Will the simulation completely model the effects of the Living Earth computer itself on the Earth? That is to say, will it contain a complete Living Earth Simulator simulator ?

Yeah? And how'd you spend your weekend, King Dingaling ?

So just go into your bubble, you'll be fine.

SMBW is just a different game with multiple players; there are more than enough mechanical perks to offset the getting-in-the-way. For instance, did you know if you lift up somebody with a propeller hat, you can use it to fly yourself?

Then you've missed out on round about a year of the most fun gaming I can remember since I was playing Yar's Revenge on the Atari 2600 with my parents.

Your call bro.

Are you just posting this to be contrary?

Seriously, are you advocating that, when we see a study paid for by Microsoft which shows an _overwhelmingly_ lopsided result in Microsoft's favor in a product space where they would generally be expected by experts in the field to be the worst performer, we should take it at face value?

If not, what _are_ you saying?

Then I'd better take a detour through neurophysiology research. =)

So much to do, so much to do.

Maybe. I'm only 32, but I would definitely take the live-forever serum if it was offered to me at this point. I'm already having to snip lower-priority things off my life goals list just due to lack of time. Maybe after I'm fluent in all spoken and written languages, fully understand current mathematics and number theory, fully grok current physics, have an encyclopedic knowledge of world history, have mastered cooking, dancing, martial arts, race driving, race flying, have built a computer by hand and written a POSIX-compatible operating system in its native assembly language, have built a car by hand and raced it, have visited every culture in the world and learned their customs well enough to interact freely with them... by the time I've done all those things I have a feeling I'll have thought of a list twice as long of things yet to do, but that sounds like at least three or four hundred years I'll need before I even get through the obvious stuff, and that's if I don't spend a large amount of time just relaxing with my family (which I will).

You seriously couldn't think of any fulfilling ways to spend a couple thousand years?

"huge masses of working poor" would be the main one you missed.

While that's true, I don't understand how it relates to what we're discussing?

Then again, this whole thread is attached to a conversation about a collector buying an Apple 1, so off-topic is relative. =)

I guess it comes down to what you run. In Linux, 100.0% of my installs are "apt-get install ", whereas in Windows I never make it through a week without an install consisting of "Open archive in 7zip, copy it to a new folder somewhere, add that folder to the PATH environment variable". And heaven help you if you need to make sure you're running the most up-to-date version of things in Windows.

Even if you're willing to call that a wash, there's still the questions of drivers (everything's already on your system in Linux, and kept up to date through automatic updates), viruses and malware (essentially nonexistent on Linux), and creeping performance degradation (doesn't happen on Linux, requires running defrag and registry cleaning tools to keep Windows from rotting away).

I actually do keep a Windows 7 install running, because one area where Windows is solidly ahead of Linux is third party app support. I like Star Trek Online and Starcraft 2, and I need Microsoft Office and IE, and if I were to try to get all that running in Wine then the whole "waste of time" argument might gain a shadow of validity.

But as far as just keeping the base system and apps functional and up to date so you can get _work_ done, there's just no comparison; if you value your time, choose Linux.

This troll made a lot more sense 7 or 8 years ago when it wasn't much quicker and easier to install and maintain Linux than any other general use system.

Even if you factor out install time (since most people get their Windows and Mac systems preloaded), the time you spend maintaining your system very quickly tilts the balance back in favor of Linux.

Because, obviously, that would be Communism.

The link provided will help spur your memory. =) It happens in Act 1.

Some captains would. http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Dark_Frontier_(episode)

Hm... how does the system decide which label to apply if you get lots of different moderation types? Is it by the most commonly occurring one ?