How the hell do they want me to connect my future DVD player to the internet? I don't have a wireless router and screw them if I have to get one.
DVD will live on for a long, long time.
Never log on to financial stuff on anyone else's machine. If it matters to you that much to check on it, have someone trustworthy do it from your machine - or get a laptop, some are cheap nowadays, and do it yourself.
Yeah, well, my palm doesn't really connect to anything. I don't use it to read mail or such. As for the compiler, I find it horrendous to type anything longer than a contact's data at a time, let alone write code. And if I can write it on my PC, why not compile it there, too? (Plus I hate Pascal:)
Changing the wallpaper or the time? I don't believe you need root access for either. Even if you did, how difficult is it to change that?
The car analogy is pretty weak. Does the average computer user - and the extensive computer user - take 10+ hours of computer-teaching lessons along with theory studies and months of needing your dad to sit by you as you type? Getting a driver's license requires you to know your car, more or less inside out. If every computer user would do that, MAYBE it'll be a valid analogy.
Even so, not being root still saves you. People still drive into brick walls; Accidents still happen. And, using Robertson's analogy, people still type rm -rf / instead of whatever. You might say that all that is needed is a couple hours' work to reinstall everything, but isn't that the purpose of Linspire? To save time, for those to which that time is worth a lot of money?
I saw the computer virus spread to humans article, I saw the ipodtreo article, but not before I saw a machine-made commentator did I realize that it was april fools.
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How the hell do they want me to connect my future DVD player to the internet? I don't have a wireless router and screw them if I have to get one. DVD will live on for a long, long time.
These typoes have to stop.
Try one of the mirrors - they're slow, but working. Downloading it right now (at 8kb/s -_-) from mirror 3.
Well, what it probably means is that you need more energy to melt the more stable ones. Higher melting point.
Someone does not understand cynicism.
Never log on to financial stuff on anyone else's machine. If it matters to you that much to check on it, have someone trustworthy do it from your machine - or get a laptop, some are cheap nowadays, and do it yourself.
Yeah, well, my palm doesn't really connect to anything. I don't use it to read mail or such. As for the compiler, I find it horrendous to type anything longer than a contact's data at a time, let alone write code. And if I can write it on my PC, why not compile it there, too? (Plus I hate Pascal :)
True. And it doesn't even have to be recent. I use a Palm V very effectively and I'm very pleased with it. Plus, my calendar plays chess. Does yours?
No, this is the same reason that you couldn't write the FIRST C compiler in C.
Their clientele stick with what they have. They use the hardware that dies when it is told because THAT'S WHAT CAME WITH THE BUNDLE.
Changing the wallpaper or the time? I don't believe you need root access for either. Even if you did, how difficult is it to change that? The car analogy is pretty weak. Does the average computer user - and the extensive computer user - take 10+ hours of computer-teaching lessons along with theory studies and months of needing your dad to sit by you as you type? Getting a driver's license requires you to know your car, more or less inside out. If every computer user would do that, MAYBE it'll be a valid analogy. Even so, not being root still saves you. People still drive into brick walls; Accidents still happen. And, using Robertson's analogy, people still type rm -rf / instead of whatever. You might say that all that is needed is a couple hours' work to reinstall everything, but isn't that the purpose of Linspire? To save time, for those to which that time is worth a lot of money?
I saw the computer virus spread to humans article, I saw the ipodtreo article, but not before I saw a machine-made commentator did I realize that it was april fools.
Check the link.