"In Vista/Longhorn server, the file system (NTFS) will start supporting a new filesystem object (examples of existing filesystem objects are files, folders etc.). This new object is a symbolic link. Think of a symbolic link as a pointer to another file system object (it can be a file, folder, shortcut or another symbolic link)." More news out of Redmond: "Microsoft will add a 'Save As' function in its upcoming Microsoft Office 12 for publishing the developer's own electronic document format, XPS, another move in a competitive campaign against Adobe."
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Yea, like one didn't have to suffer all kinds of insults directed at 'windows users' all the time here.
Last I remember, that's not an excuse. Both represent a bad behavior and should be condemned. However, you'll notice that pro-Linux posters usually attack Microsoft, not Windows users, so it is not something we see "all the time" as you suggest. In fact, many of them are Windows users as well. On the other hand, it seems that anti-Linux posters often direct their bile towards Linux users, who are portrayed as quasi-religious fanatics.
Any such remark, no matter how absolutive, is in fact restricted by the behaviour expressed after, i.e., if one says 'linux users do X because they're Y', only those who really do X are being called Y.
Following your flawed logic, I could say "Windows users beat their wives because they're violent" and then claim that I merely meant that only those who really beat their wives are called violent.
Words have meaning, and absolute statements have absolute meanings (and are more often than not wrong...). Trying to prove the contrary is dooming onself to failure.
Edited 2005-11-01 06:32
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"Linux users have such single-track minds."
"Linux users" used here as an absolute (it's a noun for all users of Linux).
Yea, like one didn't have to suffer all kinds of insults directed at 'windows users' all the time here.
Any such remark, no matter how absolutive, is in fact restricted by the behaviour expressed after, i.e., if one says 'linux users do X because they're Y', only those who really do X are being called Y.