Seems a bit anti-competitive, if it means that you'll lose your current settings, and AOL of course will probably be making money on call charges to their tech support line to fix the prolems it has caused, or causing headaches for competitors when all their customers phone up wanting to know how to go back to before the AOL install.
I'm not sure how many people are aware of this, but among the average human, -Windows- has a steep learning curve (not to mention computers in general). The way I see it, the lurning curve for windows is quite flat at first, then rises sharply when you actually want to find out what it is doing without telling you. This is because you can never truly know what a M$ OS is up to. There comes a point when windows has filled itself with so many problems, often with no prompting from the user, that it's just a case of reinstalling now and again to get back to a known state.
On the other hand, the learning curve for Linux and *BSD systems seems quite constant, everything in general works as it should. Maybe this constant learning curve is slightly higher than the start of a windows system, but if you work your way up that curve, you'll be able to carry on climbing rather than hitting a brick wall of problems that you are unable to solve.
You can find any information you want, and there is at least some relevant information for most problems available. The problems that do occur are nearly always ones that have been created by a user doing something wrong, rather than the OS doing it just for the hell of it!
In a related note, there's currently the robocup going on over in Sweeden, and there's a Sony Legged Robot League which is these AIBO's running around playing soccer.
It's quite funny when they fall over and lay around flapping their legs till they manage to get up.
There's a RealVideo stream here More info about the competition and game schedules are over at www.robocup.org
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Seems a bit anti-competitive, if it means that you'll lose your current settings, and AOL of course will probably be making money on call charges to their tech support line to fix the prolems it has caused, or causing headaches for competitors when all their customers phone up wanting to know how to go back to before the AOL install.
I'm not sure how many people are aware of this, but among the average human, -Windows- has a steep learning curve (not to mention computers in general).
The way I see it, the lurning curve for windows is quite flat at first, then rises sharply when you actually want to find out what it is doing without telling you. This is because you can never truly know what a M$ OS is up to. There comes a point when windows has filled itself with so many problems, often with no prompting from the user, that it's just a case of reinstalling now and again to get back to a known state.
On the other hand, the learning curve for Linux and *BSD systems seems quite constant, everything in general works as it should. Maybe this constant learning curve is slightly higher than the start of a windows system, but if you work your way up that curve, you'll be able to carry on climbing rather than hitting a brick wall of problems that you are unable to solve.
You can find any information you want, and there is at least some relevant information for most problems available.
The problems that do occur are nearly always ones that have been created by a user doing something wrong, rather than the OS doing it just for the hell of it!
Didn't Apple nearly go bankrupt at some point and Bill bailed them out by investing in them so he still had some competition to rely on it court?
In a related note, there's currently the robocup going on over in Sweeden, and
there's a Sony Legged Robot League which is these AIBO's running around playing
soccer.
It's quite funny when they fall over and lay around flapping their legs till
they manage to get up.
There's a RealVideo stream here
More info about the competition and game schedules are over at www.robocup.org