...not to drop it.
I don't disagree with what you are saying at all, but I am curious:
Who is going to do the educating, exactly, and how? It's not like you can force people to learn things they don't want to learn. You don't need a license to use a computer or the Internet.
Make no mistake, there are actively, willfully ignorant users all over the place. They know what they need to do to learn more - use the computer more. But they don't want to, because using the system is not an enjoyable, rewarding experience. It's more like they approach it with a sense of dread -- "I could click or do something wrong and just ruin the damn thing!" Consider also that even the cheapest pc still costs a few hundred dollars, which is a lot of money for some folks.
They'd rather just have someone that already knows how to use a computer fix their issue for them, thereby separating the world into the haves and have nots (or in this case, know and know nots) that we have today.
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne?currentPage=all
Very interesting stuff. David is a very smart guy and has been there and done that in the music biz, from all sides of the equation. He interviews several folks in the industry as well.
It won't let you create an account (even for testing purposes) using servers and settings that it can't "probe".
Working at a tech support firm as I do, the new account wizard that was implemented with TB3 is an absolute nightmare for users. I like TB better than MS mail clients in general, but they make us and our users' lives far more difficult than need be.
Do away with the "autoconfiguration" crap and just let people specify what they want, or at least make it optional to have TB "autodetect" everything, for cripes' sake. What's wrong with letting the end-user configure an account using any settings they want?
...I don't have a facebook/myspace/twitter/socialnetworkingsiteofthemonth account.
Can't find what's not there!
So how you wanna kick it?
Gonna kick it root down!
So how we gonna kick it?
Gonna kick it root down!
So how we gonna kick it?
Gonna kick it root down!
Break it on down, gonna kick it root down
It's not a putdown, I put my foot down
And then I'm makin' some love, I put my root down
Like 'Sweetie Pie' by the Stone Alliance
Everybody knows I'm known for droppin' science
Beasties -- ahead of their time AND helping save Admins everywhere the trouble of statically configuring ARIN’s trust anchors.
On the other hand, there is a website know where you can enter the MAC address of a router, and it will give you the location of that router, based on data on Google's servers.
Is that this site? I'm sure there are more, but this one only took about a minute to find (via Google of course):
http://www.samy.pl/mapxss/
When I say wireless, I don't mean cellular and I don't mean wifi, it's some local provider for some corner of our county delivering wireless internet on a licensed spectrum.
The actual term for this is "fixed wireless".
The More You Know
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis