She was a level-headed dancer On the road to alcohol And I was just a soldier On the way to Montreal Well she pressed her chest against me About the time the jukebox broke Yeah, she gave a peck on the back of the neck And these were the words she spoke:
Blow up your TV Throw away your paper Move to the country Build you a home Plant a little garden Eat a lot of peaches Try to find Jesus On your own... ...John Prine, "Blow Up Your TV"
She was a level-headed dance On the road to alcohol And I was just a soldier On the way to Montreal Well she pressed her chest against me About the time the jukebox broke Yeah, she gave a peck on the back of the neck And these were the words she spoke:
Blow up your TV Throw away your paper Move to the country Build you a home Plant a little garden Eat a lot of peaches Try to find Jesus On your own... ...John Prine, "Blow Up Your TV"
I strongly believe that linux can meet the needs of the mainstream user. But just as the PC itself didn't become a consumer commodity until the advent of windows, neither will linux take off in any significant way until it also becomes an OS that isolates the user from the command line.
If Joe Sixpac can't even program his vcr, how can we expect him to be able to set up a printer under unix? "Lessee, what are we calling the printer this week?"
Please don't misunderstand me: in a lot of respects I was much more productive from the DOS command line than I can ever hope to be in Windows. Windows just doesn't have the power of a combination of command-line arguments (can you say "shell script"?)
Let's face it: Grandma will never convert to linux as it is today, especially when she calls tech support to ask "Do I need a computer to get on the internet?"
In my company, we ancients are frequently overlooked because of social considerations: the 20 & 30-somethings socialize with each other after work and on weekends. When it comes time to help someone up the ladder, of course they're going to help their friends. It's only natural.
Unfortunately, this creates a work atmosphere which--while perhaps unintended--becomes de facto age discrimination. It gets awfully tiring to see someone with less experience, skill and time on the job get promoted while I've been in the same seat for 3 years.
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She was a level-headed dancer
On the road to alcohol
And I was just a soldier
On the way to Montreal
Well she pressed her chest against me
About the time the jukebox broke
Yeah, she gave a peck on the back of the neck
And these were the words she spoke:
Blow up your TV
Throw away your paper
Move to the country
Build you a home
Plant a little garden
Eat a lot of peaches
Try to find Jesus
On your own...
...John Prine, "Blow Up Your TV"
She was a level-headed dance
On the road to alcohol
And I was just a soldier
On the way to Montreal
Well she pressed her chest against me
About the time the jukebox broke
Yeah, she gave a peck on the back of the neck
And these were the words she spoke:
Blow up your TV
Throw away your paper
Move to the country
Build you a home
Plant a little garden
Eat a lot of peaches
Try to find Jesus
On your own...
...John Prine, "Blow Up Your TV"
I strongly believe that linux can meet the needs of the mainstream user. But just as the PC itself didn't become a consumer commodity until the advent of windows, neither will linux take off in any significant way until it also becomes an OS that isolates the user from the command line.
If Joe Sixpac can't even program his vcr, how can we expect him to be able to set up a printer under unix? "Lessee, what are we calling the printer this week?"
Please don't misunderstand me: in a lot of respects I was much more productive from the DOS command line than I can ever hope to be in Windows. Windows just doesn't have the power of a combination of command-line arguments (can you say "shell script"?)
Let's face it: Grandma will never convert to linux as it is today, especially when she calls tech support to ask "Do I need a computer to get on the internet?"
Robin
In my company, we ancients are frequently overlooked because of social considerations: the 20 & 30-somethings socialize with each other after work and on weekends. When it comes time to help someone up the ladder, of course they're going to help their friends. It's only natural.
Unfortunately, this creates a work atmosphere which--while perhaps unintended--becomes de facto age discrimination. It gets awfully tiring to see someone with less experience, skill and time on the job get promoted while I've been in the same seat for 3 years.