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Nanotech: "Smart Fabrics"
Reidar Gunn writes: "This article is about nano technology... I read it over to make sure I was really reading what I read! Red to Blue cloths, sizes going from bigger to smaller... Wonder if they'll make wireless clothes with a subscription service, Yah never know! Logo changing shirts eh!"
And what world do you live in?
Imagine the field day advertising morons^H^H^H^H^H^H people would have with them
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I make no attempt to obscure my identity. The reason for this is due to deep philosophical beliefs that boil down to: once your dead, your dead. From your point of view it's like you never existed at all. So you might as well do what your going to do. Or as Ghandi said, Nothing you do is important, but it is very important that you do it.
In a more pragmatic sense, I know I am expendable. This is unfortunate but acceptable. However, I am not an island in the ocean, I exist within a social network of friends and family. Most of them are really normal people, some of them however are a counter to your vague threats. Unlike yourself though, they would ensure that you got your day in court.
I don't agree with what he said, in fact I believe there is a medium probability that he is actually a counter-revolutionary. Go eat your cake in my original reply insinuates this. Regardless, he has a right to say whatever the fuck he wants to say and I will die to preserve that right.
If you put Linux next to some other operating systems out there for a cost comparison, the conclusions are devastating for Linux.
Linux costs not only more because of the frequent updates which require new cdrom's to be bought if you don't have a high speed Internet connection.
Another factor in Linux cost is its maintenance. Linux requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the relatively few high-paid Linux administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Linux seems to be needing maintenance continuously.
Add to this the cost of loss of data. Linux' native file system, EXT2FS, is known to lose data like a firehose loses water, when the file system isn't unmounted properly. Other unix file systems are much more tolerant towards unexpected crashes. An example is the FreeBSD file system, which with soft updates enabled, performance-wise blows EXT2FS out of the water, and doesn't have the negative drawback of extreme data loss in case of a system breakdown.
Factor in also the fact that crashes happen much more often on Linux than on other unices. On other unices, crashes usually are caused by external sources like power outages. Crashes in Linux are a regular thing, and nobody seems to know what causes them, internally.
The steep learning curve compared to about any other operating system out there is a major factor in Linux' cost. The system is a mix of features from all kinds of unices, but not one of them is implemented right. A Linux user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification. On top of that a lot of them spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages, indicating that they were created by 14-year olds with too much time, no talent and a bad attitude.
I can go on and on and on, but the message is clear. In this world, there is no place for Linux. It's not an option for any one who seeks a professional OS with high performance, scalability, stability, adherence to standards, etc. The best place it should ever reach is the toy store, and even that would be flattering.
I just heard some really sad news on talk radio Horror/fiction writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine house this morning. I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you didn't read his books you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. Truly an American icon.