You say you are(were..) an ardent Linux fan but you think it doesn't suffice for a desktop. I absolutely agree with the reason to not look around for every other thing just to do a simple config change or an install/reinstall, but I assume you have tried the most popular Ubuntu distribution. Were there any problems you faced in it ? Currently I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 alongside. Though I absolutely hate the Unity interface, but still from a plain user's perspective, it appears to be quite ok for a desktop operating system.

You are just citing a very common question asked in universities. But come to think of it, is determining n most frequent words a part of your daily job. Anyway, I never said that powershell was better than bash. If you see the quoted text, the context was bash vs cmd., I just made it to bash vs powershell.
And for your answer, here you go -
Get-Content file.text | Group | Sort | ft name,count -Autosize
Now you see the coolness of it ? ;)

Well, you have powershell for that. In case you didn't know, Powershell is windows' answer to bash. It is a runtime interpreter, has a programming language of its own and can automate any kind of administrative task in seconds. Its pretty cool.

The guy was just trying his part as Bane.. just overdid a bit..

Media right ?? Thats what usually happens. Personally, I don't think the UI elements introduced in HTML 5 like drag-drop, placeholder, content-editable etc. etc.. won't be much of a use because there are already super stable javascript libraries for that. I am not at all willing to rewrite the existing code just to make my site HTML5 compliant. Other than that, the backend stuff like client side storage, websocket protocol, geolocation APIs are the cool stuff I am looking forward to using.

Its a long time Yahoo brought about some great product. Its high time they move on from a purely website to creating some products. Probably this might bring about this change.

Windows 1.03 ?? Did that even exist ? I thought the oldest was Windows 3.1 .

Absolutely. This article shouldn't even be here. He could have just said what is better Linux or Windows ?

I find that really surprising, because I pin apps too and the items in my desktop are folders and files, no shortcuts. Now to launch a rarely used app, I use the start button. In fact, I feel to remove the start button is to move out users from their comfort zone. This is just too much of a change. There is a learning curve involved with this again, and thats just too steep.

So do we need Mjolnir for this ?

To infinity and beyond !

So you claim it to be an instant tower sort of thing, whoa that's cool.. :) These Chinese and their tendency to always do things quickly. (P.S. an intended joke)

Ruby is red, Pe(a)rl is white, But my gal Python is a dynamite ! Luv ya Python, my sweet pie.. ;)

If you bring evolution to this, a lot of this can be contradicted.

First question- Why would they need water to reproduce in the first place? Why didn't evolution happen to occur in some other way. Even if by someway, we accept that they need water for reproduction, they don't need to be resistant to rain for this. Water and rain are entirely two different things. Even we need water to live, but that doesn't mean we are resistant to floods. Even the word "resistant" is ambiguous. So what I am trying to say is that the falling raindrop doesn't affect the flight of a mosquito, simple as that. Why ? because of their body structure. Now why their body structure is like that is a question that somebody else have to answer.

Just one question- What do you do now ??