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Too bad the management where I work is badly in need of a book like this and probably won't read it. I'll probably skim through it the next time I go to Barnes and Noble.
Now to go completely off topic, I assume from the link at the end and the similarity of the Slashdot post to the FatBrain review that the authors are the same and that you may work for FatBrain. I'd just like to say that I really miss Computer Literacy Bookstore and I'm extremely sorry that B&N shut it down. I feel that the quality of life in Silicon Valley suffered as a result.
It wouldn't make a very effective guard if it was the target of a DOS attack. If it's ISP was @home or netcom it could be one of those security guards who sleep on the job and no one would know it.
Things have roughly been there for quite a while now. I'd agree with you in the sense that Linux is still not ready for my 94 year old grandmother.
The problems she would have with it are that Netscape is a little buggy and some web pages don't render correctly, and some fonts are still a little off too. Also setting up the video card drivers for Quake3 is a little too much for her, and she doesn't want to learn unix system administration so she can install stuff that didn't come with her distribution.
The thing with Easel/Helix Gnome so far is that it doesn't go far enough. What she really needs them to do is to give her a complete distribution, just take the idea of Mandrake, go alot further, and make everything internally consistent, and make that command line optional like it is in BeOS. Once that happens I'm sure she'll be a happy Linux user, although at that time she may be even happier to be alive !
After I saw the demo at the SVLUG meeting I was initially underwhelmed. The features did look cool and everything but seemed a diminishing returns type of refinement, especially on the 15" monitor I normally use.
Then it hit me, if I had an immersive interface, say like Neal Stevenson Snow Crash style glasses (Sony and others make them), the zooming and some of the other features are TERRIFIC !
So my question, were the Easel designers thinking of this when they invented the features, or is this just coincidence ?
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Too bad the management where I work is badly in need of a book like this and probably won't read it. I'll probably skim through it the next time I go to Barnes and Noble.
Now to go completely off topic, I assume from the link at the end and the similarity of the Slashdot post to the FatBrain review that the authors are the same and that you may work for FatBrain. I'd just like to say that I really miss Computer Literacy Bookstore and I'm extremely sorry that B&N shut it down. I feel that the quality of life in Silicon Valley suffered as a result.
It wouldn't make a very effective guard if it was the target of a DOS attack. If it's ISP was @home or netcom it could be one of those security guards who sleep on the job and no one would know it.
Things have roughly been there for quite a while now. I'd agree with you in the sense that Linux is still not ready for my 94 year old grandmother.
The problems she would have with it are that Netscape is a little buggy and some web pages don't render correctly, and some fonts are still a little off too. Also setting up the video card drivers for Quake3 is a little too much for her, and she doesn't want to learn unix system administration so she can install stuff that didn't come with her distribution.
The thing with Easel/Helix Gnome so far is that it doesn't go far enough. What she really needs them to do is to give her a complete distribution, just take the idea of Mandrake, go alot further, and make everything internally consistent, and make that command line optional like it is in BeOS. Once that happens I'm sure she'll be a happy Linux user, although at that time she may be even happier to be alive !
After I saw the demo at the SVLUG meeting I was initially underwhelmed. The features did look cool and everything but seemed a diminishing returns type of refinement, especially on the 15" monitor I normally use.
Then it hit me, if I had an immersive interface, say like Neal Stevenson Snow Crash style glasses (Sony and others make them), the zooming and some of the other features are TERRIFIC !
So my question, were the Easel designers thinking of this when they invented the features, or is this just coincidence ?
Good points, I agree completely except you should have said Microsofts plan to ->manage<- the world !