You are super pessimistic. There are more than 2 billion Linux machines out there and pretty much every Windows home user has a dinky little Linux based modem and firewall thingy for his desktop to hide behind. Linux devices are much more prevalent than Windows devices.
Windows is only dominant if you define the market segment so narrow that it is the only thing that fits...
In the days of yore, it was the girls that ran the telephone exchanges that served up the gossip. Nowadays people publish gossip themselves. The result is much the same though.
Exactly. Those companies will sell some IP addresses at a huuuuuuuuge profit.
IPV6 won't become wide spread before it hasn't been made properly backwards compatible with IPV4.
The USA doesn't really have privacy laws. Canada and a few other countries do. That is why it is always an argument in the USA - their laws are weak on privacy.
Hmm, every 49.5 days?
Actually, the BSOD screen saver is nice. It plays error screens from many different computers, including some really old things like Apple II and Commodore.
If only. He successfully set off a detonator. The explosives fortunately did not explode. I can explain why, but pretty soon they may get it right without my help.
I find the Gnome default with two task bars particularly annoying, since the modern trend is to have laptops with short and wide displays, putting vertical pixels at a premium. It seems that in another few years a typical laptop will have a display that is one pixel high and 10,000,000 pixels wide. Yes, the damn taskbar can be changed, but it is somewhat tricky.
Nautilus and most other file browsers also default to Icon view, which is fine if you have only about 5 files on your computer, which was probably true for Windows for Workgroups 3.1, but these days List view should be the default.
Note that this kind of thing has to be water proof so that it can be sanitized and should not have small pieces that can be swallowed and definitely no lead paint...
If you count iPhones which is an embedded device, then you should compare it against Linux embedded devices, of which there are more than 300 million made each year. If one counts ALL Linux devices then there are at least 1.5 billion Linux devices in use (300 million times a 5 year lifetime) - possibly more than 2 billion if you add desktops and servers. So Linux is actually by far the most popular OS ever.
Yup, pretty much every Windows machine sits behind a Linux router and cable or ADSL modem, so in pretty much every home, the number of Linux devices outnumber or at least equal the number of Windows machines.
Well, eight million requests - good grief. Maybe the police has an automated screen scraper tied to a moving map to follow a suspect in real time. Otherwise some copper must really bored and pressing Reload umpteen times a day.
Insecurity through stupidity is a common problem on Linux. The Ubuntu forums are full of users wailing that their machines got hacked after they installed FTP, SSH or VNC with a kewl four letter password.
One could argue that it is not the users, but rather the Ubuntu developers that are stupid by not configuring PAM to enforce password complexity by default, since it is not really a flaw in 'Linux' per se, but it could certainly be considered to be a dumb-ass flaw in the Ubuntu distribution.
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You are super pessimistic. There are more than 2 billion Linux machines out there and pretty much every Windows home user has a dinky little Linux based modem and firewall thingy for his desktop to hide behind. Linux devices are much more prevalent than Windows devices. Windows is only dominant if you define the market segment so narrow that it is the only thing that fits...
Hmm, I take it that you don't use a cell phone.
In the days of yore, it was the girls that ran the telephone exchanges that served up the gossip. Nowadays people publish gossip themselves. The result is much the same though.
Waaah, sniff... These poor over paid entertainers...
That good old little sand box thingy will likely be better and provide more educational value than any battery powered gadget.
Exactly. Those companies will sell some IP addresses at a huuuuuuuuge profit. IPV6 won't become wide spread before it hasn't been made properly backwards compatible with IPV4.
As O'l Archimedes said: Give me a place to stand and I'll weigh the moon for you.
The USA doesn't really have privacy laws. Canada and a few other countries do. That is why it is always an argument in the USA - their laws are weak on privacy.
Hmm, every 49.5 days? Actually, the BSOD screen saver is nice. It plays error screens from many different computers, including some really old things like Apple II and Commodore.
Maybe, if you want him to be a programmer, you should first teach him how to say: "Ya want fries wizzat?"
If only. He successfully set off a detonator. The explosives fortunately did not explode. I can explain why, but pretty soon they may get it right without my help.
I find the Gnome default with two task bars particularly annoying, since the modern trend is to have laptops with short and wide displays, putting vertical pixels at a premium. It seems that in another few years a typical laptop will have a display that is one pixel high and 10,000,000 pixels wide. Yes, the damn taskbar can be changed, but it is somewhat tricky.
Nautilus and most other file browsers also default to Icon view, which is fine if you have only about 5 files on your computer, which was probably true for Windows for Workgroups 3.1, but these days List view should be the default.
Hmm, I guess it is good news for China, since hundreds of millions of girls will need to be employed to wire these things up.
Note that this kind of thing has to be water proof so that it can be sanitized and should not have small pieces that can be swallowed and definitely no lead paint...
CD/DVD/etc have error correction already.
I get 48 to 88ms look-up times.
If you count iPhones which is an embedded device, then you should compare it against Linux embedded devices, of which there are more than 300 million made each year. If one counts ALL Linux devices then there are at least 1.5 billion Linux devices in use (300 million times a 5 year lifetime) - possibly more than 2 billion if you add desktops and servers. So Linux is actually by far the most popular OS ever.
Yup, pretty much every Windows machine sits behind a Linux router and cable or ADSL modem, so in pretty much every home, the number of Linux devices outnumber or at least equal the number of Windows machines.
Uhhmm, all religion is a scam.
Ewww, catholicism doesn't exactly have a good name either. The Catholic Church has been a war lusting, child molesting scam for almost 2000 years.
Well, eight million requests - good grief. Maybe the police has an automated screen scraper tied to a moving map to follow a suspect in real time. Otherwise some copper must really bored and pressing Reload umpteen times a day.
The fine money goes to the sovereign (also known as: state, crown or prince). In effect is will be used for the benefit of all citizens of the state.
Insecurity through stupidity is a common problem on Linux. The Ubuntu forums are full of users wailing that their machines got hacked after they installed FTP, SSH or VNC with a kewl four letter password. One could argue that it is not the users, but rather the Ubuntu developers that are stupid by not configuring PAM to enforce password complexity by default, since it is not really a flaw in 'Linux' per se, but it could certainly be considered to be a dumb-ass flaw in the Ubuntu distribution.
It has never been any different. The vast majority of the unwashed masses are stupid and superstitious. It is still true. Sad, really.