Comments on: Ars Technica Confirms Total Lack of Knowledge as it pertains to “Human” Users http://www.philoking.com/2009/10/28/ars-technica-confirms-total-lack-of-knowledge-as-it-pertains-to-human-users/ Thoughts from my warped little mind... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:47:24 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: extend-yourlife http://www.philoking.com/2009/10/28/ars-technica-confirms-total-lack-of-knowledge-as-it-pertains-to-human-users/comment-page-1/#comment-23550 extend-yourlife Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:08:58 +0000 http://www.philoking.com/2009/10/28/ars-technica-confirms-total-lack-of-knowledge-as-it-pertains-to-human-users/#comment-23550 Nice reaction there. Nice reaction there.

]]> By: Dathan http://www.philoking.com/2009/10/28/ars-technica-confirms-total-lack-of-knowledge-as-it-pertains-to-human-users/comment-page-1/#comment-23340 Dathan Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:59:44 +0000 http://www.philoking.com/2009/10/28/ars-technica-confirms-total-lack-of-knowledge-as-it-pertains-to-human-users/#comment-23340 Ah yes... the perils of free. We can all hold hand hands, sing Kumbaya, and praise ourselves for providing the human race with a wonderful and free alternative to costly operating systems. But at the end of the day, food and lifestyle cost money (common sense), architects and developers eat and sleep, operating systems are innovated by architects and developers, intelligence and common sense yield the best o/s innovations, smart people with common sense know that food and lifestyle cost money. A flywheel that can't fly for more than an interation or two without money. Linux would do better to cut off it's collective ear and enjoy the fact that like Van Gogh, this work inspires as a demonstration of some innovative techniques and that we'll all look back in a hundred years and say "wow, that was a beautiful work and influenced its domain forever". Unlike Van Gogh, they keep touching up the same painting (with little improvement as you point out), and they're trying to promote it as an alternative business tool. That's like Van Gogh opening a wallpaper shop. Ah yes… the perils of free. We can all hold hand hands, sing Kumbaya, and praise ourselves for providing the human race with a wonderful and free alternative to costly operating systems. But at the end of the day, food and lifestyle cost money (common sense), architects and developers eat and sleep, operating systems are innovated by architects and developers, intelligence and common sense yield the best o/s innovations, smart people with common sense know that food and lifestyle cost money. A flywheel that can’t fly for more than an interation or two without money.

Linux would do better to cut off it’s collective ear and enjoy the fact that like Van Gogh, this work inspires as a demonstration of some innovative techniques and that we’ll all look back in a hundred years and say “wow, that was a beautiful work and influenced its domain forever”. Unlike Van Gogh, they keep touching up the same painting (with little improvement as you point out), and they’re trying to promote it as an alternative business tool. That’s like Van Gogh opening a wallpaper shop.

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