India in particular refuses to be the manufacturing center for the developed world
Correct. India refused to do that. Instead, that role was taken by China, which 30 years ago was poorer than India. Today, China is four times richer. China has much higher literacy, only a quarter as much infant mortality, a tenth as many underweight children, and is growing at more than twice the rate of India.
Yes, but at what cost to the environment, and to what was left of civil society following the Cultural Revolution? Some of the Chinese I know are starting to figure out that Mr Deng didn't necessarily mean that the ONLY good thing is to be rich...
I've been using Linux on the desktop for over 10 years. I've never had any problems. I'm able to do all the things I wanted to do. I've no headache with downloading drivers, failing security patches, antivirus software that makes my PC cripple as if it is a 20 years old PC that tries to run the latest software.
I just do whatever I need to do, and I do my work on my Linux desktop whenever I'm able to work from home. There is no problem with installing the latest development tools without getting nagged about licenses issues.
The year of the Linux desktop is already established. And even more, there is plenty of choice, and if you really want to keep running an outdated version of a distribution, what 'security' issues will you encounter by not upgrading?
Nope for me, and many others, Linux on the desktop is a long established fact.
I came here to say exactly the same thing.
You're probably right that Windows is the most sold operating system. But looking at the many cheap PC's out there that run Windows, they're aren't doing anything worthwhile. They just browse the internet and do some emails and stuff.
Most of which could be done just as easily using a tablet or phone.
Wait until Dad's having a heart attack and Mum can't ring the ambulance because her phone UI has changed again and she's too upset to be able to figure it out and THERE'S NO BLOODY TIME for that nonsense in any case.
OTOH... A Facebook without my 37-years-old cousin's incessant stream of junior-high-grade nigger and peepee jokes might be a Facebook I wasn't embarrassed to belong to.
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No, I hadn't noticed. Please provide some examples.
Vulcan wasn't actually destroyed... it was all just a bad dream.
Or so I keep telling myself.
Try watching Judgement at Nuremburg sometime, rather than Triumph of the Will.
That's an almost word-for-word quote from Hermann Göring. I trust this was intentional?
India in particular refuses to be the manufacturing center for the developed world
Correct. India refused to do that. Instead, that role was taken by China, which 30 years ago was poorer than India. Today, China is four times richer. China has much higher literacy, only a quarter as much infant mortality, a tenth as many underweight children, and is growing at more than twice the rate of India.
Yes, but at what cost to the environment, and to what was left of civil society following the Cultural Revolution? Some of the Chinese I know are starting to figure out that Mr Deng didn't necessarily mean that the ONLY good thing is to be rich...
HP Sauce is heaps better, trust me.
I was coming here to say the same thing. That's just weird.
It's an example of a code, pure and simple. (As opposed to a cipher.)
Live by the sword...
Okay, how 'bout if we all watch you do it first.
I've been using Linux on the desktop for over 10 years. I've never had any problems. I'm able to do all the things I wanted to do. I've no headache with downloading drivers, failing security patches, antivirus software that makes my PC cripple as if it is a 20 years old PC that tries to run the latest software.
I just do whatever I need to do, and I do my work on my Linux desktop whenever I'm able to work from home. There is no problem with installing the latest development tools without getting nagged about licenses issues.
The year of the Linux desktop is already established. And even more, there is plenty of choice, and if you really want to keep running an outdated version of a distribution, what 'security' issues will you encounter by not upgrading?
Nope for me, and many others, Linux on the desktop is a long established fact.
I came here to say exactly the same thing.
You're probably right that Windows is the most sold operating system. But looking at the many cheap PC's out there that run Windows, they're aren't doing anything worthwhile. They just browse the internet and do some emails and stuff.
Most of which could be done just as easily using a tablet or phone.
You wouldn't know irony if it came up from behind you and bit you on the keyster. Please don't use words you don't understand.
Been using a Samsung EVO 840 as the system drive in my desktop for about 18 months now. Fast as hell, and no hint of trouble so far.
There's apparently a blanket rule against using the court system to conduct fishing expeditions.
In fact, there are plenty of UIs for mail and other services that have changed hardly at all in a decade; just use those.
Would you be so kind as to name some? And please don't suggest that I try to teach my 78-year-old mother how to use pine. Thanks.
Wait until Dad's having a heart attack and Mum can't ring the ambulance because her phone UI has changed again and she's too upset to be able to figure it out and THERE'S NO BLOODY TIME for that nonsense in any case.
Hyperbolic enough for ya?
Where is this restaurant that serves free-range home-schooled beef? :)
Try explaining this to a parent approaching 80 who doesn't like it when you try to get him to learn new keyboard shortcuts.
Now we just need to think of a buzzword in "S" to prefix it with...
If you regard staying in touch with your family as a "chore", just say so--but don't use the medium as an excuse.
When you and they are oceans apart, having something that your mom, dad, or kid physically touched/made/wrote/sent can mean quite a lot to some of us.
A letter or postcard from Sweden takes 3 days to the US and 4 to Australia. And yes, I send them. (YMAPSMV.)
Yeah, normally I'd've run it by one of my Portuguese or Brazilian colleagues, but strike while the iron is hot and all that.
OTOH... A Facebook without my 37-years-old cousin's incessant stream of junior-high-grade nigger and peepee jokes might be a Facebook I wasn't embarrassed to belong to.
Nonononono... Once again you've failed to localise properly. Try this:
Vocês todos são vacas. Vacas dizer mú. MÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚ! MÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚ! Múúúúú vacas MÚÚÚÚÚ! Múúúú dizer as vacas. VOCÊ VACAS!!
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No fucking inverted interrogation or exclamation points.
Further proof that Slashdot is indeed mired in 1997 or thereabouts.