Is Ray Lopez too stupid to even run Windows?

From	The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.setup, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject	Is Ray Lopez too stupid to even run Windows?
Date	2011-06-22 10:28 +0100
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Its been such fun..watching the unfolding of a mind so steeped in 
ignorance it almost beggars belief that its is capable of actually 
typing a Usenet post.

And it led to the thought.. what sort of minimum intelligence level is 
needed to actually run a computer?


I have this sort of basic tenet...

People with money and no sense buy apple.
People with less money and no sense get sold windows.
People with a lot of sense install Linux.

BUT how long will the last in times of global recession and cutbacks in 
public spending on employing people with no sense ?

Plus we have 'cloud computing' whereby the complete turkey can buy some 
'thing' with a screen, splodge his pudgy fingers over it, press buttons 
and download 'apps' and get his account debited (assuming there is any 
money in it, which seems increasingly unlikely) without being aware of 
who what or why any of it works, or what operating systems the component 
parts are in fact running (mostly some form of *nix, but who cares?).

This might be the end of the personal computer as we know it, and 
Windows too...

...so where does that leave the corporate desktop? How long before a 
bank of hypervised Linux servers are running the corporate 'cloud' and 
the equivalent of a Wyse 50 or VT100  moderately thick client, with no 
disk at all, is actually doing the job of displaying the pretty pictures 
and accepting the keystrokes, with any software it needs held centrally 
as a downloadable Java 'app'?

It's an attractive thought.

That pushes the traditional PC - a machine with RAM and Disks, and 
general purpose capability , into a niche..the sort of niche where 
performance is really significant, like perhaps specialist typesetting 
or graphic design, only.

We can but hope so, because it may finally and forever put an end to teh 
Lopez 'walks through ignorance' as it becomes apparent even to him, that 
he was a footsoldier in a war that was already over long before he even 
learned what it was about.

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I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2011-06-15 16:16 -0700
  Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2011-06-15 16:19 -0700
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      Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2011-06-18 10:08 -0700
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          Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2011-06-18 14:02 -0700
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                Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-21 04:44 +0100
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                Is Ray Lopez too stupid to even run Windows? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-22 10:28 +0100
                Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 03:14 -0700
                Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2011-06-22 12:51 +0200
                Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 05:24 -0700
                Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2011-06-22 16:16 +0200
                Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-21 22:35 +0100
                Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchmail.com> - 2011-06-21 12:18 -0400
                Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2011-06-21 21:06 +0200
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                Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2011-06-22 13:01 +0200
                Re: I finally trashed my 14 year old Pentium II computer--it ran Windows 2000 fine, but never could run Linux much at all The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-21 17:28 +0100
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