GUI's simplify things a good bit, but I prefer the command line for some things. I've never watched a music video in the command line, and I highly doubt anyone could remember every command anyone could possibly need, more like the things they use frequently or have used frequently in the past. It's like if I go to my family doctor about a strange ailment deep within my brain, he or she will more than likely refer me to the Neurologist instead of trying to treat me for something they never thoroughly studied. I prefer to use the CLI for some things that I do from day to day to free up a good bit of my system's resources.

'Tis still my favorite dish. When someone comes in behind you and "cleans up" your code, you often lose a bit of functionality... If not entirely. I agree things need to be cleaned up from time to time, but I've run into some problems like that. And nah, I don't think I'm Linus Torvalds or anything. I've done some tinkering throughout the years though.

The reason I do is because unless what I am doing is hurting someone, I should have free reign to install whatever I want on my system. It doesn't matter if it's not a Microsoft product or what. Sure, software should go through some refining to get rid of bugs, but Microsoft isn't the best at refining software either. They are good at bullying people.

Also, there's the everyday use aspect. The economy may fall into a deep depression, and people may end up having to made do with 486's at times. That sounds insane, but it happens now.

They use leaching to get some of the gold off of it. It's expensive to leach, but back in the later 1990's, I had a teacher who said never to throw the things away for a couple of reasons. 1. Arsenic and whatnot in them. 2. Gold connectors. It's probably best if you can to keep someone of them around and not tamper with them much, especially if they work. Eventually museums would probably inquire around the web looking for specific antique models that still work.

No problem with Jobs, but jobs would be nice. Not a big fan of the glittering OSX interface either. It'd work better with wmaker.

It was $99 at AT&T, and I see why Nokia is in the pot. I love Nokia. I even love Microsoft, though they may be my sworn rivaled enemy, but.... This would only be worth the silicon it was made of if it had a different OS on it. I'm gonna need to go because I need some meatloaf. Speaking of meatloaf. "...I would do anything for love... BUT I WON'T DO THAT..." AGAIN! I don't want anything one of their msdn subscriptions, another phone with their OS on it, nada.

I got one because I needed one to test a program on, which I still haven't gotten around to doing because we had to have our Central AC Unit replaced, and I"ve been a good bit of minor repairs around here by the grace of God. Anyway, I purchased it because I took two C# classes from a community college a while back, and I did a little bit of work with it. Mainly just hobbyist type activities. I'm not an expert, but I know more than some of the average bears. I was interesting in porting one of those projects to Windows Mobile and other mobile devices, but mobile first, since it would be native. Anyway, let's cut to the chase, I turn the speech recognition off, and it still comes on. It is lacking in many features, and it is a bandwidth hog. I never had any intention of playing LIVE games on here, but it has been tempting since it can be really worthless at times. It's turned into a paperweight atleast four times without installing anything on it or visiting many websites at all. Now I've learned my lesson. It would be very foolish to go boasting over which operating system is better or more cost efficient. I got stuck using GNU/Linux for quite some time, partially by choice, then by my refusal to purchase Windows licenses and not wanting to go to the slammer or pay $10 million dollars for one license, which costs them about $3 to create comparatively with the volume of licenses that are sold on the market today. So I finally end up with Windows 7 smleven and all the nicknacks and whattymadoos that microsoft usually gives upstarts and students but made me pay to get, and then I decided, it wasn't even worth it. True, I got to play with Windows 8, which for some, is probably the best thing since the first person sweetened tea or sliced bread, whatever your region may prefer(I often playfully scoff at types of vernacular, but like I said, I'm just some dude). Honestly Windows 3.11 was more exciting for me. It's all been done.

I recently purchased a Pavilion g6 series. It's not so bad, but I'd suggest turning off some of the short cuts. I've accidently triggered a function enablement feature that's supposed to make it's use easy several times, and it's a major pain because I can't type anything until I turn the feature off. Somewhat small keyboards aren't too much a bother. I always liked HP. I had an HP desktop that lasted for nearly ten years after it's manufacture date.

Facebook is too risque. I removed my page two days before the stock went public out of fear of being associated with a nasty company. It's known they monitored some SMS messages, and I figured it would be the right thing to do for various reasons. Then the cofounder denounced his American citizenship, and I knew I was right. Ya'll have a good one, I'm going to read a book instead. Sorry to troll though. I always have a lot to say.

It can be useful for things like debian ISO's, but ya know, some of that is the paranoia of the users because of the number of cases against pirates. This is a good thing, unless you own a copy of CD that's scratched to death. Then you have to repurchase it on amazon or itunes. At least most of them are only ten bucks. I purchased a good bit of music around Christmas time for myself and family from Amazon.com in digital form. It's nice because they store it for you. I'm also a prime subscriber so there is a vast number of movies available for free, plus 2 day delivery so I don't have to drive to the mall and up the gas prices for my neighbors who drive back and forth all day long for little pay. I'm not loaded, but it's come in handy in this hard time. Fix a few computers here and there, but I'm supposed to lay off the computer more because I may be having seizure activity. Surf responsibly, if you don't own the rights, down let yourself get served with a ten million dollar lawsuit for 12 songs. One thing I found somewhat comical about it was that they punish so greatly, when people are doing almost the same thing they did in the 1980's when the VCR was invented, recording movies off of HBO I see.

Short of divine intervention, the internet will probably start to decay some. Also, there will probably need to be some serious security improvements. We're already seeing viruses on major sites like CNET, and the NSA got hacked not too long ago. Fact of life, if something is going to stay stable they need responsible users and workers.

One problem with the internet's growth is that some ISP's, namely AT&T, have started rationing their internet services, which makes it hard for small companies in rural areas to get anywhere but in the hole. Some of the net gets lagged down a good bit due to their lack of resources. It's definitely going to take a little expansion on the ISP's parts to keep things going. Some of the satellites they use are getting old, need repairs, etc. Could see some shortages if they aren't careful.

I wasn't logged in because I've never official made an account with you. My original comment's subject was yes. The more people live in the digital world, the harder it is for them to adapt to real life at times. Scroll up and check out the original.