Have you ever been to Comdex? It's a trade show attended by engineers and corporate executives. People are there to conduct business. Notebooks are required for software demos, last minute fixes/hacks, etc.
Its just another useless gesture designed to make idiots feel safe. There are a myriad of ways to cause havoc and mayhem that banning notebooks doesn't even begin to address.
Didn't his big DOS attack occur back when all of the big e-tailers were loosing money on every transaction? If so, he could make the case that he actually saved them from significant losses.
I still remember doing word processing on an Osborne I under CP/M. You would edit a file with Wordstar, then run the spell checker program. Next you would restart Wordstar and reload the file to fix the marked errors. This process would be repeated until all spelling errors were dealt with. It absolutely sucked! I remember how happy I was when MS Works was introduced. I even taught a few Introduction to Computers classes using MS Works when I was a CS grad student. Integrated applications work and are maximally convenient.
I find it difficult to imagine that anyone would think that the average user wants to iterate through multiple applications just to type, format, and print a document. Office might benefit from a simple system to add plugable components, but a command line view of everyday computer use doesn't work for the average user.
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I would suggest the classic John Brunner novels "Stand On Zanzibar" and "Shockwave Rider".
Have you ever been to Comdex? It's a trade show attended by engineers and corporate executives. People are there to conduct business. Notebooks are required for software demos, last minute fixes/hacks, etc. Its just another useless gesture designed to make idiots feel safe. There are a myriad of ways to cause havoc and mayhem that banning notebooks doesn't even begin to address.
Didn't his big DOS attack occur back when all of the big e-tailers were loosing money on every transaction? If so, he could make the case that he actually saved them from significant losses.
I still remember doing word processing on an Osborne I under CP/M. You would edit a file with Wordstar, then run the spell checker program. Next you would restart Wordstar and reload the file to fix the marked errors. This process would be repeated until all spelling errors were dealt with. It absolutely sucked! I remember how happy I was when MS Works was introduced. I even taught a few Introduction to Computers classes using MS Works when I was a CS grad student. Integrated applications work and are maximally convenient. I find it difficult to imagine that anyone would think that the average user wants to iterate through multiple applications just to type, format, and print a document. Office might benefit from a simple system to add plugable components, but a command line view of everyday computer use doesn't work for the average user.