you have cut yourself off from the writings of earlier generations; writings that in many cases are more interesting than what you have to say now (that, after all, is why they have been preserved.)
Although your whole post makes an excellent argument, I can't say I agree with you on thatone.
I can give you numerous reasons why writings of earlier generations have been preserved. One is that in older generations fewer people knew how to read and write, and so the ones that did, got their work cannonized.
Second is that back then a culture of preservation prevaled where as today we disregard most of our writers.
The economics of the cable business are such that, one provider will make good money - add a second provider, and both lose money.
Social psychology has shown that when this is the case, the market will be flood with cable companies and everybody shall lose.
Read up on Richard Dawkins.
The point is, you get to take it with you, everywhere you go.
Take for instance my mother, who travels between two places in the world for periods of six months. When she stays somewhere, she doesn't need a laptop, yet, a laptop would be cheaper than two desktops in both sites, plus, easier to manage all of her data in one computer.
In my humble opinion, I think your counterexample means pratically nothing.
Giving one person who is supposed to be "stupid" and showing how natively he jumps into the water and starts using everything is fine and dandy - but how can one extrapolate to the whole society from there?
One can't.
You have to do a survey. Just because your business partner happens to be deviant (maybe?) doesn't mean Linux is easy.
I think what the author meant was that there are two persons posting two different.torrents for the same content, in which case the bandwidth to download the same content would be splited into two.
For those of you seeking for a BSD alternative to Darwin on MacPPC, NetBSD seems like a pretty good alternative. I used to be a slackware junkie on x86 long time ago and after a while moved on to FreeBSD for some reason.
About two years ago I was able to recruit an old CRT iMac from my sister to aid for the other x86 server in home. Ofcourse the MacOS 8.6 installed on it wasn't the server OS of choice, so I looked for a BSD alternative an apparently both NetBSD and OpenBSD have PPC flavours. However, only NetBSD releases install ISOs so you can just burn them and install them (OpenBSD has install floppies, so you can't use them on the iMac where there's no floppy drive).
Having zero experience with NetBSD earlier, it turned out to be a very good system. Maybe instead of hopping on the esoteric idea of "Linux on my mac!" you can give a try for NetBSD.
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you have cut yourself off from the writings of earlier generations; writings that in many cases are more interesting than what you have to say now (that, after all, is why they have been preserved.)
Although your whole post makes an excellent argument, I can't say I agree with you on thatone.
I can give you numerous reasons why writings of earlier generations have been preserved. One is that in older generations fewer people knew how to read and write, and so the ones that did, got their work cannonized.
Second is that back then a culture of preservation prevaled where as today we disregard most of our writers.
The economics of the cable business are such that, one provider will make good money - add a second provider, and both lose money.
Social psychology has shown that when this is the case, the market will be flood with cable companies and everybody shall lose.
Read up on Richard Dawkins.
The point is, you get to take it with you, everywhere you go. Take for instance my mother, who travels between two places in the world for periods of six months. When she stays somewhere, she doesn't need a laptop, yet, a laptop would be cheaper than two desktops in both sites, plus, easier to manage all of her data in one computer.
In my humble opinion, I think your counterexample means pratically nothing. Giving one person who is supposed to be "stupid" and showing how natively he jumps into the water and starts using everything is fine and dandy - but how can one extrapolate to the whole society from there? One can't. You have to do a survey. Just because your business partner happens to be deviant (maybe?) doesn't mean Linux is easy.
I think what the author meant was that there are two persons posting two different .torrents for the same content, in which case the bandwidth to download the same content would be splited into two.
"and then overcharged on the entire system. " As opposed to what's happening right now, you mean?
You are ^H^H^H^H Ahem.. lame. What is up with this geeky jokes?
Your blog fucking sucks man. Why do I have to be hit with horrid metal music as I enter your blog?
The real question is: Does she have a nice rack?
For those of you seeking for a BSD alternative to Darwin on MacPPC, NetBSD seems like a pretty good alternative.
I used to be a slackware junkie on x86 long time ago and after a while moved on to FreeBSD for some reason.
About two years ago I was able to recruit an old CRT iMac from my sister to aid for the other x86 server in home. Ofcourse the MacOS 8.6 installed on it wasn't the server OS of choice, so I looked for a BSD alternative an apparently both NetBSD and OpenBSD have PPC flavours. However, only NetBSD releases install ISOs so you can just burn them and install them (OpenBSD has install floppies, so you can't use them on the iMac where there's no floppy drive).
Having zero experience with NetBSD earlier, it turned out to be a very good system. Maybe instead of hopping on the esoteric idea of "Linux on my mac!" you can give a try for NetBSD.