Still only used and understood by techies. I can't imagine anyone that's not a techie spending the money or needing to OS's
On 4/5/06, S. Isaac Dealey wrote: > > The fact that dual-booting these machines will be easy. As it is right > now, setting up a machine to dual-boot mac/windows is a chore and most > folks if they're not already extreme tech fanatics aren't going to > bother. The idea here is to allow someone with minimal computer > experience to set up a dual-boot system pretty quickly and without > pulling their hair out. The accessibility of a given technology is > always a barrier to its entry into the market. > > Case in point: look at XML. Nowadays it's all over the place, but > that's only been very recently. But XML isn't really a new thing per > se, it's a subset of SGML which has been around since the 60's, and > even then it was based on IBM's GML. So it took from some time in the > 50's until somewhere around 2000 (50 yrs) before the technology even > started being talked about as something people would see in widespread > use. In the last 5 years (1/10th of the time it's been around), it's > become a dominant force in the technological landscape. 50 years > later, suddenly overnight, it's FUCKING EVERYWHERE. It's used to > configure software (J2EE server config like CF Server, framework > configs like Fusebox 4), it's used for syndication of content > (RSS/Atom), and webservices for interoperability. You practically > can't go to the toilet without being exposed to XML. And why, after 50 > yrs? Because they got the idea to simplify SGML from Tim Berners-Lee > who simplified it to create HTML. That's the only reason. > > The same principal applies here. If you can make it easy to do > something that people want to do, then people will do it. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:202882 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
