...or is this a case of "You better pretend to love it, and say that you love it- OR ELSE!"
I don't believe for a second that each and every one of those employees 'love' it, and not one thinks otherwise.
I remember reading something a long time ago at how Linux devs often shyed away from having their programs produce error messages, because "the Unix user should already know everything" (I guess that includes having psychic powers), or some such elitest bullcrap.
Granted this was close to 20 years ago, and a lot has changed scince then, but I wonder how much tech snobbery is still around which continues to foul up Linux's chances of overtaking M$ in the desktop market?
The delivery method and how people watch their shows is changing, but the shows and popularity are still the same. TV isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Between the Eternal September###
I don't think it was the flood of AOL newbies when that online service began offering Usenet access in 1993 that killed Usenet, it was all of the spam, flooders, kooks of all stripes, and finally the rise of web based forums, and ISPs deciding to shut down or not have their own Usenet servers which killed it. Usenet is still around, but it is just a very faint shadow of it's former self.
I miss Usenet
I enjoy a sunrise, and go on many walks, etc...
But I still want my electronic escape which I use when the time is right for it.
Sorry, but the old "turn off the idiot box, go outside, blah blah blah" is so tired and worn, and rather idiotic as it's implying that you could ever only do one or the other, but never both.
The OP does have a point, as I see this attitude with them a lot. Which raises the question of are they being "green" because it's the right thing to do, or are they just doing it to be 'cool'?
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Or you can wear a tin-foil glove :)
...or is this a case of "You better pretend to love it, and say that you love it- OR ELSE!" I don't believe for a second that each and every one of those employees 'love' it, and not one thinks otherwise.
I remember reading something a long time ago at how Linux devs often shyed away from having their programs produce error messages, because "the Unix user should already know everything" (I guess that includes having psychic powers), or some such elitest bullcrap. Granted this was close to 20 years ago, and a lot has changed scince then, but I wonder how much tech snobbery is still around which continues to foul up Linux's chances of overtaking M$ in the desktop market?
This *will* cause my move away from Windows. Fuck rental, fuck their percieved authority, and fuck their super high horse.
isn't going anywhere anytime soon### Should be "TV isn't going *away* anytime soon" :/
The delivery method and how people watch their shows is changing, but the shows and popularity are still the same. TV isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Between the Eternal September### I don't think it was the flood of AOL newbies when that online service began offering Usenet access in 1993 that killed Usenet, it was all of the spam, flooders, kooks of all stripes, and finally the rise of web based forums, and ISPs deciding to shut down or not have their own Usenet servers which killed it. Usenet is still around, but it is just a very faint shadow of it's former self. I miss Usenet
I enjoy a sunrise, and go on many walks, etc... But I still want my electronic escape which I use when the time is right for it. Sorry, but the old "turn off the idiot box, go outside, blah blah blah" is so tired and worn, and rather idiotic as it's implying that you could ever only do one or the other, but never both.
The OP does have a point, as I see this attitude with them a lot. Which raises the question of are they being "green" because it's the right thing to do, or are they just doing it to be 'cool'?