A common heard question in the operating systems world is, 'if the alternatives to Windows are so much better, why aren't people en masse switching to them?' People come up with all sorts of answers to this question, but in fact, the social psychology world already has a fairly simple answer to this question. This answer also happens to actually explain why Zeta sold so well through the usually superficial television retail channel.
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It has nothing to do with stupidity. People filter. That isn't an exercise in stupidity.
Of course it is. I know enough people who won't even know what an operating system is! Hence, they are too stupid in this particular subject to be able to process information about this subject.
It's not rocket science, really.
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Stupidity and ignorance are not the same thing. You might be too stupid to understand something, but it does not follow that those ignorant of another subject are too stupid to understand it. I am sure that within the realm of my expertise there exists many things that you could not comprehend, but that given sufficient time that I could teach you the necessary information to understand arguments about. There may also be matters for which you are simply not capable of ever really grasping, no matter how much effort that I expend.
There may be those unable to grasp a discussion of the merits of say the MacOS vis-a-vis Windows, however your blunt shortcut does more to explain why people might dismiss your argument: you throw the characterizaton of stupid around casually in with a flamewar issue of MacOS vs. Windows. That couldn't end badly!
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2005-06-29
No, that's arrogant BS being spewed by a technophile with a poor grasp on humanity.
You're not getting it. I do not grasp the string theory, nor do I grasp quantum computing, hence I am too stupid to process that information.
Same goes for operating systems.
They simply want to use the aircraft to get from one location to another. It's a tool, a means to an end. The minutia have little bearing on their lives.
EXACTLY! Hence they do not care about what operating system they are running, hence they are not involved in the subject, hence the information related to operating systems you feed them does not get processed centrally.
You get it now?