Comment Re:The machines charge 30% MORE than trading price (Score 1) 472
gold doesn't rot
Neither does most junk food.
gold doesn't rot
Neither does most junk food.
And don't tell me open-source doesn't have this problem. Windows XP was released in 2001. If you asked for support and patches for, say, Mozilla Phoenix 0.3 (released 2002), you'd get laughed out of pretty much everywhere. And if you actually cared about using open-source, you'd be using Linux and you wouldn't have this problem in the first place.
It's my experience that open source upgrades don't utterly bork things between versions, nearly as much as Windows does. You just keep your system up-to-date, pay attention to your distro's news bulletins, and things go alright.
Then again, I am an IT professional with only about 3.5 years of experience. Perhaps my elders can chime in with more experience.
A child lying to parents about what he/she is doing at a given time is often simply a defense mechanism for obtaining some privacy and a degree of control over their own life and therefore making themselves feel more adult, even though the parents might in fact know better.
That does not somehow make it right, IMHO.
God help those who do not help themselves. -- Wilson Mizner