If you see a troll post, treat it like an Xbox 360. Just do a 360 and walk away.
If you do a 360 you would end up facing the same way you came making it quite impossible to walk away unless you walk backwards.
Unless, of course, that by 'do' you instead suggest we have sexual relations with a games machine.
I find that most people I switch to Linux love it...
it doesn't require a re-install every couple of months.
Hmm I'd say this issue can actually sometimes be even worse on Linux.
While you may not need to be reinstall it, it will usually request to be updated quite frequently and this is often a hairy process for the non technical.
I have lost count of the number of times where I was asked what was meant when the updater threw up some odd message. Examples include:
"Unable to find expected entry [some component] in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)"
"ERROR:root:Dist-upgrade failed: 'E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks.....'"
"subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 101"
"Could not calculate the upgrade"
or simply a basic can't find that message like: "failed to fetch [some component] 404 error"
Sure, people who post here are often quite able to deal with these kind of messages but my mom certainly can't.
When I wasn't able to get there physically it was often easier to simply ask people to install the latest version from
scratch rather than to update.
The original COD and UT99 games worked wonderfully right out of the box
Not quite.
The original COD, while a great game, had a great big bug that occasionally made players
essentially invulnerable during multiplayer deathmatch.
As I recall it was a case of the hitbox calculations getting haywire.
I had an awesome video where I showed off my 'übergamer skills' by wiping out the entire opposing team on my own - multiple times.
Not a great feat when it turns out they cannot hit you with neither guns nor grenades.
To be fair, it takes far fewer towers to cover all of Finland compared to the United states
Yes, but the US also has vastly more population. And, more importantly more population per square meter.
Finland comes in at the 201st place with regards to pop density at 16 ppl per square km. The US has 34!
What the hell does it matter that the US is big? The cost is amortized over the number of end users you have.
It's not like rail or power lines where you need right of way; all you need one single location in each area for a
cell tower.
You guys have on average twice as many people in a given area who need access to cell phones and yet you
still manage to get your ass severely beat by the Finns with regards to coverage. Just accept it: Your phone
providers suck - hard.
If we lived in a tiny country like Sweden or Japan, it would be easy to have infrastructure in place for good internet speeds for all. "Unfortunately" for us, we just have too much room here in the USA.
This argument would make sense if Sweden was indeed geographically tiny and densely populated, however, it is not.
Sweden is actually far less densely populated than the US (source: Wikipedia and Nationmaster).
As for geography Sweden may be quite thin but this is not exactly useful for reducing costs for mobile infrastructure
since the signals from the mobile radio masts propagates in all directions forming a rough circle.
If you try to overlay Sweden on the continental US (just look at Google maps/earth) you would actually be able to enter
Sweden in Canada and exit it in Mexico without ever setting foot in the US.
In other words: Despite having less money per capita, fewer residents per square mile, a less suitable geographical shape and
being largely covered by forests blocking the the signals Sweden still manages to achieve better service than the continental US.
The excuse that the US has worse service because it is harder to reach all corners is and will always remain complete BS.
The service sucks because the operators lack competition and don't want to invest any more of their earnings than they absolutely
have to on infrastructure.
This _current_ BBC pedophilia scandal is far greater than what the slashdot article is letting on here.
Pedophilia is rampant in the uk and elsewhere in the social golden-spoon strata McAlpine hails from...
Google for BBC pedophilia scandal, there is far more than just this going on.
It's ironical that in your comment you provide a much worse example of how to depict people as criminals without any evidence than anything the BBC has done.
The wages of sin are unreported.
