But this is the new version. Lion has already been done, thus the suggestion of puma. ;)

Just because something evolved doesn't mean it got better. Evolution is change, so when your language changes, for whatever reason, then it has evolved. Phreak summed it up pretty well for the Romance languages (as did you, from a slightly different perspective, btw).

As for his use of failure, while I don't think many people think of it the way he does, it doesn't seem to be an unreasonable description of what happened. Rome (the empire) failed, and thus the Roman language (latin) changed -- failure leading to change, as local dialects replaced "official" latin.

You clearly haven't ever worked on a truly good chassis then. There are definitely chassis' that aren't worth the cost of the paper in the packing slip, however, there are also chassis that are well worth every penny you spend on them, and then some. The $200 Antec chassis I've recently set up is extremely easy to get into and work on (and no, I do not feel that screws are a bad thing; I prefer having parts secured to the chassis by metal, not plastic). My only complaint has been the placement of the memory on the motherboard (up "top" where heat would gather when the system is upright) which is a motherboard design problem, not a chassis problem, and that wouldn't have been a problem if my air conditioning had worked correctly and I didn't live in Texas. : /

I'm with the AC on this one. If its named "Orion" it needs to use nukes to get off the ground!

... and that makes it better somehow?

Or efficient bureacracy. :/

weeks? try days ... or even hours.

Dell doesn't keep "an image". It keeps the pieces required to build the required image necessary for the individual computer based on its ordered configuration, which includes what software it was supposed to ship with. That "image" (which is the parts used to build the image) is used to build pre-imaged hard drives for warranty replacements, or software recovery CD sets (boot from disk, load the factory image). I think Dell's complaint is that the injunction means they wouldn't be able to send out recovery CDs or imaged hard drives to customers that purchased the software prior to the injuction but needed the image after it took place. The 120 day time frame they mention sounds suspiciously like the TTL of pieces used to build the image.

Now, do I think the court should listen to Dell and HP about this? I'm not sure.

I do know that I think this kind of patent is crap that shouldn't be enforced. Especially considering, as someone posted above, XML was designed to support the features this patent claims to cover. I know for sure XML has been around longer than the patent has, so prior art means MS should "win" this case (despite my misgivings over letting MS "win" something like this).

I like the idea of Open Office being an option on Dells, but you seem to be unaware that MS Works (my favorite oxymoron, btw) includes MS Word now instead of the upgraded version of Wordpad (or was Wordpad a downgraded version of the Works editor?) it used to use.

So, thats an example of Sneakernet then. :)

What about the Pigeon Protocol? I've heard that works much better than the protocal ...

What about www.legendsofzork.com? If I had more time I'd be playing it more ...

... will be enough of an advantage to nearly offset the disadvantage in training and equipment.

Don't forget that a large number of the folks that own said hunting rifles are former military, and thus have the same (or possibly better) training than the "attackers".

Just goes to show, post quality is (usually) inversely proportional to /. id

My first though when I pulled up the picture: looks like a water ring from a can left on the picture. ;)