My ex-girlfriend is an oldbagger.
Does that make me sexist?

Just what makes you think I am "football"? You're aware of your difference?
Oh. Sorry - we *are* talking about American universities here!

Cheap shi.. uhh, shot.
Time to grow up, sonny boy!
This phenomenon has already been explained quite explicitly
at the SLASHDOT TIMECUBE!
Well known here amongst us slashdot cognoscenti. Where ya been?

Wait... WAIT!
I have a friend- Stanley Pons!
With a bit of Fleishman margarine, I think this can be arranged!

They have laid off (actually given a 1 year sabbatical) to a couple of Ecuadorean, or Peruvian physicists for 2012.

" OK you Mayans- go have fun - report back here in 2013.""

Ubuntu. is really so much harder to use than Microsoft Windows. Everything on Microsoft Windows just works, and you have to fuss with Ubuntu to get it to do what you want, keep it from getting a virus, hunt all over the web to get software updates..... I think the only reason Dell does this is because Ubuntu is setup to do anything useful or keep it running. With the Microsoft Windows they don't sell any add-on software because Microsoft Windows already has everything it needs to work.

NO I DID NOT!
Apparently you do not realize that Slashdot has a Morse code end-

Most of us here read and write these message via Morse code.
Where have yo been these last 5 years, sonny?

Oh and F. hang around with a real AA member or two for a few days

Yeah.. well.. MAN-
I actually belong to PETA, but I see nothing wrong with dispatching the occasional squirrel
But in my case, I would EAT the damn creature, before using its hide to cover a beer-can.
You do the creature honour in this way instead of sacrilege.

Why do I belong to PETA? Because every time I hear some yahoo rant "Duh.. dem stoopid PETA peepul! Why are dey so stoopid?", I just vow to renew my membership. or increase my donation.
Bur believe me, if a rat or squirrel gets into my attic to chew on the insulation or electrical wires , if all else (live-trapping) fails, I will kill it.

LOL! ROFL! (As a perpetual /. bad karma guy (they hate me here), sadly I have no modpointz to give you)

...Reminds me of an old friend who once told me- "Geez man I was sooo pissed last nite that I blew chunks!"

me: "Hey man! It's OK! We've all done that on occasion."

"You don't understand! Chunks is my pet squirrel!"

..huh. No wonder I have bad karma.

NO, DAMMIT!
Don't you realize?
You get to SHOOT the squirrel afterwards.

Cat? Monkey? WTF...?

Lissen,you pussies-
I want coffee brewed from beans shat out of Chuck Norris's ass!
And maybe beer that's been burped by Chuck!

Exactly.
I'd mod you up, but for some strange reason I am considered bad here.
Probably just 'cause I like Win7 as much as Ubuntu.

Heh!
I'm a parent. and almost 70. so far my kids aren't even interested in ubuntu, even though i have set them up to dual boot it.
In my strange world it seems the parents are geeks, the kids are (non)studiously avoiding this peculiar life style.
Mind you, they have pretty fast thumbs when it comes to cellphones!

I will not bother to read this complete thread - I've already wasted enuf time perusing the first 100 or so "witty" answers from, presumably, landlubbers.
So you may have gotten replies already similar to mine.
But we've sailed a 45' yacht several times from Lake Champlain ==> NYC ==> Caribbean and back, (No, not the inland waterway) as well as side trips to Bermuda with our Dell and Toshiba laptop with no damage whatsoever to them from salt. Obviously you do not take the laptop up on deck if the sea is rough.
My friend has a satellite phone- most of these come with serial port /USB attachment and the software for a PC. The sat-phone is of course a bit more expensive than the usual cell-phone.
The one we have used is good only for dialup speeds, but we have managed to exchange email on the open seas day and night.
As well we have hene managesto download UGRIB weather report for displaying on the laptops.

If you wish hi-speed however, no sure if it's available. Better to bring a big stack of torrented movie AVIs on DVD like we do!