@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 The engine is still worth € 150. The painting would only have to happen once a year, and it takes maybe an hour. But getting the engine out of the boat to my parents' house, yes, that took a lot of time and organisation.
@DavidWallace even if it does. 10min/month is well worth it IMO, because the alternative is that the machine gets infected by something, at which point the only safe thing to do is rebuild it.
Just as nobody here dies from eating leftovers from the previous day left on the countertop, even though people on Cooking.SE want me to believe that that is dangerous, blah blah.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Not quite. I am falling with into the fallacy "we have always done it like this, it works fine, and therefore the risk is (more than) acceptable". And the cure is worse than the disease.
@Cerberus The risk is not simply theoretical. It is real. I have seen infected machines personally. But you are a doubting Thomas and will never believe me until you put your hands into the wounds of your infected computer.
Although on second thought perhaps it is worse than a virus, for she hates it.
@DavidWallace Bah! All your arguments fail to convince me of you!
I taught my mother to simply click "yes" whenever Comodo pops up, except when the computer isn't supposed to do anything.
Not sure how well that works.
I also taught my parents to never install anything except when they actively wanted to install it beforehand, and they are sure the source is trustworthy.
@Cerberus But while you accuse me of overstating the threat, I find it hilarious how much you overstate the cost of applying updates. I'm not talking about installing Windows 7 over your precious XP. I'm talking about clicking "update now" once a month. Or even taking no action if updates are set to install automatically.
The updates are almost transparent.
I challenge you to update your system and turn on automatic updates for 3 months.
If, as you say, you reboot/shut down your system daily when you're not using it, this will be even easier for you because Windows installs the updates at shutdown time.
@Cerberus When you let the updates slide for months, you might find that installing them is painful because sometimes they have to go in stages that require updating/rebooting/updating/rebooting. But I assure you that that does not happen on a monthly basis. It only happens when you are lazy.
@Cerberus Except that I don't have a consistent use-case for disabling rotation. Except for the "lying down on the bed" use-case, where my phone is sideways but so is my head, so what I want is the phone to see my head orientation and match itself to it. Which the Galaxy S3 can do now.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Well, I set my Tasker to disable rotation in applications like the browser and e-mail, and that works very well. No annoyance whatsoever.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Weird...in wide screen, the letters are to small to read the entire page. And in vertical screen, I can very easily and quickly zoom in on one column at a time, much easier...
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Don't they automatically open in Flash?
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@noah's is wishy-washy (sorry), failing to address the question at hand, or even to tell a gerund from not a gerund, though the OP sort of tricked him into that.
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Infinitive:
I had no time to read those books.
Present participle:
There should be a law banning abortion.
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