Someone above made a good point about the industry always fighting the technology and losing. VCR was the prime example. It spelled the DEATH of Hollywood remember. No one would buy VHS tapes every again, just rent and copy. The bastards are wrong, wrong, wrong. And on a side note, it's useless to fight, you can't stop technology. Period, end of story. (Well short of nuclear holocaust and that would just be a set back). Cheers.
I was in touch with the author. He in no way meant to slander Linux. He is actually a big fan. He lamented that he may have mixed up the parts of the OS with the hardware specific drivers and interface. I thought it was a decent article and upon second reading I see how you can easily assume one way or the other about his stance on Linux.
I see it as not fundamentally that different than Magellan, Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims. Of course there's no race of Martians that we can trick, enslave and kill, but I digress.:)
cheers
How many people, given the chance, would leave their families and go live on Mars given reasonable (or not so) odds of making a life there, albiet a hard one?
But you could still send them "mail" and possible someday have Internet like connectivity, but definitely atleast a "mail-like" situation, virtual that is.
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http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/Product/0,,a10 -c440-p8,00.html
That simple.
Haha, too true..
Someone above made a good point about the industry always fighting the technology and losing. VCR was the prime example. It spelled the DEATH of Hollywood remember. No one would buy VHS tapes every again, just rent and copy. The bastards are wrong, wrong, wrong. And on a side note, it's useless to fight, you can't stop technology. Period, end of story. (Well short of nuclear holocaust and that would just be a set back). Cheers.
I was in touch with the author. He in no way meant to slander Linux. He is actually a big fan. He lamented that he may have mixed up the parts of the OS with the hardware specific drivers and interface. I thought it was a decent article and upon second reading I see how you can easily assume one way or the other about his stance on Linux.
I see it as not fundamentally that different than Magellan, Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims. Of course there's no race of Martians that we can trick, enslave and kill, but I digress. :)
cheers
How many people, given the chance, would leave their families and go live on Mars given reasonable (or not so) odds of making a life there, albiet a hard one? But you could still send them "mail" and possible someday have Internet like connectivity, but definitely atleast a "mail-like" situation, virtual that is.