I understand it just fine. I run linux on a server and have it installed in various VMs to mess with. I wouldn't dream of running it as my main machine as I feel Linux just isn't ready for prime time on the desktop.

I have no problem fixing various things when they come up but they come up far, far too frequently for a consumer level OS.

Whatever it does RDP is far, far faster and more versatile than X forwarding. X forwarding is slow and buggy to the point that I use vnc on my unix servers and vnc is awful.

I live in Olathe and we have had fiber to the curb for a few years. I had 25 up/down for a while and downgraded it to 10/10 to save cost. I didn't notice a huge difference other than large files. Of course the difference between 25 and 10 is pretty small maybe with gb I would find new ways to use the internet that I had not considered before.

You don't understand reflection evidently. Reflection is a core feature of languages such as C# and java. You simply can't get rid of it without completely redesigning the language.

This isn't a problem with reflection as much as sloppy programming. There is zero reason why a competent development team couldn't make reflection perfectly safe.

Reflection in C# is used all the time. If you have written anything more complicated than hello world you have definitely used it. Not directly but the APIs you call use it.

Do a serious calculation on what you pay in vs what you get back. Also consider what you are likely to get back on eventual medicare spending. Insurance will eventually drop you when you get old.

Believe it or not most middle class people break even. Now if you don't have (or don't plan to have) children you are correct.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOwSPccbzl4

It holds it own on a road course with a professional driver.

My experience has always been the opposite. Linux for me has been far less tolerant of bad hardware than windows but honestly both have done well for me over the years.

The perfect game for me would be a KSP + Orbiter Mix.

For those looking at orbiter be sure to get the directx plugin. Windows 7 pretty much requires it for decent performance @ full screen.

In my area the jobs are looking for "software engineers" when they mean developers. To get past HR drones the resumes need to reflect this. They could call the role turbo monkey chicken designer and I would claim that title as well (provided I was qualified for it of course).

I always took this for granted until I took a close look at the most active bread basket areas along with the 2012/2008 election results. The strong bread basket area actually went blue. Blue counties would be fine for food anyhow. Plus they would have California so they would have the good food not just bread. ;)

And it is awful. All remote desktop access to unix/Mac is awful. X, Vnc, no-machine. Windows excels at this which is funny because they started out not having this functionality at all and unix folks would make fun of them for lacking it. Now it is the unix variants that largely lack a usable technology in this space. Of course it is rarely needed as unix servers excel at being administrated via shell and windows sucks at that.

Rdp over ssh works well and is many times faster than X or VNC.

I have been doing this a long time. Very, very few companies care about degrees once you have a certain amount of experience.

A tablet doesn't do content creation but it does account for nearly 80% of my non work related Internet activity now (the other 20% would be my smartphone). I find that in most cases it is a better experience than a pc.

So in the future I could definitely see a tablet/phone hooking up to an external monitor and becoming your PC but we aren't there yet.

In the case of windows you double click on the MSI/EXE and go through the installer.

On linux you type apt-get install uh hrmm I forgot the syntax. Or maybe it is yum something or other. Oh wait there is this distribution specific marketplace app that occasionally works.