1) Is it just the 'vocal minority' that favors alternate OSes over Linux and
Yes.
Do people like using Windows? Are games the driving factor? Or is it just 'the right tool for the job?
Games are a fair-sized reason; there just aren't enough new commercial games released for Linux.
Secondly I like XP's desktop better; graphically it's more responsive, and just looks better. Browsing the web is a lot easier, too. The browsers work better and audio and video is unproblematic.
And the main reason I used to use Linux, the stability, isn't so much a problem with Windows anymore. XP/2k, despite the claims made on slashdot, is quite stable.
As someone who pays taxes without ever taking anything out of the system (other than the services we all take), I have no problem with current federal taxation levels.
Well, the thing is France crumbled almost immediately. And they shouldn't have.
Well, maybe you didn't notice, but the Nazis were the most powerfull force in history at the time (they didn't start conquering the world on a double dare you know).
That's what the high school textbooks say. Unfortunately, like many things in the high school textbooks it's not quite accurate. France had a very large army, well-fortified, and after the invasion of Poland Britain also stationed troops in France.
Textbooks (well high school ones) also make a big deal about the German panzer divisions, but sometimes forget to mention that the French tanks were superior. The Germans just knew how to use them better.
So we have two well-equipped, sizeable forces in France, expecting an attack.
So what happens? The Germans flank the French, ignore the Maginot line, smash both the French and the British armies, and have reached the English channel in 8 days.
Yes, the constant insults about French courage are unfair, but they didn't exactly cover themselves with glory in 1940. Ditto for the British. It also doesn't help that the French have absolutely no sense of humor about themselves. Neither do the Germans, but the Germans at least have the excuse that they don't have a sense of humor about anything.
The last thing I ordered online was from a place in-state; they automatically added sales tax to the total. Not sure why most places don't do this already.
And the reason behind THAT is that it's better for the INDIVIDUAL to consume a lot of antibiotics, even while it's bad in the long term for society. So who's going to risk losing their life to infection in order to prevent antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria from evolving? It sure as hell won't be me, thank you very much.
I've heard it argued that's responsible for the rise in severe allergies as well. Parents stop their kids from playing in the mud, and their bodies don't learn how to put up with allergens.
Uhh, it's one of Nickelodeon's auxiliary channel I believe, something like "Noggin". Ok, just looked it up, it is Noggin. According to yahoo!'s tv listings they rerun long blocks of Contact late at night.
Good idea, unless you live in a large metropolis, which, like most urban metropolises, is constantly lurching from financial crisis to financial crisis. County libraries in very well-off places are quite nice though.
Some shitbag will be ahppy to lock it away in a safe where they can gloat over it, happy in the knowlege they now have it at the expense of everyone else in the world.
Curse them! Now we'll have to start mathematics all over from the 16th century.
I know hindsight is 20/20, but we should have made a copy while we had a chance.
What is with all these angry posts? Nobody's suggesting they rewrite the physics text, give credit to him for the Big Bang theory, or
arguing that poetry is as precise as equations.
They're just pointing out an interesting little fact. Good grief, doesn't anyone here take the slightest joy in learning intriguing historical quirks?
Not at all. There are plenty of weblogs run by non-teenage angsty, maladjusted primadonnas.
And does the name "blog" annoy the hell out of anyone else either? The only people I can picture using the term are annoying hipsters down at Starbucks trying to impress each other as they slam back frappucinos.
the music died a few years back anyway, all we have now is non-talented crap filling the airwaves.... no great loss
Except for the fact that in addition to the bubble pop, EMI has an enormous catalogue of classical music, much of it which I would have no problem buying or trying to listen to on my computer.
I'm the same way. When I sign my name I usually omit a letter or two. Sadly it's different letters each time. I can hit 100 wpm typing if I put some effort into it, but give me a pen and a piece of paper and I'm semiliterate.
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1) Is it just the 'vocal minority' that favors alternate OSes over Linux and
Yes.
Do people like using Windows? Are games the driving factor? Or is it just 'the right tool for the job?
Games are a fair-sized reason; there just aren't enough new commercial games released for Linux.
Secondly I like XP's desktop better; graphically it's more responsive, and just looks better. Browsing the web is a lot easier, too. The browsers work better and audio and video is unproblematic.
And the main reason I used to use Linux, the stability, isn't so much a problem with Windows anymore. XP/2k, despite the claims made on slashdot, is quite stable.
If I wanted to hang out with a bunch of socially maladjusted, technologically-obsessed cretins I'd stay home and hang out with my friends.
Yep, it's amazing how a completely idiotic metaphor can be used so often.
As someone who pays taxes without ever taking anything out of the system (other than the services we all take), I have no problem with current federal taxation levels.
Well, the thing is France crumbled almost immediately. And they shouldn't have.
Well, maybe you didn't notice, but the Nazis were the most powerfull force in history at the time (they didn't start conquering the world on a double dare you know).
That's what the high school textbooks say. Unfortunately, like many things in the high school textbooks it's not quite accurate. France had a very large army, well-fortified, and after the invasion of Poland Britain also stationed troops in France.
Textbooks (well high school ones) also make a big deal about the German panzer divisions, but sometimes forget to mention that the French tanks were superior. The Germans just knew how to use them better.
So we have two well-equipped, sizeable forces in France, expecting an attack.
So what happens? The Germans flank the French, ignore the Maginot line, smash both the French and the British armies, and have reached the English channel in 8 days.
Yes, the constant insults about French courage are unfair, but they didn't exactly cover themselves with glory in 1940. Ditto for the British. It also doesn't help that the French have absolutely no sense of humor about themselves. Neither do the Germans, but the Germans at least have the excuse that they don't have a sense of humor about anything.
The last thing I ordered online was from a place in-state; they automatically added sales tax to the total. Not sure why most places don't do this already.
We need the revenue.
Because by including a theoretical quotation my point was emphasized.
And the reason behind THAT is that it's better for the INDIVIDUAL to consume a lot of antibiotics, even while it's bad in the long term for society. So who's going to risk losing their life to infection in order to prevent antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria from evolving? It sure as hell won't be me, thank you very much.
My point is Lucas is criticized for doing something all directors do.
And Kurosawa's genius goes way beyond just cinematography; just because the dialogue tends to be spare doesn't mean the plot isn't important.
so sensationalism aside
Not allowed to do that on slashdot.
Well it's the cinema snobs, the people who can't accept Star Wars as a good movie because it's not subtitled.
"Lucas is a plagiarist! He stole the plot to Star Wars from Kurosawa!"
"Kurosawa is a genius! He adapted the plot to Ran from King Lear!"
I've heard it argued that's responsible for the rise in severe allergies as well. Parents stop their kids from playing in the mud, and their bodies don't learn how to put up with allergens.
Uhh, it's one of Nickelodeon's auxiliary channel I believe, something like "Noggin". Ok, just looked it up, it is Noggin. According to yahoo!'s tv listings they rerun long blocks of Contact late at night.
I find that information tends to dissipate from my head after I absorb it
That's a good thing. Permanent memory should hold more sublime things.
Good idea, unless you live in a large metropolis, which, like most urban metropolises, is constantly lurching from financial crisis to financial crisis. County libraries in very well-off places are quite nice though.
That show also had the greatest TV theme song of all time.
I still sometimes flip to that cable channel where they rerun it just to hear it.
Contact
is the reason
is the moment
where everything happens
Especially since it couldn't have been THAT valuable if they let anonymous readers borrow it.
Some shitbag will be ahppy to lock it away in a safe where they can gloat over it, happy in the knowlege they now have it at the expense of everyone else in the world.
Curse them! Now we'll have to start mathematics all over from the 16th century.
I know hindsight is 20/20, but we should have made a copy while we had a chance.
What is with all these angry posts? Nobody's suggesting they rewrite the physics text, give credit to him for the Big Bang theory, or arguing that poetry is as precise as equations.
They're just pointing out an interesting little fact. Good grief, doesn't anyone here take the slightest joy in learning intriguing historical quirks?
Humorless bunch of...
Try http://www.livejournal.com. Just full of them.
Not at all. There are plenty of weblogs run by non-teenage angsty, maladjusted primadonnas.
And does the name "blog" annoy the hell out of anyone else either? The only people I can picture using the term are annoying hipsters down at Starbucks trying to impress each other as they slam back frappucinos.
Of course not. Hell, this is slashdot, nobody's going to read it no matter what the length.
the music died a few years back anyway, all we have now is non-talented crap filling the airwaves.... no great loss
Except for the fact that in addition to the bubble pop, EMI has an enormous catalogue of classical music, much of it which I would have no problem buying or trying to listen to on my computer.
I'm the same way. When I sign my name I usually omit a letter or two. Sadly it's different letters each time. I can hit 100 wpm typing if I put some effort into it, but give me a pen and a piece of paper and I'm semiliterate.