[TriLUG] apologies to bill gates :-)

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Aww computers are going to care because the DRM bios monstrosity will be 
programmed to care :-)

Michael Rothwell wrote:
>
> On Mar 28, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Roberto J. Dohnert wrote:
>
>> I think its the other way around.  Computers dont care which OS you have
>> on them.  Only humans who think software is the second coming think
>> computers care what OS they have.
>
> Ah, anthropomorphism. Computers don't care what OS they run, any more 
> than my trunk cares what gas I put into it or a match cares that it's 
> been struck. However, the human operator usually does care! People 
> treat anything with sufficiently complex behavior -- like a computer 
> -- as though it has a personality. There's even some psychological 
> benefits from doing this; humans evolved without complicated 
> machinery, but with other people and animals -- which all have 
> "personalities". We're hardwired to conceptualize things that way.
>
> I have my favored "computer personalities", and I'm sure the rest of 
> you do, too.
>
> -M
>
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