[Gllug] Moblin

[Ryan Cartwright]

on 2009/5/29 Nix wrote:
> On 26 May 2009, John Hearns uttered the following:
<snip>
>> So here we have more computing capacity that Nasa used to get to the
>> Moon - and its Linux too. And what is it used for?
>> Twitter. (Sorry. Have to chunder again).

> ... this is what people (well, neurotypicals, i.e. not me) *do* with new
> technology. We're a chattering social species, so anything new gets used
> for conversation first and everything else second. When the telephone
> originally came in they had ideas like news over the phone, music over
> the phone... all failed, and what survived? Chatting over the phone.

Ah, Dial-a-disc, I remember it well. :o)

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Ryan Cartwright
Equitas IT Solutions
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