Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 05:37:00 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Technical Information" <tech_info@threespace.com>, "FreeBSD Chat Mailing List" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <01c001c17bb4$274fde80$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <008901c17a30$7d084f40$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.37543.15609.362257@guru.mired.org><040701c179af$4bda25f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.43943.686638.723011@guru.mired.org><003301c179ea$8925d270$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15368.2156.193643.17139@guru.mired.org><005601c179f3$a4030640$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15368.5624.255357.964607@guru.mired.org><4.3.2.7.2.20011202215531.018f3d80@threespace.com><15370.62287.191056.315669@guru.mired.org><019501c17baf$4ae465a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15370.63985.8644.745618@guru.mired.org><01bb01c17bb1$78653110$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15370.64965.526103.881475@guru.mired.org>
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Mike writes: > The people I know do. The people I know don't. > If you have a pointer to a survey that > indicates the opposite is true for the > general populace, I'd be interested in > reading it. If you have a pointer to a survey that indicates that your experience is representative of the general population, I'd be interested in reading it. > Correct. They just suck. Not even that. A lot of people think nothing of booting the machine. It's like turning a light on and off. > The best thing about windows is that many > problems *can* be fixed by rebooting the > system. If problems can be fixed by rebooting, then they are probably not Windows problems at all, but instead problems with applications. > That doesn't change the fact that reboots - > whether intentional or not - represent a > waste of time, and hence suck. Driving a car that can't reach 150 mph wastes time, too, but most people don't worry about it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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