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  1. assimpleaspossi
    Cause there are fewer police watching and there are no consequences for these people's actions.
  2. assimpleaspossi
    If a phone needs a case, then phones should be sold with a case included. I hate cases and have never put one on my phone--and have never had a phone break or crack.
  3. assimpleaspossi
    A lot of the issue has to do with marketing. Some people name their tool for the pizazz it might generate and gain them fame or it's an actual company motivation. Instead of a hammer is a hammer and a heavy hammer should be named "heavy_hammer".

    EDIT: I just noticed that the marketing angle is mentioned in the article.

  4. assimpleaspossi
    >As a Professor of English who teaches programming to humanities students

    That is the strangest thing I've heard today.

  5. assimpleaspossi
    I agree that separation of concerns might bring better content but I can't afford buying multiple services in hopes of catching what I want.

    (Actually, I can afford it but I'm ... frugal.)

  7. assimpleaspossi
    I owned a string of fast food restaurants. I had the ability to not hire anyone under age 20 if I didn't have to. When I did, the requirement was that they be in college but, in every case, I found that these kids, who returned for summer work every year, did a lot of growing up between the ages of 18 and 20.
  8. assimpleaspossi
    In the era of dinosaurs, neither MASM nor Windows existed but we still did assembly or micro-coding (machine coding) or flipped switches.
  9. assimpleaspossi
    It was early and I couldn't think of all the desktop names so I Googled for "popular Linux desktops" and that's one of them it gave me. Apparently Linux runs a "most 1990s WM that ever 1990s'd".
  10. assimpleaspossi
    So you're saying KDE and Gnome and xfce and enlightenment and openBox, etc, are all desktops that run like the 90s? These current versions, and many more, run on FreeBSD.
  11. assimpleaspossi
    And, again, "pkg install <your_favorite_desktop>" done. Quit pulling blurbs out of thin air when you don't know how it works.
  12. assimpleaspossi
    After you install the base system, install your favorite desktop by doing "pkg install <your_favorite_desktop>" and it's done.

    What's so difficult?

  13. assimpleaspossi
    You don't have to reinstall with every software upgrade. Reliability and long term uptime are the norm.
  14. assimpleaspossi
    >>I believe that success Linux has had is because of copyleft, and *BSD are riding on the coat tails of that.

    Apparently many here are unaware of the history and story as to what stalled FreeBSD in a long lawsuit involving ATT. You need to read up on that. Copyleft had nothing to do with it.

  15. assimpleaspossi
    WOW! This is great!! What is it?
  16. assimpleaspossi
    This is how my co-worker's son turned from a happy, energetic 8-year old into a 400 pound 20-something who does nothing but play games as soon as he comes home from work. It consumes his whole life.
  17. assimpleaspossi
    >>it doesn't fill the yawning void left by

    Or Gateway Electronics in St Louis

  18. assimpleaspossi
    >>you get to see something that is (close to) thinking.

    Isn't that still "not thinking"?

  19. assimpleaspossi
    Without looking or knowing all your requirements, it's likely everything you need works the same. (I don't know anything about gnu/coreutils.)

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