Richmond, I suggest altering the particular alcoholic beverage you've been imbibing. ;-)
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. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode