Everyone uses the internet differently.
However, there are some aspects of the internet that *everyone* must
deal with, regardless of how they desire to use it.
Currently, if I want to change my password on my account with my ISP I
cannot ask them to do it. I must do so, but to do so I *must* have the
ability to deal with https ... The same goes for management of my
domain, and eventual management of my son's domain. We must have the
ability to deal with secure site https.
If I want to order something from Egghead or Barnes & Noble, or even my
usual hardware supplier ... I have to be able to deal with a secure
site.
Those are pretty important things, even if you throw out the on-line
purchasing.
So for me, and for many, being able to access/use "secure" sites take
one heck of a big priority over watching steaming video or listening to
wild music while graphics flash across the screen.
When a person is dealing with a low-end machine, that person should be
very glad there is even a browser that will function on it! To sit and
bitch because a DOS browser doesn't give you everything a dozeware
system would is LUDICROUS ... and makes one look pretty darned foolish.
I'd like one of the new Nikon SLR cameras with wondrous minicomputers
onboard, automatic film advance [5fps], etc. But I can't afford one.
So if I can get this used one from a guy I know for a couple a hundred
bucks, a lower end camera but still good, I'm not going to gripe that it
doesn't jump through hoops like the $2,500 cameras other people can and
do use. Get the picture?
l.d.
-- Arachne V1.64, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
