buy no goddamn automobile, his horse works just fine. I don't think enforcing people to upgrade is the right way to go about this though. But without poeple looking forward, technology becomes stagnant. Example: Your 486 might run Linux just fine if you are willing to make alot of cool stuff anavailable to you, but the majority of the general computer using public actually like those cool new features. If we stuck with 486's and never upgraded when they came out with faster chips, our computers would pale in comparison to what they are now. There are good ways and bad ways to use anything, it's ridiculous to hate Flash, for example, just because you've seen a few bad sites that use it. There ARE good ways to use technology. If you want to see just plain text on a webpage, fine. But you know what? That's BORING to me. I like to see the creative side of humans, not just the logical side. I love horses, but my car let's me do SO much more...and not all of it is that bad either.