That is not my experience. I had wireless drivers on no less than Dell c400 machines that refused to install on a fresh MSDN XP install. No amount of drivers downloading a kludging did anything to get it running. The same PC was running fine with its wireless card under linux.

I had the same experience with quite a lot of windows install. Very very frustrating.

In general I found that basic hardware had a better chance to work properly in linux, and that when something didn't work, it worked a few month later, "out of the box". Generally, not all features of the hardware can be used, while in windows everything will work, provided you succeed at installing the driver.

Of course, for quite a lot esoteric hardware, linux support did not materialize and never will.

Fdisk /mbr ?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69013

> Yup, Cocoa then was comparable to .NET, circa 2001.

Another way to look at this is to say that .NET circa 2001 was a comparable to NeXT Foundation + AppKit, circa 1993 (NeXTstep 3.0)

> .NET has had a lot of development since then, though.

Good thing. I've been told that NeXT libraries also had some maintenance since early 90's :-)

You really want OSX to do NUMA?

> When I tried out BeOS R4, I was really impressed but couldn't really use it day to day. Ever since then I've been looking for the next best thing but never found it.

You should have looked at NeXT at this time. It was waaay better than BeOS.

Thanks for posting the links, even if I'm afraid that I have to tag them "tl;dr". It seems that the article is a claim of evilness for the following Kuhn statements:

I believe strongly that all published software should be Free Software. Users should get all the freedoms as defined in the Free Software Definition and Today, some argue that the "right to choose your own software license" is the greatest software freedom. By contrast, I think that, like slavery, it is an inappropriate power, not a freedom. are the points of contention.

Well, first, I write proprietary software for a living, and I don't think that his position is particularly "evil". Extreme, yes. Evil ? Not that sure. I can see his point that law should be written to avoid enslavement of people by software. If you think in the long term, it sortof make sense:

See, when copyright was created, it was absolutely reasonable, and served the purpose of information and culture diffusion. Today, you don't have the right to sing Happy Birthday in a movie. And you will never have it again.

So, I can totally understand the FSF concern that, in some not so distant future, you may be totally locked out of software you use, due to restrictive licensing. I can easily envision a world where you can't develop an application that send data on the internet without having to pay for a specific license, and in which that license will only be granted by an opaque process, where you can be locked out if your application is not welcome.

So, it is his opinion, it is maybe excessive, but I don't find the guy "evil" for that...

Go ahead, post the links...

I think the issue is just one of practicality. If either:
1) You are doing something big and have not enough pieces to have the luxury of choosing colors
or
2) You don't have the time to both do what you want and choose the right color
or
3) You are not following a plan, you just grow something organically, depending on the bricks you can see
then you end up mixing colors, and it doesn't matter.
When a child start doing LEGO, he doesn't have enough pieces, often doesn't have time to search for the right pieces (it is quite rare to see a children bricks sorted in different bins), and don't follow very structured plans. So he develops a sort of color blindness. I know I was like that.
Projects where colors are matched seems to be done by older people, with a lot of bricks to choose from, good organization and a solid idea of how you want to build the thing.
So, I'd say, yes, it is when you get older that you start being more careful about the colors.

I deep linked to a bigger version of this image. Seems that the site owner didn't like that. Ooops.

3 or 4 years ago, when LEGO moved their fabrication to eastern europe, bricks became shoddy (didn't snap with the same force, were as flat as they used to be). Colors became less uniform.

I have sets that I refuse to throw with he other ones, because the pieces are weak. I mostly stopped buying LEGO at this point.

I'm happy to hear that they have supposedly solved their quality problem.

Having specialized pieces and 4 or 5 kits is cool. My kids have around 50 of 60 kits (around 20K pieces), so specialized pieces are just lost in the mess.
Fun thing is that my kids turned to bigger scale reuse, where functional blocks of 10 or 20 bricks are reused from kits to kits. That gives most of their work a weird Tetsuo feel...

Oh, yeah ?

Holy crap, it does work ! I got myself a karma cleaning spell, and now, I can't use the +1 posting bonus anymore !

Woow. I have a hard time to believe that:

1/ You actually do that
2/ Valuable candidates will go through this process
3/ You can link a reduction of turnover to such process ...unless the jobs are too good to pass out. Say like lego master builder, or something like that...

Nope. The document you pointed to is about computed goto in *IBM*XL* C/C++

In C99 goto *f() and &&a are both no-no.