If being a nerd makes you a better lover, then why are these nerdy men cited in the article getting screwed by having to date these second-banana non-nerd "supermodel" chicks?
If nerds are the best lovers, then shouldn't the best couples be nerd-on-nerd? It just doesn't make any sense any other way.
Someone please set up Tiger Woods with Steve Urkel's sister, so he can find out what dating a real woman is all about!
PCMCIA slots, usb, and ieee 1394 ports on modern laptops make this point somewhat suspect. Upgrading a laptop's processor or replacing a keyboard is a pain that most people aren't going to be willing to subject themselves to, but even a RAM or hard drive upgrade or battery replacement is pretty light work. The parts are more expensive, sure, but they're not all that much more difficult to swap out.
It doesn't matter who bears the burden for paying for recycling and disposal. The cost will ALWAYS be passed to consumers.
The real question to be asked here is who bears the burden for making sure that computers and electronics actually get recycled, rather than dumped in a landfill. I'd think that'd be the city waste collection department, and thus the voter-taxpayer.
Now all they have to do is ban this TLD, and the pr0n industry should finally be in check, and the conservatives can all retire as their work will be done.
But anyway, my real point was that Mac OS X is a lot more expensive than LINUX, not WinXP. Especially considering that you CAN install Linux on whatever existing hardware you have, whereas to get OS X you have to go out and buy a Mac if you don't already have one.
Mac OS X is less expensive than WinXP Pro only if you compare retail prices. If you compare the cost of an OEM license, which is how many if not most people obtain Windows, WinXP is cheaper.
Mac OS X is more robust than WinXP, too. It's got a better security model, it's stable, and all that. But nothing is bulletproof. I support Windows and Mac OS X where I work, and believe me, we do have problems with Macs.
I love Macs and by no means do I recommend avoiding them.
This is a situation where there *is* an admin. Dad and daughter. Dad's the head of friggin' INTEL, he might know an admin or two if he's not up to the task himself.
If you have no admin at your disposal, you better learn how to maintain your operating system. You can't get away from that with ANY computer, even the great and mighty OS X.
If you don't take care of it, eventually, it WILL break. And then you'll need an admin. A user shouldn't have to learn to do all that simply in order to use a browser, email, mp3 player, and IM client safely.
Will she be smart enough to handle anything but the most idiot-proof OS?
That's the point of Linux. The Admin can lock out the user so that they only USE the OS to run applications. They CAN'T screw the system up because they don't have access to do so. THAT'S idiot proof.
The real concern for the daughter using Linux is whether he favorite app Foo has been ported or copied by an OSS alternative.
Yeah, I'm sure the TV news people who still air the clean cartoons produced by these companies will just leave the authorship happily ambiguous, leading the viewers to believe that the p2p filesharing crowd is a bunch of racists trafficing in hatespeech documents.
Come on, you're on slashdot. You haven't run into a misleading headline???
Slashdot Mirror
Pretty much, yeah. You'll get used to tuning it out eventually.
If being a nerd makes you a better lover, then why are these nerdy men cited in the article getting screwed by having to date these second-banana non-nerd "supermodel" chicks?
If nerds are the best lovers, then shouldn't the best couples be nerd-on-nerd? It just doesn't make any sense any other way.
Someone please set up Tiger Woods with Steve Urkel's sister, so he can find out what dating a real woman is all about!
A rail gun, of sufficient capacity to catapult raw materials into orbit, would be a gigantic breakthrough for the whole planet.
Yeah, if anything could survive the acceleration.
That's all great, but will it make my internet faster like the Pentium 4?
His apparatus makes use of the air that is dissolved in water like the gills of a fish.
I call prior art.
Oh shit, the fish are suing!
No, it's OK; humans have prior art on the lawsuit. The fish have nothing!
phew.
PCMCIA slots, usb, and ieee 1394 ports on modern laptops make this point somewhat suspect. Upgrading a laptop's processor or replacing a keyboard is a pain that most people aren't going to be willing to subject themselves to, but even a RAM or hard drive upgrade or battery replacement is pretty light work. The parts are more expensive, sure, but they're not all that much more difficult to swap out.
Now I'll know who to call next time my car gets stuck in the snow this winter.
Changing 2 bits probably leaves a lot less traceable footprints than downloading illegal copies.
It doesn't matter who bears the burden for paying for recycling and disposal. The cost will ALWAYS be passed to consumers.
The real question to be asked here is who bears the burden for making sure that computers and electronics actually get recycled, rather than dumped in a landfill. I'd think that'd be the city waste collection department, and thus the voter-taxpayer.
After all, wasn't it US fear that Germany was working on the bomb the very impetus for the Manhattan Project?
Now all they have to do is ban this TLD, and the pr0n industry should finally be in check, and the conservatives can all retire as their work will be done.
Also, you can quit anytime you want, right? ;)
I thought Google was all about NOT being eval. What gives?
What about lynx?
So where's the mirror?
That's a fair point...
But anyway, my real point was that Mac OS X is a lot more expensive than LINUX, not WinXP. Especially considering that you CAN install Linux on whatever existing hardware you have, whereas to get OS X you have to go out and buy a Mac if you don't already have one.
You can't admin remotely over SSL? Shame on you.
Mac OS X is less expensive than WinXP Pro only if you compare retail prices. If you compare the cost of an OEM license, which is how many if not most people obtain Windows, WinXP is cheaper.
Mac OS X is more robust than WinXP, too. It's got a better security model, it's stable, and all that. But nothing is bulletproof. I support Windows and Mac OS X where I work, and believe me, we do have problems with Macs.
I love Macs and by no means do I recommend avoiding them.
Mac OS X = more elegant, easier, but much more expensive.
Windows = virus and malware magnet, IP-encumbered, $$.
Linux = harder to set up, free, Free.
Doesn't establish Linux as the clear winner, but it has it's place at the table.
This is a situation where there *is* an admin. Dad and daughter. Dad's the head of friggin' INTEL, he might know an admin or two if he's not up to the task himself.
If you have no admin at your disposal, you better learn how to maintain your operating system. You can't get away from that with ANY computer, even the great and mighty OS X.
If you don't take care of it, eventually, it WILL break. And then you'll need an admin. A user shouldn't have to learn to do all that simply in order to use a browser, email, mp3 player, and IM client safely.
Will she be smart enough to handle anything but the most idiot-proof OS?
That's the point of Linux. The Admin can lock out the user so that they only USE the OS to run applications. They CAN'T screw the system up because they don't have access to do so. THAT'S idiot proof.
The real concern for the daughter using Linux is whether he favorite app Foo has been ported or copied by an OSS alternative.
Yeah, I'm sure the TV news people who still air the clean cartoons produced by these companies will just leave the authorship happily ambiguous, leading the viewers to believe that the p2p filesharing crowd is a bunch of racists trafficing in hatespeech documents.
Come on, you're on slashdot. You haven't run into a misleading headline???
That's great, but not if copyrights ever become enforceable. Imagine the news spin on this story:
"P2P bootleggers stealing racist propaganda cartoons staring your favorite childhood heroes: Film at eleven."
De facto, not de jure censorship, but the effect is the same.
Mod parent up, this AC gets it.