Chromebook Nothing More than Neutered Netbook

And letting somebody else worry about that gives them more time to wait in the drive-through at McDonalds, after taking the kids to soccer practice in their SUV, and get some more shopping done at the new Walmart Superstore that just opened up across town from the plain old Walmart, picking up a new Spongebob Wii game for the kids... And maybe enough time to pick up some weed killer for their lawn at Home Depot...

Yep, you're right & I'm definitely wrong in that, Dino,... Nothing "sheeple" about that. Those people have unique and different lives... I fold my hand.

@JaseP -

Wow, no elitist snobbery in you, is there?

Maybe I fit in that group because I don't bother upgrading my Blackberry to an iPhone (why settle for a Blackberry when you can have a touchscreen and an app store) or, for that matter, don't even have a dataplan (What? You settle for WiFi hot spots when you could be browsing the internet while you're sitting at traffic lights?)

And, honestly, what have you got against the Home Depot?

Or is it Weed'nFeed you despise?

Lawns?

Kids?

Elitist?!?! No...

And YES, I eat at Mickey-Ds (only occasionally), shop at Walmart, go to Home Depot & have a Wii, 2 kids, a lawn, (a wife) & Spongebob is playing in my house 27 hours a day... Oh, and the Mrs. drives an SUV (her choice, not mine). I have no allusions that those aren't sheeple-ish things. But, just about everything else in my life is an intentional decision, not just going along with the crowd... Political views, personal philosophy, OS choice, hobbies, choice of entertainment, etc.

@JaseP -

That's better. I was starting to worry.

It's easy for me to see that giving over the bother with a computer is an intentional choice, too, one that frees you up for choices that are more important to you.

I get a little bit about cars like you get about computers. I wonder why people so readily hand their cars over to mechanics, when brakes, ignition, stuff like that really isn't so hard to do. Of course, my last task was laying on the garage floor with my arms in unnatural positions, getting cramped and greasy and frustrated while I replaced the power steering pump in a mini-van that hid it away from any sensible care...

I imagine some computer users view the silly little things in much the same way.

@JaseP........"sheeple".........what an utterly delightful word ! Seriously, I've never encountered it before. Marvellous. Now I know how Redmond gets its wool bales. :-D Got any more like that ?

You never heard the term "sheeple?!?!" Wow, I thought it was pretty much commonplace...

No, JaseP, on reflection, I don't think I have. Tracyanne may have encountered it ??? But it's certainly not a word in common usage in the area I live in. Perhaps the Kiwis across the Tasman use it ? Whatever, as soon as you see it, you instantly understand its application and I now have a marvellous update for my vocabulary of words that apply to mindless followers of some ethic, concept.............or even software operating systems. Ta muchly. :-)

Ridcully -

Though sheeple can be found anywhere, I would expect to see a lot of them in New Zealand. I believe they can be found anywhere lonely people hang around sheep.

Sheeple is common in the US. Usually it refers to people with differing religious or political views :)

Quoting:Tracyanne may have encountered it ??? But it's certainly not a word in common usage in the area I live in. Perhaps the Kiwis across the Tasman use it ?

Although I lived in Kiwiland for many years, I never came across the term there. The first time I saw the term used was by a Yank in reference to Windows users.

I think dono has the right idea in regards to our near neighbours. Although I believe the English think they are found in Wales. This is, afer all why Kiwi farmers wear Gum Boots.

Quoting: [...] I believe they can be found anywhere lonely people hang around sheep.

Hmm, do mean that literally or are you referring to those hung for the evil things they do to sheep?

YBT

Being a person of utterly pure mind, immaculate morals and ethics that are above reproach........I have NO idea what any of you are talking about..................... :-)

@Ridcully -

Baaa humbug.

@Dinotrac...................I am positively PROUD of you...........you are obviously very familiar with Dicken's Christmas Carol.............And it is one of my favourite books.......There is no way I can therefore take offence with such a quotation from a master.........LOL.....

Quoting:Baaa humbug.

A quote from Dolly the sheep prior to her untimely, early demise, I presume.

YBT

@TxtEdMacs...........ummmm......not exactly........The only well defined Christmas Dinners in the story both occur at the Cratchit's house: the first is a goose, and the second towards the end, is a "prize turkey".......so "honks", "gabbles" and "gobbles" are in, but "baaas" are out. I'm sure you'll work out some "wicked way" to twist those words.

Ridcully,

Quoting: [...] I'm sure you'll work out some "wicked way" to twist those words.

I was well on my way with the delicious list you handed me, however, the three letter barrier cropped up during my musing: TOS. So we will have to fore go that foray into suggestive, prurient minds that are all too easily led astray. Should I say?

I think not, because LXer minds are already too befuddled by chicory commentary and tricks or by dino shticks. Thus, I will leave it unattended ...

As always,

YBT

What was the original topic of this thread again?!?! Something about Chromed sheep shears, or something?!?!

@JaseP -

I think it had something to do with Google promoting the Chromebook as the Next Big Thing when they're really just pulling the wool over our eyes.

No, no no!!!

Sheeple is so 2000's; that's a decade ago now. This decade (well, 2005 to 2015 more probably) is all about iSheep. Which is the individualistic egocetric sheep only looking at itself. Because only if it has a tunnel vision and sees nothing more then itself (iThis, iThat and so on), can it make itself believe it's unique and a magic revolutionary artistic individual. Instead of part of a large global dumb flock which just follows their herd. The herd which of course gets all the wool and maybe some nice expensive feta.

Seriously though, there are many people which are not capable of / not willing to do 'operating system' maintenance. Some people do, but they install such utterly large mountain of 'maintaining programs' on Windows; the whole OS comes to a screeching halt because it comes with 50 different 'managing' programs who are busy managing the other 49 ones. Yeah, that's the best definition of Windows!

People which don't want to upgrade, don't want to have IT staff, don't want to solve difficult disk drive / storage / backup problems, don't want to deal with malware and so on.