“I have been perusing OS Opinion, Slashdot and GeekNews for a
week and reading the comments about the new Transmeta chips. They
have gotten the geeks more excited than a 10-year-old who has just
been given a shoebox full of Pokemon cards. The hardware
manufacturers, however, have been underwhelmed. Unless we can pump
up their adrenalin level, the World’s Greatest Programmer might be
looking for another job.
Ask any Penguinista, ‘What does Linux need to win popular
acceptance?’ and he will answer, ‘Why, more games, of course!’
The average geek thinks Lara Croft is the ultimate fantasy woman.
And what does the Crusoe need to win popular acceptance? Games, of
course!”
“The purchasers of Crusoe devices need games like Stock
Market Exploiter. If you have a wireless Internet connection,
it will give you continuous updates of the Dow-Jones and S&P
indices. To impress your friends you can pretend to enter stock
bids, and every day it will tell you how much make-believe money
you have earned. You can configure the game so that your stocks go
up and up and up, regardless of what they are doing on the
NYSE.”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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