Maybe the fat cat just has a glandular problem?

You hear me? A planet.

Are we ever going to get an "oopsie, so sorry" from all the environmentalists who squashed the US nuclear power industry?

No, they and their heirs are too busy trying to keep wind and solar and geothermal energy down in the US. They'd like to stop oil, gas, and coal too, but those guys seem to have bought a better quality of politician. Shivering in the dark is the way they'd like us to live, if we live at all.

Not sure what you mean there. Quantum mechanics is hugely important for everyday life--all the biochemistry of life is quantum mechanics. So the ability to build a quantum computer would be expected to open up vast new possibilities. But that will function on the basis of known physics. My comments about the limited engineering uses of quantum mechanics so far was meant to point out how it is easy to overestimate the practical use of fundamental theories even when the theories describe all the matter around us. The question at hand is whether unknown physics (dark matter, undiscovered particles, etc) affects everyday life or will have a practical impact on technology. If it does, it will probably be in applications that involve precision measurement where you need 15 digits of accuracy so that Feynman diagrams including particles beyond the standard model become important.

If words were spelled fonetikly up until the 20th century, we wouldn't still have words like 'knight' or 'night' written at all. Fact is, even in the early 1800s people were already complaining that spelling didn't match the way words were pronounced. Here is a famous example towards the end of that century.

'It looks like it's going to rain.'

It's safe to assume that he was instead saying "reign", and was referring to the white community. UNBELIEVABLY racist!

It's pretty clear that someone with that kneejerk response would only be interested in rainwater and grain alcohol, Mandrake.

After you browsed through the real bookstores, where did you buy them?

I usually both browse and buy at real bookstores. In fact, I sometimes browse on Amazon (the ratings are very useful), then buy at the bookstore.

Why? Because even when the price difference is large, the absolute price is still quite low. Besides, these days the price difference often isn't actually very large anymore, once you add the cost of shipping. The difference may be that of a plain cup of coffee or less for a book I may spend weeks enjoying. And I can get the book right then, right there, not have to wait for shipping and schedule a pick-up time.

I work and I have disposable income. I don't, however, have a lot of free time. I can buy far more books than I will ever have time to read without making much of a dent in my personal play money. The limit is not money but time. Books I can't find elsewhere I order from Amazon or Rakuten, but otherwise I prefer the physical store.

Well like most software, it evolves. Most of the work we've been doing is polishing up the design. You aren't likely going to see anything like GNOME 2 by default. However you can go to http://extensions.gnome.org/ and you can find ways to mimic GNOME 2. Some are quite interesting, and I know that someone is working on a wobbly windows again. GNOME 2 also evolved in the same way. You'll find that all the software around you is going to evolve in the same way as GNOME and GNOME won't look so foreign to you as time goes by. :-)

I think he's a something of a sociopath, or at least a jackwagon.

He discovered the first Kuiper belt object.

You can think of him as an American Piazzi, if you'd like.

Look at the levers of power that people talk about: Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic (DIME).
We're taking it in the shorts across the board.

Truth be told, if they're anything like our tax department they likely need internet access to investigate potential tax fraud (i.e. someone claiming social security and running a business selling things on eBay). Something which literally requires the internet.

Wanted to mod "funny" for such a perfect reply.....but is sadly true.

Yes, the normal way of padding your first day sales stats (with 4 months of pre-orders) is so passe, even Apple is doing it.

The USPS? You mean the organisation that would be completely self-sustaining if they weren't bound by law to account for the lifetime costs of pensions for their entire workforce in their annual budget rather than as they go? Something no other employer in existence has to?

they contributed back to the world #ifdef'ed with their own incompatible license.

While it would be incompatible with the GPL, this is BSD code you are talking about here. The BSD developers get exactly what they asked for with their license.

We do not 'hate minorities and want them to starve.' FFS many of us are 'minorities' ourselves.

We simply want to be able to give nice people who are not currently skilled enough to justify $15/hr a chance.

Why do you want them on welfare instead?

I tend to browse the local library rather than the bookstore. My local library even
has a coffee shop inside now. So I can browse at the library and if I decide I later
want to own the book, I buy it at amazon. I tend to only use the local bookstore
anymore for buying gifts.

Whether it's Amazon or not is irrelevant. In any large company, there's going to be a percentage who like the dead tree copies of the book. Got to a restaurant when the staff are on a break, you'll find some folks eating Mackers/KFC/their own sandwiches.

Where you work doesn't dictate where you shop.

I far prefer an online shop. The difference between 'it's on the shelf there' and 'we can order it quickly enough to deliver it to you on time' is not something I care about. Wide selection is. Supposedly I am their target demographic.

Unfortunately Amazon as a company is pure evil, and every penny given to them is potentially a penny in the fund for lawyers to subvert our system. I never gave them a penny and, barring rather unlikely and shocking events, I never will be.

So can you, please, explain what happened? Or at least, give a educated guess?

How the most used Desktop environment on many UNICes (I used to use it on Solaris!) managed to get into this sad situation?

I do talk to Linus from time to time and he stlll uses it. Heck, he tried otu 3.12 because I asked him to. He had some complaints of course in the usual Linus style but it still works for him.

Well there was the Coraline book that most people felt was a good adaptation, and he has written for Babylon 5 and Doctor Who which were also well regarded.

We're not dying. This isn't some existential crises. All will be fine in about two months. But thanks for your concern! :-)

Exactly, and that's why it's displacing GCC, and why RMS loses his shit about LLVM. People are moving to LLVM BECAUSE OF GPLv3.

More precisely, people are moving to LLVM because certain companies are pouring resources into it (which they may be doing because of their dislike of GPLv3), making it currently the most advanced Free compiler chain available.

Hi Sri. Well this crowd are mostly the people who learned Unix from Ubuntu and thus feel betrayed. I don't know what to do. I think what you are doing with Gnome 3 is way cool, but unfortunately most of these guys don't own the right hardware for it. Anyway the cash flow issue I suspect is mainly coming from people who don't understand that having a cash flow problem because AR is doing great is standard for USA companies. What you are going through is a good not a bad thing if you were strictly domestic.

The OPW program is self funded, but sometimes not everyone get invoiced. We are doing just fine. It's just a temporary problem.

You're not kidding. There's also an awful lot of code passing pointers to functions, where those functions dereference the pointers without checking if they're not null.