Porn =/= exploitation. It's not hard to find non-exploitative porn.

That suggests that they've got their idea of "control" back to front.

I think you're wrong about the music, fishing, and fire control. I'm fairly certain they had fire control, at least. A citation or two would help your argument.

Try the Linux console!

I like overlapping windows when i have to switch back and forwards between apps frequently. And i don't want most apps to use all the available screen space - pdfs, for example, often display better when they're not the whole screen width. Thunderbird certainly doesn't need the whole screen width, and i usually keep the web browser a bit smaller than screen width too.

Gnome 3 has its limitations, but i can use my computer for everything i used it for when i ran gnome 2 - and it's no more difficult or any more annoying (but i use a laptop). I don't believe there are any *good* window managers, but some are less bad than others and, for me, gnome 3 is the least bad. It seems silly to get stuck in the past just out of habit.

Yeah, i use Gnome and voted for it, but saying i like it the best is an exaggeration - i just dislike it the least.

Yeah? I was a web admin for a part of the Northern Territory government a few years ago and we used some really ugly thing, built in house with ColdFusion. Anything would be better than that. Drupal's a bit of a pain in the arse, but i'm sure it's an improvement on a lot of government CMSs.

It's likely that age itself doesn't reduce mental acuity at all. It seems the tests that purport to show age related decline in cognition have been wrongly interpreted. http://www.newscientist.com/ar... (paywalled, but the first couple of paragraphs are available for free.)

That's an easy statement to make. But completely meaningless unless you can give some examples of things you can do in MSOffice that you can't do in OpenOffice?

I never liked Publisher much, and back in the 90s I used to use a pirate copy of PageMaker - which I liked a lot. In later years I used Scribus a bit, which was ok, but not as good as PageMaker. If Scribus has continued on the course of development it was on a few years back, it should be pretty good by now.

One of the extras I find useful in gnumeric is the ability to do boxplots.

Because it's quick and easy for basic stuff, and useful for making graphs from simple data. That's why I use LibreOffice Calc, anyway. Using a spreadsheet for real data is like using Word / Writer for desktop publishing - it's quick and easy but totally bodgy.

If you retire at 65 and live till 85, that $200,000 is only about $10,000 a year - which won't get you far!

Working? That old parasite Phil's never done a day's work in his life!