Because everyone in corporate IT wants to marshal the forces of FOSS every time some functionality found in a stock install of $MS_PRODUCT is non-existant in $FOSS_PRODUCT.

While you have a point, the FOSS world would do better to have useful functionality in place before the world asks for it. To be truly successful, FOSS needs to be ahead of what the proprietary world is doing, not implementing some idea that somebody else invented.

In some projects, this definitely is the case. For instance, Dolphin file manager is pretty damn good, while Finder and Windows Explorer feel like toys.

In others, work needs to be done. Is the email client a truly finished product? Can nothing be improved upon? I've used Thunderbird for the past 8 or so years, and while it works quite nicely, surely more could be done.

Eh, the entire world only has 83.7% literacy rate overall. Must be a shithole :)

Going back to the cited source, there is no mention of a particular study either way, though that speculation does pass the laugh test. After all, Gaza and the West Bank are supposed to be Palestine.

Also going back to that source, only 17% of the population of the West Bank is Jewish, and 8% Chrisitian. Responding to the GP's assertion that literacy is near 0% for Arabs, even if they have 100% literacy rates in the Jewish and Christian communities (which is quite likely) the math doesn't work out. You can't have 3/4 the West Bank population illiterate and 25% literate and have 92% literacy overall. Adding in the fact that 99% of the population in Gaza is Muslim makes the assertion even more ridiculous.

My main point is that using unrealistic numbers pulled out of your ass doesn't win arguments. I chose to use the CIA's numbers because they're relatively neutral, if not somewhat biased against the Palestinian population.

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do you realize that, in moslem countries, the literacy rate is so low its almost non-existant?

Erm, sorry, that's just bullshit: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2103.html

Even the Gaza Strip has a 92% literacy rate. Not even close to non-existant.

Oh come on, are Slashdotters getting to be _that_ humorless. I need a Windows server like I need a hole in the head, but I laughed at the comment.

Actually, I have no idea why Obama would invest in Brazilian oil and not Gulf of Mexico oil.

Probably something to do with that big ass oil spill a few years ago. He can look like he's protecting the environment here, while simply getting the oil from elsewhere.

If you have any sort of documentation of an industry certification, you might be able to skip some classes. In my case, I had an A+ cert that I had simply taken on my own before attending a community college. Having that allowed me to skip 3 mindless classes. Best $300 I ever spent.

You must not be a fisherman. There definitely is an appropriate amount of exaggeration, and too much exaggeratoin.

Compared to navigating to a competitor's website that works in $browser? For the average non-technical person, or the office drone locked down to IE6, the answer is yes.

Not a bad idea, but be prepared for:

1. What are the steps to reproduce the problem?
   a. "I clicked on the Internet"
   b. "The thingy didn't work"

Using NotScript? NoScript is nicer, but NotScript does mostly the same thing.

I think the best way to learn Blender is to follow along with one of the thousands of free video tutorials found on Vimeo, YouTube, or some of my favorites:

• Blender Cookie
• The Blender 3D Course
• Blender Artists has a bunch of tutorials posted in their forums

Have fun!

As opposed to the teenage dipshits who are attacked by glittery "plugins" for their MySpace page. Most people are completely clueless about how they get attacked - It's got nothing to do with age at all.

Don't forget the "First Post!"