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Rocket Men
theodp writes "Slate reports on the guys who really, really want to fly, who got together the other week at the Niagara Aerospace Museum for the First International Rocketbelt Convention. To date, only 11 men in history have free-flown a rocketbelt (aka JetPack). More men have walked on the moon. Why? 'It's not a matter of if you get hurt, it's when,' says Eric Scott, an ex-stuntman who's in the exclusive club."
skateboarding how? I guess the large price tag already proves you can get laid, so you don't need to do flip tricks and grinds.
Basically your post is off-topic or just flamebait but I'll reply anyway since this is a common complaint coming from uninformed MS Windows people.
As far a Linux being 1% of the market I suggest you do some reading. It may be small from the desktop perspective but in the server market it is huge and is growing faster than MS Windows, although this depends on the county and in the majority of cases the push comes from Telecoms and the Government. Most businesses are too conservative to push Linux but they do need to work with the Government and if the Government uses Linux then business will follow.
As far as application installation under *nix the installation method is dictated by the designer/writer of a program, all the user needs to to (or should do) is run a few simple commands or even run an installer GUI then run the program and in nearly all cases you don't have to reboot. It is not and I repeat NOT the fault of the OS it is always the fault of the program writer if the program installation requires a complex set of commands that the person who is doing the installation has to follow. In all cases the installer process should be well documented even if this done by the installer script. It is very rare to see this done in the MS Windows environment and in many cases software installation under MS windows is a matter of trust while under *nix it is a matter of understanding what is going on.
You mention Quake installation under Linux and as I have said before the problem is not the OS but the guys who were to lazy (IMHO) or did not have the time to write a proper installer script. Which from what I have read from your post could have been written in a few minutes.
If you are a Unix/Linux person writing the above I would say you need to do some reading. If you are a Windows person who dabbles in Linux then I hope I have provided some education.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
This article reminds me of the very first time I was tricked into seeing goatse. It was an article similar to this, something to do with riding in/on/with amature rockets. Somebody posted, "You have to be careful, otherwise you can have horrible accidents, such as this [link]." I naively clicked it and screemed out, "hollllly shiiiit. Arrrrrrg!"
I would like to hear your initiation story....
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