Re: [SLUG] Linux in Appliances

From: Steven Buehler (swbuehler@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 14:12:02 EDT


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On Friday 04 July 2003 12:39 pm, Paul M Foster wrote:
> IMHO, the computer won't go away. You may be able to surf the net on
> your TV, but writing letters or doing spreadsheets is something that
> doesn't really lend itself to doing on your toaster. Maybe you might be
> able to write letters and do spreadsheets on your TV, but then you're
> still dealing with a programmable PC underneath it all. In the same
> sense, I don't think books will go away because of ebooks. There are
> certain aspects of tree-based books that I think are too valuable to
> people to shift the whole market to ebooks.

Here's proof tree-books won't go away:

How many times have you found yourself looking up some instructions or such
from the web and then PRINTED IT OUT so you could have it at hand?

- --
There's no such thing as an original sin.
                -- Elvis Costello
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