Guys, if one wants a Linux/Windows/OS X thread it can be found in every other frickin' topic on here.
Please, pretty please, can we not make the TEA thread another one of those?
Please don't make me get the cluebat ...
come on man... you're jumping the "OT Nazi" gun a LITTLE quick here.
We've had three pages that are at least 50% general computer stuff and it's started to get onto choice of operating system. I don't think it's jumping the gun to ask nicely, really nicely, to draw it to a close. "Off topic" is pretty loose here, and I'm perfectly happy with that, but there's a difference between a couple of pages of shed talk on the delights of post-pub-nosh from around the world and getting into the perennial, persistent, perpetual, pernicious, peripatetic wibble that is the Internet discussing OS choice.
And what is wrong with a few pages of 50% general PC griping? If we were actively arguing about it, yeah, I could see... but this is just good-natured water-cooler talk, and unlike most such chatter, it didn't devolve into virtual cat-calling or chest-beating. Smeesh. It is EXACTLY the same as the above "Shed talk"; in fact it IS just that.
It's just venting; everybody needs to do that, and they need to do it in the company of friends for it to help.Nice string of "P" words there, though.
Well-played.
The problem is that it's not a seed that has been planted, but a tree that has grown through various threads and now creeps into this one. Enough is enough, we don't need the same discussion in 14 threads.
Oh, FFS... that's like saying talking about water or air is an offshoot of discussion from another thread.
Ontogeny does NOT recapitulate Phylogeny, no matter how many times you read such in dusty old tomes that were wrong. They were STILL all WRONG.
This subject matter was born here of honest discussion, it belongs here, and getting bent outta shape because you've seen any or all of it in a dozen other threads is really a matter of tuning your personal annoyance filters rather than anything really wrong with the content.
If you think that random good-natured venting about OSes should be a "Third Rail" Godwin's Law type thing, then there's something seriously wrong with the SNR in your own perspective matrix.
Like Dave showed recently useful on Ohms for localising a short on a PCB, but you need the digits
Yep, you're right and that is about the only time the extra digits are really useful and meaningful IMHO
Most of the time they just vacillate wildly, mocking you as you try to see the pattern in the random flipping digits.
I don't need a machine to mock me; I have two children and a wife to do that. mnem
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