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I've used windows and osx extensively (and a touch of linux) and from my perspective windows has the advantage.
It beats out linux in commercial software, such as Adobe and autodesk products.
It narrowly edges out OSX for a similar reason. Much of autodesk is PC only and many of the open-source tools and utilities that I like and use are PC only or pc and linux. (Like Ultra copier, Folder size, etc...)
I see it like this:
All living things require other things to live and to eventually reproduce and viruses are no different. We're all missing SOMETHING, They're just missing bits that are particularly strange to us.
Take vitamin C. Most animals can synthesize it naturally, but humans consume it frequently enough that we've lost the ability to synthesize it. Without it, we would die and never reproduce.
Viruses probably came about in a similar way. They started out having reproductive pieces, but they encountered the reproductive machinery in their environment enough that their own wasn't needed any more, so they lost it.
Take this analogy: say humans create a machine that creates babies for people using their own DNA from a saliva sample. This machine becomes so popular that no one does it the traditional way any more. (bare with me, it's a thought experiment) Our sex organs would be redundant, so we would eventually lose them. Would humans still be alive if they outsourced reproduction to environmental machinery? I think so.
I think the definition of "alive" needs to be simply "has self replicating molecules" without specifying that it must contain the machinery required for replication within itself.
Don't be lazy, ladies!
Guys pee about 4-5 times as frequently as they crap. The request of "keep it down" requires men to change the seat position TWICE 5 out of the 6 times they visit the toilet, Just so women can change the seat position 0 times! On top of it all, this forces men to bend over twice from an upright position. Ladies must already be bent over to use the toilet anyway so it's only marginally more difficult to flip the seat on the way.
The most fair solution is that each party changes it for themselves! Up for guys, down for girls. This nets less than 1 change per person per visit.
The ultimate solution, of course, would be to install a urinal, making it 0 changes per person AND saving water.
XBox360 has well over double the install base of the PS3. This traditionally makes a system last much longer because new games continue to be released for it even after the next generation of hardware comes out.
Developers need to make money on their games, and the larger the install base, the larger the potential sales. This is going to cause a gradual pattern of software drifting to the XBox360 (we've already seen it with square) which will stifle sales on the PS3, causing a self-reinforcing loop, eventually leaving PS3 owners high and dry near the end of this console generation.
This pattern has repeated 4 times in history with the PS2, the PS1, the SNES and NES systems. All destroying their competitors and being the only systems to still recieve software late in the system generation cycle.
(We can ignore the wii in this generation because it's not a direct competitor with the 360 or PS3; It can't play the same titles due to savere power limitations. It's found it's own Niche if you will. The Wii may likely outlast the 360 and ps3, but that remains to be seen)
Prostitution is inseparably connected to unclean health practices.
If someone has sex with people for a living, we're talking about a DRASTICALLY higher risk of contracting and spreading STDs, despite the various prophylactics available. Remember no prophylactic is perfect as preventing the spread of disease. (besides full-body plastic-wrap)
We're constantly warring with the quick evolution of viruses, and one our our best weapons is avoiding the conflict. Prostitution puts you on the front lines, and although it may be your personal perogative, you may be hurting mankind as a whole by increasing the likelihood of virus evolution.
Also, the many of the people who need to pay for sex are probably already at a higher risk for having diseases.
Did you ever think that STDs might be one of the factors that led cultural evolution to value things like virginity and marrage?
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