"On August 20, 1940, Trotsky was attacked in his home in Mexico by a NKVD agent, Ramón Mercader, who buried the pick of an ice axe into Trotsky's skull."
That sounds like a piercing headache to me.
On top of what wakingrufus said, it seriously is possible to do almost everything even a power user would want to do in a GUI. In some cases, using a CLI is actually more difficult. Ever try to connect to a wireless network in a terminal? It's a pain in the ass in my experience, almost always.
Chances are a security update won't break your setup, it's entirely possible to update a linux system without breaking most major things. If you can live with not running the most current kernel, not having the newest drivers, and basically not running a bleeding edge desktop you should in most cases be find. This is not always the case, but speaking as someone who's been running linux for a while now and who's tried everything from a bleeding edge system to a less updated system, if you can live without the newest updates for something that aren't for security reasons, do it. Hell, I'd be willing to say that applies with any OS.
Not to mention that sometimes the newest versions of things just suck compared to their previous ones. I'm looking at you, Amarok developers.
Assuming ubuntu (considering that's what was discussed before), pulseaudio or possibly alsa-base. I recently had some major issues with my sound on ubuntu, and they were fixed by doing sudo apt-get purge alsa-base pulseaudio && sudo apt-get install pulseaudio alsa-base and installing some packages suggested in this guide.
Yet another great literary work of art from Mrs. Keller. This one belongs right up there next to, "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
The point I was making was a critique of windows 98 compared to current Linux distributions, not just visually but all around they are easier to use.
By the way, have you ever heard of Damn Small Linux? It's about 50mb in size, and is able to run completely on the RAM (As far as I know) of a machine. Apparently it runs great on older machines, and I myself have played around with it. It's usable, although it would probably require some customization.
Give them two options. Use windows, but don't call me when it breaks, or use linux, and you won't have to worry about it breaking.
Windows has failed on me more then enough times, in fact currently I'm typing this out on a laptop that came installed with windows, suddenly failed, and I installed Ubuntu on the hard drive in a separate partition until I could get an install CD to properly fix it (It didn't come with one, didn't bother to get one at first, long story when the details are added in.)
However I've had more then enough issues with Linux, mostly hardware and all of which solvable once I invested the time. But implying that Linux never breaks is well, stupid. Even in a "perfect" Operating System, user input can fuck it up. Sit an idiot in front of a computer that's "unbreakable" and they will find a way.
What kind of crappy computers have you seen it run on? The ones my school has it running on work fine. However, yes, it is easy to figure how how to get around if you know how to do a google search.
..And then we woke up.
Unfortunately.
Honestly though, that would probably be both a good and a bad thing for Firefox.
Just like with IE, it would give some people more reason to test and examine the Firefox code for bugs and such that could be used for malicious means, of course then again with the rate that the Firefox Dev team puts out patches any found problems wouldn't cause too much damage.
It all depends. People who's body doesn't properly produce a certain drug or chemical, Diabetics for instance, is only made stronger. However in some cases, such as antidepressants, the body becomes dependent on the drug. Life or death dependence on something is a weakness. And, in some cases, such as antibiotics, too much only makes the enemy stronger.
So, yes, in some cases, drugs and chemicals make us weaker.
So what, you have a problem with being gay, or porn?
If you have an issure with being gay I suggest you take your own advice, negetive feelings towards someone because they are "different" just make our world an even worse place.
Please keep in mind this is only an assumption and the chances of me being wrong are high, but it could be that it's an alternate theory that just isn't as "popular" or "cool". Everyone knows what a black hole is, hell they are even a little more exciting then MECO's from what I can tell. What's sounds better? A supermassive lump that has an electromagnetic field, or a hole in space that sucks everything it can into it and whatever goes inside disappears forever (Or possibly comes out some other end, acting like some sort of portal)? To my ears, black holes seem more "fun" to teach.
I've been using rockbox on my Nano for the past month or so, and I don't understand the complaints of it being difficult to use. Yes, it may be far from elegant, but it is set up in a simple file tree. I am only speaking for the iPod, but it's not that hard to figure out that selecting a song starts it playing and the basic marked controls on the iPod's wheel control playback.
Wouldn't the wingspans needed to support even a light payload with flapping wings be too large for the cellophane wing to even support it's own weight?
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I think it should be called a scrapple. Even though scrapple has nothing to do with apples.
"On August 20, 1940, Trotsky was attacked in his home in Mexico by a NKVD agent, Ramón Mercader, who buried the pick of an ice axe into Trotsky's skull." That sounds like a piercing headache to me.
PROTIP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key For the lazy: Just do right alt+SysRq+k
On top of what wakingrufus said, it seriously is possible to do almost everything even a power user would want to do in a GUI. In some cases, using a CLI is actually more difficult. Ever try to connect to a wireless network in a terminal? It's a pain in the ass in my experience, almost always.
Chances are a security update won't break your setup, it's entirely possible to update a linux system without breaking most major things. If you can live with not running the most current kernel, not having the newest drivers, and basically not running a bleeding edge desktop you should in most cases be find. This is not always the case, but speaking as someone who's been running linux for a while now and who's tried everything from a bleeding edge system to a less updated system, if you can live without the newest updates for something that aren't for security reasons, do it. Hell, I'd be willing to say that applies with any OS. Not to mention that sometimes the newest versions of things just suck compared to their previous ones. I'm looking at you, Amarok developers.
Assuming ubuntu (considering that's what was discussed before), pulseaudio or possibly alsa-base. I recently had some major issues with my sound on ubuntu, and they were fixed by doing sudo apt-get purge alsa-base pulseaudio && sudo apt-get install pulseaudio alsa-base and installing some packages suggested in this guide.
Just because you can't find something on the internet, it doesn't mean it isn't there.
Yet another great literary work of art from Mrs. Keller. This one belongs right up there next to, "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
It's slang, he's talking about playing the guitar.
Offtopic? No one else sees the joke in this?
Sorry man, if I had mod points I'd give you a +1 funny.
The point I was making was a critique of windows 98 compared to current Linux distributions, not just visually but all around they are easier to use. By the way, have you ever heard of Damn Small Linux? It's about 50mb in size, and is able to run completely on the RAM (As far as I know) of a machine. Apparently it runs great on older machines, and I myself have played around with it. It's usable, although it would probably require some customization.
However I've had more then enough issues with Linux, mostly hardware and all of which solvable once I invested the time. But implying that Linux never breaks is well, stupid. Even in a "perfect" Operating System, user input can fuck it up. Sit an idiot in front of a computer that's "unbreakable" and they will find a way.
What kind of crappy computers have you seen it run on? The ones my school has it running on work fine. However, yes, it is easy to figure how how to get around if you know how to do a google search.
And that's what I get for not using the preview button :D
Ah well, link is still there.
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Not exactly what you describe, but it will fix your memory problem.
..And then we woke up. Unfortunately. Honestly though, that would probably be both a good and a bad thing for Firefox. Just like with IE, it would give some people more reason to test and examine the Firefox code for bugs and such that could be used for malicious means, of course then again with the rate that the Firefox Dev team puts out patches any found problems wouldn't cause too much damage.
Hey man, I didn't write that part. Don't look at me.
It all depends. People who's body doesn't properly produce a certain drug or chemical, Diabetics for instance, is only made stronger. However in some cases, such as antidepressants, the body becomes dependent on the drug. Life or death dependence on something is a weakness.
And, in some cases, such as antibiotics, too much only makes the enemy stronger.
So, yes, in some cases, drugs and chemicals make us weaker.
So what, you have a problem with being gay, or porn? If you have an issure with being gay I suggest you take your own advice, negetive feelings towards someone because they are "different" just make our world an even worse place.
Please keep in mind this is only an assumption and the chances of me being wrong are high, but it could be that it's an alternate theory that just isn't as "popular" or "cool". Everyone knows what a black hole is, hell they are even a little more exciting then MECO's from what I can tell. What's sounds better? A supermassive lump that has an electromagnetic field, or a hole in space that sucks everything it can into it and whatever goes inside disappears forever (Or possibly comes out some other end, acting like some sort of portal)?
To my ears, black holes seem more "fun" to teach.
I've been using rockbox on my Nano for the past month or so, and I don't understand the complaints of it being difficult to use. Yes, it may be far from elegant, but it is set up in a simple file tree. I am only speaking for the iPod, but it's not that hard to figure out that selecting a song starts it playing and the basic marked controls on the iPod's wheel control playback.
Wouldn't the wingspans needed to support even a light payload with flapping wings be too large for the cellophane wing to even support it's own weight?
This is all well and good, but everyone knows it's turtles holding up everything. In fact it's turtles all the way down!