Some things …
There are some things you can’t just say, you have to show them …
Cartridges
A thought: I hear all the time non-tech computer users complaining about how installing program A ruined program B installation. It happens all the time, it happened to me this morning when a Gentoo emerge made me lose my USB mouse, the difference is tech users know how to get over these problems while non-tech users panic.
I was thinking about this and how we can’t get rid of this problem by removing the possibility of users installing new software (something like oeone). That’s when I realized that this problem has been solved long ago: game consoles using cartridges.
Cartridges are the perfect (well not really perfect) solution for non-tech users. You need to use Office? Just pop in the Office cartridge (or a CD) and use it, when you’re finished just save your files on your hard disk and pop it out.
This might also explain why MS is so eager to enter the console market. Sony, with their new PSX might have a word to say in the personal computing world.
Well, just a thought …
A lesson …
Lesson learned: It’s not always possible to have what we want, and at the same time what others want. Sometimes we have to stop thinking about ourselves and do that little sacrifice that can make all the difference for those that we care about. And when we do that we’ll find it wasn’t that important after all anyway.
Firefighters
First of all I must say that I don’t have anything against firefighters, in fact I admire their courage and think they are of major importance in our society.
This morning I was watching the news and they were talking about this big fire going on in some Portuguese forest and I wondered: do those tiny little men (compared with the gigantic size of the fire) really make any difference? I suppose air support can help a lot, but I’d be really amazed if ground firefighters really do a difference (i’m talking about huge forest fires not the casual building burning).
I mean, in the past there were no firefighters but still forest survived to our days so I guess fires would eventually stop by themselves. Or are firestarters the real problem now?
Well, I don’t understand a thing about fires, just my usual random thoughts, nothing to see here, move along …
