I love my morning cup of RICHMOND. Please don't ever change!!! sqb
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ 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
