Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:26:46 +0200 From: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu> To: Reid Linnemann <lreid@a.cs.okstate.edu> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Latitude <robertjx@ix.netcom.com>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Convince me, please! - too much about "GUI" Message-ID: <200708091626.l79GQWtT031477@smtpclu-7.EUnet.yu> In-Reply-To: <46BB4B9C.5060900@cs.okstate.edu> References: <46BA9682.7020203@ix.netcom.com> <20070809082612.b990026e.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070809151022.Y69393@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200708091459.l79ExbIU016932@smtpclu-5.eunet.yu> <20070809185814.D71656@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <46BB4B9C.5060900@cs.okstate.edu>
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On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:15:08 -0500 Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> wrote: > My ten year old niece has been brainwashed by the GUI quagmire. She > saw my FreeBSD 6-STABLE console on my amd64 3000+ and wanted to know > why i was using such an "old" computer. [...] Granted, it could be > only because she's ten. The important part is that she asked you why you used a "computer" because, like millions of users, she don't make difference between computer and window$ (i.e. OS). People will rarely explicitly state that, of course, but when I speak to some people, I see that they sincerely assume that. That reminds me of a typical brainwashing sencence from window$: when you want to press the reboot icon, the text over your mouse will tell something like "Shut down and start Windows again"; the sencence contains an explicit equalisation of machine and window$. So I'd say this has nothing to do with one's age. Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87
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