It would be neat, but would tend to cause problems if it cannot be turned off. At my work, torrent traffic gets you immediately thrown off the network and you have to fill out a network abuse form to get back on. Three apt-gets and I would get fired.
Your Users: "You know that little thingy down by the clock? The one that keeps saying something about update and annoying me when I'm looking on the Intarweb? I hate that thing. It's a popup. I learned that from my grandkids. I just click the X until it goes away. I don't need to update anything, my computer's only a year old!"
That's why.
Drive full of zeroes on a used computer looks like someone is deliberately hiding something. Drive full of random junk on a used computer makes it look like someone is POSSIBLY deliberately hiding something, or a drive failure, or...
The solution may not be in technology, but in psychology instead. If we don't start encouraging our children pick up a book and read for the sake of actually reading a book (and I mean "book" as in paper... not an e-book), we could be in for some serious trouble over the next 50 years.
As you said, we are getting too lazy with our minds. What you proposed is going back to the less lazy way of doing it. We are not willing to do that. The alternative then is to make sure those connections are never severed. We must become the database. Lawnmower Man, here we come.
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I am NOT going to your house for Thanksgiving.
No, there can't be. I get mod points twice a week... Oh, wait...
It would be neat, but would tend to cause problems if it cannot be turned off. At my work, torrent traffic gets you immediately thrown off the network and you have to fill out a network abuse form to get back on. Three apt-gets and I would get fired.
Maybe the point is to make it easier to just do it the legitimate way in the first place.
Forgot the obligatory Otherland Wikipedia link
Anyone else think of Otherland? Cool idea, but the MySpace thing ruins it.
Fellacious statements suck!
Lunch at Starbucks with your laptop. Or some McDonald's if you feel like chancing a heart attack.
Add the words "Ultimate" and "Mecha-Zord" and you have the kick-assiest Power Ranger ever!! I hate myself...
You build the pool because ocean water's much too salty to drink.
Ok, now I miss playing Astro Chicken!
apt-get install gradstudent
Wait, wait, wait... reading /. has the same result as getting married?!?!
Those are not the greatest Web software ever written. No, those are just a tribute.
Your Users: "You know that little thingy down by the clock? The one that keeps saying something about update and annoying me when I'm looking on the Intarweb? I hate that thing. It's a popup. I learned that from my grandkids. I just click the X until it goes away. I don't need to update anything, my computer's only a year old!" That's why.
Where's the +2, Funny Due To Insightfulness combo mod?
Drive full of zeroes on a used computer looks like someone is deliberately hiding something. Drive full of random junk on a used computer makes it look like someone is POSSIBLY deliberately hiding something, or a drive failure, or...
As you said, we are getting too lazy with our minds. What you proposed is going back to the less lazy way of doing it. We are not willing to do that. The alternative then is to make sure those connections are never severed. We must become the database. Lawnmower Man, here we come.
Yes, those little sausages just SCREAM Bill Gates!
Ooh, close. The correct response is: "What happened when you answered yes to that question, though?"
Check out Ubuntu, Mepis, and PCLinuxOS. All of those are easy to use and one of those should give you the right mix of hardware support.
Pointers...I get it!