a) In one small pissant purchase, you've cleared out the register of cash, which makes it difficult to give change to the next customer.
Well, here in good old Blighty you are limited to 50 'cash back' which limits the number of notes you can take.
Further to that a 10 pound note doesn't last as long as it ought so if you're using tax then every 2 or 3 purchases you'll be using a note.
Since the biggest note we have is a 50 pound which you hardly ever see you will only generally need a 'tenner' and perhaps a 'fiver' to give change for a 'twenty' so that actually, you don't need too many notes in the till.
If you regularly need any notes for change its fivers and they aren't usually part of a cash back transaction. (There was a nationwide shortage of them a year or two back; the BoE forgot to print enough or had to withdraw a load that wouldn't dry or something, I don't quite remember).
Finally, the whole point of giving cash back is that the supermarket doesn't have to pay as much to the nice men in armoured vehicles to to take the money away because there is less of it.
So, the supermarkets don't mind being depleted of cash because it works out cheaper than banking it and makes them less of a target for robbers. In fact, it's the whole point
> 1. You rejuvenate and dance when you hear a windows flaw exposed, but you conveniently ignore the thousands of security flaws exposed in linux.
1. Security flaws in Linux might be that if someone can press twenty keys at the same time at a particular moment on the local machine then they might be able get shell access and then, depending on the setup they might be able to escelate that to root access, that sort of obscure hard to do flaw, although of course there are serious flaws that get fixed quick.
Windows vulnerabilities (or at least those we hear of) are generally serious and potentially catastrophic. (Remote harddrive format anyone?)
>2. You yell loudly TROLL! at any person's post or at any person you see posting facts that you do not want to hear about your oh so cool linux.
2. I'm not trolling here, i'm replying, and I've not seen many facts hidden inside your troll.
>3. You know it's a classic case of penis envy, you don't have all the support, software and hardware available for linux and you have to let that anger out somewhere, but you don't have the brains to admit it.
3. My machine does exactly what I want it to. I am not envious of winamp, I have mplayer. Mplayer rocks! My nvidia card performs better under Linux than it ever did under Windows. DVD region codes have never been a problem either.
I have nothing to be jealous of.
>4. You hate windows, hate Microsoft, but race to emulate windows, have programs to run office from within linux, and spend a $300 on a Windows emulator, only Windows fools.
4. The only reason I need to run Windows programs is to preview webpages in IE, and usually I wish I'd never since its support for a pretty basic standard is appalling.
The software I use to do this is VMWare which can of course be used to run any PC OS. It's a very good piece of software. Does it run as well under Windows?
>5. You cannot admit that you don't have professional usage of Linux outside server markets.
5. Other than most of the special effects industry in Hollywood, or large portions of German Government, NASA etc.?
>6. You cannot admit that most of the joe user out there when told that there is linux will respond, what is that?
6. Not these days. These days I mainly hear "I've been meaning to try that, I've heard it's really good."
>7. You cannot admit that there is no professional printing capabilities in linux.
7. I don't understand that one? Aren't TeX and the like the original printing solutions? (and I can produce pdfs without paying a penny under Linux too)
>8. You cannot admit that you are a masochist (otherwise why would someone spend hours playing with scripts, and recompiling programs that are available for Windows?)
8. Okay, install apache under Debian, and then try it under Winders. Tell me which one takes longer...
>9. You cannot admit that there is no professional desktop publishing done on Linux.
9. Erm, how much proffessional dtp happens under Windows then? I thought that was Mac terretory, you know those computers that can run Linux but not Windows, the ones that uses an alternative Unix-like OS.
>10. You cannot admit that no one in their right mind would do professional video editing in Linux.
10. Nobody in their right mind would do it under Windows either. Except of course the movie industry and the custom Gimp being developed might debunk your assertion slightly.
>11. You cannot admit that linux sucks when it comes for gaming/home entertainment or education.
11. Okay, the games I can play native under Linux are far better than they would be under Windows so that's a crock for a start.
As I mentioned earlier Mplayer ROCKS, and you need little else to watch video under Linux.
As for education, can you point me to a suitable environment under Windows where I can learn a cross platform language without having to pay a fortune?
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a) In one small pissant purchase, you've cleared out the register of cash, which makes it difficult to give change to the next customer.
Well, here in good old Blighty you are limited to 50 'cash back' which limits the number of notes you can take.
Further to that a 10 pound note doesn't last as long as it ought so if you're using tax then every 2 or 3 purchases you'll be using a note.
Since the biggest note we have is a 50 pound which you hardly ever see you will only generally need a 'tenner' and perhaps a 'fiver' to give change for a 'twenty' so that actually, you don't need too many notes in the till.
If you regularly need any notes for change its fivers and they aren't usually part of a cash back transaction. (There was a nationwide shortage of them a year or two back; the BoE forgot to print enough or had to withdraw a load that wouldn't dry or something, I don't quite remember).
Finally, the whole point of giving cash back is that the supermarket doesn't have to pay as much to the nice men in armoured vehicles to to take the money away because there is less of it.
So, the supermarkets don't mind being depleted of cash because it works out cheaper than banking it and makes them less of a target for robbers. In fact, it's the whole point
> 1. You rejuvenate and dance when you hear a windows flaw exposed, but you conveniently ignore the thousands of security flaws exposed in linux.
1. Security flaws in Linux might be that if someone can press twenty keys at the same time at a particular moment on the local machine then they might be able get shell access and then, depending on the setup they might be able to escelate that to root access, that sort of obscure hard to do flaw, although of course there are serious flaws that get fixed quick.
Windows vulnerabilities (or at least those we hear of) are generally serious and potentially catastrophic. (Remote harddrive format anyone?)
>2. You yell loudly TROLL! at any person's post or at any person you see posting facts that you do not want to hear about your oh so cool linux.
2. I'm not trolling here, i'm replying, and I've not seen many facts hidden inside your troll.
>3. You know it's a classic case of penis envy, you don't have all the support, software and hardware available for linux and you have to let that anger out somewhere, but you don't have the brains to admit it.
3. My machine does exactly what I want it to. I am not envious of winamp, I have mplayer. Mplayer rocks! My nvidia card performs better under Linux than it ever did under Windows. DVD region codes have never been a problem either.
I have nothing to be jealous of.
>4. You hate windows, hate Microsoft, but race to emulate windows, have programs to run office from within linux, and spend a $300 on a Windows emulator, only Windows fools.
4. The only reason I need to run Windows programs is to preview webpages in IE, and usually I wish I'd never since its support for a pretty basic standard is appalling.
The software I use to do this is VMWare which can of course be used to run any PC OS. It's a very good piece of software. Does it run as well under Windows?
>5. You cannot admit that you don't have professional usage of Linux outside server markets.
5. Other than most of the special effects industry in Hollywood, or large portions of German Government, NASA etc.?
>6. You cannot admit that most of the joe user out there when told that there is linux will respond, what is that?
6. Not these days. These days I mainly hear "I've been meaning to try that, I've heard it's really good."
>7. You cannot admit that there is no professional printing capabilities in linux.
7. I don't understand that one? Aren't TeX and the like the original printing solutions? (and I can produce pdfs without paying a penny under Linux too)
>8. You cannot admit that you are a masochist (otherwise why would someone spend hours playing with scripts,
and recompiling programs that are available for Windows?)
8. Okay, install apache under Debian, and then try it under Winders. Tell me which one takes longer...
>9. You cannot admit that there is no professional desktop publishing done on Linux.
9. Erm, how much proffessional dtp happens under Windows then? I thought that was Mac terretory, you know those computers that can run Linux but not Windows, the ones that uses an alternative Unix-like OS.
>10. You cannot admit that no one in their right mind would do professional video editing in Linux.
10. Nobody in their right mind would do it under Windows either. Except of course the movie industry and the custom Gimp being developed might debunk your assertion slightly.
>11. You cannot admit that linux sucks when it comes for gaming/home entertainment or education.
11. Okay, the games I can play native under Linux are far better than they would be under Windows so that's a crock for a start.
As I mentioned earlier Mplayer ROCKS, and you need little else to watch video under Linux.
As for education, can you point me to a suitable environment under Windows where I can learn a cross platform language without having to pay a fortune?