Since the ability to communicate is paramount in getting anything done in the real world, an education which teaches one to spell would be a plus. Never mind universities, tend to grammar school quality first. Then be sure the institutions of so called higher education don't do anything to screw it up.`
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The first known reactor on Earth predates man by many, many years. A site in pitchblend country in Africa revealed, by way of its mix of isotopes, that several locations had gone critical - naturally. They "operated" until their fuel was spent to a level too difuse to sustain the reaction.
I read about this in a Scientific American article (maybe in the Seventies or Eighties?). Sorry I don't have the date of the issue.
Newbie comment here. I love tinkering with Linux when I have visions of administering a network or learning to write code, but it is a pain in the ass when I want to be a user. Advice from a beginner for hooking the user market?
Your GUI has to be stable as hell to tempt users. A stable OS means nothing to them if the GUI bites the bullet. To them it's the same as a crash.
If you want to to render the Unix world comprehensible to interested but time constrained (read citizens with kids and uncool jobs) mortals, figure out how to make your command and file names intuitive. Bin, chfn, tar, grep, tools and names you take for granted through familiarity are Summerian Linear B to users. Mac lingo is intuitive. Unix/Linux lingo is learnable, but as intuitive and instructive as a TV transmitter's schematic is to a three year old. "Find File" and "My Documents" are more like it.
Users will NEVER as a group have time to reach the level of knowledge currently necessary to use a Unixworld OS unless they are motivated by curiosity way beyond wanting to use a computer to accomplish a task. And, sad to say, hating Windows (and I do) doesn't generate time out of thin air.
All this from an old guy who thinks Unix is the best thing ever written by man.
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Since the ability to communicate is paramount in getting anything done in the real world, an education which teaches one to spell would be a plus. Never mind universities, tend to grammar school quality first. Then be sure the institutions of so called higher education don't do anything to screw it up.`
The first known reactor on Earth predates man by many, many years. A site in pitchblend country in Africa revealed, by way of its mix of isotopes, that several locations had gone critical - naturally. They "operated" until their fuel was spent to a level too difuse to sustain the reaction. I read about this in a Scientific American article (maybe in the Seventies or Eighties?). Sorry I don't have the date of the issue.
Newbie comment here. I love tinkering with Linux when I have visions of administering a network or learning to write code, but it is a pain in the ass when I want to be a user. Advice from a beginner for hooking the user market? Your GUI has to be stable as hell to tempt users. A stable OS means nothing to them if the GUI bites the bullet. To them it's the same as a crash. If you want to to render the Unix world comprehensible to interested but time constrained (read citizens with kids and uncool jobs) mortals, figure out how to make your command and file names intuitive. Bin, chfn, tar, grep, tools and names you take for granted through familiarity are Summerian Linear B to users. Mac lingo is intuitive. Unix/Linux lingo is learnable, but as intuitive and instructive as a TV transmitter's schematic is to a three year old. "Find File" and "My Documents" are more like it. Users will NEVER as a group have time to reach the level of knowledge currently necessary to use a Unixworld OS unless they are motivated by curiosity way beyond wanting to use a computer to accomplish a task. And, sad to say, hating Windows (and I do) doesn't generate time out of thin air. All this from an old guy who thinks Unix is the best thing ever written by man.