Seeing as the french national brand of humour is based on making fun of the misfortunes of others, everything you have said so far is completely null and void. Any frenchman I know, and I know quite a few, seeing as I live there, would laugh at the comments about them being the bombers, not be offended by them. I reckon you are just depressed by all the snow you have in your part of 'North America' in the winter. Or maybe it's because of the job you have: splitting hairs. Go and eat a chien chaud. It'll warm the cockles of your heart.:-)
Flawed example, I am afraid. In a boxing tournament there _has_ to be a winner. Not so with evolution. Therefore the odd are truly high, not lowered by the fact that all the boxers have been through several fights aswell as the winner. In your example, the boxers on the fourth round have all fought four times before getting to that point. In evolution there is absolutely no relation between the different 'fights' , and there is no guarantee that anything will either survive or adapt.
Yeah, in France, where I live, lots and lots of people, primarily among the student population, are moving over to Linux. The others usually have a cracked version of Windows, or the low-cost OEM version that came with the PC. But no one I know _buys_ an upgrade. So yes, I think the upgrade cycle is going west. But hey, time will tell.:-)
"Since most of the viruses tarketing MS OS's, are written on LINUX systems"
Of course they are, the guys don't want to getinfected by their own code....
Do you know why that is? I worked it out after a couple of deceptions. It's because they all talk to each other by nick, and so tend to ignore the other messages. I myself have my irc app set to highlight messages with my nick in them....
I think the thing is that most users buy/get a OS, be it M$, Apple, or *nix, and then do what they want with it. Now this, for some/most slashdotters, includes finding out how the OS in question works, which in turn includes updating, protecting, etc. But for Mr L.User, it just means installing such and such a game, a messaging program etc, and using them for their designated purpose. Full stop. They don't want, and indeed won't care about programs telling them to update their A/V, Firewall, if indeed they have one.
And that's where Apple have got it right, in using a secure (as far as possible) system, which you don't have to configure beyond a strict minimum, because that is not the user's job for heaven's sake. Why should someone, who doesnt understand or like computers but needs one, be forced to then have to spend half their time configuring and securing it? That should be the developers job, preferably before the end-user gets anywhere near it.
Software is usually beta-tested by users who know what they are about, shouldn't OS's be the same?
You know what they say about that? War on Terrorism: France, keeping in mind its recent history, surrenders to Germans... Try this or just type 'french military victories' in google (no quotes) an click "i'm feeling lucky"
It is hardly about him really, I mean he's not the only one liable to get cancer, is he? In any case it somehow seems more useful to try to help cure cancer, which we know exists, than try to find aliens, which probably don't anyway...
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Seeing as the french national brand of humour is based on making fun of the misfortunes of others, everything you have said so far is completely null and void. Any frenchman I know, and I know quite a few, seeing as I live there, would laugh at the comments about them being the bombers, not be offended by them. I reckon you are just depressed by all the snow you have in your part of 'North America' in the winter. Or maybe it's because of the job you have: splitting hairs. Go and eat a chien chaud. It'll warm the cockles of your heart. :-)
Yup. I'm on a 20Mbps one in France :-)
Flawed example, I am afraid. In a boxing tournament there _has_ to be a winner. Not so with evolution. Therefore the odd are truly high, not lowered by the fact that all the boxers have been through several fights aswell as the winner. In your example, the boxers on the fourth round have all fought four times before getting to that point. In evolution there is absolutely no relation between the different 'fights' , and there is no guarantee that anything will either survive or adapt.
Yeah, in France, where I live, lots and lots of people, primarily among the student population, are moving over to Linux. The others usually have a cracked version of Windows, or the low-cost OEM version that came with the PC. But no one I know _buys_ an upgrade. So yes, I think the upgrade cycle is going west. But hey, time will tell. :-)
'full featured OS with a highly polished GUI'
You mean Linux I presume.
"Since most of the viruses tarketing MS OS's, are written on LINUX systems" Of course they are, the guys don't want to getinfected by their own code....
"Shouldn't all you ANTI-MS geeks REPLACE all your windows with STEEL ARMOR PLATES to avoid getting burgled?"
If the house happens to be a bank, or a governemental institution, then yes, quite possibly.
Do you know why that is? I worked it out after a couple of deceptions. It's because they all talk to each other by nick, and so tend to ignore the other messages. I myself have my irc app set to highlight messages with my nick in them....
Anyway, good luck with gentoo, i find it's cool
I think the thing is that most users buy/get a OS, be it M$, Apple, or *nix, and then do what they want with it. Now this, for some/most slashdotters, includes finding out how the OS in question works, which in turn includes updating, protecting, etc. But for Mr L.User, it just means installing such and such a game, a messaging program etc, and using them for their designated purpose. Full stop. They don't want, and indeed won't care about programs telling them to update their A/V, Firewall, if indeed they have one. And that's where Apple have got it right, in using a secure (as far as possible) system, which you don't have to configure beyond a strict minimum, because that is not the user's job for heaven's sake. Why should someone, who doesnt understand or like computers but needs one, be forced to then have to spend half their time configuring and securing it? That should be the developers job, preferably before the end-user gets anywhere near it.
Software is usually beta-tested by users who know what they are about, shouldn't OS's be the same?
Hear hear Sir
You know what they say about that?
War on Terrorism: France, keeping in mind its recent history, surrenders to Germans...
Try this or just type 'french military victories' in google (no quotes) an click "i'm feeling lucky"
so ner
It is hardly about him really, I mean he's not the only one liable to get cancer, is he? In any case it somehow seems more useful to try to help cure cancer, which we know exists, than try to find aliens, which probably don't anyway...