Then What?

This article on Gizmodo contains step by step instructions on how to install the newly released beta of SteamOS.  The instructions provided are fairly idiotproof, and, as a tech moron, I know things that are idiotproof.  In fact, I could have installed SteamOS this morning just to play around with it.  There are two reason why I haven't.

Reason one is that I don't have a spare computer laying around that I can play with.  Sure I could use the PC Laptops laptop that I still have, but, given it's state of disrepair, I kind of don't want to play with it right now.  Sure I could use the netbook that I have, but I only use that for when I go to hotels and bittorrent a fuckton of music via the hotel's free unsecured WiFi.

The second reason I haven't installed SteamOS is that I don't know what to do with it.  Sure the instructions in the article explicitly tell me that I can play games via Steam on SteamOS, but, since I'm exclusively a console gamer, I need something else to do with this operating system.  Yes, I could engage in investigation to discover what else I could do with SteamOS, but I'm lazy and I want to be told exactly what I can do and how, hence the reason the I need idiotproof instructions.

Therefore, I'm going to wait untill more people find more things to do with SteamOS before I download and install it.  Then again, this may be something that stays on my To Do List for many years to come, right next to paying off my credit card debt and exercising.

I Saw The Sign And It Opened Up My Eyes

Over the past couple of weeks, billboards like the one shown above have started popping up in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.  These billboards were put up BitTorrent, Inc., who's blog can be found here.

While this are a great subversive way to spread BitTorrent's message, these billboards leave me with the following question:

WHY ARE THEY NOT HERE WHERE I LIVE AND SPREADING THE MESSAGE TO PEOPLE AROUND ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, the message is getting around to internet connected people via, of all things, the internet, but the people who see BitTorrent as a threat generally are not that tech savvy.  These are people who believe iPods spread Antisemitism, that Xbox 360s help spread the word of Al Qaeda, and that Roombas are akin to, in their words, "that giant metal robot that what killed all of humanities".

Tech savvy people need to start realizing that messages such as the ones put out by BitTorrent, Inc. should not just be seen in the major population centers of this country.  This is a message that needs to be spread countrywide, perhaps by smaller bands who act independently to spread the message to people who might not otherwise not receive it.  The downside of that strategy is that authorities might perceive such a group to be a decentralized terrorist organization, much like how they perceive ALF.

No, not that one!  This ALF.