Notepad++ does staged rollouts for updates, so only a small percentage of users get an update right away. Full deployment (assuming no showstopper bugs are found) usually happens within a couple of weeks.

BRB, going to watch V for Vendetta now.

No, he pointed out a number of reasons why people might not prefer GMail's interface. The fact that it's an extraordinarily popular service would seem to indicate that there are plenty of people who _do_ like it. There's no objective points to argue about.

The thing inherently wrong with dynamic typing is a lack of compile-time safety, increased overhead at runtime during interpretation, and a history of quirky comparison bugs. What you mean is "dynamic typing is convenient at overcoming ambiguity", which is true, but not enough to persuade those of us in the strongly-typed camp.

Throw money at R&D until something sticks. Arguably, their investment in Android has solidified their core search business on mobile, so that's not the write-off you suggest. But like a lot of relatively young companies, Google every so often tries to be edgy and then realizes that it's grown up and has shareholders now.

I'm a little surprised that (a) this surprises _anybody_, and (b) that there are plenty of Slashdotters who are convinced it's lies and propaganda. You're making the mistake that because Bin Laden subscribed to an ideology that was sexually repressive, he must also have been sexually repressed. This isn't the case. The sexual mores of the conservative (read: fundamentalist) Islamic world are pretty twisted; the reason burqas are mandated for women is because the men supposedly can't help themselves if shown a bit of ladyflesh, even a bare ankle. The onus for sexual purity is placed almost _entirely_ on women (which sounds a little like the US, come to think of it); it's no surprise, then, if Bin Laden is a total pervert. Honestly, I'd be surprised if there _wasn't_ porn in the compound.

Actually, yes it is. It's been used in computing at least as far back as 1977.

Let's be honest, though; both Apple and Gnome have pretty much the same design approach. The only difference is that when Apple does it, all their douchebag fanboys call it a design win, but when Gnome does it, it's a terrible, uninformed, arbitrary decision. It's stupid either way.

If my calculations are correct, the resulting product should be twice as good!

Am I the only one who gets irritated when people tack on -itis to a word to turn it into a malady? The suffix has a specific meaning, which is "inflammation"; hence, tonsilitis is an inflammation of the tonsils, endocarditis is an inflammation of the lining of the heart (endo = inner, card[iac] = heart), etc. So "consolitis" would be an inflammation of the console. Wonderful.

I think there are several millions, even billions, of people who might disagree with you.

The Fairness Doctrine does not say that a talk radio network must broadcast both right-wing and left-wing shows. It had nothing to do with allowing equal time, but simply required that anybody with a broadcast license give some recognition to opposing viewpoints, even if it's marginalized, ridiculed, and ignored. In other words, the Fairness Doctrine is Alan Colmes.

That's absolutely true, but it doesn't stop idiots from trying.

This is what I was hoping the last redesign would be: no more 10-year old icons, cleaner lines, good contrast, and better typography. I, for one, salute the designers.