Agreed. Parallels is much like the OS 9 emulator for OS X, and Rosetta for Intel-based Macs: it exists to satisfy your lingering dependencies on certain programs until an equivalent for your native system surfaces.
Did you just defend Windows' security? You may be barking up the wrong tree...;)
I think you have to assume the user is ignorant. An OS designed to be used by such users should not be able to be taken down by a single double-click. Whether or not Windows should be designed with these kinds of users in mind is a different issue altogether.
Clearly, it wouldn't happen overnight.
One of the biggest problems in the public systems is the lack of money. Do you know how much money goes into private schooling? Tuition for these school rival college prices these days. Don't pretend that this money wouldn't go into the public system if the private were eliminated. Right now, those who have the money and power to fix the public system simply take their kids out of it. This would help the public system money woes as well as even the playing field for those who couldn't afford a private education.
Eliminate private education. A bit radical (good luck getting it done). But I don't think that many people in power have their children in the public education system (granted, that is an assumption on my part, please correct me if I'm wrong). If you don't give them the option of "saving" their own flesh and blood from the terrors of public schooling, then I'm sure we'd see a dramatic increase of interest to improving it. I'm sure it would get done. I think this would help on many fronts.
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Agreed. Parallels is much like the OS 9 emulator for OS X, and Rosetta for Intel-based Macs: it exists to satisfy your lingering dependencies on certain programs until an equivalent for your native system surfaces.
Did you just defend Windows' security? You may be barking up the wrong tree... ;)
I think you have to assume the user is ignorant. An OS designed to be used by such users should not be able to be taken down by a single double-click. Whether or not Windows should be designed with these kinds of users in mind is a different issue altogether.
Clearly, it wouldn't happen overnight. One of the biggest problems in the public systems is the lack of money. Do you know how much money goes into private schooling? Tuition for these school rival college prices these days. Don't pretend that this money wouldn't go into the public system if the private were eliminated. Right now, those who have the money and power to fix the public system simply take their kids out of it. This would help the public system money woes as well as even the playing field for those who couldn't afford a private education.
Eliminate private education. A bit radical (good luck getting it done). But I don't think that many people in power have their children in the public education system (granted, that is an assumption on my part, please correct me if I'm wrong). If you don't give them the option of "saving" their own flesh and blood from the terrors of public schooling, then I'm sure we'd see a dramatic increase of interest to improving it. I'm sure it would get done. I think this would help on many fronts.