Everyone posting (at level 5 moderation) is making good points about how nuclear waste is minimal, that there are solutions and that burning coal releases radioactive materials too. What are these 'solutions' to nuclear waste? Is anyone aware that right now, and for the past decade, every single nuclear power plant in the US has their spent rod containment facilities to maximum? We've run out of temporary storage! So where is all the waste going?
I think OS X has a good model for a limited user. So we trust the sysadmin to not make the mistakes users might make... and the normal user is set up in a limited capacity. NOTHING can then get in. The user may have the ability to delete the files they created, etc., but without the ability to install anything, malware can't get a foothold. If it could get on there, there'd be problems... but it can't, not with out admin authorization.... and remember, we are trusting the admin.
AFA Vista is concerned... I'll believe it when I see it. If it has the security options available in OS X, then, even if it is a copy of Apple's inspiration (I'm not saying it is, but even if it is) then bravo Microsoft... its high time you got something right. Personally... I think they should put more effort into Singularity. Vista is really sounding like bloatware to me.
Who's charging for what? Windows Anti-spyware is a free download
my understanding is, the BETA is free... but eventually... they will charge for it. Its M$ standard proceedure.
but Microsoft is trying here to improve the security of Windows
I'm all for that!
And nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to release it for free download on their website either.
We will see whether they ultimately charge for it or not...
I do see where you are coming from though. Pretty much all of the security add-ons for Linux are free.
Thanks... whomever modded me a troll is a @$$. I'm not happy with Linux either, btw... If they would just standardize and get some decent documentation/support, I'd probably relent on their security issues... because at least its much more stable environment. At the moment... the only OS's that make ANY sense are Mac OS X, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD... the two most popular, Windows and GNU/Linux, are just surviving by momentum alone, and not by any inherent qualities that are "good" for home/office solutions. It's too bad most people seem to be lazy thinkers... just go with the status quo.... It doesn't have to be this way.
so... only idiots are at risk using Windows? I don't think so... (and lets leave your mom out of this... not a very nice thing to say about your own mother)
and at least Linus isn't charging for a solution to a problem brought on by his product!
In the corporate world... you've got your admins... it should at least be possible that they could make a users machine secure enough that the user, no matter how idiotic, couldn't possibly muck it up... but with Windows, this is a pipe dream. Are 4 lowsy apps really worth it (of course, I refer to Office... specifically, Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint -- the last defense of the Windows )? ITS CRAZY I TELL YOU!!
Don't forget that if Windows worked properly, you wouldn't even need anti-virus / anti-spyware! So their intention is to profit off their own inadequacies?!?!! Unfuckingbelievable. And the beta testers just playing right along... la la la... This is akin to hiring someone who is incompetant, incapable of completing a job due to being a complete screw up... and they then demand a raise because they to have to work the double duty of correcting their own screw ups... wtf? How is Microsoft even getting away with this??!!! Windows should have a mandatory product recall, just like cars... if it doesn't do what it's supposed to do... its broken. Send the stinking thing back.
1. filter gold out of bottle of Goldschlager
2. squish bits of gold together
3. accelerate squished gold to near light speeds ...
4. Profit!! ...
(methodology also works if you do the same as above but with the dusty remnants of your last bag)
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so... lets say you did that with that tiny amount of gold... but also did it with a gold brick... what's crazy that at some point along their trek to near light speeds, both amounts of gold will have the same mass (albeit at different velocities)... crazy.
I think this statement is too strong. It's not that it is not possible to move backwards in time... or, what I think you meant, for time to flow in the opposite direction, its just that no one has ever observed this to report it. Everything we know about physics (solid-state, at the macro level, at least) is perfectly valid whether time is flowing forward or backward. Watch a film backwards, and every event you observe (waves uncrashing, bombs un-exploding, etc.) has verifyable physical properties and is physically possible (though, I think, unprobable that a bomb could un-explode from millions of particles back into a single identifiable mass.)
For some reason, call it an compusion, very often whenever I spit, deficate, dispose of a mucus filled tissue, etc., I think briefly about the time symmetry of physics, and think how gross it will be if time starts moving backwards. Though, I wonder also what it would be like to unexperience things, unlearn things, unmeet people, and unpost at slashdot. I guess that is how Merlin lived, as the future was his past.
But a Google and Stanford directory search reveals that he is NOT A PROFESSOR (which he never claimed, Slashdotters just assumed). He is an "Affiliate", which probably means that he's an employee.
I don't really know what the guy does for the university, but if he ever taught classes there, he could be considered a professor. A Ph.D. does not a professor make; a Ph.D. is not nessesarily a professor, and a professor is not necessarily a Ph.D., if that's what you were thinking. Consider Professor Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), who never earned a Ph.D. (or even began work for one AFAIK), but not only taught for decades at the university level, but is most likely the foremost knowledgeable person regarding mythology. But a professor, technically, doesn't even need something as basic as a high school or even an elementary education. I'm not aware of any, but its possible that an entirely formally uneducated individual could have enough experience and knowledge to be able to teach at a university and be rightly considered a professor. I'll be this has happened, too (probably in Computer Science).
That suffering is somehow always evil and to be avoided.
I beg to differ with you... at least in the Judeo-Christian mythology, suffering is a quality of the good. If you didn't suffer, you would likely be evil, (though, in the much rarer cases, blessed).
AFAIK, Adobe never got beyond carbonization... (when Photoship 'thinks,' you still see the wristwatch (when launched, for example, you'll see the wristwatch unless you mouse over the photoshop launch window). I suppose a carbonized app is technically a native application on G3, G4, &G5 PowerPC's, but it was supposed to be a temporary solution for developers. We were expecting them to completely re-write their application (like Quark did). But they didn't. Bums.
I think this could be the opportunity for a Photoshop killer to arise. Photoshop, while I do not deny its power to do whatever I may need to do to an image, is getting long in the tooth. Yes, still a valid contender (obviously), but at this late version, hasn't anyone else noticed that it could use a re-design of its interface (which I think is almost clumsy now)? When I got CS2, the first thing I noticed, and applauded, was a key combo for "Image Size...". I've wanted that since v4!!! WTF took them so long?
Is there something that indicates to you that I doubted it? Is it because I used the word "myth?"
Contrary to popular belief, myth ~= falsehood.
But my point was that this is just what happened to Caesar. The Senate begged him to be emperor, and he forcefully rejected the idea... the citizens cheered for him to do so, and he says "no... no, really, I couldn't..." They ask him again and again... eventually, he softens and says "well... ok." The story serves to add to the mystery of "The Steve," which adds to the corporate mythology Apple (compare it to Ben Franklin, and the key, or Paul Revere and that cute poem, and the birth of the United States... different stories, but same types of story... its mythology whether its true or not). Of course Woolard relays it this way.
And a Leer Jet (with crew). And the taxes paid. And the taxes on the taxes paid. Apple ended up giving him a lot of money, but not just money; stuff worth lots and lots of money.
Jobs, who had been a consultant since late 1996 after Apple bought his NeXT Software, refused to take the CEO job at first
I'd heard this before, too. I thought this must be corp. myth, similar to the way Caesar refused to be emperor... each time he refused, he was less resistive to the idea.
45nm? I think I'll wait to upgrade until the second generation 11nm chips have got the all their bugs worked out in the 3rd quarter of 2010. Who wants to lug around a laptop big enough to house a freakishing large chip like the 45nm, or even the slightly smaller but still too big 23nm? Not I.
we will miss the AlteVec Velocity Engine and 64-bit full RISC processing, no doubts. Lets hope Intel designs something as useful as AlteVec developers can take advantage of, and gets Apple a 64-bit chip soon.
I'm no expert, but afaik hemp refers to using the plant for everything but smoking. You don't smoke hemp. Though, I guess, technically, they are the same thing, I don't think the plant was known as "marijuana" back in the day.
Bear in mind, there is no other reason to separate the male and female plants.
I've never read any actual historical document which indicated a frequency of use
probably because its not historically relevant, but also because if this was common knowledge, then the specious campeign against marijuana (in the 50's?) could not have occurred, and stigma would not have been attached. I'll bet there is historical references to this... however, it is likely kept secret by the Smithsonian or other government institutions. I can't site references, but I'm reasonably sure its well documented that Jefferson spent 4-6 hours a day in his study, alone, where he was not to be disturbed. What do you think he was doing?
here's an interesting resource : notable... Hemp was the primary crop grown by George Washington at Mount Vernon, and a secondary crop grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. Also... for a very very long time in American history (and pre-American history, from 1619), it was illegal for farmers not to grow hemp (I think until the first anti-hemp laws appeared in 1916!! That's nearly 300 years!).
For me, this historical information is a curiousity. However, the more I learn, the more it is clear that if a Supreme Court Justice could really honestly put himself in the mind-set of the framers of the US Constitution (drafted on hemp paper, btw), then all the new federal and existing state pot laws would be declared unconstitutional. I personally don' t think it should be sold like tobacco... but at the least it should be entirely decriminalized... and the government should stop wasting our tax money (millions upon millions of dollars, no doubt) on putting pot users in jail (some states require manditory minimum sentences for transporting as little as 5 lbs. into the state, with a max sentences of 40 years. Unfuckingbelievable.). The hypocracy here is sickening.
everyone else has taken offense to your drug abusing low life bit
Wow... I guess you're right. I don't mind clarifying, though... Coffee is not a drug. Caffeine is. Beer is not alcohol, it is a beverage with alcohol in it. Marijuana is not a drug, its a freaking plant. No one I've ever heard of was a "THC abuser." When I used "drug abusing low lifes," it was as a hyperbolic reference to an image everyone can relate to; I was really focusing on those that actually abuse (not use) drugs (not things with drugs in them) in such a way that it diminishes their lives and the lives of those around them: specifically, I was thinking of coke/crack heads and junkies. So if you use some plant to make you feel better, unless you've found a way to snort it or shoot it, really I am excluding you altogether. And to further avoid any pujalistic responces, let me say George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were not "drug abusing low lifes," yet they smoked an aweful lot of pot (by historical accounts, probably for hours and hours every single day).
Really brilliant people (not just scientifically, but in any discipline or industry) surround themselves with other brilliant people.
Actually... this is sort of a subset of another truth: you become the people with which you associate.
If you hang out with a bunch of drug abusing low-lifes, guess what? That's either what you are or what you are becoming. If you hang out with a bunch of very smart, technically oriented, socially inadept individuals, chances are you are a nerd.
Ironically, its not that you gravitate towards those of similar interest and mental capacities, necessarily, but more that circumstance has thrown you together with those that often times you must socially break free from (in order to find a more pregressive group) to advance yourself.
I read about this theory a very long time ago. It was advanced around the time of the theory that a comet killed the dinosaurs. What is interesting, is that mass extinctions seem to occur once every 26 million years or so... and if they are caused by comets... what could cause a comet to hit the Earth at such a regular period? If there was an as of yet undetected massive body that had a regular period of 26 million years, and during its period it gravitationally pulled objects from the Kuiper Belt... the Oort Cloud... and sent them hurtling towards the sun... that would increase the remote chance that one would hit the Earth. It sounds very reasonable... that a dim brown dwarf star (or pin-black-hole) could exist... and be so close astronomically, yet so difficult to detect. Right now... we are between mass extinctions... I think another is expected in about 10-13 million years.
A binary star system is FAR more common in our galaxy than a unary system... in fact... except for the Sol system, it is pretty much unheard of. It almost seems likely that we are in a binary system, and we just haven't realized it yet!
EFI is supposedly backwords compatible with BIOS... so even at first glance, it is likely that XP and all BIOS dependent Windows versions should work on Macs.
For Windows IT managers out there that are sick and tired of being sick and tired, running Windows on a Mac may help in the transition from an all Windows based office to all Mac. Granted... it is not ideal (nor do I think an 'ideal' exists). However, it will go a long way towards justification of a switch if there is no downside such as needing to retain some Windows boxes for legacy application after the switch.
I predict, though, that the Dell drones (and the like) will not find this anything more than a curiosity, and will not be able to take seriously the idea of switching platforms no matter how bad Windows has botched a situation. They are so ingrained in their problems they don't know it just doesn't have to be that way. Poor Bastards.
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Everyone posting (at level 5 moderation) is making good points about how nuclear waste is minimal, that there are solutions and that burning coal releases radioactive materials too. What are these 'solutions' to nuclear waste? Is anyone aware that right now, and for the past decade, every single nuclear power plant in the US has their spent rod containment facilities to maximum? We've run out of temporary storage! So where is all the waste going?
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I think OS X has a good model for a limited user. So we trust the sysadmin to not make the mistakes users might make... and the normal user is set up in a limited capacity. NOTHING can then get in. The user may have the ability to delete the files they created, etc., but without the ability to install anything, malware can't get a foothold. If it could get on there, there'd be problems... but it can't, not with out admin authorization.... and remember, we are trusting the admin.
AFA Vista is concerned... I'll believe it when I see it. If it has the security options available in OS X, then, even if it is a copy of Apple's inspiration (I'm not saying it is, but even if it is) then bravo Microsoft... its high time you got something right. Personally... I think they should put more effort into Singularity. Vista is really sounding like bloatware to me.
my understanding is, the BETA is free... but eventually... they will charge for it. Its M$ standard proceedure.
but Microsoft is trying here to improve the security of Windows
I'm all for that!
And nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to release it for free download on their website either.
We will see whether they ultimately charge for it or not...
I do see where you are coming from though. Pretty much all of the security add-ons for Linux are free.
Thanks... whomever modded me a troll is a @$$. I'm not happy with Linux either, btw... If they would just standardize and get some decent documentation/support, I'd probably relent on their security issues... because at least its much more stable environment. At the moment... the only OS's that make ANY sense are Mac OS X, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD... the two most popular, Windows and GNU/Linux, are just surviving by momentum alone, and not by any inherent qualities that are "good" for home/office solutions. It's too bad most people seem to be lazy thinkers... just go with the status quo.... It doesn't have to be this way.
so... only idiots are at risk using Windows? I don't think so... (and lets leave your mom out of this... not a very nice thing to say about your own mother)
and at least Linus isn't charging for a solution to a problem brought on by his product!
In the corporate world... you've got your admins... it should at least be possible that they could make a users machine secure enough that the user, no matter how idiotic, couldn't possibly muck it up... but with Windows, this is a pipe dream. Are 4 lowsy apps really worth it (of course, I refer to Office... specifically, Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint -- the last defense of the Windows )? ITS CRAZY I TELL YOU!!
Don't forget that if Windows worked properly, you wouldn't even need anti-virus / anti-spyware! So their intention is to profit off their own inadequacies?!?!! Unfuckingbelievable. And the beta testers just playing right along... la la la... This is akin to hiring someone who is incompetant, incapable of completing a job due to being a complete screw up... and they then demand a raise because they to have to work the double duty of correcting their own screw ups... wtf? How is Microsoft even getting away with this??!!! Windows should have a mandatory product recall, just like cars... if it doesn't do what it's supposed to do... its broken. Send the stinking thing back.
1. filter gold out of bottle of Goldschlager
...
...
2. squish bits of gold together
3. accelerate squished gold to near light speeds
4. Profit!!
(methodology also works if you do the same as above but with the dusty remnants of your last bag)
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so... lets say you did that with that tiny amount of gold... but also did it with a gold brick... what's crazy that at some point along their trek to near light speeds, both amounts of gold will have the same mass (albeit at different velocities)... crazy.
whatever, troll. Point is, Adobe is lazy, Photoshop needs an interface redesign. its... what now?... 20 years old? And (Acrobat needs to be be cocoa.)
it is not possible to move backwards in time
I think this statement is too strong. It's not that it is not possible to move backwards in time... or, what I think you meant, for time to flow in the opposite direction, its just that no one has ever observed this to report it. Everything we know about physics (solid-state, at the macro level, at least) is perfectly valid whether time is flowing forward or backward. Watch a film backwards, and every event you observe (waves uncrashing, bombs un-exploding, etc.) has verifyable physical properties and is physically possible (though, I think, unprobable that a bomb could un-explode from millions of particles back into a single identifiable mass.)
For some reason, call it an compusion, very often whenever I spit, deficate, dispose of a mucus filled tissue, etc., I think briefly about the time symmetry of physics, and think how gross it will be if time starts moving backwards. Though, I wonder also what it would be like to unexperience things, unlearn things, unmeet people, and unpost at slashdot. I guess that is how Merlin lived, as the future was his past.
But a Google and Stanford directory search reveals that he is NOT A PROFESSOR (which he never claimed, Slashdotters just assumed). He is an "Affiliate", which probably means that he's an employee.
I don't really know what the guy does for the university, but if he ever taught classes there, he could be considered a professor. A Ph.D. does not a professor make; a Ph.D. is not nessesarily a professor, and a professor is not necessarily a Ph.D., if that's what you were thinking. Consider Professor Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), who never earned a Ph.D. (or even began work for one AFAIK), but not only taught for decades at the university level, but is most likely the foremost knowledgeable person regarding mythology. But a professor, technically, doesn't even need something as basic as a high school or even an elementary education. I'm not aware of any, but its possible that an entirely formally uneducated individual could have enough experience and knowledge to be able to teach at a university and be rightly considered a professor. I'll be this has happened, too (probably in Computer Science).
That suffering is somehow always evil and to be avoided.
I beg to differ with you... at least in the Judeo-Christian mythology, suffering is a quality of the good. If you didn't suffer, you would likely be evil, (though, in the much rarer cases, blessed).
Photoshop CS2 is a 32-bit application.
AFAIK, Adobe never got beyond carbonization... (when Photoship 'thinks,' you still see the wristwatch (when launched, for example, you'll see the wristwatch unless you mouse over the photoshop launch window). I suppose a carbonized app is technically a native application on G3, G4, &G5 PowerPC's, but it was supposed to be a temporary solution for developers. We were expecting them to completely re-write their application (like Quark did). But they didn't. Bums.
I think this could be the opportunity for a Photoshop killer to arise. Photoshop, while I do not deny its power to do whatever I may need to do to an image, is getting long in the tooth. Yes, still a valid contender (obviously), but at this late version, hasn't anyone else noticed that it could use a re-design of its interface (which I think is almost clumsy now)? When I got CS2, the first thing I noticed, and applauded, was a key combo for "Image Size...". I've wanted that since v4!!! WTF took them so long?
Easy. Einsteins theories only say that traveling as fast as light is impossible (unless mass = 0)... but from someones vantage point, particles that are always traveling faster than light could exist...
I thank you for the correction... its all very fuzzy in my memory.
Is there something that indicates to you that I doubted it? Is it because I used the word "myth?"
Contrary to popular belief, myth ~= falsehood.
But my point was that this is just what happened to Caesar. The Senate begged him to be emperor, and he forcefully rejected the idea... the citizens cheered for him to do so, and he says "no... no, really, I couldn't..." They ask him again and again... eventually, he softens and says "well... ok." The story serves to add to the mystery of "The Steve," which adds to the corporate mythology Apple (compare it to Ben Franklin, and the key, or Paul Revere and that cute poem, and the birth of the United States... different stories, but same types of story... its mythology whether its true or not). Of course Woolard relays it this way.
And a Leer Jet (with crew). And the taxes paid. And the taxes on the taxes paid. Apple ended up giving him a lot of money, but not just money; stuff worth lots and lots of money.
I'd heard this before, too. I thought this must be corp. myth, similar to the way Caesar refused to be emperor... each time he refused, he was less resistive to the idea.
45nm? I think I'll wait to upgrade until the second generation 11nm chips have got the all their bugs worked out in the 3rd quarter of 2010. Who wants to lug around a laptop big enough to house a freakishing large chip like the 45nm, or even the slightly smaller but still too big 23nm? Not I.
we will miss the AlteVec Velocity Engine and 64-bit full RISC processing, no doubts. Lets hope Intel designs something as useful as AlteVec developers can take advantage of, and gets Apple a 64-bit chip soon.
I'm no expert, but afaik hemp refers to using the plant for everything but smoking. You don't smoke hemp. Though, I guess, technically, they are the same thing, I don't think the plant was known as "marijuana" back in the day.
Washington made specific written references to Indian hemp, or cannabis indica, and hoped to "have disseminated the seed to others. " His August 7, 1765 diary entry, "began to separate the male from the female (hemp) plants," describes a harvesting technique favored to enhance the potency of smoking cannabis, among other reasons.
Bear in mind, there is no other reason to separate the male and female plants.
I've never read any actual historical document which indicated a frequency of use
probably because its not historically relevant, but also because if this was common knowledge, then the specious campeign against marijuana (in the 50's?) could not have occurred, and stigma would not have been attached. I'll bet there is historical references to this... however, it is likely kept secret by the Smithsonian or other government institutions. I can't site references, but I'm reasonably sure its well documented that Jefferson spent 4-6 hours a day in his study, alone, where he was not to be disturbed. What do you think he was doing? here's an interesting resource : notable... Hemp was the primary crop grown by George Washington at Mount Vernon, and a secondary crop grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. Also... for a very very long time in American history (and pre-American history, from 1619), it was illegal for farmers not to grow hemp (I think until the first anti-hemp laws appeared in 1916!! That's nearly 300 years!).
For me, this historical information is a curiousity. However, the more I learn, the more it is clear that if a Supreme Court Justice could really honestly put himself in the mind-set of the framers of the US Constitution (drafted on hemp paper, btw), then all the new federal and existing state pot laws would be declared unconstitutional. I personally don' t think it should be sold like tobacco... but at the least it should be entirely decriminalized... and the government should stop wasting our tax money (millions upon millions of dollars, no doubt) on putting pot users in jail (some states require manditory minimum sentences for transporting as little as 5 lbs. into the state, with a max sentences of 40 years. Unfuckingbelievable.). The hypocracy here is sickening.
Wow... I guess you're right. I don't mind clarifying, though... Coffee is not a drug. Caffeine is. Beer is not alcohol, it is a beverage with alcohol in it. Marijuana is not a drug, its a freaking plant. No one I've ever heard of was a "THC abuser." When I used "drug abusing low lifes," it was as a hyperbolic reference to an image everyone can relate to; I was really focusing on those that actually abuse (not use) drugs (not things with drugs in them) in such a way that it diminishes their lives and the lives of those around them: specifically, I was thinking of coke/crack heads and junkies. So if you use some plant to make you feel better, unless you've found a way to snort it or shoot it, really I am excluding you altogether. And to further avoid any pujalistic responces, let me say George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were not "drug abusing low lifes," yet they smoked an aweful lot of pot (by historical accounts, probably for hours and hours every single day).
Actually... this is sort of a subset of another truth: you become the people with which you associate.
If you hang out with a bunch of drug abusing low-lifes, guess what? That's either what you are or what you are becoming. If you hang out with a bunch of very smart, technically oriented, socially inadept individuals, chances are you are a nerd.
Ironically, its not that you gravitate towards those of similar interest and mental capacities, necessarily, but more that circumstance has thrown you together with those that often times you must socially break free from (in order to find a more pregressive group) to advance yourself.
I read about this theory a very long time ago. It was advanced around the time of the theory that a comet killed the dinosaurs. What is interesting, is that mass extinctions seem to occur once every 26 million years or so... and if they are caused by comets... what could cause a comet to hit the Earth at such a regular period? If there was an as of yet undetected massive body that had a regular period of 26 million years, and during its period it gravitationally pulled objects from the Kuiper Belt... the Oort Cloud... and sent them hurtling towards the sun... that would increase the remote chance that one would hit the Earth. It sounds very reasonable... that a dim brown dwarf star (or pin-black-hole) could exist... and be so close astronomically, yet so difficult to detect. Right now... we are between mass extinctions... I think another is expected in about 10-13 million years.
A binary star system is FAR more common in our galaxy than a unary system... in fact... except for the Sol system, it is pretty much unheard of. It almost seems likely that we are in a binary system, and we just haven't realized it yet!
EFI is supposedly backwords compatible with BIOS... so even at first glance, it is likely that XP and all BIOS dependent Windows versions should work on Macs.
For Windows IT managers out there that are sick and tired of being sick and tired, running Windows on a Mac may help in the transition from an all Windows based office to all Mac. Granted... it is not ideal (nor do I think an 'ideal' exists). However, it will go a long way towards justification of a switch if there is no downside such as needing to retain some Windows boxes for legacy application after the switch.
I predict, though, that the Dell drones (and the like) will not find this anything more than a curiosity, and will not be able to take seriously the idea of switching platforms no matter how bad Windows has botched a situation. They are so ingrained in their problems they don't know it just doesn't have to be that way. Poor Bastards.