[OT] Blowing my mind about Linux

[Richmond]

On 05/11/2012 08:56 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> Richmond, I suggest altering the particular alcoholic beverage you've been imbibing. ;-)

Oddly enough, I drank a glass of pure orange juice and 2 cups of coffee 
last night, and NO alcohol.

HOWEVER, I was in an "artistic" mood . . .  :)

AND, if you tease apart the vagaries of my posting you will find some 
sense there (even in the aside about feeding sheep):

It seems that there is a human tendency to narrow oneself, and this can 
be destructive.

Here endeth the lesson.

>
> Bob
>
>
> On May 11, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Richmond wrote:
>
>> I have finally worked out why I think thinking people (!)
>> prefer Mac OS or Windows:
>>
>> For the very same reason why buckets of people want to
>> go back to the Communist state here in Bulgaria.
>>
>> Linux involves a vast number of choices:
>>
>> 1. Choices about Desktop environment; WIMP, HUD, Nix-but-contextual-menus, Freaky, and so on.
>>
>> 2. Choices about how to access programs: Panels, AWN, Cairo Dock, etc., etc.,
>>
>> 3. Phil Lewer, Jan Brewer, Harry Hawkins, Hugh Davy   Philly Whitpot, George Pausley, Dick Wilson, Tom Cobbley and all.
>>
>> And, for why do I find Linux delectable; mayhap because many years syne (well 36 to be exact), I ate a delicious plate
>> of rice-pudding in Widdecombe after 24 hours out on the tors of Dartmoor. And, possibly the saddest thing of all, is that I suspect
>> very few in the computer programming fraternity/sorority will even understand the connexion between those remarks and point 3.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>
>> 3 weeks ago I was standing in a shed with 2 lambs under my arms feeding them from bottles (at Horton-in-Ribblesdale), and some
>> wag (isn't there always one?) said to me "Why are you doing that?", to which I replied "I care!" (frankly, the farmer had had about
>> 105 Spring lambs; and he had dug them out of the snowdrifts; of which 50 of them had been saved by sheltering under their dead mothers' carcases), to which, said wag had remarked "I thought you said you were a teacher and a computer programmer." at which point I turned to the lambs and saw that they were comfortable and full of milk. The fellow was an idiot.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------
>>
>> The vast majority of people do NOT want choices; they want comfortable predictableness.......
>>
>> However, awkward s*ds like me, believe that that is exactly what meant that the Jews and so on, walked obediently into the
>> gas ovens of Nazi Germany.
>>
>> Of course comparing the Virus-Hell of the most popular family of computer operating systems on the planet
>> with the Nazi holocaust elevates the former to a place it should not enjoy, and degrades the latter to a position
>> which diminishes it significance in a way which is hugely dangerous.
>>
>> -----------------------------
>>
>> While Linux may NOT turn everybody on Ding-an-Sich.....
>>
>> It is worth recalling what happened in Britain when, quite suddenly, the Archimedes computer (running RISC OS)
>> cut its own throat by getting into bed with Apple (remember the Xemplar episode?), and everything changed, and
>> those teachers who could not transition very quickly from RISC OS to Windows 95 were in the sh*t.
>>
>> --------------------------
>>
>> What has this got to do with Runtime Revolution Livecode?
>>
>> Quite a lot.
>>
>> 1. The world does not change smoothly, nor predictably.
>>
>> 2. Richard Gaskin's recent posting anent Linux could not be more apposite.
>>
>> 3. RunRev made a big mistake when it stopped releasing engines to allow standalone builds for any systems apart from
>> Mac, Windows and Linux.
>>
>> --------------------------
>>
>> Friday night rant as usual is for free. Love, Richmond.
>>
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