It's statements like this that worry me for the future of Ubuntu

[Basil Chupin]

On 01/11/2010 00:23, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:13:51 -0500
> Anthony Papillion<papillion at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> This 'oh, the PC is dead' has been something that's
>> come and gone many times over the last 20 or so years and it's never
>> proven to be true. Abandoning the desktop or serious focusing on
>> another platform would be a huge mistake and one I think Connonical
>> would regret.
>>      
> Fully agree.  I, for one, am not a techie by day and would not give a
> shiny new connected gadget a second look.  My cell phone makes calls and
> that is all.

I have a mobile phone which is now 8 years old. I only have it around to 
use in case of some emergency while either my wife or myself are driving 
somewhere and need help. I pay the absolute the bottom monthly fee ($10) 
for this phone - and also get every 3 minute calls home for free (from 
anywhere within Australia) - whenever I do have to make such a call 
(like, "What the heck is this bit on the shopping list which I cannot 
read?!" - you get the idea :-D .)

>   I just don't have time for all that extra stuff while I go
> about my day-to-day.
>
> Besides, my eyes are getting older and older.  I /NEED/ the desktop in
> order to see anything.
>    

But you, and I, are not the ones being targetted. We are the dying-out 
people. We are the "has beens".

The ones with all the money are the teenagers and those in their 20's 
and early 30's who haven't yet woken up to the real world but live in 
that limbo-world where they considerable themselves to be "invisible" 
and "have the rest of their lives to make good".

Nobody gives a rat's arse about your eyes "getting older and older" :-( 
. The money lies where those who have good eye-sight and money to spend 
on new fang-dangled gadgets which pop and ring and twirl and come up 
with images of people with big tits and tight bums or

"Some folks say that I'm egotistical
Hell, I don't even know what that means
But I think it has something to do with the way
That I fill out my skin-tight blue jeans"[1]

and these will (always) win the day :-) - and if you want all this then 
you had better get new spectacles! :-) (or get really skin-tight blue 
jeans" :-) ).

[1] It's Hard to be Humble, Country Music, 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itb6uNL_3ag&feature=related but there is 
a better version around.

BC

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"Ning Yu displayed his wisdom while the country followed System, but when it did not, he acted stupid. His wisdom is achievable by others, his stupidity is not."
                                         Confucius