Quite the opposite. My father in law uses it more than the mother in law, she likes her iPad.

I solved his system crash issues, malware issues and his um.... need to tinker with the system. He uses Firefox and Thunderbird most of the time. He likes Picassa for his photos. Libre Office works for his word processor needs. His Brother MFC printer is fully supported. Etc...

He is happy with his computer just working, and I am happy not fixing it.

My in-laws were having Windows XP issues, so I upgraded them to Mint. Zero support calls to me since then - and they like it...

The downstairs bathroom at my house gets no Verizon reception, zero bars. The rest of the house does, just not that room. Other providers work fine, go figure...

That is what they do.... and they do it well.

Wow. You really need to raid the recycle pile at the garbage dump and get a faster computer...or several of them.

...or stop spamming this OLD comment that has appeared all over the place.

"We all know — because we are being constantly reminded — that we are getting fat. Americans are at the forefront of the trend, but it is a transnational one."

Mexico is now the fattest country:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/mexico_weighs_in_first_place_as_H9SVnsADtIaVUjnLgwfTsL
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/mexico-obesity_n_3567772.html
http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/11/mexico-overtakes-america-as-worlds-fattest-country-3879512/

Vocational Training is being ignored is most parts of the U.S.

Not all kids are suitable for college, or even want to go. Most schools place kids on the college track.

A kid who can graduate from high school with an ASE certification is immediately employable as a mechanic. A kid who completes an apprenticeship can work as an electrician/plumber/HVAC/framer/flagger/heavy equipment operator, etc., anywhere. Most of those earn good money. I have friends who are an electrician, plumber and diesel mechanic and have friends who are a psychiatrist, chiropractor, ER nurse, teacher, etc. Guess who is is in debt and who is not... Heck, one of the guys with a 'vocation' has a side business buying yachts from the east coast and selling them on the west coast. 100K a year from that alone.

At my old high school the metal shops and auto shops (from 25 years ago) are no longer used by those departments. The programs have been cancelled (with many others). What is in their place? Day care for children of the students. That is a SHAME!

News flash: Obama is black?

His mom is white, so he is 50% white.
His dad is (roughly) 75% Arabic and 25% black, so he is (roughly) 37.5% Arabic and 12.5% black.

So, at 50%, was he the next white president?
At 37.5%, was he the first Arabic president?
At 12.5%, was he the first black president?

We know what the media has made the public believe...

mmmm... waygu....

We raise some we get as newborns from an uncles commercial herd. Very very good. The first wagyu steak I ate, I ate with a spoon. I used the spoon to cut my steak, no fork or knife needed.

Windows might not be doomed, but I stopped using it years ago.

Every chance I get, I move somebody to a new platform. My daughter has a Mac, my father-in-law runs Ubuntu, my Mom has a Mac, our best friend is mobile device only with a WiFi printer, another friend is on Linux Mint, etc... (many more)

We are all happier now. I can say that I know zero people running Windows 8.

I changed my job to a support role.

I now speak to users and IT on the phone and via remote connection software. Only 60K per year, but I telecommute 100% of the time now.

Well worth the change

Actually we do. My wife and I left a big carrier and went with a smaller one. 1500 minutes and a small data plan (I normally use WiFi) for $50 mo and no contract.

I bought used phones and now our bill is a fraction of what it was...

Is $50 better = yes. Could and should it be cheaper = yes.

If almost 69,000 were from Google Play, and they have around 700,000 apps total, that would mean that approx 9.8% of the apps in the Google store are infected.

F-Secure reports that in the fourth quarter of last year, 96% of all mobile malware was directed to Android. They also report that 0.7% targeted iOS.

Most users do not have an updated version of Android to update to that is made available from their carriers.

Trend Micro’s mobile app reputation service has analyzed over 2 million mobile app samples collected from around the world and 293,091 of them have been classified as outright malicious. Almost 69,000 of those were sourced directly from Google Play, which offers around 700,000 apps in total. “It’s not just Chinese and Russian app stores.”

Disclaimer: I do not own an iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone or any smartphone. I have a "feature phone" with a cheap phone plan.