That is of course very easy to say and a bit short sighted, perhaps even cynical.

I think it is without question that Gaza is a region where a lot of people got jammed into, completely surrounded by another state, even the waterfront is hermetically sealed off. No resources, not nothing ... Let the regular people out of Gaza then, support Arab states for wanting to take in Palestinian refugees etc etc...

Pertinent questions are:

Who created this situation in the first place (The borders of '48 come to mind)?

Save terrorists with different agendas, don't 'regular' Palestinians have a right to be upset about what happened to them? Let alone a right to take up arms in regular war? Other people have gone to war for less...

What about settlements?

I am really not wanting to put blame on a single party here but honestly, how can the international community (US, Europe, Israel, the Arab world) first create the situation that we have now (ie by not respecting the borders of eg '48 and then not expect this horrible cesspool to erupt? Of course people will react, violence will ensue and really, more violence will not stop anything.

Again, you cannot first coop everyone up in a small area of land and then "blame" opposing forces to use people as shields. Can people get out of Gaza if they want to? Regular, innocent people? I think not... Gaza is a ghetto for all intents and purposes.

Of course, if you put an entire people inside an area more akin to the ghetto of Warsaw then a real country. An area with an insanely high population density an almost no way in our out for armed forces of their own the what did you expect really?

I am not condoning the firing of any weapon or participation in any combat activity amongst civilians but really... What do the Israeli expect??

On the other hand, where are the other Arab countries when it comes to really help out the Palestinians?

It ll never get solved, this conflict will stay a global source of misery for as long as we live probably.

Surely, we have every right to scare away geese that have probably visited those beaches for hundreds of years, if not more. Surely we cannot stay off the beaches when the geese are there, that would be way too hard. Our ability to go to the beach is way more importantWe are mankind, ruler of nature, screw those geese!

Reminds me of those Brits that go live in the flood plain of the Thames only to complain that it's the conservationists fault (protecting some rare species of clam) when their houses and towns flood...

Nature, get off our lawn!

Oh and on Linux driver issues NEVER happen, all non Windows OSes are Powered by Magic unicorns (tm) :) please...

OK then, no PM on windows, granted. But on any platform, installations take time. That's not a Windows only thing. Try installing a full latex system on any platform and check how long it takes... To name just one example.

And regarding the need for reboots, that situation has vastly improved in my experience. But then again, what's the problem with rebooting (which takes seconds on angry ng but Tue most slow systems anyway)

But that's the point... Watching the progress of your apt get or whatever tool you using or watching an system reboot... Reinstalling always takes some time but to hold that against any single system? Please...

If you cannot installatie a modern version of Windows in onder 30 minuten these days I would consider you top dumb to be even let naar a computer. Let alone that you'd be actually capable of building your own HW. The Windows cheap shots are getting old, really.

That is not the point Mr. Wiseguy who is apparently much to smart for the rest of us idiots.

I quickly found out that git, gcc and make are now located in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin With XCode 4.4. in fact, this had been the case since version 4.3. What _was_ a problem is the fact that in upgrading to 4.4 they for some reason

A) removed these tools from the path
B) neglected to properly make the command line tools, copatible with ML _and_ xcode 4.4 available... Check your console when you try and install command line tools from xcode directly... The embedded link to the install package is wrong and still refers to an old gm version.

All these issues are quickly fixed by hand with some quick edits of bash_profile or a link file here and there...

The point of parent seemed to be that osx is much more geared to make console jockeys and devs happy, being flexible and all whereas my point is that they

1) just as MS _often_ fumble releases with oversights such as the above
2) often have the arrogance to just omit things, like x11, without much warning (release notes for us regular joes that tell us about
The omissions beforehand maybe and not just buried 5 levels down on some part of the dev website?

Apple is trying just as hard to dumb things down as MS apparently is with 8

No go and revel in your own genius some more nerd boy!

Hold on there cowboy... i use both platforms daily and AFICT VS2010 or 2012 absolutely trumps Xcode in every department. windows will still allow you tonstill load non store apps and as far as your claim on command line wizardry goes: after i upgraded to OSX 10.8 today I noticed Apple removed X11, necessary to run my LaTeX workflow. Also, git, make end gcc were somehow unavailable after the obligatory upgrade to Xcode 4.4. As I write this and after repeated emaild to Apple dev support this is still not entirely fixed. Turns out they put the links to the command line tools download wrong in Xcode...

I could go on all day.

Both platforms are nice fornvery diferent reasons but as far as development goes I would dare tonsay MS has the edge right now...

Ah :) only MIT stuck with me :) But still so, in this day and age...

Mod parent up

Must be :)

In any case, this guys seems a bit disconnected from reality:

1) He comes from a country (the US) with some of the most strict rules on security at airports and whatnot... I think I hardly ever visited a country is more paranoid (and this is not intended as a slur) and then he goes off and bolts something to his skull that makes him look like the terminator of a Navy seal on a covert op. And you Sir, hold a phD? :)

2) He takes his kids to go and learn "true Parisian French"? Lol...

Looks like a bad case of attention whoaring to me...

... and kudos for this guy trying to push technology (use) forward.

But bolting the thing to your head?? Seriously?? WTF?

Cubes!

nook is LCD dumbass...

And learn to spell before you start talking about physics, the concepts of which are obviouly well beyond your grasp...