Except that it is. Nobody seems to realize that the rating system that movies use works exactly the same as the rating system for games, but with slightly different symbols. NC-17/X=AO R=M PG-13=T PG=E10 G=E. The ratings are that simple. And the enforcement is the SAME. As with rated M video games, there are no laws preventing retailers from distributing rated R movies to minors, but there are laws preventing porn (and porno games) from being distributed to minors. Why isn't Jack Thompson bitching about movies?
Don't get me wrong; I love lagers. I just don't like American Lagers. American Lagers are generally quite flavorless, in my opinion. In fact, the only one I ever really liked was Corona Extra (American Lager is a style of beer that originated with immigrants from Pils, Germany in America's midwest. Not all lagers made in America are American Lagers, just like not all American Lagers are made in the US.). Now, give me a good Pils lager from Germany on a warm day, and I'll be set.
That's not true at all. In most of the United States, light beers have a slightly higher alcohol content than the equivalent regular. Both should be somewhere around 4-5%. Ice beers have a higher percentage, somewhere around 5-7%, again with the light beating out the regular. The name "light" refers to the beer being lower in calories. While it's true that alcohol has calories, most of a beer's calories come from residual sugars and starches from the grain and not the alcohol.
This whole 2-3% figure does have a place, however. Some states have rules (Minnesota and Utah come to mind. Fortunately, Michigan is not one of them.) that allow most stores to sell 3.2% beer, and only certain special stores with a more expensive liquor license to sell higher percentage beers and liquor. In those states, they really do sell 3.2% beer. In states that don't require 3.2 beer, they may sell it, but really, really cheaply. None of the more decent brands put out 3.2 beers in any state that doesn't require it.
Anywho, I feel sorry for people who drink American lagers thinking they're good. (Give me an IPA any day.) I really feel sorry for people stuck with 3.2 beer. Those people must truly suffer.
Still had the 2GB memory limit though, probably not much to there except go to a 64bit system and suffer the issues involved with that... not worth it.
What issues? I've been using XP x64 for a year now, and it runs great. Games play well, there are drivers for everything worth having (so long as it's reasonably new), and it handles my 4GB of RAM perfectly. I know that when x64 first came, it sucked donkey balls for driver support, but now it works fine (as long as you don't have any attachments to things too ancient to mention). The only real "problem" that I experience is that there is almost no 64-bit native software. Not that that's a problem, though. 32-bit software works just fine.
First, I definitely agree that English is the Internet's lingua franca. There can be no doubt. However, the reason you can read the President of India's website is because English is a native tongue in India. They even have their own distinct dialect and vocabulary. Most upper-class and middle-class Indians learns English as children, along with the usual Hindi and their regional language. That's the reason we can off-shore tech support to India but not China. There's no work involved in getting native English speakers in India. You can the thank the British Empire for that.
Umm, did you creationists forget that humans bury their dead, thereby allowing our bones to be present in many layers that they shouldn't be? We know this because the bones of one individual human tend to be present over several layers. If it wasn't buried, then it would point to the human having died, one body part at a time, over millions of years.
As for petrification, that doesn't necessarily require millions of years. A couple dozen thousand years ought to do, which completely jibes with how old our species is.
The problem with this world-wide flood theory is that it wouldn't have stratified the fossils into coherent layers that have certain species appearing in the same layer many times over the globe without appearing in other layers. That just doesn't make sense. And how would the coherency of the various dating techniques factor in. That data matches the layer data, and life that we know to exist at certain times, doesn't exist at other times. This is as we would expect from millions of years of evolution and extinction, but not what we would expect from a giant flood. And just where did all that floodwater go?
Um, as for the data you requested, I'm sure your nearest major university would be happy to comply if were to provide a stack of terabyte harddrives. The giant shitload of data we have from over the past couple of hundred ought to take you a couple of decades to pour over. Come back when you've educated yourself.
The whole point of the oil-cooling is to have external radiators, thereby removing the A/C requirements. Otherwise, you're right, why switch? Or at least, that's what I got out of the concept. If we weren't going to have external radiators, then why not just go with flourinert instead of oil. I thought the whole point of oil was that machine oils don't freeze until very low temperatures so that you can pump them outside in the winter. In the summer, good old-fashioned heat exchangers would be used to keep the temps low.
Although, now that I read TFA, I see that they don't really talk much about that point. So what if you've got the heat in an easily moved fluid like oil if you don't do something with it other than leave the heat in the room.
It's a touch bit more complex than that, really. After chatting with the relevant people, I found: In my building's area, the local codes only require (and, in fact, recommend) split-phase power for commercial buildings as small is the one we're in. The A/C people only recommend running a certain level of A/C on split-phase as a (recommended) maximum. Above those A/C requirements, they recommend moving up to 3-phase. This is because motors and compressors are significantly more efficient when wired for 3-phase than for split-phase. However, if the building's already wired, you can go up to about twice their recommendations before A/C units simply aren't available for split-phase at all. They gave us the max that split-phase can handle, double the recommended amount for split-phase (which we have because of the building size). They just confused us a bit with the whole split-phase/3-phase/building-size thing. In the end, I think we're both right, in a sense.
Point taken. However, I would argue that teens banging, smoking pot and drinking doesn't harm society, whereas murder and drunk driving do serious harm. When an activity primarily causes actual harm then we should think of ways to prevent those activities from occurring in the first place (Or at least prevent those who have shown a likelihood of performing those things from repeating their transgressions.). When activities cause harm only as a side effect then we should mitigate those side effects and not worry so much about the activities themselves. A twelve year old getting her jollies off with the neighbor kid isn't harmful by itself, but a pregnancy is.
Except that the cost for A/C at datacenters (especially during the summer but even in winter, unless you have an outside air recirculator, which I imagine most datacenters do) is generally higher that the cost of running the computers. This is seriously no joke.
I run a cybercafe with twenty machines. During the winter my electricity bill is cut by over 60% even though I have the same level of computer use. It's only because I don't need A/C. I almost never use a heater during the winter either. I actually have to periodically crack the doors during peak hours when it's above 40 degrees F outside or the temperature in the store will slowly rise to uncomfortable. It will quickly rise to unbearable if the A/C is off during the summer. We have an A/C unit that is (according to the heating/cooling guys who installed it) nearly twice as large as what you would expect for a building that size. It still can't keep up when the store is full and the outside temp is above 75.
This is the first, last and only time in history where such a made-up thing as innocence has even been available for children. Get over it. Kids are going to see violence and do violence no matter what. They're going to bang at twelve, smoke pot at thirteen and get drunk at fourteen. And there's nothing anyone can do about it (no matter what you think), so we should accept it, attempt to mitigate any negatives, and move on with our lives.
You're forgetting that the total number of computers is rising. If Apple sales were to stagnate, their overall market share (as a percentage) would drop even if no Apple users switched to something else. Under the GP's analysis, we would expect that the market share (again, as a percentage) would drop while people wait for Leopard.
First, mp3s cost the online music stores money per song download, whereas AAC does not.
Second, most new players support AAC out of box. Nobody cares about your Rio.
Third, since 80% of mp3 players out there today are iPods (which all support AAC), and most of the rest either support AAC and can be firmware upgraded to support it. Why would the music stores give a crap about supporting the less than 10% of music players that don't do AAC?
Forth, you're not thinking about this from the music stores' points of view. To them, selling DRM'd music costs a certain DRM'd-format-royalty on a per song downloaded basis. Right now, they mostly pay that royalty to Microsoft since they all use WMV, since Microsoft is the only company licensing a DRM'd format. Selling non-DRM'd music makes them free to choose among non-DRM'd formats, and there are a shit ton of them: WMV: costs money per song, and is only supported by a small number of clients. MP3: costs money per song as well but is supported by nearly 100% of clients. AAC: is free and is supported by 90% of current clients and soon to be 100% of future clients. (Even the Zune supports non-DRM'd AAC, and that's saying something.) Other formats: no format has wide enough support and small enough bandwidth requirements to even be considered.
Actually, yes. People do beg to play with me because I'm really frickin good. Rules lawyering only lasts a few games, anyway. After that, everyone actually knows the rules. Besides, rule books weren't made to be shredder fodder.
Well, if it tells you anything, Valve reports (at their website) that they had over 2 million unique users last month alone. That's the lowest I've ever seen it (I've looked a number of times; it's somewhat interesting.). It's usually more like 4 mil. Anywho, when you consider that Counter-Strike is 9 years old, and they STILL have 2.5 million users per month, you know damn well that's it's more popular than just about anything else. (Consider that Wow is the only game other than CS and games made by Nintendo (And then only like six of them.) that topped 7 million sales, ever.)
I can't believe people would play it like that. The game would last for fricken ever, just like when people put fines and shit on free parking. One of the strangest things I see from people that I play with is that most people don't realize that you can buy houses and hotels at any time between rolls. I've used that many times to buy up houses when someone lands on me, and then catch the next person with the new higher rent. At first, everyone says it's cheating, until I bust out the rule book. The other rule that no one ever follows (until the rule book is flashed in front of them) is the rule that says you must choose to pay the $200 or the 10% (on Income Tax) BEFORE you add up your assets (and a bunch of people seem to think that assets don't include property, which is even gayer.). It's really a very good rule. I've seen many people pay more than $200 because they weren't sure of their own value.
Only 98% of statistics are made up on the spot by people who are full of shit.
...just CREATE LIFE IN THE LAB and that will fix it.
Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt. We've shown that every prerequisite for life can be synthesized by processes known to happen on Earth prior to life. The only thing we haven't done in the lab is wait the million years for them to get together and start fucking...yet.
Furthermore, and this is part that we really have you nailed on, Darwinian evolution doesn't necessarily preclude God creating Earth or the first life. Instead, it just describes a mechanism by which life can adapt to changing circumstances. And we've demonstrated this in the lab thousands of times over. (Cancer rats, fruit flies, albino psylocybe cubensis mushrooms) In fact, humanity has been playing with evolution of lesser species for thousands of years. Did you ever wonder why bunny rabbits only exists in people's houses? (Hint: It's because monks bred them from wild rabbits until they became a new species, incapable of surviving in the wild. Evolution works even when we're controlling the circumstances.)
Embryology as a whole cannot be made to fit ANY part of evolution.
We came from apes. Apes came from monkeys. Monkeys came from lemurs. Lemurs came from rodents. Rodents came from some earlier mammal. That mammal came from reptiles. Reptiles came from amphibians. Amphibians came from fish. And so on. In fact, the biggest evidence of this IS embryology. Do some research on it some time. There's a reason human embryos have a tail, and are indistinguishable from nearly every other land dwelling embryo for quite a large amount of it's development.
Been using it for quite sometime now. Works great, never had any problems. I'm running it in front of two dedicated game servers (CS:Source, viewable on the public server browser), two other servers, a front desk comp, and twenty gaming machines. It has a 600MHz Celeron and handles all that traffic perfectly.
At first, I wanted to agree with you, but after careful consideration, I do not. The web-apps feature that the article spends three pages on is really a useful browsing feature whose time should have come ten years ago: offline browsing. The only difference is that now that they've extended offline browsing to work well with newer things like DHTML and added in an API so that web-pages can better control it. A side-effect: better support for webapps. Does this mean that Firefox is getting bloaty? Not really.
But if I need a GUI enviroment that just allows me to have multiple shells or apps running, without too much need for filetype integration (so that when I double-click on, say, a JPEG image icon, a viewer application opens the image for me) then XFCE4 is a good compromise for usability and speed.
Try xfce 4.4. It's much better on that front than 4.2.
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Yes, assembly rocks. No, assembly is stupid, old and out-dated. I married assembly, you insensitive clod. WIPO: (for example, I like to wipe asses with assembly.)
What about gentoo's ebuild system? It has support for building from source (duh!). You can build binary packages with a single switch. You could (or anyone else for that matter) build a full set of binary packages from gentoo's ebuild system. You can do things manually if you want (like applying or making patches). You can make your own ebuilds from scratch and have them compile source packages for you with relative ease (for most packages that aren't already in portage, that is). And of course (by virtue of sandboxing) it automatically generates a full manifest for each installed package so it can be uninstalled correctly later. If someone were to make a full complement of binary packages (with appropriate use flags and decent CFLAGS), it would make one bad-ass binary distro.
What I think is funny is that so many people think that English is the second language of the Indians at the Dell call centers. It's generally one of their (like at least four) native tongues. That's the real issue. They speak a different (and legitimate) dialect of English, complete with their own slang and mispronunciations that they think are correct. They are generally speaking as perfect Indian English as we Americans speak American English or Britons speak British English. Why would they want to fuck it up with an American accent? (Think about that from an American point view before answering.)
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Except that it is. Nobody seems to realize that the rating system that movies use works exactly the same as the rating system for games, but with slightly different symbols. NC-17/X=AO R=M PG-13=T PG=E10 G=E. The ratings are that simple. And the enforcement is the SAME. As with rated M video games, there are no laws preventing retailers from distributing rated R movies to minors, but there are laws preventing porn (and porno games) from being distributed to minors. Why isn't Jack Thompson bitching about movies?
Don't get me wrong; I love lagers. I just don't like American Lagers. American Lagers are generally quite flavorless, in my opinion. In fact, the only one I ever really liked was Corona Extra (American Lager is a style of beer that originated with immigrants from Pils, Germany in America's midwest. Not all lagers made in America are American Lagers, just like not all American Lagers are made in the US.). Now, give me a good Pils lager from Germany on a warm day, and I'll be set.
That's not true at all. In most of the United States, light beers have a slightly higher alcohol content than the equivalent regular. Both should be somewhere around 4-5%. Ice beers have a higher percentage, somewhere around 5-7%, again with the light beating out the regular. The name "light" refers to the beer being lower in calories. While it's true that alcohol has calories, most of a beer's calories come from residual sugars and starches from the grain and not the alcohol.
This whole 2-3% figure does have a place, however. Some states have rules (Minnesota and Utah come to mind. Fortunately, Michigan is not one of them.) that allow most stores to sell 3.2% beer, and only certain special stores with a more expensive liquor license to sell higher percentage beers and liquor. In those states, they really do sell 3.2% beer. In states that don't require 3.2 beer, they may sell it, but really, really cheaply. None of the more decent brands put out 3.2 beers in any state that doesn't require it.
Anywho, I feel sorry for people who drink American lagers thinking they're good. (Give me an IPA any day.) I really feel sorry for people stuck with 3.2 beer. Those people must truly suffer.
Wow, I always thought EtOH had to be in Tequila form to do that.
Still had the 2GB memory limit though, probably not much to there except go to a 64bit system and suffer the issues involved with that... not worth it.
What issues? I've been using XP x64 for a year now, and it runs great. Games play well, there are drivers for everything worth having (so long as it's reasonably new), and it handles my 4GB of RAM perfectly. I know that when x64 first came, it sucked donkey balls for driver support, but now it works fine (as long as you don't have any attachments to things too ancient to mention). The only real "problem" that I experience is that there is almost no 64-bit native software. Not that that's a problem, though. 32-bit software works just fine.
First, I definitely agree that English is the Internet's lingua franca. There can be no doubt. However, the reason you can read the President of India's website is because English is a native tongue in India. They even have their own distinct dialect and vocabulary. Most upper-class and middle-class Indians learns English as children, along with the usual Hindi and their regional language. That's the reason we can off-shore tech support to India but not China. There's no work involved in getting native English speakers in India. You can the thank the British Empire for that.
Umm, did you creationists forget that humans bury their dead, thereby allowing our bones to be present in many layers that they shouldn't be? We know this because the bones of one individual human tend to be present over several layers. If it wasn't buried, then it would point to the human having died, one body part at a time, over millions of years.
As for petrification, that doesn't necessarily require millions of years. A couple dozen thousand years ought to do, which completely jibes with how old our species is.
The problem with this world-wide flood theory is that it wouldn't have stratified the fossils into coherent layers that have certain species appearing in the same layer many times over the globe without appearing in other layers. That just doesn't make sense. And how would the coherency of the various dating techniques factor in. That data matches the layer data, and life that we know to exist at certain times, doesn't exist at other times. This is as we would expect from millions of years of evolution and extinction, but not what we would expect from a giant flood. And just where did all that floodwater go?
Um, as for the data you requested, I'm sure your nearest major university would be happy to comply if were to provide a stack of terabyte harddrives. The giant shitload of data we have from over the past couple of hundred ought to take you a couple of decades to pour over. Come back when you've educated yourself.
The whole point of the oil-cooling is to have external radiators, thereby removing the A/C requirements. Otherwise, you're right, why switch? Or at least, that's what I got out of the concept. If we weren't going to have external radiators, then why not just go with flourinert instead of oil. I thought the whole point of oil was that machine oils don't freeze until very low temperatures so that you can pump them outside in the winter. In the summer, good old-fashioned heat exchangers would be used to keep the temps low.
Although, now that I read TFA, I see that they don't really talk much about that point. So what if you've got the heat in an easily moved fluid like oil if you don't do something with it other than leave the heat in the room.
It's a touch bit more complex than that, really. After chatting with the relevant people, I found: In my building's area, the local codes only require (and, in fact, recommend) split-phase power for commercial buildings as small is the one we're in. The A/C people only recommend running a certain level of A/C on split-phase as a (recommended) maximum. Above those A/C requirements, they recommend moving up to 3-phase. This is because motors and compressors are significantly more efficient when wired for 3-phase than for split-phase. However, if the building's already wired, you can go up to about twice their recommendations before A/C units simply aren't available for split-phase at all. They gave us the max that split-phase can handle, double the recommended amount for split-phase (which we have because of the building size). They just confused us a bit with the whole split-phase/3-phase/building-size thing. In the end, I think we're both right, in a sense.
Point taken. However, I would argue that teens banging, smoking pot and drinking doesn't harm society, whereas murder and drunk driving do serious harm. When an activity primarily causes actual harm then we should think of ways to prevent those activities from occurring in the first place (Or at least prevent those who have shown a likelihood of performing those things from repeating their transgressions.). When activities cause harm only as a side effect then we should mitigate those side effects and not worry so much about the activities themselves. A twelve year old getting her jollies off with the neighbor kid isn't harmful by itself, but a pregnancy is.
Except that the cost for A/C at datacenters (especially during the summer but even in winter, unless you have an outside air recirculator, which I imagine most datacenters do) is generally higher that the cost of running the computers. This is seriously no joke.
I run a cybercafe with twenty machines. During the winter my electricity bill is cut by over 60% even though I have the same level of computer use. It's only because I don't need A/C. I almost never use a heater during the winter either. I actually have to periodically crack the doors during peak hours when it's above 40 degrees F outside or the temperature in the store will slowly rise to uncomfortable. It will quickly rise to unbearable if the A/C is off during the summer. We have an A/C unit that is (according to the heating/cooling guys who installed it) nearly twice as large as what you would expect for a building that size. It still can't keep up when the store is full and the outside temp is above 75.
Cooling is 2-3% of operating cost my ass.
WAY TOO EARLy. My ass.
This is the first, last and only time in history where such a made-up thing as innocence has even been available for children. Get over it. Kids are going to see violence and do violence no matter what. They're going to bang at twelve, smoke pot at thirteen and get drunk at fourteen. And there's nothing anyone can do about it (no matter what you think), so we should accept it, attempt to mitigate any negatives, and move on with our lives.
You're forgetting that the total number of computers is rising. If Apple sales were to stagnate, their overall market share (as a percentage) would drop even if no Apple users switched to something else. Under the GP's analysis, we would expect that the market share (again, as a percentage) would drop while people wait for Leopard.
You're forgetting two things.
First, mp3s cost the online music stores money per song download, whereas AAC does not.
Second, most new players support AAC out of box. Nobody cares about your Rio.
Third, since 80% of mp3 players out there today are iPods (which all support AAC), and most of the rest either support AAC and can be firmware upgraded to support it. Why would the music stores give a crap about supporting the less than 10% of music players that don't do AAC?
Forth, you're not thinking about this from the music stores' points of view. To them, selling DRM'd music costs a certain DRM'd-format-royalty on a per song downloaded basis. Right now, they mostly pay that royalty to Microsoft since they all use WMV, since Microsoft is the only company licensing a DRM'd format. Selling non-DRM'd music makes them free to choose among non-DRM'd formats, and there are a shit ton of them:
WMV: costs money per song, and is only supported by a small number of clients.
MP3: costs money per song as well but is supported by nearly 100% of clients.
AAC: is free and is supported by 90% of current clients and soon to be 100% of future clients. (Even the Zune supports non-DRM'd AAC, and that's saying something.)
Other formats: no format has wide enough support and small enough bandwidth requirements to even be considered.
Which format would you choose?
Actually, yes. People do beg to play with me because I'm really frickin good. Rules lawyering only lasts a few games, anyway. After that, everyone actually knows the rules. Besides, rule books weren't made to be shredder fodder.
Well, if it tells you anything, Valve reports (at their website) that they had over 2 million unique users last month alone. That's the lowest I've ever seen it (I've looked a number of times; it's somewhat interesting.). It's usually more like 4 mil. Anywho, when you consider that Counter-Strike is 9 years old, and they STILL have 2.5 million users per month, you know damn well that's it's more popular than just about anything else. (Consider that Wow is the only game other than CS and games made by Nintendo (And then only like six of them.) that topped 7 million sales, ever.)
I can't believe people would play it like that. The game would last for fricken ever, just like when people put fines and shit on free parking. One of the strangest things I see from people that I play with is that most people don't realize that you can buy houses and hotels at any time between rolls. I've used that many times to buy up houses when someone lands on me, and then catch the next person with the new higher rent. At first, everyone says it's cheating, until I bust out the rule book. The other rule that no one ever follows (until the rule book is flashed in front of them) is the rule that says you must choose to pay the $200 or the 10% (on Income Tax) BEFORE you add up your assets (and a bunch of people seem to think that assets don't include property, which is even gayer.). It's really a very good rule. I've seen many people pay more than $200 because they weren't sure of their own value.
Alright troll, I'll bite.
...just CREATE LIFE IN THE LAB and that will fix it.
Only 51% of physical scientists...
Only 98% of statistics are made up on the spot by people who are full of shit.
Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt. We've shown that every prerequisite for life can be synthesized by processes known to happen on Earth prior to life. The only thing we haven't done in the lab is wait the million years for them to get together and start fucking...yet.
Furthermore, and this is part that we really have you nailed on, Darwinian evolution doesn't necessarily preclude God creating Earth or the first life. Instead, it just describes a mechanism by which life can adapt to changing circumstances. And we've demonstrated this in the lab thousands of times over. (Cancer rats, fruit flies, albino psylocybe cubensis mushrooms) In fact, humanity has been playing with evolution of lesser species for thousands of years. Did you ever wonder why bunny rabbits only exists in people's houses? (Hint: It's because monks bred them from wild rabbits until they became a new species, incapable of surviving in the wild. Evolution works even when we're controlling the circumstances.)
Embryology as a whole cannot be made to fit ANY part of evolution.
We came from apes. Apes came from monkeys. Monkeys came from lemurs. Lemurs came from rodents. Rodents came from some earlier mammal. That mammal came from reptiles. Reptiles came from amphibians. Amphibians came from fish. And so on. In fact, the biggest evidence of this IS embryology. Do some research on it some time. There's a reason human embryos have a tail, and are indistinguishable from nearly every other land dwelling embryo for quite a large amount of it's development.
Been using it for quite sometime now. Works great, never had any problems. I'm running it in front of two dedicated game servers (CS:Source, viewable on the public server browser), two other servers, a front desk comp, and twenty gaming machines. It has a 600MHz Celeron and handles all that traffic perfectly.
Put your BIOS into USB legacy mode first. Then it'll work.
At first, I wanted to agree with you, but after careful consideration, I do not. The web-apps feature that the article spends three pages on is really a useful browsing feature whose time should have come ten years ago: offline browsing. The only difference is that now that they've extended offline browsing to work well with newer things like DHTML and added in an API so that web-pages can better control it. A side-effect: better support for webapps. Does this mean that Firefox is getting bloaty? Not really.
But if I need a GUI enviroment that just allows me to have multiple shells or apps running, without too much need for filetype integration (so that when I double-click on, say, a JPEG image icon, a viewer application opens the image for me) then XFCE4 is a good compromise for usability and speed.
Try xfce 4.4. It's much better on that front than 4.2.
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Yes, assembly rocks.
No, assembly is stupid, old and out-dated.
I married assembly, you insensitive clod.
WIPO: (for example, I like to wipe asses with assembly.)
What about gentoo's ebuild system? It has support for building from source (duh!). You can build binary packages with a single switch. You could (or anyone else for that matter) build a full set of binary packages from gentoo's ebuild system. You can do things manually if you want (like applying or making patches). You can make your own ebuilds from scratch and have them compile source packages for you with relative ease (for most packages that aren't already in portage, that is). And of course (by virtue of sandboxing) it automatically generates a full manifest for each installed package so it can be uninstalled correctly later. If someone were to make a full complement of binary packages (with appropriate use flags and decent CFLAGS), it would make one bad-ass binary distro.
What I think is funny is that so many people think that English is the second language of the Indians at the Dell call centers. It's generally one of their (like at least four) native tongues. That's the real issue. They speak a different (and legitimate) dialect of English, complete with their own slang and mispronunciations that they think are correct. They are generally speaking as perfect Indian English as we Americans speak American English or Britons speak British English. Why would they want to fuck it up with an American accent? (Think about that from an American point view before answering.)