____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 08 August 2007 10:40 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 17:42 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ John Bailo, Texeme.Construct on Monday 06 August 2007 07:41 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 5, 2:54 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Poll shows majority favor Vi as their editor of choice
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is Simple Software Always Better?
>>>>>
>>>>> I was thinking that this weekend when listening to the NYTimes Tech
>>>>> Talk. Although I mentioned it was fair, they did do the obligatory
>>>>> bit about "well, OSS if free, so you get what you pay for, no printed
>>>>> manuals, or 800 support number".
>>>>>
>>>>> But then I was thinking -- what about Firefox. The browser is the
>>>>> most used piece of application software on the planet, bar none.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do people have to be trained to use it? Read a book? A manual?
>>>>>
>>>>> No.
>>>>>
>>>>> The browser correctly implements the presentation style that almost
>>>>> all people in the world can master easily.
>>>>>
>>>>> The web page can range from simple to complex and yet how often do you
>>>>> hear requests from people to help them "run a web page".
>>>>
>>>> Firefox, Apache and Google are excellent poster children and selling
>>>> points for Linux. Choose one depending on the context of the conversation.
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Isn't the idea of just learning from books more than a little dated?
>>> I've nothing against books, I have over 2,000 of them in my house, but
>>> they're certainly not the /only/ way to learn.
>>>
>>> OLPC XO is, well, a sure alternative, I would say?
>>
>> I've lives virtually paperless for the past 4 years (unless someone insists
^d
>> on giving me sheets of paper, which I later scan and throw away).
>
> Umm, don't you worry about a power-cut or something like that?
No, digital storage is safer. I have backup cron jobs and redundancy on 3
separate devices/PCs.
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