Elevation - Google Earth

Quoted message said:

I knew a girl from Colorado[1] who told me, after she had toured
Scotland, that she was surprised how big the mountains were.

I think she really meant "not as puny as she expected". Or maybe she
came from eastern CO, which is as flat as a pancake.

Quoted message said:

I told her it was just that her mountains started higher up.

I am guessing that you have never actually seen the Rockies?

--
Peter Headland

Peter Headland said:

Quoted message said:

I knew a girl from Colorado[1] who told me, after she had
toured Scotland, that she was surprised how big the mountains
were.

I think she really meant "not as puny as she expected". Or
maybe she came from eastern CO, which is as flat as a pancake.

Quoted message said:

I told her it was just that her mountains started higher up.

I am guessing that you have never actually seen the Rockies?

Not in real life, I know the Rockies are a lot bigger and I would like
to go there one day[1].
I'm not sure where she was from but when we were watching Silver
Streak and the train went past the Rockies she said that's near where
she came from.
--
the.Mark

[1] In a list of hundreds of other places I'd like to see.

Nick Kew <[email hidden]> wrote:

I think you misunderstood there. My reading of the original post was that
99% of KDE users are linux users, not that 99% of linux users run KDE
(an easily disproved statistic)

Quoted message said:

My own first encounter with KDE was on FreeBSD, where the
choice was more limited and KDE was one that happened to
work 'out of the box'. Apart from Linux and the various BSDs,
I believe it's also quite popular on Solaris and some of
the minority platforms these days.

Wow. Something more minority than FreeBSD! 🙂

--
Arthur Clune

Arthur Clune said:

I think you misunderstood there. My reading of the original post was that
99% of KDE users are linux users, not that 99% of linux users run KDE
(an easily disproved statistic)

Quoted message said:

My own first encounter with KDE was on FreeBSD, where the
choice was more limited and KDE was one that happened to
work 'out of the box'. Apart from Linux and the various BSDs,
I believe it's also quite popular on Solaris and some of
the minority platforms these days.

Wow. Something more minority than FreeBSD! 🙂

FreeBSD only has the world's biggest installed personal computer
user-base of any Unix variety.

Daniele
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D.M. Procida said:

Arthur Clune said:

Wow. Something more minority than FreeBSD! 🙂

FreeBSD only has the world's biggest installed personal computer
user-base of any Unix variety.

Except that FreeBSD is not UNIX and does not claim to be.

It could be argued the FreeBSD is more "Unix-like"[1] than
Linux due to the fact that it contains Bell Labs source
code, but neither of them are UNIX.

My guess is that Solaris has the biggest installed personal
computer user-base of any UNIX system.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like

Ian

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Ian Gregory
http://www.zenatode.org.uk/ian/