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Comment Re:Why isn't public transport 'free'? (Score 1) 198

it's inconvenient to schedule your transport around someone else's timetable and path

Bingo. There are a lot of cities where the number of lines operating on Sundays or major holidays is a big fat goose egg (zero). So riders have to schedule their lives around 36 to 60 hour scheduled downtimes.

Comment Trick the user into elevating to install something (Score 2) 95

If they had stuck with Xenix we may not have ended bottom lip deep in a malware swamp

Could you explain how that might not have happened? Xenix (which became SCO OpenServer) was just Microsoft's port of AT&T UNIX to PCs. UNIX is just as vulnerable to malware as Windows: if you trick the user into elevating to install something, something will be installed.

Comment 10 LET M$ = "Microsoft" (Score 1) 95

responses that included the words "M$"

"M$" looks like a string variable in old-skool line-numbered BASIC, and Microsoft started out publishing BASIC interpreters. Could "M$" mean "The company should have stuck to BASIC and not branched into microcomputer operating systems"?

Comment Having to move (Score 1) 211

while you may have to move away from Arkansas to where the jobs are

Which is why high schools need to start teaching home economics again. If people have to move away from parents before finding work, they'll need to learn to live on their own. And even then, where should a student fresh out of school find the cash to support himself during a move and job search?

Comment Chessbox 960 (Score 1) 193

Not everybody cares about "community mods." [...] I play chess

Then let me try a chess analogy. The forced-vanilla environment of the consoles is like not being able to agree with your opponent to randomize the starting position or use experimental pieces.

Tetris is already a thing, and runs fine anywhere.

Recent court rulings have threatened that.

Comment What compact laptop running multi-window Linux? (Score 1) 362

So why not avoid all the BS and buy a portable from a manufacturer which actually specializes in building Linux machines?

So who makes an affordable laptop PC that runs multi-window Linux? Stock Android isn't multi-window, as Android's CDD relies on a window management policy of all maximized all the time. And last time I checked, companies you mentioned charge an Apple premium and lack a variety of sizes. System76 doesn't have anything smaller than 14 inches, and even ZaReason doesn't have a 10 or 11 inch model. This makes Linux look big and clunky.

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