Well, if they're aliens instead of mutants doesn't that make it TANT? Or is it Teenage Mutant Alien Ninja Turtles (TMANT)?

I think the origin thing I could handle. The bigger issue is Bay himself. After what he did with Transformers I don't want to watch another of his movies.

And, let's be fair - a lot of people enjoyed Bay Transformers. Just, I didn't. By all rights I should have, Transformers (the franchise, I mean) is awesome. But after the first one I was unwilling to see either of the sequels in the theaters. If they show up on Netflix, maybe then I'll watch 'em - assuming I can find some time to watch it alone, so I don't have to subject my wife to it...

Hah, good point. :)

They can love the money, as long as it's me they have sex with.

It's the price you pay for having F-22's in your picture.

What I want from Linux is not a system that necessarily could compete with Windows or Mac, or attract large numbers of "average" users to use it.

What I enjoy about Linux is that it's a system that suits me. I like that it doesn't patronize me, or get all in my face about things I'm trying to do, the way Windows does. And every time I see a Linux app that behaves in a way that I associate with Windows (for instance, warning me when I change the extension of a file from ".jpg" or ".jpeg", or ".htm" to ".html") I get annoyed, and wish people writing Linux software wouldn't fixate themselves so much on creating software that suits the "average user".

I am a computer hobbyist, and that is awesome. Linux is an operating system in which a lot of the development effort has been centered around making it a great system for computer hobbyists. And that is, frankly, a bit problematic. There's no clear direction or leadership, and as such some really basic things have taken a really long time to materialize and/or stabilize. But I can work with that, and I choose to work with that, because most of the system is set up to support me in the way I choose to interact with the computer.

Not quite.

I create PDF files pretty regularly, as the GP poster said, via "print to PDF"-type features. I never edit PDF files. So not all the PDF files out there were created by a PDF editor.

(Of course, a more complete PDF editing system would mean being able to do things like create a table of contents - so yeah, it can be important to have real PDF software.)

Well, it's not fair, but yes you can, and people do. "Linux sucks because I can't play my favorite game on it." There you go, Linux blamed for a game company's choice.

Professional use, I'd absolutely agree. I don't think Gimp is on Photoshop's level at all (though people did tend to call it a "Photoshop alternative" - I think that there may have been some truth to that when Gimp was new - when there weren't a lot of apps out there that did the simpler jobs one tended to associate with Photoshop. These days, free image editors of Gimp's caliber are a lot more common, and Photoshop goes beyond that in a number of ways.

But I think that for the majority of users, an app on Gimp's level is enough.

Eh, "Micronians" is a Robotech-ism, though... In Macross it's "Miclone" (micro/clone)

I had Odysseus, Heracles, and Demeter as server names, but people kept misspelling them as "Ulysses", "Hercules", and "Ceres". It was a very frustrating situation.

Derpy Hooves! I want my workstation to be called Derpy Hooves!

That must be a frustrating naming convention, since all Star Trek ships are named "Enterprise"

Let me tell you, I tried this, and it really hasn't stood the test of time. In 1994 I set up a small network with names like "Homer", "Bart", and "Flanders" - nobody remembers those characters any more! People keep telling me to rename them "Peter", "Meg", and "Quagmire"... I don't know what that's all about, some old TV show that got cancelled years ago I think.

That's OK. Batman has plenty of money.

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