Could you imagine Windows changing your underwear for you day after day and things would soon get too easy. Do you think we need to change our own underwear?
Change your own underwear, use GNU/Linux!
http://distrowatch.com/Could you imagine Windows changing your underwear for you every day?Boy this question inspires riffs.
First, there was an old pulp Science Fiction writer named Jack Williamson who began work back in the old pre-Astounding Days and continued publishing novels right up until his death a few years ago at over the age of ninety. While the pulps weren't always that well written and faulting Williamson is both easy and fun, a lot of people read his last books including me. He was a smart, imaginative storyteller. Back in the old days he wrote two stories called %26quot;With Folded Hands%26quot; and %26quot;...And Searching Minds%26quot; about a race of robots who come to earth to do everything for us, and turn out to be a major curse. He combined them into a novel called The Humanoids. I recommend you read them, or the novel.
Second, this question comes in the wake of news stories making fun of Bill Gates's prediction that by 2006 spam will be history. While I'm sure Gates would love for Windows to have that kind of capability, Gates is not the kind of man who would appreciate Nicole Hollander's priceless phrase %26quot;My weight is always perfect for my height, which varies%26quot;. Even the choice of underwear is dictated by individual factors I can't imagine him taking into account. So the concept of Gates's OS doing this for us is truly horrifying, but not on the level of Williamson's story -- you can reasonably assume it would be the wrong underwear for most people as you can assume it is because of the marketing that most people accept Windows.
Finally your name. I hate to say this, but Slackware is a young person's distro (so is Gentoo, which I'm on now) most Linux users I know who are better established use Fedora, Debian or a derivative, Mandriva, Opensuse.... I'm not trying to disrespect Slackware but I've moved on (and come back to it a few times) and it really does seem the wonderful education of learning to make it work is then better applied to UNIX itself (like FreeBSD) before you finally settle down to the question which distro best meets your style?
Some people do need help changing their underwear. The concept of Windows helping them is NOT credible. Not like Jack Williamson's Humanoids. When Gates gets to be eighty-something and needs assistance I don't think he will be able to think it through even then.
While I support Free and Open Source Software, I'm sure Nicole Hollander uses a Mac and I don't hold it against her.Could you imagine Windows changing your underwear for you every day?Intersting Question
Guess we will have to wait for the future
lol
massie
