Subj : PING Question To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Oct 30 2019 09:50:00 Hi Nancy! BM>> Or more prefer doing something else with my free/spare time other than BM>> reading randomly brought up articles. I will admit to sometimes reading BM>> those 'you might be interested in' article teasers (not click-bait) BM>> because I find them potentially of interest. To me a difference BM>> between 'of interest' and 'anything because I've nothing better to do'. NB>> And I'm rarely if ever in that sort of situation where something NB>> might be suggested that way, anyway.... BM> Reminds me of an article I recently read and printed out for BM> my Mother on the anteroom to the Women's Rest Room. We had one at the BM> store and us guys would on occasion comment about a waste of space; BM> sometimes jokingly considered as a temporary storage area for the BM> Christmas Season overstock. Article went into the history and reason BM> why the anteroom was created and used. Made sense once started to be BM> explained. NB> And rarely seen nowadays except in theatres and such.... :) Right: everything (OK, 'everything') is figured in cost per square foot, and so the anteroom is a hundred or so square feet not making money and not a requirement like stock storage, etc. NB>>> Interesting.... given that the linux distros are meant to be for NB>>> the masses, in their own way... ;) BM>> Yes, and I don't know how well the masses react. From what I've read BM>> some time back this country is more Windows-orientated and Europe BM>> Linux-oriented. I don't have a statistical base: doesn't come up in BM>> conversation. And I think a lot would be 'influenced' by what comes BM>> with what they're buying: the $35 Raspberry Pi comes with a form of BM>> Linux, the desktop computer at Best Buy with Windows. What's running BM>> inside generally doesn't matter to the average consumer, it's what it BM>> does on the outside. NB>> The ones that care, generally seem to gravitate towards linux, at NB>> least from what I've seen... Of course, my sample is probably skewed NB>> that way, given that I'm mostly dealing with people that are more NB>> into computers on a deeper level than the average consumer... ie, NB>> sysops, Fido or Ilink mail movers, along with several of my friends, NB>> to say nothing of Richard... :) BM> Yes that's sort of the problem with the individual samplings. In my BM> in-person life I'm the Computer Guy and so sometimes consulted but BM> they also know I know essentially nothing about tablets; some of their BM> replacements/upgrades need to be fitting with what they have at home BM> already, or with the contract they have (thinking cell phone). NB> Yup, a lot depends on what has to coordinate with what.... :) I was half paying attention to a recent cell phone commercial: fine print was needed a minimum of four lines. For here we're 'missing' two lines, so either both daughters and let their husbands get their own, or add in (so six lines), or one set and not the other - but everyone seems to be reasonably happy with what cell plan they have now. ...Not all offers are good for everyone! BM> Even in the business world there are the 'fights' between the Computer BM> Guys and The Ones In Charge Of The Money. If the check won't get BM> written could be the best system in the universe but.... NB> Just have to convince the ones that control the purse strings NB> that it is less money in the long run than the alternatives.... ;) True, though that doesn't always seem to work. "Never heard of this 'lynn ex' thing and my kids have 'winders' so we're sticking with what my kids have." That one was semi-paraphased from something I heard at the store some time back as a reason for why a store system wasn't being upgraded/changed. ...Years later the register system did change: recocognized a modified Ubuntu boot screen with the five dots on it. NB> ... Ah... aah... aaah... atchouw2XO1:4,&bKx NO CARRIER Why I've learned to pull my hands from the keyboard/mouse when I feel a sneeze coming on! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Do Hard Drives sneeze when they catch a virus? --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .