You do realize you just confirmed what I said, don't you?
Going between different guitars, there is no need for "poking around," "exploring," or "figuring out details." You can just play the thing. A guitar is a guitar.
I completely agree that if you know one system, you can figure out another. But that's the thing...you have to figure it out.
Your Gibson and Fender analogy is also flawed. Anyone who can play a Fender guitar can also play a Gibson guitar. With zero additional training/learning. They're essentially same damn thing.
However, the average person cannot pick up an operating system that is totally foreign to them without having to figure out a lot of new things. While Linux and Windows can essentially do the same thing, a new user on either system will have to spend time gathering their bearings.
What's your point? Story submissions have to come from somewhere. He thought the Slashdot crowd would be interested in his take on it, and so did CmdrTaco, apparently. The source of the submission, regardless of what you think of the story in and of itself, should have no impact on whether or not readers should deem it valid.
...by the end of my undergrad career, I was all too aware of the fact that the tuition from my Philosophy degree was subsidizing students who had better facilities (and I'm not talking about research...even the classrooms were far newer and better) and access to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment. My classes consisted of books and teachers, yet I paid the same amount as people who required bleeding edge research technology in order to come up with pointless research projects.
And for those of you who think government and private grants make that subsidization valid, I can tell you, as someone who now works for an engineering department at a major research university, that those funds get largely unused and wasted, as a significant portion of it is required to go to administration of the department and the university. I sit in a beautiful office in a modern building while faculty in the English department, for instance, are in a 150 year-old, poorly maintained structure with no air conditioning.
To me, this is a huge problem. Everyone who comes to the school pays the same tuition, but are not afforded the same level of service, facilities, or opportunities. And this isn't only a problem at this particular institution, my colleagues at other schools (including Ivy League), have noticed strikingly similar issues.
Ok, don't have time to reread or finish my thoughts, but you get the picture...
"...the fact that the majority of media workers use apples..."
I don't know which "media workers" you have been hanging around, but the two magazines I have worked for and the almost all of newspapers I have freelanced for over the past 5+ years have been dominated by Windows boxes.
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You do realize you just confirmed what I said, don't you?
Going between different guitars, there is no need for "poking around," "exploring," or "figuring out details." You can just play the thing. A guitar is a guitar.
I completely agree that if you know one system, you can figure out another. But that's the thing...you have to figure it out.
I think your analogy is definitely heading in the right direction. Well done.
Your Gibson and Fender analogy is also flawed. Anyone who can play a Fender guitar can also play a Gibson guitar. With zero additional training/learning. They're essentially same damn thing. However, the average person cannot pick up an operating system that is totally foreign to them without having to figure out a lot of new things. While Linux and Windows can essentially do the same thing, a new user on either system will have to spend time gathering their bearings.
What's your point? Story submissions have to come from somewhere. He thought the Slashdot crowd would be interested in his take on it, and so did CmdrTaco, apparently. The source of the submission, regardless of what you think of the story in and of itself, should have no impact on whether or not readers should deem it valid.
...by the end of my undergrad career, I was all too aware of the fact that the tuition from my Philosophy degree was subsidizing students who had better facilities (and I'm not talking about research...even the classrooms were far newer and better) and access to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment. My classes consisted of books and teachers, yet I paid the same amount as people who required bleeding edge research technology in order to come up with pointless research projects. And for those of you who think government and private grants make that subsidization valid, I can tell you, as someone who now works for an engineering department at a major research university, that those funds get largely unused and wasted, as a significant portion of it is required to go to administration of the department and the university. I sit in a beautiful office in a modern building while faculty in the English department, for instance, are in a 150 year-old, poorly maintained structure with no air conditioning. To me, this is a huge problem. Everyone who comes to the school pays the same tuition, but are not afforded the same level of service, facilities, or opportunities. And this isn't only a problem at this particular institution, my colleagues at other schools (including Ivy League), have noticed strikingly similar issues. Ok, don't have time to reread or finish my thoughts, but you get the picture...
Check out Smultron.
I don't know which "media workers" you have been hanging around, but the two magazines I have worked for and the almost all of newspapers I have freelanced for over the past 5+ years have been dominated by Windows boxes.