Just FYI, the Vienna airport has that at at least some of the gates. I haven't been through every one of them, but every flight I've had out of Vienna has had security just shy of the gate itself.
I don't know what this does for their security costs, though.
I will say that real men do not use: Redhat, Fedora, Suse, Mandrake, Gentoo or Debian.
Now go find yourself a real Linux distro using that criteria, and you'll probably stumble on the correct one
Testing this clever hinting, I decided to utilize every slashdot reader's favorite internet hegemon: Google!
Doing a search on "linux distro -Redhat -Fedora -Suse -Mandrake -Gentoo -Debian" yields an interesting result..
Check out this link if you're feeling lucky..
or try this one if you want to see the search results.
The results may surprise you!
One thing to keep in mind with your statistics, however, is population growth; the numbers you cite were from 1990 surveys. Call me crazy, but I think the Mormon population may have grown since then.
In fact, just from the 1990 census to the 2000, the population of the state went up almost a third - from 1.7 million to 2.2. The census doesn't keep track of religion, apparently, since there's no government data on that. However, I would assume that a fair bit of that growth was within Mormon.
Your other stats may still be relevant in terms of proportions; that I cannot judge.
I purchased a Dell Inspiron 8100 in October of 2001, and its still working for me. Its been nearly 4 years now, and I just had to replace the hard drive because it had started to fail intermittently on me. However, it was reasonably easy to upgrade; probably took me all of 5 minutes - slide the drive bay out, remove four screws and one adapter, add one adapter and five screws, and slide back in.
That's the only bit of hardware that's given me any problems. I don't know if this is unusual or if Desktops are really that much more reliable (well... except I also usually go 4-5 years between desktop upgrades without any issues, so..), but at least in my case things have gone very well.
On the other hand, I have gone through two batteries now, which is more a problem (as I see it) with battery technology (and a somewhat common problem thereof, it seems) more than laptops per se.
Also, my brother got a Dell laptop about a year ago, and first had a power supply issue and now has had part of his keyboard break somehow, such that he can't use about a dozen keys on the left side. Plus, his computer physically seems flimsier than mine. I think Dell has cheapened up in terms of casing; mine feels sturdy to me; his is a bit weak. Thus, I'd suggest, if you do look at a laptop, that you go somewhere where you can play with the computer and feel it. Some are built better than others, certainly.
Which is why I'm still running Acrobat Reader 5.0 - might not have the newest "features," but despite a warning when opening some documents that my reader doesn't support all the new features, everything seems to work with it. I haven't seen a problem yet, anyway.
Plus, it loads 5 times faster than the newest version, has fewer annoying ads, and.. well, I don't know what else, as I refuse to "upgrade" to find out.
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Just FYI, the Vienna airport has that at at least some of the gates. I haven't been through every one of them, but every flight I've had out of Vienna has had security just shy of the gate itself.
I don't know what this does for their security costs, though.
I will say that real men do not use: Redhat, Fedora, Suse, Mandrake, Gentoo or Debian.
Now go find yourself a real Linux distro using that criteria, and you'll probably stumble on the correct one
Testing this clever hinting, I decided to utilize every slashdot reader's favorite internet hegemon: Google!
Doing a search on "linux distro -Redhat -Fedora -Suse -Mandrake -Gentoo -Debian" yields an interesting result..
Check out this link if you're feeling lucky..
or try this one if you want to see the search results. The results may surprise you!
I realize this is slashdot, so the comment may not apply, but you could give them to friends...
Or, at the very least, use them as a way to make a "friend" for a short time.
One thing to keep in mind with your statistics, however, is population growth; the numbers you cite were from 1990 surveys. Call me crazy, but I think the Mormon population may have grown since then.
In fact, just from the 1990 census to the 2000, the population of the state went up almost a third - from 1.7 million to 2.2. The census doesn't keep track of religion, apparently, since there's no government data on that. However, I would assume that a fair bit of that growth was within Mormon.
Your other stats may still be relevant in terms of proportions; that I cannot judge.
I purchased a Dell Inspiron 8100 in October of 2001, and its still working for me. Its been nearly 4 years now, and I just had to replace the hard drive because it had started to fail intermittently on me. However, it was reasonably easy to upgrade; probably took me all of 5 minutes - slide the drive bay out, remove four screws and one adapter, add one adapter and five screws, and slide back in.
That's the only bit of hardware that's given me any problems. I don't know if this is unusual or if Desktops are really that much more reliable (well... except I also usually go 4-5 years between desktop upgrades without any issues, so..), but at least in my case things have gone very well.
On the other hand, I have gone through two batteries now, which is more a problem (as I see it) with battery technology (and a somewhat common problem thereof, it seems) more than laptops per se.
Also, my brother got a Dell laptop about a year ago, and first had a power supply issue and now has had part of his keyboard break somehow, such that he can't use about a dozen keys on the left side. Plus, his computer physically seems flimsier than mine. I think Dell has cheapened up in terms of casing; mine feels sturdy to me; his is a bit weak. Thus, I'd suggest, if you do look at a laptop, that you go somewhere where you can play with the computer and feel it. Some are built better than others, certainly.
Which is why I'm still running Acrobat Reader 5.0 - might not have the newest "features," but despite a warning when opening some documents that my reader doesn't support all the new features, everything seems to work with it. I haven't seen a problem yet, anyway.
Plus, it loads 5 times faster than the newest version, has fewer annoying ads, and.. well, I don't know what else, as I refuse to "upgrade" to find out.
Ah, good ol' troglodytic living!
At least its not the same editor.. then we'd really have a problem.
Its not like we can expect the editors of the site to actually know what goes on here.. right?