yea, I have worked with a lot of them. Guess what, they can not talk to the village next door, and often would prefer to burn the people in the village next door rather than talk to them.

If it was not for Spanish, many villages in Guatemala would not be able to talk to each other at all (many still do not speak Spanish). That is assuming they wanted to talk to them. Other than the artificial boarder drawn on the map, it would be hard to say there is anything like a "Mayan" or "Guatemalan" culture beyond a fairly fuzzy generalization. Most of those cultures where simple farmers and owned by the Mayan. They most likly never knew much about the Mayan written language.

Patent Trolls suck! They need to stopped. And, the government needs to step in and stop them. They are killing technology in more areas then just home automation.

The most recent cycle transition was in year 2000 (which was a leap year when it otherwise wouldn't have been).

Just to be extra pedantic, the year 2000 was always going to be a leap year in the Gregorian calendar.

The standard OPLC deployment includes a school server.

The model used for reference material such as Wikipedia, text books or this is to put the material on the school server. All the XOs in the area have fast wireless access and the school server has the hard drive space to store and serve all the data.

> All it would take is one really bad Windows Update to turn off 70% of the
> Internet.

Yes but we're discussing the part that would actually be missed.

Win2k has go to be my favorite MS OS of all time. It is stable, runs everything flawlessly for the most part, is low on system resources for the most part, and basically it just works. What is there to hate?

So why did the mass market go with XP then? My opinion matters very little it seems especially when the market does not agree with me.

I'm sure everyone reading this knows that for the most part XP is nothing but a gui overhal from win2k. There is little to no difference except XP consumes much more ram than 2k because of the gui.

So here I am conflicted again for the exact same reason when it comes to Vista and 7. 7 is like the 2k and Vista is like the XP. If your system matches spec then both will benchmark nearly identical in every way.

So why are people so hyped up about 7? Do all consumers seem to care about is the GUI? It drives me nuts! I can understand that if you have 2gigs of ram or less 7 will perform better but other than that is there really that much of a difference? How can the mass market hate one thing while loving another yet they are both one in the same just wearing a different skin.

This whole situation makes me want to yell hypocrite for anyone who hates vista but loves 7. The catch is I love 7 and hate vista myself...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267888
I guess patches are welcome...

When SSDs come down A LOT in price, and up in size, maybe.

Go do a search on Newegg. Biggest they've got is 256GB, of those, the cheapest is $595. You can get several terabytes for that price with a magnetic hard drives.

SSDs have a place, but as a general replacement for magnetic hard drives they are too expensive with too little capacity.

There is also more to the file system than access speed.

Return of the Living Dead had a similar message at the beginning of the film. So did Blair Witch project. These were clearly fiction. Well.. I say that. I did actually know someone who was convinced that the Blair Witch events actually happened, even going so far to say that the actors who were doing the talkshow circuit were just lookalikes... but he really was an idiot, so I guess that should be expected.

-Restil

I love Ubuntu and have it on my desktop and netbook. I don't put it on my main laptop because, as I understand, it's had issues with killing the hard drive in laptops.

Say what? I've never heard of this. I've been running Ubuntu on my laptop (a T61) since Feisty, and I've never had my harddrive "[killed]". Do you have any citation for this claim?

My point is that at this time either outcome is just as likely, neither outcome can be favored. Frankly, arguing about which of two events is going to happen is an exercise in futility anyway, either Apple will or will not implement this in their OS and it doesn't matter what either of us thinks about that. In fact, the decision has probably already been made and we just aren't aware.

I wonder if I can point my dropbox folder at my ubuntu one folder and have redundant web based syncing