Article: Linux is NOT windows

Arwyn Hainsworth arwynh+ubuntu at gmail.com
Sat Dec 30 16:41:35 GMT 2006


On 31/12/06, Shawn McMahon <smcmahon at eiv.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 00:14 +1100, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> >
> > > For the same reason I'd recommend an F-150 over a Radio Flyer to anyone
> > > needing to haul a load.  The Radio Flyer certainly has a less steep
> > > learning curve, but once you learn to drive that F-150, you'll get a
> > > hell of a lot more work done.
> >
> > However, if you have a goal to encourage people just to fly, and they will get
> > discouraged by the F-150 and go back to driving, then you would recommend the
> > radio flyer. No newbie should ever have vi recommended to them. While it is
>
> Since this is an American cultural thing and we have an international
> audience here, I guess I should point out as an FYI:
>
> Radio Flyer is a little red wagon.  The kind kids pull around.
>
> http://www.radioflyer.com/
>

Aahhh! Now it makes sense!
For a minute I was thinking a radio flyer was a radio controlled plane
and a F-150 was a fighter jet (like the F-19). I just guess that
analogy went right over my head.

Thanks for the clarification.

Arwyn



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