I agree with you 100%.

I recently invested in a couple of 'Das Keybard's. One for home and one for work. They're expensive as heck, but I haven't regretted it for a second. The only person who doesn't like it is my wife, who complains that she cannot use my computer since she can't read the keys (it's one of those all-black unlabeled ones).

The tactile feedback of a proper keyboard is important. Extremely important. I hate using laptops, quite simply because their keyboards suck.

Typed on my 'Das Keyboard'.

Bullshit.

Those of us who bothered sit through the trial knows exactly what he did, and how.

Of course there are a lot of morons, such as you, who tries to change history. Now go fuck yourself.

I'll stay away from your Flame-bait

I seldomly respond to trolls like you. But let me just say it clear and simple: Go sunbathing.

(Trolls, as we all know, turn into stone in the sun).

This is another way of telling you to go fornicate yourself.

Norwegian gasoline prices: Aproximately 12NOK per liter. That means 7.34USD per gallon of fuel.

Complain all you want about the gas-prices increasing to 8-10USD/gallon, but seriously, other countries can cope. So can you.

Not only Oracle.

Leap seconds the way they're handled in Unix (and probably a lot of other platforms) is straight out stupid.

The definition of how time is accounted for in Unix needs to change from being bound to UTC, to being bound to TAI. This, in addition to an /etc/leapseconds or somesuch which keeps track of when to insert leapseconds (can probably be distributed via ntp - if not yet, it should be simple enough to make it so).

Now, with the system clock running TAI, and an /etc/leapseconds file, the system libraries should return the correct time according to the configured LOCALE, as long as it takes the skew from /etc/leapseconds into account. At the same time, seconds from epoch, if you want them, would be monotonically increasing and not fucked around with just because of some leapseconds.

Indeed. I've been arguing for using TAI as the basis for unix time for a while, then have various time-functions return UTC.

One could have an /etc/leapseconds that is kept up to date by ntp, which gets its leapseconds from it's upstream ntp-servers. It could simply list the seconds-from-epoch where a leap should be inserted. In other words, it would slowly be appended to whenver a new leapsecond is announced.

Libraries read /etc/leapseconds to figure out how to convert TAI to whatever timezone the user wants.

Bullshit.

The following reportkey's contains the word heroin:

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The following contain the word poppies:

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And there is 191 that contains the word 'opium'. That's a tad too many to list here. The above mentioned should be more than enough.

So, now that you've been found to be lying, now what. :-)

There are lots of different reactor designs. Quite a few of the more modern designs are very safe.

Also, while Uranium might be a limited resource, one can always reprocess the spent fuel. Furthermore, one could do more research into Thorium reactors.

Some of us wasn't appologetical about it.

I've been a linux-only user since 1999. In that time, I've gone from KDE 1.X to 4.X (Okay, 4.x is still crap, 3.x was better :-). I've been through a huge load of linux distros (slack, debian, redhat, suse, mandrake, ubuntu, etc).

I don't regret it. I have a system I understand. I've learned way more about how computers and the internet works, than I would have if I had stayed with windows.

There certainly are things in Linux that aren't entirely up to scratch, even to this day. Sound is one of them. While there is plenty of options, they all suck in different and all non-interesting ways.

And then of course there is the problem of games. While there does exist a few, it is rather annoying to have to go through hoops with wine to get the games to run properly.

But would I switch back? I think not. The first thing I do when my computer is booted is to fire up a couple of xterms, since that's where I do most of my stuff. I can understand that not everyone wants be fiddling around in "the terminal" all the time, but that's where I feel at home. :-)

As a Norwegian, I'll have to say that Swedish is pretty darn simple to both speak and to understand. :-)

Oh. Right. Maybe because Norwegian is just as damn difficult for freigners, and so closely related to swedish that the two languages can be considered dialects of eachother.

Nono:
1,000,000 = million (10^6) (mega)
1,000,000,000 = milliard (10^9) (giga)
1,000,000,000,000 = billion (10^12) (tera)
1,000,000,000,000,000 = billiard (10^15) (peta)
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = trillion (10^18) (exa)

So, in other words, they want a trillion-flops thingie.

A quintillion on the other hand, is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10^30) .. except of course, in the US. Which uses that silly 'short scale' numbering system.

Seriously - you're over the board.

I learned computers by having my own, and learning on my own. Without a parent trying to tell me what was right or wrong. If you don't know enough about computers to do this on your own - why not let the 15 year old admin the network until the second kid turns 15 - then leave the duties to him, until the third kid turns 15 ?

Why do you want to limit what information the kids have access to? Isn't it better that they can browse the web and learn - without being limited? Give them general parental guidance, of course.

Teach them to build character, but don't limit their exploration options.

Sure they'll get hold of things you think are unsuitable. They'll do that no matter what. What do you do if you encounter them with the Anarchists Cookbook? You _talk_ to them. You tell them how unsafe it would be for them to try those things out, and you refer them to the wikipedia article that'll tell them quite simply that most of that stuff will blow up in their faces if they ever try to cook any of it.

Let them discover the web for themselves, and discover the world around them on their own. Without artificial limits.

I actually think it's perfect for us consumers that the various selling-points force the price downwards. It means that I as a consumer will get my goodies for a cheaper price.

Youngling.

Seriously.