Some of the biggest dangers in the wild are the animals you CAN'T see. The odds of getting eaten by a bear are low, and even most snakes are harmless. But, in addition to your fire ants, you also need to beware the evil tick! A cow-orkers wife got Lime Disease.
I'll keep my non-improving OS thanks. Nothing annoys me more than people fiddling with the layout and features of a system just for the sake of it; and in doing so introducing bugs in stuff that used to work perfectly. This seems to happen in plenty of OSS projects, so I'd say that Microsoft is on to something there. If it works, don't mess with it.
Microsoft is at least as guilty of that as any OSS software. The only difference is, they wait half a decade and then muck up the UI for no good reason and keep just enough backward compatability to run old malware.
Missouri now requires individuals to post signs on Halloween about not passing out candy. My friend wanted to post a similar sign so nobody would ring her doorbell, but she didn't want people thinking her husband was a sex offender either
I wonder how long it will be before people start thinking that the old grouch who keeps his lights off to discourage candy-moochers is really a sex-offender who's forbidden to dispense candy.
I don't know that much about Facebook since I'm too anti-social to join it, but I got the impression that the vast majority of Facebook users DID allow non-friends to post on their walls.
While I'm fairly familiar with both OSes, and I'm a CS theory guy who likes to look at the underlying basis of computing, a middle school class is not going to be operating so abstractly with computers that Windows and Linux could be taught in one curriculum without both sides suffering.
True story. A bunch of my cow-orkers & I went through some training, and the instructor was an "MS is teh suxor" guy. So, the first day he did the course in OS/2 (that was when it was actually being used by some people). I think there were 3 people in the whole class that had ever used OS/2, including myself & the instructor, so most of the day was wasted showing people how to get around in the strange OS. After the first day he switched to Windows.
So, if the teen's car is stalled on the highway, s/he can call 911 but cannot call their towing service? Or their parents to let them know why they're 5 hours late?
Setting up Linux on 10 year old hardware is easy. Setting up Linux on 10 month old hardware is less easy. Setting up Linux on the machine you bought at WorstBuy yesterday is hard. IME, Linux seems to work better on old hardware than it does on new stuff.
Sounds familiar. It's not usually for me to be driving down the road with my GF, and when we reach our destination I'm asking myself, "What the heck was she saying to me for the last half hour?".
Agreed! I refuse to answer my phone while driving. I might, if traffic conditions permit, check my phone to see who's calling, and if it's my GF or anyone important, I'll pull over and call them.
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Some of the biggest dangers in the wild are the animals you CAN'T see. The odds of getting eaten by a bear are low, and even most snakes are harmless. But, in addition to your fire ants, you also need to beware the evil tick! A cow-orkers wife got Lime Disease.
It was all those flatulent horses pulling their chariots!
Microsoft is at least as guilty of that as any OSS software. The only difference is, they wait half a decade and then muck up the UI for no good reason and keep just enough backward compatability to run old malware.
I wonder how long it will be before people start thinking that the old grouch who keeps his lights off to discourage candy-moochers is really a sex-offender who's forbidden to dispense candy.
Only the end? :)
To be fair, either is a bad thing. Just for different reasons. :P
I seriously doubt that Microsoft Xenix ever had more than one user.
IMHO, DOS 5.0 was the best OS Microsoft ever had.
So, most of you Europeans (and Asians & Aussies) will be adding your second in 2009. Us Americans have to suffer through 2008 that extra second. :P
Also, it's not just Psystar. If Psystar could create Mac clones, anyone else could too, and I guarantee some of those would be bottom-end crap.
I don't know that much about Facebook since I'm too anti-social to join it, but I got the impression that the vast majority of Facebook users DID allow non-friends to post on their walls.
The only difference I can think of is that Lori Drew probably wouldn't have been able to pass for a teen-aged boy IRL.
True story. A bunch of my cow-orkers & I went through some training, and the instructor was an "MS is teh suxor" guy. So, the first day he did the course in OS/2 (that was when it was actually being used by some people). I think there were 3 people in the whole class that had ever used OS/2, including myself & the instructor, so most of the day was wasted showing people how to get around in the strange OS. After the first day he switched to Windows.
So, if the teen's car is stalled on the highway, s/he can call 911 but cannot call their towing service? Or their parents to let them know why they're 5 hours late?
True. ME sucked. Vista blows.
Setting up Linux on 10 year old hardware is easy. Setting up Linux on 10 month old hardware is less easy. Setting up Linux on the machine you bought at WorstBuy yesterday is hard. IME, Linux seems to work better on old hardware than it does on new stuff.
I'm at the freaking DMV! I've been at the freaking DMV for hours!! By the time my picture is taken, I'm definitely not smiling!!!
Oddly enough, I had the same experience in the USA. You certainly can get an education even if you don't live in a "socialist paradise".
I've also seen comments that were probably intended as serious, but the "Funny" mod turned them into a joke.
This is Microsoft. It makes no difference whether it's beta or not.
Sounds familiar. It's not usually for me to be driving down the road with my GF, and when we reach our destination I'm asking myself, "What the heck was she saying to me for the last half hour?".
Agreed! I refuse to answer my phone while driving. I might, if traffic conditions permit, check my phone to see who's calling, and if it's my GF or anyone important, I'll pull over and call them.
Yup. I've heard of people taking offense at the saying "calling a spade a spade". I've often said that without even thinking about color.
But, if Beverly Hills yuppies turned into zombies, nobody would even notice a difference.
Based on the other replies, I would say, yes we really do care.