Re: "The fear surrounding a gunless society is absolutely bonkers."
Splab, you're talking about a completely different context than US society. We're not talking about fear of a gunless society. We live in a society where citizens can own guns, so when we express fear about gun control issues, our concerns are about an imbalance of power between those who are willing to thwart the law and those who aren't. Any comparisons to gunless societies simply don't apply to our context.
Most of the 'shortcomings' listed in the article are either purely speculative or worse, revealing that the author lacks insight. Just to pick a few examples: ...
And so it drags on... It might very well be that some of the issues raised are indeed actual problems, but as the article stands it's mostly FUD. I think you missed the point of the article by ignoring the context. At the very top, the author introduces the list by saying all the issues he's about to mention are "items that VARs should bear in mind when using and deploying Vista." If you're a VAR and you're going to have to support this OS, probably quite often to end-users or offices where people just don't have a clue what they're in for or how to resolve the simplest problems, then a lot of the points he makes start to sound more reasonable. He wasn't targeting the article at slashdot readers, that's for sure. "Is this a compelling upgrade for the average home user or office?" "What problems might such a user encounter, why, and what kind of phone calls might we get after they upgrade?" I think those are the questions they were trying to answer when writing the article. The issues he raises are probably issues that a lot of IT groups will be considering before they upgrade their office desktops.
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Re: "The fear surrounding a gunless society is absolutely bonkers."
Splab, you're talking about a completely different context than US society. We're not talking about fear of a gunless society. We live in a society where citizens can own guns, so when we express fear about gun control issues, our concerns are about an imbalance of power between those who are willing to thwart the law and those who aren't. Any comparisons to gunless societies simply don't apply to our context.
To digress even further, and shrink the perl a tad more...
perl -pae 'print map(pack("B8", $_), @F), "\t"'