OT: Smarter people do exist

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Walter Vaughan been jivin' 'bout like:
>> Two things surprised me this Christmas.
>
>I lived without Krispy Kremes for five days.  That alone surprised me!!!
>However, I had some of -the- best pecan pie I've ever had, and I've had a
>-lot- of pecan pie in my lifetime.  :)  Man, that was heaven.
>
>> 2) Slashdot on Christmas Eve had a topic on Knoppix Games CD. It seemed 
>> to run 99% in favor of including it in every Geek's stocking, so I fired 
>> up the bittorent and a few hours later I had her burned.
>
>See--a perfectly legit use for p2p.  I don't know why the regulatory
>agencies even consider throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Regulatory agencies have one purpose in life -- to grow their
own budgets and power.

...gaming stuff clipped...

>Desktop productivity has come a ways.  Multimedia is "getting there",
>although just about every package has bugs and/or unsupported (or
>incomplete) codecs.  Games is stagnant-to-nonexistant.  And therein lies
>the major problem for some people to switch entirely.
>
>Games and multimedia are the two huge reasons Windows is still a better
>desktop choice for me.  But, as I said, things like Photoshop would help.
>Lots of people know PS.  Lots don't want to relearn doing things in GIMP,
>no matter how far it's come.  I wouldn't want to run something that beefy
>in emulation, either.

IHMO, the best system for the average desktop user is OS X.  If you want to
run PhotoShop, all the Adobe stuff is available.  If OpenOffice.org doesn't
fill your needs for normal productivity applications, you can buy Office
from the Redmond Raptor.  Programs like iTunes, iPhoto, etc. have
everything the average user needs, and if you really want to get fancy
there are things like Final Cut Pro which knock the socks off anything
running on Windows.

Even the Washington Post gets it:

	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23966-2004Dec24.html

Bill
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