I'll also add, most people don't buy computers that often (once every 4-5 years from some quick google searching). I don't know a single person besides myself and other administrative folks that have ever purchased an OS upgrade or purchased an OS outright with the purposes of replacing an existing OS. People use the OS that came on their computer when they bought it. A yearly cycle, even a three year cycle is just stupid fast for what consumers are doing.

Nobody cares about Microsoft's release schedules, and XP had 5 years of un-touched release time which you appear to have omitted. There are still millions of people happily chugging along with Windows XP. Just because Microsoft decides to speed up their release schedule does not actually mean it is a good thing or useful to anyone but their own corporate profits. What features in the newer versions of Windows is it that you just can't live without? The only interface of concern for every normal computer user (not the slashdot crowd or extreme gamer enthusiast) is their web browser. Nothing else. I will go ahead and restate it, Microsoft should just slow down their release schedule and invest a little more time in development.

Microsoft should just slow down their release schedule and invest a little more time in development.

I would mod you up if I had any mod points. This is exactly what I had envisioned as well. Other than the potential of more debris from space junk if a crash occurs, what would prevent this from happening?

You could park your Samurai in the bed of my truck. However, my truck is 'greener' as I run on straight WVO.

You are poorly failing to compare a weapon with less than 600J of energy to something with 4.184×10^15J of energy. You are equating the power to kill a few people to the power to eliminate a large metropolitan area. This is the same as asking if it were ok to drop a grain of sand on your head or 200 empire state buildings.

You can't buy a nuke on a walmart shelf like you can a gun (behind a glass case, whatever). Anybody can get and operate a gun, I would go as far as to say that ALMOST anybody could even make a rudimentary gun with simple hardware store parts. You cannot do this with a nuke.

Ever heard of the cold war? Mutual destruction? Every country with any significant power/interest in wold politics/commerce does have nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are essentially outlawed with all of the regulation. We try very hard to not let those outlaws get the technology to build weapons of this type. We also try very hard to prevent unstable government entities from getting nuclear technology to prevent the sale of weapons like this to outlaws.

This man has a drivers license! Lets give him his own Airbus A380!

Don't take it too far. Your analogy creates a slippery slope. Problem?

And you need to be concerned with his concealment of carried a firearm why?

Assuming he lives in the US, it is his right to do so. If we don't regularly exercise our rights, we often find ourselves in situations where they are no longer our rights.

Personally, I have never even fired a gun, but I feel safer with people legitimately carrying them. (warning, cliche) If guns were outlawed, only outlaws would have them. I like the fact that a criminal should to be aware that he might not be the only one with a gun on him before. I think more people should carry a firearm.

Yes. Exactly the definition of "like". This is exactly why I chose the word. I'm sure CISCO's intellectual property goons would take issue if it were EXACTLY IDENTICAL (why I did not use the words 'exactly' or 'identical' in the original comment). Good for you with your mastery of IOS. I've had no troubles with BGP or any tunneling/VPN I've had to set up with Vyatta, we use it extensively in a very large virtualization environment. The original posted question was asking if there was any enterprise grade hardware that ran linux, not your opinion of the hardware and it's configuration compared to IOS.
If they ran IOS on it, it wouldn't be linux and it would defeat the original posed question.

Ruby only dates hipsters and yuppies. Analogy fail.

Mod parent up! Vyatta CLI is very much like the other big network vendors as far as configuration goes. The hardware is the choice, however they do actually provide appliances. Vyatta is excellent for both routing and firewall purposes. Above link points local, here is actual link: http://www.vyatta.com/solutions/physical/appliances

Irritating. Take your correctness somewhere else. Ever seen a link on the 'web' to something like SSH, or a UNC path to a windows/samba share, how about an email link? These are not 'web' but still exist within the 'web'. Your concept of what the "web" or internet has evolved into is outdated. Yes, I understand what HTTP is as well as most other common protocols out there, and yes I know the tcp/ip stack up and down. Another thing about these streaming sites like Hulu - likely, they are not even using HTTP for the media. Some other application/media server normally handles the streaming to try to keep it as proprietary and controlled as possible. Even if "web browser only" was more correct, I wouldn't need flash/silverlight

You appear to be oversimplifying and over complicating the matter at the same time. Stop. Nobody cares. Next time, try to contribute something.

I wonder if this will allow Hulu "Web Only" content. I cant understand how getting Hulu over the internet is not automatically classified as 'Web Only' but there are shows that will not stream to the XBOX360 and **MUST** be watched in a browser.

I'll definitely agree they are MOSTLY worthless. The kids that were still pretty hardcore on drugs and into larceny were still pretty hardcore on drugs and into larceny. Those of us who were not yet into that kind of thing, did not ever go into that kind of lifestyle. I still keep in touch with most of those guys too. I wont go as far as to say I would have picked up that lifestyle if I hadn't gone through the jail, but I can definitely say that it made up my mind at the time.

I had my fun in high school and college. I am just not super motivated or at all interested in politics enough to worry about the political power junkies. I stay off their radar, they stay off mine. I still hold the view that if more of these kids understood the consequences of jail, we'd have less of them in it. *over generalization* I guess you are a drug abusing hippy without a job spending all your time resisting "the man"? *over generalization off*

Oh no, that's not a banana.