I guess I'm having difficulty understanding HyperBraille Transfer Protocol because I don't see a B in HTTP.
The point is that the training the guy spoke about was not needed to be shipped out to be 508 compliant because their were no fucking handicapped people in the fucking audience who needed to take the training. This is called being prudent and being efficient. Look those words up in your braille dictionary!!!
Look if you wish to help the handicapped then fine - do it. But I don't. There I said it. It's not my problem. I will not solve all of the sighted needs or whatever needs they have due to their handicap. By definition they're gonna have a more challenging life and it's not my responsibility to make it easier on them. I'm all for helping them if you feel like you should or want to but I am totally 100% against forcing people to help them. My god man! Think of the people in Africa with 300 baud lines! You probably should be reproducing that web page into paper with a self address stamped envelope to mail to them. Oh and make it in their own language too! Bother! Brother. No thanks!!!
Funny but even in your list I only see Puritans listed once. The claim as I read it was that "this country was founded by *Puritans*" not that it was founded merely by religious folk. Catholics != Quakers != Puritans...
Precisely. You know what? It's not my job to figure out what your silly little protest is all about. I'm sure you think it's just the most important thing in the world and that everybody should know what it is and all but guess what? The mere fact that we don't know what it is is a failure of you to effectively communicate your concern not a failure of me not researching it. There is a lot of things that I am interested in - way more interested in than your silly and apparently violently protested and badly communicated "cause". If you cannot effectively communicate it then you surely do not have what it takes to do anything meaningful about it. I suggest you get out of the way before you do something stupid or hurt yourself or others.
By and large, last time I looked, you were just bitching about other people in your jealous zeal to appear to be important. Here's a clue - you're not. You've failed. Give it up!
Quite frankly BULLSHIT! Having music playing in your earbuds is no more or less distracting than playing the radio loudly. In both cases you can hear the music very well and other things not so well. If you are gonna outlaw earbuds then you must outlaw stereos.
Face facts. You simply bought a crappy software package. Why didn't you write it yourself so that it would perform exactly as you require? There is no excuse for any software that crashes - those are bugs. Having to work slowly or it'll break is just ludicrous. You got ripped off. Either purchase better software or write it yourself.
I record all conversations!
You've been warned!
There - now I'm totally covered! Posted on the internet for all to see.
I'm not responsible for your lack of ability to find it...
It's not fluent English or Spanish or whatever that I need. Many of these off shore call centers speak English fluently enough. It's that they don't understand the words they are speaking nor do they understand the concepts or customers. Irony is lost on them. Detecting frustration in the voice is also lost. You don't need to understand frustration in the voice when you are told "Look I've been on the phone for 56 minutes now and this really is just a simple problem that should have been solved 50 minutes ago!!!". Parsing that sentence into "Fuck I'm pissed off" does not take rocket science! And spare me the apologies - I don't want apologies - At this point I WANT SOLUTIONS!!!
The Philippines are the worse. When on a tech support call now I immediate ask where they are located and if it's anywhere close to there I ask to be transferred to somebody from outside that corner of the globe. I will not deal with Philippines anymore. In fact, while I was thinking of vacationing there I have decided against it. That area of the world has not progressed because as far as I can tell all of the people there are STUPID! Yeah I know, I shouldn't judge the whole area based just on talking to tech support but it still seems clear to me that if this is what tech support is like then the taxi cab driver's gotta be as much of a pain in the ass to deal with. They really should think carefully about the following sentence: "You never get a second chance to make a first impression" and they've already royally blew it when it comes to me and my money!
Genetics have nothing to do with behavior. All humans are the same.
Bullshit! Is all humans are the same then surely Africa does not need our help and should be as thriving a community as any other western civilization. Since that's clearly not the case your above statement is just a bunch of shit, and the rest of your statements as suspect...
Steve Jobs has large wads of cash as that is what we give people who prove themselves to be great assets to the economic system. No doubt, Steve Jobs is exactly that, but should your value to the economic system be the primary factor behind the level of medical care you receive? I would say no. Steve Jobs has no more right to the best standard of care than does somebody who has been in the police force, or a teacher (for example) their entire lives. In fact, I would say that anybody who has lived a moral, decent life should receive the same level of medical care, and that should be the highest available at the time. The only people that I would say might not deserve this are serious/career criminals.
You are confusing morals with economy. Like it or not care can be bought. You ask why should Steve Jobs or any rich person receive superior medical care - that's simple. Because they can afford it! They have the means, means which you and I do not possess.
Look at it the reverse way - you probably have more health insurance than many others in the US. Why sir should you receive better health care than them?!? How hypocritical of you! I say you should immediately report to your health care provider and demand the lowest form of health care policy they offer!
But wait! What about those without health care??? Indeed you should drop your health care package entirely least you have more coverage those less fortunate than you you hypocritical rich and undeserving person you!
Truth be told people do not deserve things based on their needs nor simply because they've acted morally by some person's code. They deserve things because they achieve them. And by achieving they deserve to keep and to get better things than those who have not achieved. Doling out goods based on need instead of accomplishment is communism and how many times must we show that such political systems and such philosophy is bankrupt?!?
It's not bad if he was born into it either. IOW it's his frigging money - he should be able to do with it what he pleases - regardless if he made it or inherited it! Who are you to say what he should or should not be able to do with his money however legally obtained. I betcha if some rich relative of yours died and left you a bunch of money you sure would want to be able to use it in any way you saw fit. Why then do you judge others?
Being able to play sound over the network is OK I guess. BUT THE VAST MAJORITY OF USERS JUST WANT SOUND TO AT LEAST WORK LOCALLY FIRST - then get the network to work.
For example, I just purchased a mic so I can use Skype. The mic works - I hear my voice - but it doesn't record. How frigging hard is it to record from the one input labeled mic?!? Tons of instructions - all of them different - none of them work. Meanwhile some pimple headed Linux geek is still trying to get sound over the network working...
According to the Hulu CEO, the issue is the cable channels. They get a large chunk of their funding from cable subscriptions, and they feel very threatened by any project that attempts to replace the cable box in your living room.
Poppycock! Indeed their very web site itself "attempts to replace the cable box in your living room".
Again, why would it matter? Why would Hulu care if you watched a TV show on a Boxee set top box, watched the ads and Hulu got paid as opposed to watched the TV show on a Hulu set top box, watched the ads and Hulu got paid?!?
Ads? No, it doesn't have anything to do with ads. Advertising on Hulu is little more than a shell game for the networks (dba Hulu).
What the hell are you talking about? Hulu exists to make money - they are not a non-profit venture. If you believe they are then show evidence of that. Ads make Hulu money. They are not doing this for free.
Consider the history of the music industry on the Internet. The technology for purchasing music online was entirely in place by 1995 when people started to use Netscape Navigator in large numbers. Napster didn't come into play until 1999, iTunes in 2001.
The general (and correct) opinion is that the music industry wasted several years of opportunity to establish themselves as the major purveyor of online music content on their own terms. When Napster came around people got used to trading music for free, and with iTunes the industry accidentally ceded major amounts of mindshare and control to Apple. I've seen interviews explaining that the reason for the wasted opportunity was that they had no clue what to do, even who they should work with.
The TV studios today are not nearly as clueless as the music industry was in 1995, and they are determined not to repeat the same mistakes. They are aware that they have an opportunity to dictate terms and lengthen the survival of their traditional broadcast delivery model if they play things right.
What are you saying or trying to imply here? Online music sharing is totally different than TV shows. When you get an MP3 file from some online music sharing site it's not like in the 3rd verse you hear "and now a word from our sponser...". With TV you do. The broadcast model for at least 70 years now have been advertiser supported. Hulu videos have ads in them. They are advertising supported. This is totally different than music. What you say above makes no sense.
Enter Hulu -- Hulu is not a for-profit corporation in reality. Hulu is a (perhaps illegal) collusion among NBC, FOX, and ABC (via their respective owners) to provide a "just right" level of service via the Internet -- enough that people are not (as) tempted by BitTorrent/iTunes, but not enough to make for a better experience than that available on a TV.
Again, what are you saying here. Hulu is a for profit corporation. That is their legal structure and their aim - period. Stop spreading lies. And there's nothing illegal with the networks getting together - last I checked this was still a free country although I suspect you secretly wish it wasn't.
That's the reason for all the jacking around with availability schedules and the reason Hulu will never allow itself to be repackaged into a convenient format. The inconvenience is the entire purpose of the service.
You have failed to show that and it doesn't even make any sense. Hulu makes money on ads. It really doesn't matter what vehicle you use to view the ads. Hulu's concern is that open source pirates might be able to break the encryption and serve up content without ads thus no money for Hulu. There's no need to invent conspiracy theories...
As has been said, anybody can create their own structure. Instead the world relies on, and burdens the movers and shakers of the world - the Americans - to provide such structure and form to them. Personally I feel we should charge them for the privilege of using our system or go fucking making yours own. We've given you use of it and have done all the hard work for some 20 years now - at no cost to you you parasites!
No you scream it's not fair and claim we must give it to you - why? We should be compensated for all of these years of hard work! Isn't it enough that we've done all of the R&D for this for you for free? And you lazy asses can't even get up and make your own system but need to parasite ours and then claim our labor. Phooey. Go to hell.
IANAL, but if you refuse to ID yourself, and your state has a Stop and Identify law, then yes, the police can arrest you.
In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiibel_v._Sixth_Judicial_District_Court_of_Nevada it was ascertained that you do have to disclose your name to a peace officer if your state has a stop and identify law, which Nevada does.
Did you miss the part about
Nevada has a "stop-and-identify" law that allows a peace officer to detain any person he encounters "under circumstances which reasonably indicate that the person has committed, is committing or is about to commit a crime";
Again, as many people have pointed out, no crime was committed here, nor was a crime about to be committed. A person was taking a fucking photo of something - that's all. Being an asshole is not a crime - and I oughta know!
I wonder, as I have seen no explicit verbiage, does the ID have to be accurate? "Yes, officer, Smith, Bob Smith's the name... No I left my wallet at home..."
If I wanted to see ads... I wouldn't block them. This feature seems redundant.
A fair point; and one that many comments seem to bring up.
The blog post, however, explains the rationale. In particular, adblock was intended to be a mechanism to 'restore balance' in online advertising. Not to necessarily block ALL ads, but to give users the power to block excessively annoying ads, so that webmasters would tone back ads to an acceptable level (for fear of users blocking them entirely).
Great, but I define "excessively annoying ads" such that all ads, to me, are excessively annoying! And if not "all" at least most. I think a lot of people agree with me, hence the popularity of Adblock and ad blocking software. It never ceases to amaze me how advertisers are hell bent to get their little ads in front of me. It's as if they think that if they can managed to stick their little ad in my face my knees will buckle and I will grow weak and just have to buy their product. Here's a frigging clue! The very fact that I bother to block ads means that I ain't interested in your frigging product and forcefully throwing your ad in my face will only make me less interested not more interested. Got it now!?! When and if I'm interested in buying a product I will do, get this - I know you don't think I'm capable but I assure you I am - research about the products in question and make an informed purchasing decision. Sure maybe many, many people aren't that disciplined and are prone to impulse buying but I can assure that I'm not one of them. How can you tell... Well ya see it's because I block ads...
In practice the way AdBlock currently works, it's just so easy to block everything and forget about it. Users then forget to ever "unblock" pages that they like and would like to support (through advertising).
You're neglecting that contingent of people out there like me who don't want to see the ads in the first place! Are you utterly incapable of fathoming that some people would rather go and get the information about products when and if they decide they have a need rather than when somebody whose trying to make a buck decides? Oh and you never support a site through advertising - you support a site through purchase of an advertisers products. If it were only ads that ran and those ads never generated a sale then the company behind the ads will soon be out of business.
Now, if you're a user committed to never seeing any ads at all, then yes this feature is useless for you. You will no doubt turn it off. (Yes, the intent is for an option to be present to never show these little warnings.) But for those of us who do want to support some sites, the reminder will help us make that decision.
If you and your idiot friends wish to do that then by all means. How about cha write your own semi-broken adblock software. As the name implies, adblock blocks ads!
Of course it is entirely possible that webmasters will abuse this meta-tag as much as they abuse the ads themselves. (Why wouldn't a webmaster turn the tag on all the time?) Since the default will still be to block ads until the user says otherwise, at worst this will mean a little bar shows up in the browser the first time they visit a site. Not a huge deal. (And if it annoys you, then you just turn off the behavior.)
It's as huge a deal as the ads are in the first place.
I like the idea of being able to preview how annoying ads are for a site, and then deciding whether or not to let them through. (As long as the default start-state is "block" then I won't be inundated with crap...) I, for one, want to be able to support sites that are smart enough to have reasonable ads. (Yes, I currently manually unblock sites using the AdBlock context menu... but this would make it easier.)
Maybe this is your experience but I can assure you many people do not share it...
Aside from running Photoshop and Quicken, it does everything a computer should do, perfectly.
And you can get vmware and so Photoshop and Quicken (and anything else) too.
I run work and entertainment applications. Play movies, browse the web, play music, invert matrixes, find eigenvalues, do fourier transforms, administer databases, etc.
If you count "invert matrixes" and "find eigenvalues" as part of what you use a computer then you've already proven yourself a pinhead! How many people do that sort of stuff with their computers that much that they'd even mention it?
And what I don't need to do: no need to run virus scan, no need to defrag disks, no need to buy memory upgrades, no need to buy software, no need to run regedit, etc.
I never bought A/V software. By and large it is not needed - even on Windows. Nor have I bought "memory upgrades". (What are upgrades? You mean add memory. Oh Linux uses memory too ya know). Buy software? There's plenty of free stuff to be had - yeah on Windows too. No need to run regedit but you run some other gedit something or other or vi through root editing various files. You're being disingenuous here if you think you have no reason to tweak config files with some sort of editor on Linux.
What windows can do but is much easier in Linux: run a web server, run a mail server, run a file server, run *any* server.
Patently false. One can and does run servers on Windows as easily.
No hassle, no regedit, no googling forum after forum looking for answers,
Yet later you admit you can always google forums for answer - and there are a ton of them, with lots of bad answers too. Don't kid yourself, Linux isn't super simple, it's super complex. But it does give you more freedom to tweak things. Often times however this means you have more ways to shoot yourself in the foot.
no downloading drivers,
Huff! Don't kid yourself. Head on over the the Ubuntu forums there buddy and search for "9.04 ATI problems" and you'll find a bunch of driver issues...
no reformatting, no reinstalling.
Sure there is. Again, don't kid yourself. Go to the forums and do a little research before spouting off like an ignorant idiot.
The "and more" that Linux does perfectly now is what a computer should do, it runs year after year without any intervention. I have a Linux server running without *any* input at all since 1992. It does its simple task exactly as it was meant to.
I guess if you set up a server to do nothing and leave it alone it'll work doing nothing for a long time reliably...
On the desktop side, the "and more" means I can configure my desktop and icons in the way I prefer without any problem,
And you had problems configuring your desktop and icons on Windows?!?
I just select whatever I want without having to worry about "security".
Desktop and icons and security?!? Now you're really out in left field...
The system is secure because it was designed that way,
Correction, with barely 1% of the marketplace, the system is secure because nobody is targeting it.
I don't need to buy or download anything.
Well if your needs are so minimal that you don't need anything else then hooray for you. However I had to download many thing because I guess I just do a lot more than you do.
I can configure the way the desktop works.
Correction, you can configure the desktop to the extent that it allows you do configure it - just like any other OS!
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You got that backwards - if you built a PC using the funds you would have spend on a Mac you'd get a machine that's twice as good.
I guess I'm having difficulty understanding HyperBraille Transfer Protocol because I don't see a B in HTTP.
The point is that the training the guy spoke about was not needed to be shipped out to be 508 compliant because their were no fucking handicapped people in the fucking audience who needed to take the training. This is called being prudent and being efficient. Look those words up in your braille dictionary!!!
Look if you wish to help the handicapped then fine - do it. But I don't. There I said it. It's not my problem. I will not solve all of the sighted needs or whatever needs they have due to their handicap. By definition they're gonna have a more challenging life and it's not my responsibility to make it easier on them. I'm all for helping them if you feel like you should or want to but I am totally 100% against forcing people to help them. My god man! Think of the people in Africa with 300 baud lines! You probably should be reproducing that web page into paper with a self address stamped envelope to mail to them. Oh and make it in their own language too! Bother! Brother. No thanks!!!
Funny but even in your list I only see Puritans listed once. The claim as I read it was that "this country was founded by *Puritans*" not that it was founded merely by religious folk. Catholics != Quakers != Puritans...
Precisely. You know what? It's not my job to figure out what your silly little protest is all about. I'm sure you think it's just the most important thing in the world and that everybody should know what it is and all but guess what? The mere fact that we don't know what it is is a failure of you to effectively communicate your concern not a failure of me not researching it. There is a lot of things that I am interested in - way more interested in than your silly and apparently violently protested and badly communicated "cause". If you cannot effectively communicate it then you surely do not have what it takes to do anything meaningful about it. I suggest you get out of the way before you do something stupid or hurt yourself or others. By and large, last time I looked, you were just bitching about other people in your jealous zeal to appear to be important. Here's a clue - you're not. You've failed. Give it up!
Quite frankly BULLSHIT! Having music playing in your earbuds is no more or less distracting than playing the radio loudly. In both cases you can hear the music very well and other things not so well. If you are gonna outlaw earbuds then you must outlaw stereos.
Face facts. You simply bought a crappy software package. Why didn't you write it yourself so that it would perform exactly as you require? There is no excuse for any software that crashes - those are bugs. Having to work slowly or it'll break is just ludicrous. You got ripped off. Either purchase better software or write it yourself.
What the fuck are you talking about?!? No where in the article did it say that Google plans on charging anything. Stop making up FUD.
If that's the case then at least fucking hide your identity! This was an in person, face to face thing. Sorry your cover is blown!
I record all conversations! You've been warned! There - now I'm totally covered! Posted on the internet for all to see. I'm not responsible for your lack of ability to find it...
It's not fluent English or Spanish or whatever that I need. Many of these off shore call centers speak English fluently enough. It's that they don't understand the words they are speaking nor do they understand the concepts or customers. Irony is lost on them. Detecting frustration in the voice is also lost. You don't need to understand frustration in the voice when you are told "Look I've been on the phone for 56 minutes now and this really is just a simple problem that should have been solved 50 minutes ago!!!". Parsing that sentence into "Fuck I'm pissed off" does not take rocket science! And spare me the apologies - I don't want apologies - At this point I WANT SOLUTIONS!!!
The Philippines are the worse. When on a tech support call now I immediate ask where they are located and if it's anywhere close to there I ask to be transferred to somebody from outside that corner of the globe. I will not deal with Philippines anymore. In fact, while I was thinking of vacationing there I have decided against it. That area of the world has not progressed because as far as I can tell all of the people there are STUPID! Yeah I know, I shouldn't judge the whole area based just on talking to tech support but it still seems clear to me that if this is what tech support is like then the taxi cab driver's gotta be as much of a pain in the ass to deal with. They really should think carefully about the following sentence: "You never get a second chance to make a first impression" and they've already royally blew it when it comes to me and my money!
I've been living in Phoenix for 2 years now. All I can say is this punk doesn't know what he's talking about.
Bullshit! Is all humans are the same then surely Africa does not need our help and should be as thriving a community as any other western civilization. Since that's clearly not the case your above statement is just a bunch of shit, and the rest of your statements as suspect...
I've been saying the same thing about cancer and the cold for years now!
In a word - NFS. When you only have 1 home directory there's nothing to sync!
You are confusing morals with economy. Like it or not care can be bought. You ask why should Steve Jobs or any rich person receive superior medical care - that's simple. Because they can afford it! They have the means, means which you and I do not possess.
Look at it the reverse way - you probably have more health insurance than many others in the US. Why sir should you receive better health care than them?!? How hypocritical of you! I say you should immediately report to your health care provider and demand the lowest form of health care policy they offer!
But wait! What about those without health care??? Indeed you should drop your health care package entirely least you have more coverage those less fortunate than you you hypocritical rich and undeserving person you!
Truth be told people do not deserve things based on their needs nor simply because they've acted morally by some person's code. They deserve things because they achieve them. And by achieving they deserve to keep and to get better things than those who have not achieved. Doling out goods based on need instead of accomplishment is communism and how many times must we show that such political systems and such philosophy is bankrupt?!?
It's not bad if he was born into it either. IOW it's his frigging money - he should be able to do with it what he pleases - regardless if he made it or inherited it! Who are you to say what he should or should not be able to do with his money however legally obtained. I betcha if some rich relative of yours died and left you a bunch of money you sure would want to be able to use it in any way you saw fit. Why then do you judge others?
Being able to play sound over the network is OK I guess. BUT THE VAST MAJORITY OF USERS JUST WANT SOUND TO AT LEAST WORK LOCALLY FIRST - then get the network to work. For example, I just purchased a mic so I can use Skype. The mic works - I hear my voice - but it doesn't record. How frigging hard is it to record from the one input labeled mic?!? Tons of instructions - all of them different - none of them work. Meanwhile some pimple headed Linux geek is still trying to get sound over the network working...
Poppycock! Indeed their very web site itself "attempts to replace the cable box in your living room".
Again, why would it matter? Why would Hulu care if you watched a TV show on a Boxee set top box, watched the ads and Hulu got paid as opposed to watched the TV show on a Hulu set top box, watched the ads and Hulu got paid?!?
What the hell are you talking about? Hulu exists to make money - they are not a non-profit venture. If you believe they are then show evidence of that. Ads make Hulu money. They are not doing this for free.
What are you saying or trying to imply here? Online music sharing is totally different than TV shows. When you get an MP3 file from some online music sharing site it's not like in the 3rd verse you hear "and now a word from our sponser...". With TV you do. The broadcast model for at least 70 years now have been advertiser supported. Hulu videos have ads in them. They are advertising supported. This is totally different than music. What you say above makes no sense.
Again, what are you saying here. Hulu is a for profit corporation. That is their legal structure and their aim - period. Stop spreading lies. And there's nothing illegal with the networks getting together - last I checked this was still a free country although I suspect you secretly wish it wasn't.
You have failed to show that and it doesn't even make any sense. Hulu makes money on ads. It really doesn't matter what vehicle you use to view the ads. Hulu's concern is that open source pirates might be able to break the encryption and serve up content without ads thus no money for Hulu. There's no need to invent conspiracy theories...
As has been said, anybody can create their own structure. Instead the world relies on, and burdens the movers and shakers of the world - the Americans - to provide such structure and form to them. Personally I feel we should charge them for the privilege of using our system or go fucking making yours own. We've given you use of it and have done all the hard work for some 20 years now - at no cost to you you parasites! No you scream it's not fair and claim we must give it to you - why? We should be compensated for all of these years of hard work! Isn't it enough that we've done all of the R&D for this for you for free? And you lazy asses can't even get up and make your own system but need to parasite ours and then claim our labor. Phooey. Go to hell.
Did you miss the part about
Again, as many people have pointed out, no crime was committed here, nor was a crime about to be committed. A person was taking a fucking photo of something - that's all. Being an asshole is not a crime - and I oughta know!
I wonder, as I have seen no explicit verbiage, does the ID have to be accurate? "Yes, officer, Smith, Bob Smith's the name... No I left my wallet at home..."
Great, but I define "excessively annoying ads" such that all ads, to me, are excessively annoying! And if not "all" at least most. I think a lot of people agree with me, hence the popularity of Adblock and ad blocking software. It never ceases to amaze me how advertisers are hell bent to get their little ads in front of me. It's as if they think that if they can managed to stick their little ad in my face my knees will buckle and I will grow weak and just have to buy their product. Here's a frigging clue! The very fact that I bother to block ads means that I ain't interested in your frigging product and forcefully throwing your ad in my face will only make me less interested not more interested. Got it now!?! When and if I'm interested in buying a product I will do, get this - I know you don't think I'm capable but I assure you I am - research about the products in question and make an informed purchasing decision. Sure maybe many, many people aren't that disciplined and are prone to impulse buying but I can assure that I'm not one of them. How can you tell... Well ya see it's because I block ads...
You're neglecting that contingent of people out there like me who don't want to see the ads in the first place! Are you utterly incapable of fathoming that some people would rather go and get the information about products when and if they decide they have a need rather than when somebody whose trying to make a buck decides? Oh and you never support a site through advertising - you support a site through purchase of an advertisers products. If it were only ads that ran and those ads never generated a sale then the company behind the ads will soon be out of business.
If you and your idiot friends wish to do that then by all means. How about cha write your own semi-broken adblock software. As the name implies, adblock blocks ads!
It's as huge a deal as the ads are in the first place.
Huh? Adblock already ha
If you count "invert matrixes" and "find eigenvalues" as part of what you use a computer then you've already proven yourself a pinhead! How many people do that sort of stuff with their computers that much that they'd even mention it?
I never bought A/V software. By and large it is not needed - even on Windows. Nor have I bought "memory upgrades". (What are upgrades? You mean add memory. Oh Linux uses memory too ya know). Buy software? There's plenty of free stuff to be had - yeah on Windows too. No need to run regedit but you run some other gedit something or other or vi through root editing various files. You're being disingenuous here if you think you have no reason to tweak config files with some sort of editor on Linux.
Patently false. One can and does run servers on Windows as easily.
Yet later you admit you can always google forums for answer - and there are a ton of them, with lots of bad answers too. Don't kid yourself, Linux isn't super simple, it's super complex. But it does give you more freedom to tweak things. Often times however this means you have more ways to shoot yourself in the foot.
Huff! Don't kid yourself. Head on over the the Ubuntu forums there buddy and search for "9.04 ATI problems" and you'll find a bunch of driver issues...
Sure there is. Again, don't kid yourself. Go to the forums and do a little research before spouting off like an ignorant idiot.
I guess if you set up a server to do nothing and leave it alone it'll work doing nothing for a long time reliably...
And you had problems configuring your desktop and icons on Windows?!?
Desktop and icons and security?!? Now you're really out in left field...
Correction, with barely 1% of the marketplace, the system is secure because nobody is targeting it.
Well if your needs are so minimal that you don't need anything else then hooray for you. However I had to download many thing because I guess I just do a lot more than you do.
Correction, you can configure the desktop to the extent that it allows you do configure it - just like any other OS!
Not so. See here: http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=7497