Thanks, I logged in to facebook (and temporarily allowed their scripts), which I almost never do these days, to post this too.

Bah, it was OK - and it's even more OK now that people can move from these issues and choose to show ${X}B or ${X}iB depending which they mean, binary or decimal kilo based units.

In this case (with no idea of his country, but as his non-american-fellowman) I really would prefer that. I flame Americans/Yanks now and then, but I never do it claiming that a person is bad/sucks/whatever because his American, or generalize some common things I criticize about American culture or people to be all targets of what I criticize.

Also I accept that there are things to criticize about any country, mine too...

Just a note, connection speeds are normally in bits, not bytes, etc. 1Mbps = 1 megabit per second.

Was there GiB's (or rather MiB's, gigabyte drives were not common yet) when HD manufacturers started using 1000-base (and that weird 1024*1000 on floppies - what's that about then?)? And was 1024 for kilo already used on computers - like HD manufacturers knew - for pretty much anything, right or wrong?

So what was their motive? To use units that people understood? Ha...

Kb is kilobits, not kilobytes. KB is kilobytes.

You should be receiving positive mod points - sadly it seems to be the opposite... can't help but think...

What the fuck are you smoking? I watched that video, and maybe you should too before you reply.

Now I didn't plan to take part on this argument and all I'm saying here is that the video clearly is not about what you think it is - and it's title is some kind of stupid scam (not clever scam, there's nothing "clever" about posting video about X and claiming it's about Y).

Funny that Finnish universities teach computing science, or "Tietojenkäsittelytiede" (engl. computer science, computing science or information processing science)

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tietojenk%C3%A4sittelytiede
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science

Did he try C-_ ? I haven't made an editing error that's not possible to undo with emacs yet... And yes, it can cause big things you didn't mean to if you enter wrong key combo - anyone who knows emacs knows this and has decided to use it despise that. If they don't know how to *undo an editing command* then that's just stupid - to use emacs for anything important that is. In fact using any editor without knowing how to undo would be.

I would blame myself, were I him.

It didn't take me one year to learn use it more powerfully than other editors I had tried. My general take on editor wars is: *pffft* - but blaming editor for it's features - instead of just deciding that those features have cons that make it not good for you personally - is just silly. Not saying that all your arguments were just that - but your main ones seemed to be.

Yeah, I like emacs, as you probably guessed, but it's rare for me to enter any editor war kind of talk even this deeply. I'll probably regret it.

While I have no idea what, if anything specific, HURD is targeted at, I have to say about Linux that considering work on hardware support and other stuff that clearly is not something you need on servers or embedded devices, desktops (and pretty much anything they can make it run on) are very much ongoing "target" of Linux. I believe Linux targets anything it can/could be useful on.

While it was news to me (thank you), the article actually said only this about linux drivers:
"...there is a ported Linux 2.6.32 drivers layer for network adapters...",
and for fuller quote of that paragraph:

PS. I didn't pick Sheldon Cooper just because of being language nerd but even more importantly because of his lack of social skills and how it affects argumentation.

I didn't mean to sound as strong as I likely did - it probably seems like I have an issue that actually makes me feel constantly pissed off when on this site.
It's much milder than that.
Also, apologies for misunderstanding your humor. My message however was not meant as direct attack against yours and very much general, not personal - that too might have not been obvious from my post.

I do get annoyed by people who seem to be unable to *not* misunderstand others posts on purpose and then making argument based on that - but not so much it keeps me pissed off. I choose to stay because I get way more good than bad vibes out of this site ;)

I hear you.
I repeat my apology and swear that it was not intended as personal attack on you but born of frustration from posts that take the issue I complained about into a whole other level :p

Oh, being a bi-sexual I can assure gay-bars are not (always anyway) full of queers only ;)
Oh, and that Sheldon reference was just something that came into my mind that moment - to actually try not sound as serious as I obviously did.
But may I offer a virtual hand-shake on this? It's clearly not you I have any beef with (and my post did come out sounding much more exaggerator-like than I meant to ) :)

Mostly true and/or agree, but - just for example - every ARM system in future which is of no use but could be repurposed by someone if it only had unlocked bootloader is a sad failure and wrong on more than one level.
Or if the version of windows install it has is messed and all you'd need was re-install but the version isn't supported anymore... or... you keep on.

The fact is that in the end of Win ARM devices use a number of them will have possible other uses they could be useful for, but unless the lock-in can be broken they will be just bricks - only worse as waste.