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warface.mp3
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Private Joker why did you join my beloved Corps?
Private Joker: Sir, to kill sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: So you're a killer?
Private Joker: Sir, yes sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Let me see your warface.
Private Joker: Sir?
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: You got a warface? AHHHHHHHH! That's a warface. Now let me see your warface.
Private Joker: Ahh!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit you didn't convince me. Let me see your real warface.
Private Joker: Ahhhh!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: You don't scare me; work on it.
Private Joker: Sir, yes sir!

or ebonics?

I personally think they just wanted an upgrade to the old sound...

This just about sums up my view on cursing. http://www.moviesoundscentral.com/sounds/fuck.wav

I wouldn't presume to say why Linux is "better" than OS X. To begin with, I prefer OS X, on balance, to anything else. I've invested far more cash than I should probably admit in the Mac platform. To me, it's worth it.

Being "committed" to a platform can mean a number of things, which is why I chose such an ambiguous term. It could very well mean being strapped to proprietary software. There's such a volume of financial, scientific, and military software on Linux that we probably needn't belabor the issue of platform legacy beyond noting the relative advantages of PPC power efficiency.

Yeah, you could probably run some of these Linux programs on top of OS X. Can't imagine that's a good solution for truly mission-critical applications.

There are also the subjective reasons a user might prefer one platform over the other, very much as we might prefer one member of the opposite (or same!) sex to another. I can see why someone would be smitten by the aesthetics and functionality of the Gnome desktop, or the irritatingly configurable KDE environment.

One thing I didn't touch on in my original post is hardware lock-in. Linux enjoys broad vendor support. I'm happy to cast my lot with Apple, but not everyone feels that way. If you're investing in development and training on Linux, you can rest fairly easy that you won't wake up one morning to find your sole hardware supplier just decided to abandon computer production for -- well, I dunno -- manufacturing iPods or something. ;-)

Again, I'm a Mac guy. Long live Steve Jobs. Hooray, iTunes. Look at my bitchin' G5: it's precision-manufactured, dual-processor, aluminum sex. It's desktop penis enhancement -- the answer to a geek midlife crisis. Watch me plug in an off-the-shelf peripheral and have it "just work" with a minimum of fiddling. Ha-ha: no Windows viruses here. I rule.

But I totally get why someone might want or need to run Linux on an Apple box. It's not necessarily a question of which OS is better than another. It's a question of user needs and desires.

At least he didn't piss on a spark plug ...

All of the talk about the number 37 reminded me of Clerks, which I watched this afternoon.

37

Randall: In a row?

From you:

tell me how the functionality of Magpie can be used for something other than pornography??

From the Magpie site:

Save Linked Media: Save all files linked to from the page you're currently looking at by hitting Ctrl+Shift+S. To specify which types you want saved when you do this, use Magpie's Options panel.

From me:
You can use Magpie to go to a page with nothing but sound clips from the movie "Clerks" and you can download all the quotes. No porn involved.

From you:

Please note: my problem with this is that they are Mozilla supported extensions. perhaps you would actually like to also address that point, yes?

From me:
Mozilla is going to support anything that will improve and extend the functionality of their browsers. The more valuable and flexible a tool is, the more widely it will be used and the greater the number of uses to which it will be put.

Much like the word "tool."

The Dalai LLama
...tired of tilting at windmills...

Can the Big Mac play games like the WOPR?
How about a nice game of chess?