* Homer peremptorily fired off this memo:
> As to the /author's/ claim that it "takes a significant multiple of 25
> minutes to do a clean install of Windows XP or Windows Vista", that is
> certainly true if one considers that installing Windows only gives you
> an OS and nothing more. The base install probably takes between twenty
> minutes to one hour depending on the hardware, but then to get back up
> to a fully loaded system can take days or even /weeks/ of intermittent
> work. I know this from *my* experience. And let's face it, there can't
> be many Windows users who don't have considerable experience of having
> to constantly reinstall the Vole's finest Slopware?
It takes me about a day to rebuild a work XP system with all our
dev-process software working on it.
It takes about an hour to do the same for my Linux system.
The difference is even clearer when I realize I forgot an application:
Linux: 1 minute update
XP: Search for the install disk, often involving asking people
where the hell they put it; find the friggin' product key;
wait; reboot.
--
"Creation science" has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple
and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and
because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be
more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our
entire intellectual heritage -- good teaching -- than a bill forcing
honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment
to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any
general understanding of science as an enterprise?
-- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Skeptical Inquirer", Vol. 12, page 186
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