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  1. Re:Uh, unless you're a programmer... on Microsoft Counts Down To XP Death · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu charges nothing for patches, RHEL is for production boxes not desktops if you just want patches you can run Centos.

    Also when upgrades cost nothing it is not fair to compare them to an OS that costs to replace. These updates can even be done in place. My laptop right now has gone from 9.04 to 10.10 and will be 11.04 in a few weeks.

  2. Re:Uh, unless you're a programmer... on Microsoft Counts Down To XP Death · · Score: 1

    Sure it is, because if either one screws you there are lots of others who will provide support. Since anyone can do it there can be actual competition in the market.

    At worst case you can be sure your app will run on RHEL after Novell kills SuSe, or whatever hypothetical you want to get into.

  3. Re:Uh, unless you're a programmer... on Microsoft Counts Down To XP Death · · Score: 2

    So then run centos/fedora/ubuntu and get patches for free. If you only want patches you don't have to pay at all.

  4. Re:Hmm on Microsoft Counts Down To XP Death · · Score: 0

    "and there is no reason you could not run any program in it "
    It only supports 4GB of ram, lots of things want more than that.

  5. Re:derp derp on Microsoft Counts Down To XP Death · · Score: 1

    So then buy from redhat or another FOSS vendor.

  6. Re:Uh, unless you're a programmer... on Microsoft Counts Down To XP Death · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So then buy from Redhat, or Ubuntu or whoever. Lots of folks will provide support for FOSS software. This is an old piece of FUD you are spewing here.

  7. Re:also known as 'age discrimination' laundering on Google, Microsoft In Epic Hiring War · · Score: 1

    So maybe people who did not just graduate should continue to educate themselves. Sounds like sour grapes to me.

  8. Re:How does this compare to aluminium? on Graphene Super Paper Is 10x Stronger Than Steel · · Score: 1

    Before you going making planes out of it, find out how it handles repeated stresses. No need to build more 737s that have moon-roofs.

  9. Re:MiFi makes 3G (almost) moot on The Tablet Debate: 3G Or Wi-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Why use a MiFi when you can just turn your phone into a wifi access point?

  10. Re:Top Gun on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Where are you going to drop those weapons? Not on Taiwan or there is no point in protecting them as they will all be dead. Not on the PRC or they will go nuclear.

  11. Re:Top Gun on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Go look up the term proxy war.

  12. Re:Ugh the F-35... on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Far more likely that Canada bought them long ago under a contract that even then was selling them at a loss to get volume. The US government would support that to keep US defense contractors busy.

  13. Re:Top Gun on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Vietnam was not openly backed by Russia. Russian troops were not boots on the ground. If DPRK invaded Taiwan at the behest of China that would be a similar situation and we would fight the DPRK.

  14. Re:Top Gun on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 2

    Indeed getting the USSR into the war was a bad move. The USSR were not useless at all, they clogged the gears of the German war machines by throwing bodies at it.

  15. Re:Ugh the F-35... on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Look at recent f-35 prices they are damn close these days. The predictions I read said they would soon cost more than an F22 if they did not already.

  16. Re:Top Gun on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 3, Informative

    Geography never favors Japan, they have to import everything. Germany did not lose to the USA, it lost to the USSR. No male on my maternal grandmothers side lived through the war, all six of them died on the eastern front. Without the USSR in the war Germany would have lost the USA after berlin was nuked. If England did not fall first.

  17. Re:Top Gun on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 2

    Think again. Treaties get overlooked at times like that. We could not defend Taiwan from an all out Chinese attack. They could literally fight a war of attrition. In the end the last Chinese soldier would cross in a fishing boat to Taiwan, plant a PRC flag and die of radiation poisoning.

  18. Re:Great more money wasted on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    MiG 31 is an ancient plane, I think you mean Su30. The Su30 is an update to the Su27 platform.

  19. Re:Ugh the F-35... on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    I thought the F-35 Block 3 was going to cost as much or more than an F-22?

  20. Re:Top Gun on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    There is no way we would go to war with China over Taiwan. They have nukes. That would be like China going to war with the USA if we decided to take Cuba. Not only are there nukes, but like my example geography highly favors the closer nation.

  21. Re:Ugh the F-35... on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Last I heard it was going to be more expensive than the F-22. WTF is the point of this aircraft?

    Look the airforce, navy and marines want different things, it will never be cheaper to try to kludge one plane into all these roles.

  22. Re:Derp on IPv6 Traffic Remains Minuscule · · Score: 1

    I live in Western NY. Your prices are off the website. If you call them and say you are considering the service they will give you a much lower price for two years. If they try to raise it after that you can always threaten to quit. Also they have a lot of special deal available if you call them, that are not on their website.

  23. Re:In other words... on Microsoft: No Tablets Until It's Distinctive · · Score: 1

    Nope, I would allow people to host their own servers and matchmaking service. Which is what CS does. I bet counterstrike would survive with only 100 players. I play doom2 online and that can't have more than a that playing it per day.

  24. Re:Sodium Hydroxide on An RC Car That Runs On Soda Can Rings · · Score: 1

    Or make pretzels.

    To make real pretzels you must dip them in a lye solution before baking. A very close approximation can be made by dipping them in a saturated water baking soda solution that is boiling. It is a toss up which is more of a pain to handle safely.

  25. Re:Derp on IPv6 Traffic Remains Minuscule · · Score: 1

    Good show. I was lucky enough to happen to have them pick my neighborhood. I wish they would roll it out everywhere, or someone would actually compete with them. Seems that neither of those will happen.