Up until recently (Vista/Ribbon interface) and arguably even now, Microsoft has been able to provide more consistency than a lot of these Linux distros.
This has been a common meme for quite some time now but I find it completely illegitimate. Microsoft's interface has changed over time and they seem to have no interface guidelines, at least ones they stick to. On top of that almost all third party applications look and behave differently. Compare that with something like Gnome on Linux which has interface guidelines that are much more strictly enforced and many applications outside of Gnome core adhere to these guidelines and use the same toolkit. The more applications you install on a Microsoft operating system the less consistency you will have. Gnome provides many more applications than Microsoft and even more third party apps follow Gnome's HIG.
The only company that consistently does exactly what it says and and continues to blow people away with the quality of their products is Apple.
Are you serious? I don't count failing motherboards, antenna's that don't work, and insecure operating systems as "quality".
Now while at the same time Steve Jobs will get on stage and pull the future right out of his back pocket and "Oh, by the way, you can pick up one of these Monday morning."
You've got to be kidding me. The only thing Jobs does well is make a product that a trained monkey could use in a slim, easy on the eyes package. What exactly is revolutionary about any of the products Apple has produced?
I know this is a troll but what they hey it's Slashdot!
Since when is being a Harvard educated lawyer and professor, not to mention US Senator not a qualification? Which Presidents in recent memory have NOT read from a teleprompter? Were you born January 20, 2009? I know it seemed like Bush was just saying random shit at the podium but that's just because he has a hard time reading.
I personally believe that most, but not all, gay people choose that lifestyle.
You must have a vivid memory of the day you CHOSE to be attracted to people of the opposite sex. Personally I don't have such a recollection. I never even considered someone of the same sex. I didn't sit down and weigh the pros and cons. I just knew that I liked boobs. Considering your sexuality was purely a choice I wonder why you chose to be straight? What was the deciding factor? Do you ever have urges to have homosexual sex that you are forced to resist? Do you have NO urges but force yourself follow your decision of heterosexuality (as opposed to asexuality)?
After all, they are the only ones on any list of enumerated "protected classes" that have never been denied the right to vote.
Voting isn't the only right we should be worried about protecting for minority groups.
I suspect someone's jiggering with the money supply, or just gambling that the market is inherently "Bullish".
There's no such thing as an inherently bullish market, fools.
So you would rather all investment be based purely on the availibility of gold? It makes no sense in today's economy for something like the supply of gold to dictate lending. The whole reason we got off the gold standard is because the economy can only grow in fits and starts when you have to rely on a supply of gold to back up the money. There is nothing suspect about the growth of the economy outstripping the gold supply. It happened on its own and it is THE reason we had to deal with deflation before we dumped the gold standard. Raw materials and labor can be readily available even the when the supply of gold is not because the two are completely unrelated.
Reagan, despite his onset of senility and subsequent micro-management by handlers, was right.
If Reagan was right why did he triple the national debt? If he was right why did he have to raise taxes after cutting them?
Reagan took down the USSR! Suck it up!
Give me a break! the USSR was self destructing with or without Reagan. Reagan had the chance to eliminate nukes but he preferred to have a useless, untested, and unviable system (STAR WARS) stay on the table. This is getting off track though. What does this have to do with monetary policy and the gold standard? I don't care if Reagan cured cancer, he was still awful for the economy and the debt.
Memory fault - where am I?