It did indeed. I've been exposed to everything since then, except Windows 8. None of them are as bad as ME was, but none of them are especially interesting either. Windows is pretty bland.

My kids grew up on KDE. My daughter's Wacom tablet gave up the ghost, so I bought her a new one. There were no Linux drivers yet (score one for Windows), so I went out and bought her a brand new computer with Windows on it so she could use her tablet. She ended up crying. She tried to make a go of it, but she just wasn't comfortable with something alien and new. I ended up faffing about for days with experimental drivers until I got the thing working.

I guess where I'm at in life, if I wanted to use the tablet, I'd just leave Windows on the computer and go with the flow. That's why I bought the damn new computer in the first place; spend money, solve problem. Hardware on Linux either works flawlessly, or you my as well just grab a brick and start pounding yourself in the head with it. However, what father can stand to see his baby girl cry because you just handed her a steaming turd called Windows and took away everything she loves?

Come to think of it, that was a year or two ago, and I never updated anything on that computer. She's still using some ancient kernel with the old, experimental drivers. I guess they work, huh?

The last copy of Windows I ran on a personal computer of mine that I owned was Windows ME. I don't guess I'm ever switching back.

Yay, the Sawstop of guns!

I started that way, and ten years later I'm running the project I started documenting. I've never been a real programmer, but I have basic programming skills. You can go a long way if you're trying to accomplish something you really want to do. Then again, the majority of would-be contributors to this project over the years have been useless. I'm an outlier, not a common phenomenon. Getting the right mix of abilities and motivation and compatibility with the common project goals is actually really hard. Most people are like the guys who helped me plant trees one time, where I had to go back and plant all the trees again after they left. Volunteering to feel good about yourself for volunteering doesn't really help the project go forward.

My smart watch has little teeny gears that go round and round, and it tells you what time it is.

Uhhhh... You're blind? The only reason I study the Bible at all is to find amusing ways to get proselytizers to leave me alone. Even with just the most casual, basic comparative study of one version against any other, it's extremely and painfully obvious that one translation says one thing, and another translation says something else. This is especially evident if you compare versions in different languages, and I've read bits of the Bible in Spanish, French, Latin and ancient Greek, along with several different English translations. You don't have to look hard at all. Let's just take my favorite example off the top of my head, Exodus 22:18:

Do not allow a sorceress to live.

Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

maleficos non patieris vivere

A la hechicera no dejarás que viva.

No dejarás con vida a la hechicera.

Tu ne laisseras point vivre la magicienne.

Tu ne laisseras point vivre la sorcière.

[Greek removed by Slashdot]

The word in bold is variously translated into modern languages as something like witch, sorceress, etc. and it's almost always in the feminine in translations. The word [Greek removed by Slashdot] is obscure and hard to translate definitively, but "animal" is a common translation, and the word is neuter in gender. Maleficos in Latin is masculine, and means something like "doers of evil" etymologically, and is translated as things like "evil, wicked, accursed ones." Greek and Latin are as far back as I can go, but there's nothing in either language to suggest the original author intended this to apply only to female wicked people, and yet that is how it has ended up in every modern language I can read. It even ended up that way in Latin eventually, changing gender to feminine in Malleus maleficarum.

So, to summarize, the only bullshit is believing that none of the countless people who have dipped their fingers into the Biblical pie over the centuries have ever let their personal views or the times they were living in color what they did with the text. Sure they have.

I own more electronic gadgets than I did in 2005, because I have an extra printer, and a smart phone. What's the point of the article? Besides, why does anybody give a flying rat's ass how many electronic gadgets you own? ZOMFG people have fewer gadgets teh wr0ld is ENDING!!!!!

I did indeed know that, being from North America. However, I just learned that people elsewhere pronounce it differently. That's interesting. What, do you pronounce the L or something? Do you pronounce the L in "walk" too? Here "walk" and "wok" are basically homophones.

Uhhhh, you may now resume your regularly scheduled scheme to become jillionaires by mining computers for a few milligrams of gold.

and "don't" forget to put lots of "Quotes" on things too!

They learned to type the same way I did. Bang bang bang bang bang DING! bang bang WHACK!

I stopped counting how many words I'd banged out after I passed 10,000,000, and I've done the vast majority of it on Microsoft Natural keyboards of one flavor or another. I have no idea how fast I type in absolute terms, and don't care, but words flow out of my fingers as fast as I can think them, and I'm getting along perfectly fine with ergonomic keyboards. Put me on one of those old school rectangular brick things, and it's a completely different story.

This "article" was clearly "no exception" to that "rule." The more things you put in "quotes" the better everything "is."

You ain't went to the same range I have and saw Ol' Tater there sayin' "Fuck'at reloadin' manual. I jist filled that sumbitch with powder until it wouldn't hold no more. Here y'all, watch'is shit!"

Can anybody guess what happened next? The word is shrapnel, boys and girls. OK, OK, you did say, "usually," so you are fully disclaimed.

Everything between 1980 and 2000 would be a good start. I'm so glad the stuff from my BBS days isn't part of the public memory. Usenet is bad enough.

Does all this blah blah mean Dennis Leary is the new Pope or not? If not, who gives a flying rat's ass.