Re: TI-H: Parallel --> USB connector
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Re: TI-H: Parallel --> USB connector
i say sometime in the future there'll be a large crash and nobody's
computers (exept for the actual computer literate) will be able to work and
when that happens i'll laugh (and get paid a lot).
Bernard
----- Original Message -----
???: "Nick" <zaphod@coe.neu.edu>
???: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
????: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 22:17
??: Re: TI-H: Parallel --> USB connector
>
> After Win2K crashed for the last time, I went with Linux. My system
> kicks more ass than an army of Windows boxes. And it looks sexier.
>
> Personally, I'm a bit more old-school in my belief about computers: the
> user-friendliness of Microsoft products has enabled almost everyone to
> use a computer and AOL and MSN has enabled almost anyone to get online.
>
> This is a bad thing.
>
> The reason Microsoft wrote their software, of course, is because they
> wanted to cater to the largest market share - people who don't know the
> difference between their HD and RAM.
>
> This caused the masses to get online and swell the fledgling Internet.
> Now, it's entirely driven by e-commerce and its free-thinking spirit has
> dwindled as the original thinkers are lost in the rush of dot-com fever.
>
> A new flaw in the TCP/IP stack was discovered two days ago that enables
> three or four kids with modems to take down an entire corporate
> webserver. This makes me inordinately happy, as did the DDOS attacks at
> the beginning of the year. It's a pity that the last bastion of
> noncapitalistic thought in the world has fallen. Our entire market boom
> right now depends almost entirely on technology stocks, much of it
> Internet-driven. It would be interesting to see what would happen to our
> economy if an organized effort were started to make e-commerce unviable
> through denial-of-service attacks; though unlikely, it could happen.
>
> --nick
>
>
>
> Grant Stockly wrote:
> >
> > >i don't know windows has it's good part like... ... ...it's user
> > >friendly for those not so computer literate people so they don't keep
bugin
> > >me
> > >Bernard
> >
> > "User friendly"...thats one of the reasons I hate it. It tries way too
hard.
>
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