I don't suppose there is a rich man willing to swap his income with that of a poor man so he pays a lower percentage in tax is there?
I don't suppose there are any people unemployed due to a rich man deciding he could make more money by moving jobs away from the local economy to somewhere with lower costs safety standards and scruples.
While there are people intentionally unemployed, it is insulting to assume that anyone on welfare is intentionally on welfare.
you can play the percentage game all you like but there is a minimum income needed to maintain body and soul and tax shouldn't take people below that.
In the UK there is a thing called family credit where the government tops up the income of poorer families. Yes thats right the company bosses are more than happy to pay wages below the poverty level and for their payroll bill to be subsidized.
Yes it costs a lot to be wealthy, it costs even more to be poor.
Actually some people buy socket covers in the UK too, I think its a new parent thing. The UK socket design covers the live and neutral pins The insertion of the longer Earth Pin uncovers the other two pins when the socket is in use.
Kids do like putting things in holes so a few cheap plastic covers potentially avoiding the death of your child is worth it.
Switches on wall outlets are a good thing too, since it isolates the pins from the supply and also reduces arcing on the pins. There are switchless outlets available but there is minimal difference in cost and I doubt you would find a professional electrician using them.
Also plugs have been improved originally the pins were just rectangular metal pins going into the base of the plug these days theres about 10mm or so of insulation next to the base of the plug which helps ensure there is no live metal that your fingers might come in contact with.
That's the very real problem of the American Health Care System. Ok I get the principle "why should I pay for other peoples health care"
But your getting instead a system Priced at a point to maximise profits, and denies the people who need it most.
Surely the only people who gain are the very rich.
It's not just Health Care which is showing this flaw.
Energy Companies are now working on the same principle, price at what you can get not at what it costs, House prices have no relation to cost it's again sell for the maximum that people can pay and what they can pay has been inflated by credit.
Sat and Cable TV was founded on the principle people were paying far less than what they could afford for TV.
Perhaps the only way round this is to at least part nationalise some of these industries, even with government inefficiency it probably would mean a lower priced alternative, which the private companies would have to compete against. maybe cooperatives could do it.
The idea of GPL software and giving back to the community is a great one since it benefits everyone including the giver. It sort of reflects a more general idea that you can and should make a positive contribution to our world something that you choose to do and are not compelled to do.
I see on here a number of people who seem to treat life like a game of monopoly everyone for themselves and why care about anyone else. Thing is like in monopoly at the end of the game it's just paper and plastic. You will die just like everybody else and all the junk that you accumulated in your life becomes pretty meaningless. I would hope most of us could say the world is better for my having existed.
If I hadn't been born then.... wouldn't have come to pass.
So back to the Island two of you on there, you do all the hunting and gathering do you feed them? A few possibilities your companion is a baby, a babe (and she is all yours), maintains a continual watch for possible rescuers. has two broken legs and can not walk. Talks to you when you finish your hunting and gathering and keeps you sane.
Getting rich usual involves getting people to work for you and paying them less than what they make you. Problem is if its too much less then they can't afford to buy what you make, so you give them credit beyond their means and then the bubble bursts no one buys the stuff you make your workers end up on the street and you call em useless bums as you walk by. Oblivious to the fact you helped create these useless bums.
So do you play monopoly or have you already done something to make the world a better place for you having existed.
I think there is a way to beat file monitoring by splitting the file or files into two or more separate files with some other transform required to be able to compile the original file.
Try looking for a hash key when you can't even tell what your looking for has been sent.
Strange but in practice I have found that if you make standards based web pages you can largely group opera konquerer firefox safari ect into the group with no problems and then IE into a second group of has varying issues depending on version.
I have seen problems displaying javadocs in firefox which seems related to a skype plugin in firefox(3.0.3, 3.0.6) and about a month ago ebay.co.uk 's home page locked up ie6 and 7 on Xp (admittedly that page when submitted for testing came up with 600+ errors and over 1100 warnings) Firefox handled the page fine.
I think if you talk to people who build sites that IE in its various versions is what causes the most problems for a sites design. As a positive note IE gets better with each release. So if your paying for a site to be built ensure that it is standards compliant and eventually there will be little need for a separate css page specifically for ie quirks.
Quite interesting for the slashdot readers who go fishing. Worms are an excellent natural bait and tend to attract bigger fish than other baits.
Also unlike maggots they don't stink after a few days.
Also worms are excellent at composting food waste which would tend to be thrown out in the trash, which goes into landfill.
The compost is an excellent food source for your plants which gives you a nicer garden without spending money out on chemical fertilizers and the worms will improve your soil quality.
And you can do all this for next to no money. It's all quite positive stuff and outside isn't a bad place to be, fresh air, mild exercise is good for you.
There are easier ways to fix a ballot, set the boundaries so that seats you lose you lose badly taking opposition votes away from neighboring districts you can win.
make your opponents voters ineligible to vote and or ensure that long delays occur in opposition strongholds.
you don't need to rig or tamper votes cast provided you ensure your oppositions supporters never get to the ballet box where it matters.
Imagine the frustration of being able to vote in a district where your preferred candidate has a majority of over 50,000 while in other area's 30,000 votes allows the other party to take the seat with a slim majority.
yes perhaps its possible to rig electronic voting machines but then for that to matter you need a fair voting system in the first place.
While not disparaging McCain and what he endured as a POW, he isn't Stephen Hawking either (as a fairly extreme example).
There are options open to disabled computer users. The more likely reason is its technology he never grew up with and has no interest in pursuing. If you don't like computers hate the unknown and have battled a PC and lost (hours of work) why bother.
usually by pressing a sequence of buttons on the dvd players remote. many if not most dvd players seem to have multi-region firmware just hidden away from the user.
An alternative you might consider is to get hold of a region2 player basic ones tend to be cheaper than some DVD titles.
I am fairly certain there is a lot more of Top gear available in the UK surprising its not on TV in the USA,I've even seen it on Polish tv.
I'm not a fan of region encoding by any stretch of the imagination easy solution is download a torrent and forget about it. Isn't that what usually happens.
or if you insist on doing it the hard way go to the top gear website and moan about it. the more people who do the more likely it is someone will get a clue there is a market for this.
it seems to do quite well for results but the interface is terrible on a small screen. useless crap on the page when i am trying to look at the results. I don't mind having to scroll up and down to see more results currently its like trying to look at a room through a letterbox. the results window needs to be bigger. I don't mind the additions and suggestions dotted round the side before i search after they need to be moved or removed underneath would be ok.
I also couldn't find a way to open the results it would be preferable to open a link to the actual page in fact open several pages even.
The colors had no meaning to me I need to know what i am looking at. if the colors classify the results as type e.g blogs forums wiki commercial vendor ect. i'd like a key to the colors.
biggest issue really was being unable to get at the results in any useful way.
one part sentence seemed to be all i could see.
on the otherhand the core idea looks good.
A pet hate of mine with google is the inability to seperate a search for a product from a search for information about a product also no way to filter out all the agregation sites which just say you can buy x here here and here and often x is y and not what i am looking for.
Still doesnt make take down notices for harmless video's any less anal. If anything old music tends to see an increase in sales due to getting some exposure, it has happened repeatedly.
In this case the music belongs to universal, prince isn't losing anything, he lost it before to universal isn't that why he changed his name.
where should things go next, nike ordering a take down because a nike logo is visible, or perhaps mcdonalds doesn't like being compared to burger king and they issue a takedown notice.
Or the olympic committee... hmm been there already.
There is very little anyone can do to fight back, however the kind of person who makes these kind of decisions is barely human and loathed by everyone who knows them anyway.
yes forums and message boards are far better, but who is going to tell them that. Getting good info from irc isn't easy particularly in a big channel. However if you make a channel say ubuntunewbies or something and moderate it fairly strictly you have the makings of a useful resource.
Even if its just to have a few useful url's in the channel topic.
In America this is true but not in the UK for example where the TV guide is part of the transmission and gives 2 weeks of programming information. It's extremely easy to capture every episode in a series, too easy in fact.
Why can't American Broadcasts carry the same information? Maybe you should ask the FCC.
America doesn't need to tamper with actual votes cast when they can disenfranchise the people eligible to vote.
from simple issues like the availability of the voting machines a 15 minute wait in a white area and a 4 hour wait in a black area, to changing the law requiring photo id which sounds like a good thing until you find out that 1 in 10 americans doesn't have a driving license or a passport and that rises to 1 in 5 in some black area's.
yes it's possible that 20% of potential voters can't just on the basis of the new laws that have been introduced.
It's not even just one party pulling stunts like this it's both. How about voters being disallowed from voting because of their homes being foreclosed or votes not being counted due to the ballots being issued without envelopes and then disallowed because they don't have the correct envelope. These were just some of the issues raised on the program.
It's quite sickening, but from an outside view point it seems that the people that do get the chance to the vote have to choose between the lesser of two evils. Obama seems to be a better choice than McCain but has America matured enough to not vote based on color? it's only been 40 years since that famous kiss in startrek also the same year of the black power salute at the olympics.
I do wonder if enough white Americans are mature enough to accept a black president, when you see the nigger trolls here on slashdot you can't help but wonder if its a very small percentage or a much larger group who wouldn't admit to racism but would choose McCain because he is white.
In the UK I see the public face of everyone is equal,contrasting strongly with the views of some ordinary people, its still a very xenophobic island.
My own country isn't free of this vote rigging either when the Poll Tax was introduced a lot of people didn't register to vote (millions) since it would help lead to them getting tracked down and convicted for nonpayment. Prior to the Poll Tax, rates were charged which the landlord paid via the income from the rent that was paid, after the poll tax was introduced it then was applied to everyone regardless. Theres still a charge council tax but it is per home now and it's still not exactly a brilliant system. Even the national census missed a lot of people (who were not exactly keen on letting the government know where they were). http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2008/08/25/standing-freedom-black-power-salute-1968-olympics
So while we can debate on here the accuracy and accountability of the voting machines it's really ignoring the very real issue of Americans (in the case of this up coming election) being able to exercise the right to vote.
The American Presidential Election is of worldwide interest right now. The current financial mess is causing problems everywhere. With two realistic choices it really is a choice of the lesser of two evils and enlightened self interest. Good luck with that choice.
2000 still is the probably the best OS Microsoft brought out, light weight and generally compatible with most windows software, the perfect guest undemanding of the host.
XP would run pretty much the same software but demand more resources.
Thats more than just a little incompetent on the part of Dell, I am wondering why they didn't ask cannonical for help in tailoring ubuntu so it did all work out of the box.
I would love to see an interview with Mark Shuttleworth and a few probing questions put to him about why this is occuring and why ubuntu isn't being installed by default on netbooks.
I wouldn't be surprised if cannonical havent been asked.
To be frank all the netbooks all come with dreadful operating systems (that I know of).
However Ubuntu installs quite nicely on the EEE and The Aspire One. What I don't really understand is why it isn't tweaked and installed by default.
There needs to be something like a bootcamp video setup for these netbooks
A basic explanation of what Linux is all about, whats available, an introduction to the repositories, Virtualbox would be worth a mention too and the places you can go to get help. Nothing too long, but plenty of resources available for further investigation. At Uni we had informaniacs who were around to help out freshers. Why can't these Netbooks be setup with irc and auto joining a help channel by default. A nice clear icon with do not panic click here for live help or something similar.
There is no reason why community based help can't be offered at the start.
I guess really the vendors are hoping people will buy a netbook and a laptop but surely Ubuntu or Suse or Debian or fedora ect could be offering a simple download to setup a system such as the EEE or Aspire ect. surely there are enough of these systems being bought to make it worth while.
Mint for the EEE is the best example so far but couldn't a script be set up to download the iso install to a usb stick and reboot and when the install is finished everything works.
There has to be a way of throwing a lifebelt to these new Linux users.
you/we got older, but you still like the music you grew up with. The current generation likes what they are growing up with and they are rarely impressed with what you regard as an all time classic.
Interestingly some of what we liked 15 years or more ago we cringe when we hear it now, we must have liked it at some point or we wouldn't have bought it.
Actually i wasn't that keen on the stuff you were buying 15 years ago either but then i was buying music 25 years ago...
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I don't suppose there is a rich man willing to swap his income with that of a poor man so he pays a lower percentage in tax is there?
I don't suppose there are any people unemployed due to a rich man deciding he could make more money by moving jobs away from the local economy to somewhere with lower costs safety standards and scruples.
While there are people intentionally unemployed, it is insulting to assume that anyone on welfare is intentionally on welfare.
you can play the percentage game all you like but there is a minimum income needed to maintain body and soul and tax shouldn't take people below that.
In the UK there is a thing called family credit where the government tops up the income of poorer families. Yes thats right the company bosses are more than happy to pay wages below the poverty level and for their payroll bill to be subsidized.
Yes it costs a lot to be wealthy, it costs even more to be poor.
Actually some people buy socket covers in the UK too, I think its a new parent thing.
The UK socket design covers the live and neutral pins The insertion of the longer Earth Pin uncovers the other two pins when the socket is in use.
Kids do like putting things in holes so a few cheap plastic covers potentially avoiding the death of your child is worth it.
Switches on wall outlets are a good thing too, since it isolates the pins from the supply and also reduces arcing on the pins. There are switchless outlets available but there is minimal difference in cost and I doubt you would find a professional electrician using them.
Also plugs have been improved originally the pins were just rectangular metal pins going into the base of the plug these days theres about 10mm or so of insulation next to the base of the plug which helps ensure there is no live metal that your fingers might come in contact with.
That's the very real problem of the American Health Care System.
Ok I get the principle "why should I pay for other peoples health care"
But your getting instead a system
Priced at a point to maximise profits, and denies the people who need it most.
Surely the only people who gain are the very rich.
It's not just Health Care which is showing this flaw.
Energy Companies are now working on the same principle, price at what you can get not at what it costs, House prices have no relation to cost it's again sell for the maximum that people can pay and what they can pay has been inflated by credit.
Sat and Cable TV was founded on the principle people were paying far less than what they could afford for TV.
Perhaps the only way round this is to at least part nationalise some of these industries, even with government inefficiency it probably would mean a lower priced alternative, which the private companies would have to compete against.
maybe cooperatives could do it.
Straight forward enough some people measure their worth by what they have, other people measure their worth by what they do.
The more valuable measure is what you do, if you really failed to make a difference with your life was it worth living in the first place?
The idea of GPL software and giving back to the community is a great one since it benefits everyone including the giver. It sort of reflects a more general idea that you can and should make a positive contribution to our world something that you choose to do and are not compelled to do.
I see on here a number of people who seem to treat life like a game of monopoly everyone for themselves and why care about anyone else. Thing is like in monopoly at the end of the game it's just paper and plastic. You will die just like everybody else and all the junk that you accumulated in your life becomes pretty meaningless. I would hope most of us could say the world is better for my having existed.
If I hadn't been born then .... wouldn't have come to pass.
So back to the Island two of you on there, you do all the hunting and gathering
do you feed them? A few possibilities your companion is a baby, a babe (and she is all yours), maintains a continual watch for possible rescuers. has two broken legs and can not walk. Talks to you when you finish your hunting and gathering and keeps you sane.
Getting rich usual involves getting people to work for you and paying them less than what they make you. Problem is if its too much less then they can't afford to buy what you make, so you give them credit beyond their means and then the bubble bursts no one buys the stuff you make your workers end up on the street and you call em useless bums as you walk by. Oblivious to the fact you helped create these useless bums.
So do you play monopoly or have you already done something to make the world a better place for you having existed.
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/ :)
posted using fennec on aspire one running ubuntu
untar and click on fennec
it's a little strange scrolling is done by click and drag but its working wit fine on here
I think there is a way to beat file monitoring by splitting the file or files into two or more separate files with some other transform required to be able to compile the original file.
Try looking for a hash key when you can't even tell what your looking for has been sent.
Strange but in practice I have found that if you make standards based web pages you can largely group opera konquerer firefox safari ect into the group with no problems and then IE into a second group of has varying issues depending on version.
I have seen problems displaying javadocs in firefox which seems related to a skype plugin in firefox(3.0.3, 3.0.6) and about a month ago ebay.co.uk 's home page locked up ie6 and 7 on Xp (admittedly that page when submitted for testing came up with 600+ errors and over 1100 warnings) Firefox handled the page fine.
I think if you talk to people who build sites that IE in its various versions is what causes the most problems for a sites design. As a positive note IE gets better with each release. So if your paying for a site to be built ensure that it is standards compliant and eventually there will be little need for a separate css page specifically for ie quirks.
Quite interesting for the slashdot readers who go fishing.
Worms are an excellent natural bait and tend to attract bigger fish than other baits.
Also unlike maggots they don't stink after a few days.
Also worms are excellent at composting food waste which would tend to be thrown out in the trash, which goes into landfill.
The compost is an excellent food source for your plants which gives you a nicer garden without spending money out on chemical fertilizers and the worms will improve your soil quality.
And you can do all this for next to no money. It's all quite positive stuff and outside isn't a bad place to be, fresh air, mild exercise is good for you.
Interesting ?
Funny thing that, people that buy stuff think they pay what something is worth. yet people who sell stuff sell it for what they think they can get.
There are easier ways to fix a ballot, set the boundaries so that seats you lose you lose badly taking opposition votes away from neighboring districts you can win.
make your opponents voters ineligible to vote and or ensure that long delays occur in opposition strongholds.
you don't need to rig or tamper votes cast provided you ensure your oppositions supporters never get to the ballet box where it matters.
Imagine the frustration of being able to vote in a district where your preferred candidate has a majority of over 50,000 while in other area's 30,000 votes allows the other party to take the seat with a slim majority.
yes perhaps its possible to rig electronic voting machines but then for that to matter you need a fair voting system in the first place.
While not disparaging McCain and what he endured as a POW, he isn't Stephen Hawking either (as a fairly extreme example).
There are options open to disabled computer users. The more likely reason is its technology he never grew up with and has no interest in pursuing. If you don't like computers hate the unknown and have battled a PC and lost (hours of work) why bother.
usually by pressing a sequence of buttons on the dvd players remote.
many if not most dvd players seem to have multi-region firmware just hidden away from the user.
An alternative you might consider is to get hold of a region2 player basic ones tend to be cheaper than some DVD titles.
I am fairly certain there is a lot more of Top gear available in the UK surprising its not on TV in the USA ,I've even seen it on Polish tv.
I'm not a fan of region encoding by any stretch of the imagination
easy solution is download a torrent and forget about it. Isn't that what usually happens.
or if you insist on doing it the hard way go to the top gear website and moan about it. the more people who do the more likely it is someone will get a clue there is a market for this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7658182.stm
heres the newsnight story about the voting manipulation
it seems to do quite well for results but the interface is terrible on a small screen. useless crap on the page when i am trying to look at the results. I don't
mind having to scroll up and down to see more results currently its like trying to look at a room through a letterbox. the results window needs to be bigger.
I don't mind the additions and suggestions dotted round the side before i search after they need to be moved or removed underneath would be ok.
I also couldn't find a way to open the results it would be preferable to open a link to the actual page in fact open several pages even.
The colors had no meaning to me I need to know what i am looking at.
if the colors classify the results as type e.g blogs forums wiki commercial vendor ect. i'd like a key to the colors.
biggest issue really was being unable to get at the results in any useful way.
one part sentence seemed to be all i could see.
on the otherhand the core idea looks good.
A pet hate of mine with google is the inability to seperate a search for a product from a search for information about a product also no way to filter out all the agregation sites which just say you can buy x here here and here and often x is y and not what i am looking for.
search is promising , results awful.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-Gear-Box-Jeremy-Clarkson/dp/B000GYHZ1W
Top Gear is available if you look for it.
Still doesnt make take down notices for harmless video's any less anal. If anything old music tends to see an increase in sales due to getting some exposure, it has happened repeatedly.
In this case the music belongs to universal, prince isn't losing anything, he lost it before to universal isn't that why he changed his name.
where should things go next, nike ordering a take down because a nike logo is visible, or perhaps mcdonalds doesn't like being compared to burger king and they issue a takedown notice.
Or the olympic committee ... hmm been there already.
There is very little anyone can do to fight back, however the kind of person who makes these kind of decisions is barely human and loathed by everyone who knows them anyway.
yes forums and message boards are far better, but who is going to tell them that. Getting good info from irc isn't easy particularly in a big channel. However if you make a channel say ubuntunewbies or something and moderate it fairly strictly
you have the makings of a useful resource.
Even if its just to have a few useful url's in the channel topic.
Well Interest depends on the reader and I found the journal entries interesting far more so than this article.
I did have the white flashes once that he talked about, I had just been hit on the temple with a beer bottle by my then girlfriend.
long time ago now, you've got to love a woman with a temper
In America this is true but not in the UK for example where the TV guide is part of the transmission and gives 2 weeks of programming information. It's extremely easy to capture every episode in a series, too easy in fact.
Why can't American Broadcasts carry the same information? Maybe you should ask the FCC.
By the looks of what I saw on Newsnight (bbc2 uk)
America doesn't need to tamper with actual votes cast when they can disenfranchise the people eligible to vote.
from simple issues like the availability of the voting machines a 15 minute wait in a white area and a 4 hour wait in a black area, to changing the law requiring photo id which sounds like a good thing until you find out that 1 in 10 americans doesn't have a driving license or a passport and that rises to 1 in 5 in some black area's.
yes it's possible that 20% of potential voters can't just on the basis of the new laws that have been introduced.
It's not even just one party pulling stunts like this it's both. How about voters being disallowed from voting because of their homes being foreclosed or votes not being counted due to the ballots being issued without envelopes and then disallowed because they don't have the correct envelope. These were just some of the issues raised on the program.
It's quite sickening, but from an outside view point it seems that the people that do get the chance to the vote have to choose between the lesser of two evils. Obama seems to be a better choice than McCain but has America matured enough to not vote based on color? it's only been 40 years since that famous kiss in startrek also the same year of the black power salute at the olympics.
"At that time for instance New York City Athletics Club â" happy to see world-class black athletes run around their running track â" barred blacks â" and also Jews â" from membership of the club."
http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2008/08/25/standing-freedom-black-power-salute-1968-olympics
I do wonder if enough white Americans are mature enough to accept a black president, when you see the nigger trolls here on slashdot you can't help but wonder if its a very small percentage or a much larger group who wouldn't admit to racism but would choose McCain because he is white.
In the UK I see the public face of everyone is equal,contrasting strongly with the views of some ordinary people, its still a very xenophobic island.
My own country isn't free of this vote rigging either when the Poll Tax was introduced a lot of people didn't register to vote (millions) since it would help lead to them getting tracked down and convicted for nonpayment. Prior to the Poll Tax, rates were charged which the landlord paid via the income from the rent that was paid, after the poll tax was introduced it then was applied to everyone regardless. Theres still a charge council tax but it is per home now and it's still not exactly a brilliant system. Even the national census missed a lot of people (who were not exactly keen on letting the government know where they were).
http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2008/08/25/standing-freedom-black-power-salute-1968-olympics
So while we can debate on here the accuracy and accountability of the voting machines it's really ignoring the very real issue of Americans (in the case of this up coming election) being able to exercise the right to vote.
The American Presidential Election is of worldwide interest right now. The current financial mess is causing problems everywhere. With two realistic choices it really is a choice of the lesser of two evils and enlightened self interest. Good luck with that choice.
2000 still is the probably the best OS Microsoft brought out, light weight and generally compatible with most windows software, the perfect guest undemanding of the host.
XP would run pretty much the same software but demand more resources.
Thats more than just a little incompetent on the part of Dell, I am wondering why they didn't ask cannonical for help in tailoring ubuntu so it did all work out of the box.
I would love to see an interview with Mark Shuttleworth and a few probing questions put to him about why this is occuring and why ubuntu isn't being installed by default on netbooks.
I wouldn't be surprised if cannonical havent been asked.
To be frank all the netbooks all come with dreadful operating systems (that I know of).
However Ubuntu installs quite nicely on the EEE and The Aspire One. What I don't really understand is why it isn't tweaked and installed by default.
There needs to be something like a bootcamp video setup for these netbooks
A basic explanation of what Linux is all about, whats available, an introduction to the repositories, Virtualbox would be worth a mention too and the places you can go to get help. Nothing too long, but plenty of resources available for further investigation. At Uni we had informaniacs who were around to help out freshers. Why can't these Netbooks be setup with irc and auto joining a help channel by default. A nice clear icon with do not panic click here for live help or something similar.
There is no reason why community based help can't be offered at the start.
I guess really the vendors are hoping people will buy a netbook and a laptop but surely Ubuntu or Suse or Debian or fedora ect could be offering a simple download to setup a system such as the EEE or Aspire ect. surely there are enough of these systems being bought to make it worth while.
Mint for the EEE is the best example so far but couldn't a script be set up to download the iso install to a usb stick and reboot and when the install is finished everything works.
There has to be a way of throwing a lifebelt to these new Linux users.
It doesn't need to keep you, your little brother, son , grandchild can all replace you.
you/we got older, but you still like the music you grew up with. The current generation likes what they are growing up with and they are rarely impressed with what you regard as an all time classic.
Interestingly some of what we liked 15 years or more ago we cringe when we hear it now, we must have liked it at some point or we wouldn't have bought it.
Actually i wasn't that keen on the stuff you were buying 15 years ago either but then i was buying music 25 years ago...