Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:58:45 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors Message-ID: <20081212005845.1fd5ca15.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20081211154406.7eb6038b@gom.home> References: <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207082932.04a7cf16@scorpio> <11167f520812070853i3b6fa6dei6e5c71669416470@mail.gmail.com> <20081207191727.V1610@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207193517.GA20905@laverenz.de> <20081207121431.5dcb37f9@gom.home> <1228733482.4495.14.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081211103742.21621a6d@gom.home> <20081211190951.GB845@comcast.net> <20081211113257.405a082c@gom.home> <20081211202023.GC845@comcast.net> <20081211134622.15c81ecd@gom.home> <20081211230324.751ec325.freebsd@edvax.de> <20081211154406.7eb6038b@gom.home>
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:44:06 -0800, prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> wrote:
> may be the mac people can use your line here in one of their
> commercials :D
But only if Mac OS X supports 8.3 filenames. :-)
> > You give them computing power not imaginable 10 years ago, and
> > they treat their system like a worse typewriter and start
> > complaining that it doesn't read their mind...
> >
> it's really fascinating, isn't it!!
It's even more fascinating if you realized that there are people
really thinking this way, without any joke. "The computer has to
know what I want, and if it doesn't, it's worthless crap."
> Tech Support: "What version of Windows do you have installed?"
> Customer: "... Double glazed."
>From the "Operating systems" page:
Tech Support: "May I ask what operating system you are running today?"
Customer: "A computer."
Sure. :-)
> there really are some true gems on that site, so i'm going to pass it
> on to others ...
For example "Why should I pay you to work on my computer?"
> the only problem is that some of those others may have
> done exactly some of those things that are on that site. :D :D
The "4X cup holder" woman, "Miss Backup" or "Mr. Modem"? :-)
Yeah, I know, "Computer Stupidities" is great, and it's no
scarry fiction (SF). Finally (or first?) note the words of
Charles Babbage, presented on the main page:
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of
Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the
machine wrong figures, will the right answers come
out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
--
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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