At 10/18/2007 09:53 PM, you wrote:
Mike B. wrote:
Technopeasants might not be able to tell whether Windows NT was before or
I don't consider people who don't know the same facts that I do as
'peasants', just people who don't know the same things I do.
I didn't say "peasants", I said, "technopeasants". The reference is
to the feudal era in Europe, where the folks fairly low on the totem
pole due to their inability to use the power tools of the time
(weapons, armor and politics) are referred to as "peasants". They
weren't necessarily stupid, they just didn't have the skills it took
to rise up the social ladder into the nobility of the time. They
usually had other skills, such as growing crops and raising animals,
but these were not as useful in the environment for purposes of
advancement (though vital if the society was to survive). In
cyberspace those who don't have computer skills are in the same
boat...hence "technopeasants".
As far as I know tina could be the director of a multinational
NGO or a world famous artist.
Of course she could...but it wouldn't stop her from being a
technopeasant if she doesn't understand computers and cyberspace and
how to get around and make use of them. Like some western movie once
said, "I'm a powerful man where I come from!" "Yeah, but you ain't
where you come from..."
I have also never noticed that question from someone running NT,
most likely because someone running NT would not need to ask, since
NT would be considered > 98 in another way since it was supposed to
be a multi-user operating system.
I ran NT for years, both at work and at home. It was about as
multi-user as XP is...i.e. you *could* access it over the net and do
some things on it while someone else was using it locally, with the
right settings and software installed, but I would never call it
"multi-user". To me that implies that all users have the same
capabilities, and with Windows that just isn't the case. Most
software on Windows can only be run at the local monitor and
keyboard...unless you add additional software to the system, and even
then you often run into problems since most Windows software has
limited license counts and/or doesn't deal with things like
simultaneous file access. Since so many things on Windows require
admin privs, most users run as administrator all the time anyway,
which removes pretty much all of the benefits of separate user
accounts too. Unix, Linux, OpenVMS, Solaris...those are "multi-user" OSs.
-- Mike B.
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