I have to say, my experiences since the release of Windows 10 have been thoroughly positive. Everything just works, applications load fast, all the tools are there from the start, or freely available for easy download. Admittedly, I do run Debian, and this may have influenced my experience somewhat. Windows, you say? I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. A sledgehammer, yes, and with some emphasis, but not a bargepole.

His Letterman clone showed that without the others to carry him he was a boring waste of space.
He was the money and connections guy for Fast Forward production and he got time on screen to keep his ego fed.

Yes. Some of the others were very funny. His stuff was pretty well the homosexual version of "blackface" and other unoriginal shit, but he was the guy with the finance so went in the show.

I know it's trendy to argue as if the past does not matter but both companies have a reputation and that is VERY OBVIOUSLY what is being referred to.
Being a fanboy is cute even if it means writing stupid things. Being a "social media worker" paid to write such stupid things is a lot less cute. When the obvious is being ignored it's sometimes a bit hard to work out if the perpetrator should be pitied like a puppy that has pissed on the kitchen floor or a source of anger such as a crackhead who has walked in and is pissing on the kitchen floor.

But you decided to push it a bit more via strawman. Pathetic.

It's certainly limited the usefulness of my win7 partition as a gaming machine when the entire point of having it at home is to run games. You can either disable updates until you decide to get them or have to put up with fullscreen games rebooting without warning. Hence so many systems out there that have not been updated for more than a year.

I wish you'd been more selective about sharing your treasonous 9/11 tinfoil conspiracy shit about the US military killing all the passengers in the jets and the people in the towers.

But the MS guys have been telling us for years that linux is broken because it has that "stupid" command line thing :)
Thanks for the info - good to see it's an easy fix.

The cutified female version of Bill Gates in the "Neptune" series has scared me away from the entire OSTan idea.

All I can conclude is that there is a serious drug problem in Redmond otherwise someone would have ripped this out and run the idiot who proposed it out of town.

"Many users -- especially on somewhat under-powered systems -- may find Win10 to be a painfully slow experience compared with Win7, irrespective of MS' claims." Big citation needed. There's no evidence that Windows 10 performs worse on low power systems and there's significant evidence that it performs better.

Win8 certainly fits that slow description for many things, most noticably file copying (how did they fuck up so badly?), so unless that has been fixed it makes sense. We need to see benchmarks either way and there seems to be a distinct lack of them from those claiming a faster speed as well.

As an aside there was a direct clone of the Letterman thing in Australia. The presenter (Steve Vizard) would even wander around with an empty coffee cup at the start of the show to copy what Letterman did. The presenter was one of the owners of the network that thought he was funny and decided he would play at being Letterman, but somehow he failed to copy the entertaining bits and made sure that he was not upstaged by any guests with actual talent by frequently interupting them.
I have no idea how he got away with it for four years, but he was a lawyer with a LOT of political connections as well as being a part owner of the network he was broadcasting on.

How old are the batteries? Do you own your battery? What is a battery worth? Do you load your truck with aging, unreliable batteries to swap-off with other aging, unreliable batteries?

When it comes to a truck which will have a sizeable number of large batteries, you're pretty much statistically guaranteed to never have more than a dud or two so long as the battery management process is sound.

As a service station manager, how do you test each of these batteries to ensure its safety and reliability (its level of aging)

By, for example, any of the dozen or so methods already used for this purpose?

As a service station manager, how do you offset the cost of rotating out old batteries traded in by truckers?

By rolling that into the swapping cost?

Could you please ask questions a little harder than "What does 1+1 equal?" I'm seriously not getting why you don't already know the answer to these questions you're asking.

Changing batteries in something like a truck is a labor-intensive process.

Wait a minute, you think that when people talk about battery swap they're talking about someone going up and swapping batteries by hand?

mounting may preclude a fast removal operation.

Many companies have already demonstrated battery swap for cars, which is a far harder target than trucks. With trucks, my preferred mounting is on the trailers themselves (with the cab having its own, non-swappable batteries). You already have, today, stuff mounted to the underside of trailers. It's right where the structural strength is already located and you have tons of open space underneath for easy access and standard form factors. It's an order of magnitude easier challenge than for cars, which you practically have to have disassemble their frames to get their batteries out.

The operation may take 40 minutes overall

Battery swap in the much harder case of cars can be done in less than a tenth that time.

Mounting the batteries affects balance, thus handling, thus safety

And you're envisioning that one would load all of the batteries only on one side or something...?

Think about it as if you were going to swap an entire, pre-filled gas tank

And think about having the tank you plan to switch out be a standardized external tank mounted in a standard form factor on a standard trailer.

"It makes a grown man cry"

Very fitting choice.

Later on I'm surprised the Win7 advertisements didn't go like this:
"I'm a PC and looking like a Mac was my idea."