<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 13:48 -0400, Bob Kline wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/linux-internet-application,2407.html" target="_blank">http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/linux-internet-application,2407.html</a><br>
> Some interesting reading.<br>
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The first step in this process is to stop thinking about your computing<br>
needs by the specific applications that you use. Instead, begin thinking<br>
in terms of the task that you use those apps to complete.<br>
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Preach it brother! This is a healthy conceptual correction even if one<br>
isn't switching OSs.<br>
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Apparently Tom's readers spend must of their time downloading stuff. :)<br>
That is what the app review section would lead one to believe. Odd.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>I'll guess that collecting software goes<br>back to the early days of M$, when people<br>wanted a copy of everything, whether they<br>needed it or not, because it was "free." <br><br>
As long as you didn't get caught anyway.<br>But I agree, many people are still in that <br>mode - more interested in their machines<br>than what they expect to do with them.<br>The two can be related, but apparently <br>
that's often not the case. Just getting <br>something because it's new is apparently<br>a hard habit to break, even those the <br>word "free" has a literal meaning today,<br>and people can pick up things whenever<br>
they actually need them.<br><br> -- Bob<br> <br></div></div>