But the other side is that the OS is massive.
It'd be more massive if everything were statically linked.
Remember, shared libraries didn't come first. The world began with static libraries, and shared libraries came later. There were good reasons for the switch, and those reasons apply even today.
Reminds me of an argument I recently had with a lefty. He thought government should do everything that business doesn't have the foresight to do. What's funny is that he was flaming religion just half an hour earlier -- organizations of people that are neither motivated by civics nor (barring Catholics) profits. People do so many things for so many reasons, some of them crazy and some of them brilliant. But talk politics with them and suddenly dollars are the only motivation that anyone has. Yeeeah, riiight.
Academics, hobbyists, philanthropists, religious nuts, crackpots: apparently none of these people exist!
I don't buy that, very old people have survived the past occurrences of swine flue, that's why they are old and living.
No they haven't. They've survived different versions of flu. It changes, the sneaky little bastard.
Unless you were talking about shoving pigs up chimneys...
"Seriously, its just us tech guys now, the RIAA isn't in the room, we can be honest."
*click* Yes. That assertion is correct. It is in fact, 'just us tech guys'. Ha. Ha. Ha. Now, would you kindly repeat that incriminating statement? For, uh. Technical purposes. *click*
Actually, I'm one of those strange people who still mostly buy music. Call it a lingering desire to support musicians, I guess.
Please define exactly how many people you have personally seen die due to allergic reactions to the flu shot. The flu kills 30,000 to 40,000 people annually. Doing some quick research I am having a problem locating exactly how many people die from an allergic reaction to the vaccine each year, but the worst case is "several". So, doing some quick math, your statistics are off by around a factor of 8,000.
I am not sure if your post was a joke. If so, it is not funny.
Get your flu shot people. At the very least, do your research with credible organizations and make an educated decision, not one based on someone saying that you "don't_need it_".
They each have their place, but on low end hardware you would never choose vista over XP, so the only way to switch to Vista is buying new hardware also.
I think most people who like Vista over XP either don't run IO intensive applications over a network or never had XP and Vista on the same hardware. I wouldn't mind Vista on a desktop where it's not too pricey to get the additional specifications required by Vista. And their is little doubt at the high end hardware front Vista can be better.
I don't see why I want my dept to pay extra in power consumption, specifications, and OS price so that IT and Sony will have more control over our computers. (warning car analogy) then again I am one of the few that still drives a manual transmission because I don't want a little convenience at the cost of additional maintenance, lower economy, reduced reliability, and higher upfront price.
Craig Ferguson (of the Late Late Show) had the best joke about it: Vampires with 6 pack abs! Do they come out at night to go to (in vampire mock-scary voice) Goooold's Gym! Then Craig does an impression of Sesame Street's The Count while miming a bench press: "One! One Repetition! Two! Two repetitions!"
He hates these so called Vampires because they should really be pasty white and frail.
ohman maybe offtopic but all for Craig
While you need a decent studio to create a decent music quality, writers can create good-looking PDFs on their computer.
If there is going to be an iTunes book store, publishers and bookstores will take the hit. An author could charge a bit more, and the audience would pay way less. It would be more convenient to buy the book (one can read the first chapter before buying, not something you do in a bookstore. Nor do you have to go there).
Bert
From that article:
Several infectious disease experts and researchers have suggested the study work could be flawed. A commonly heard suggestion is that there was "selection bias" at work, meaning the type of people studied were not representative of the population in general and therefore the findings can't be generalized.
It also mentions that data from every country other than Canada fails to support the claim.
My first thought after hearing this "unpublished claim" was that there's heavy selection bias here. People who get flu shots are primarily people who have higher exposure to infectious diseases, such as hospital workers and teachers. If it's true for influenza (spurring them to get a shot) it would be true for H1N1 as well.
Without hearing anything to the contrary (and esp. PaddyM's link showing other researchers see selection bias in the Canada study) the "news" here is really:
People more likely to catch the flu are more likely to catch the flu.
Stunning, isn't it?
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro