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It doesn't matter what products [prod A] and [prod B] are, the template is true for all combinations.
Linux got me using *NIX. BSD showed me how *NIX is meant to work. I currently use OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and this is exactly the kind of reason why I switched.
I second this. From the OpenBSD world Linux looks "Swiss cheese" insecure. Bugs in the Linux kernel are like tumbleweeds in an old deserted mining town, rolling about, kicking around. (At least thank me for not using a bad car analogy.)
Folks who work on OpenBSD prioritize security. _Every_ bug is a potential security issue, thus people are interested in fixing them.
The West has mostly left orthodox Christian belief, but it is still inherits the culture. Part of that is the need for Apocalypic End Time accounts. The Christians have Revelation, the rest have what lies to hand--the Environmentalists are happy to fill the need. Note: I am not making an argument for or against global warming, but just making a point about the apocalypic language surrounding it.
I pay for University and I'll be damned if a Professor will tell me how I'm going to learn and if I can/can't take my laptop to the class I am paying for.
And as we know, the customer is always right! _Especially_ in a learning environment.
"Our support for the Patriot Act does not mean a blank check for our most illustrious and divine George Caesar (may he live forever!)," said Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who voted to pass the bill package.
Mod parent up. It Washington Irving with his fanciful "biography" of Christopher Columbus, who kick-started the myth of the flat earth. Many 19th Century folk, caught up in the rush of "scientific progress", were willing dupes, as long as religion could be discredited.
In fact, the opposition to Columbus' adventures was because they thought he had vastly underestimated the earth's circumference (he had). He was lucky to have found the New World before running out of stores.
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Bad customer service.
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Everyone needs an End-Times Apocalyptic scenario, even techies.
If kids aren't afraid of science yet, that's the only fear our fanatically-risk-averse culture hasn't taught them.
An abundance of easy money chases a place to invest, basically. But the easy money itself is slowing down, no?
No, it's a major Real Estate Bubble.
It never takes long for the bad car analogies to come crawling out of the woodwork.
I second this. From the OpenBSD world Linux looks "Swiss cheese" insecure. Bugs in the Linux kernel are like tumbleweeds in an old deserted mining town, rolling about, kicking around. (At least thank me for not using a bad car analogy.)
Folks who work on OpenBSD prioritize security. _Every_ bug is a potential security issue, thus people are interested in fixing them.
Making me feel thin again.
The West has mostly left orthodox Christian belief, but it is still inherits the culture. Part of that is the need for Apocalypic End Time accounts. The Christians have Revelation, the rest have what lies to hand--the Environmentalists are happy to fill the need. Note: I am not making an argument for or against global warming, but just making a point about the apocalypic language surrounding it.
I guess this tells us what we need to know about student evaluations, eh?
As the population grows, the number dying grows. More people are dying now than ever before!
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And as we know, the customer is always right! _Especially_ in a learning environment.
"Our support for the Patriot Act does not mean a blank check for our most illustrious and divine George Caesar (may he live forever!)," said Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who voted to pass the bill package.
In fact, the opposition to Columbus' adventures was because they thought he had vastly underestimated the earth's circumference (he had). He was lucky to have found the New World before running out of stores.
OT Silly joke: What did the papers say when the short fortune-teller escaped from jail? "Small medium at large."
If voting could change anything it would be illegal.
The sky if falling, the sky is falling! BONK!
When friends have PC hardware issues, I just shake my head and say, "all PC hardware is cheap junk."
News for nerds, stuff that matters.
I see that that really means:
stuff that doesn't matter, stuff that matters.
When reading the New York Times, how do you tell the difference?
Most of the gaming is pure Narcissism.
This is Slashdot. Please mod parent "funny".
How about shows produced by hobbits? (It's hobbyist, BTW.)