On Jan 30, 9:12 pm, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]> wrote: > But as I think about it, I'm taking a new perspective. We all think > that "in the future" we will have simpler, cleaner easier to use, > "Minority Report" devices. But until that happens, we all *need* unix > shells and root access to get anything done. Progress in computing is > limited by our attachment to the past. I believe Apple are trying to > get us closer to the future. Obviously, the geekier of us who are > used to total control over a system will revolt against it.
Sadly I date myself but we've lived all this before - back in the day of MS-DOS TSR (terminate and stay resident) applications. Those were eventually deemed too limiting relative to an OS offering a true multi-processing and multi-tasking approach. Is rather strange to see Apple steering the 21st century of computing back to the 1980s. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
