From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 21:24:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7330737B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:24:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from 66-44-90-253.s634.tnt3.lnhva.md.dialup.rcn.com ([66.44.90.253] helo=sten.alder.net) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #10) id 166Ps9-00055W-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:24:34 -0500 Received: by sten.alder.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:24:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:24:15 -0500 From: "Bob Hall" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011121002415.A458@starpower.net> Mail-Followup-To: Bob Hall , questions@freebsd.org References: <31042019@toto.iv> <15355.9117.91882.40355@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15355.9117.91882.40355@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:46:37PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:46:37PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Greg Lehey types: > > I think you're looking from your standpoint. But note that the > > average user is also very badly educated about computers. When that > > changes, software will get better than the current Microsoft junk. > > Unfortunately, that probably won't happen. Even people who are > educated about computers and realize that it's junk keep on using > it. That's because the cost of converting is so much higher than the > benefit of converting. I mean - how many of people really care about In addition, the average user is going to become less educated about computers. As software becomes more user-friendly, users need to know less about computers and therefore people who know less about computers become users. The average computer user today knows much less about computers than the average user back when the Internet was running on TOPS operating systems. Overtime, improvements in technology will allow people who know even less about computers to start using them, and the average knowledge will decrease even more. Bob Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message