FVWM baby!

The real problem is the "higher education" system, the outrageous fees (on top of your tax money for public schools), $300 textbooks required for many classes, the pathetically low education value of most the classes, plus entirely worthless classes (required generals), and the fact that businesses still believe that these moron sheepskins should be a requirement for all employment.

Of course, doctors and engineers, etc, should attend higher training, but even these programs could be seriously stripped of the worthless educational bloat that universities profit so hugely from.

About the only thing that the university system succeeds at is indoctrinating/programing young people in the political agenda of the fringe left.

If I gave you the Universe, where would you put it?

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mac: shiny, and with unix under the hood, costs about 3-4 times what it should.
linux: shiny, and with unix under the hood, costs exactly what it should ($0).

I think we can all agree on these simple truths, and based on these truths:

mac user: a fool recently parted from his money.

there fixed it for ya

perhaps you speak some truth, but:

I would imagine Mac users are also...

More likely to passionately believe that Obama is the Messiah.
More likely to scoff at people who don't have the right $150 jeans from Abercrombie.
More likely to be overpriveleged spoiled children of rich parents.

In short, more likely to be young self hating white democrat socialist surrender monkeys?

>>No. Just no.
probably written on a mac
Indeed "urban" IS code for "black" which may not work in this context because "black" is not code for "computer owner."

that 52/25/23 split is the breakout of hunch users, which is already a skewed sample set (people who like hunch). using the market share numbers instead I calculate that amongst the (perhaps less skewed) sample set of "people who own computers" 38% are liberal, 61% are conservative.

this pleases me because: I think people who buy macs are sad fashion victims, that (white) liberals are self hating fully brainwashed morons, and that the "higher education" system is a lot more about creating mac-loving whitey-hating libdrones than learning anything.

The say slavery is over, but Obama is clearly up for sale.

i suspect that microsoft inadvertently helped define the netbook: manufacturers wanted to use XP, microsoft wanted XP to die already (still does.) Microsoft parried with the XP-ULPC license, which I believe was only to be installed on machines with no more than 1GB ram and 160GB hard drive. So there's part of the standard. Throw in a 9 or 10 inch display and delete the optical drive and we have arrived in netbook land.

my dual-boot Acer Aspire runs 3.5 hours of XP, or 2.0 hours of Ubuntu netbook edition. Linux power management sucks. The laptop is now the "desktop," so until Linux gets serious about power it's going to be relegated to a beige/black box under your desk/in your server closet.

The only glaring problem that I can find with ubuntu 10 is power management.
XP = 3.5 hours of battery
ubuntu = 2.25 hours of battery

The Pak Scouts ran one bussard ramjet in front of another, with the second burning the exhaust from the first as fuel! If you don't have a hyperdrive, all that hydrogen is a feature, not a bug.

I still have an old 32" crt Magnavox TV with SmartSound. It works incredibly well, and you actually want to leave it on for movies. IIRC, the reason that Magnavox doesn't make SmartSound is that congressional douchebags made the technology illegal at the behest of Madison Avenue.