Watches are, for me, completely useless, as I have a damn phone to get the time, weather and ... Pretty much all I need to know on everyday life. Analog or not, it's not useful for me (and I don't need/like jevelry)

You're not doing it right.

I personally find it truly the most useful posts, not for some braindead random blog "article" but for the competent comments.

fun fact (maybe just a coincidence after all, or an urban legend, but fun anyway ) : It was said that Windows NT naming comes from VMS.
(hint : VMS successor => WNT)

Death by snoop-snoop !

Is it a plane ? Is it a bird ? No, it's a Woosh !

And then, just use any turntable, sample it at standard 33rpm (or the best quality rpm for your turntable) and then digitally play/resample it at any lower rate, 4.7 rpm or 241 rpm if you need.

But I like to be able to go to the bar & drink a beer or two there ! Try to do THAT with a keyboard !

id=616, there's a swoosh around, dunno if it's me or you, however. If it was intentional, I'll mod up Funny .. ah crap.

I found luxury brands generally to overuse form over content, or very often usability, because there's generally, uh not much information to give about luxury products beside style.

So those brands generally have fixed layouts or - god forbid - autofullscreen with lots of flash, bizarre UI (or original) because the point of those sites is generally not to provide information, so why be clear when you don't have anything to tell.

I don't know if for a luxury product such as Apple this is a good thing or not strategy and consumer targetting-wise, but those are, for me, completely useless web sites (whether I like their product has no relationship whatsoever - what is exciting about a web site about champaign ? especially on a mobile phone ? ).

Flash can be good and has its niches (games, unified video viewer) ; HTML5 can - or cannot replace some or part of them, but luxury brands is no measure for it.
(And those kind of sites are rarely at the edge of tech).

What's next, usage rate of flash vs html 5 on http://www.zombo.com/ as a measure of html5 acceptability ? (I found it hard to think of a more useless kind of website in fact)

aaah there. it's all good now. I'm calm, I'm calm.

* bootsplash should work fine with nvidia drivers. Although to be honest i've never tried that, why do I care what the boot process when it at most every kernel release, or less.
kernel patch release.
That, and when the suspend crashes, which happens quite often with my nvidia card. this is a desktop here so it gets shut down quite often.

* HW compatability should be as good as anything running the linux kernel.
except the kernel is not vanilla if I remember correctly, and has features backported and misc patches.;

* Seeing as the x86 version is compiled for a 386, slow as all hell.
Yes i run gentoo but with sane flags, "-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -pipe". I'm not saying they should add -funroll-loops or anything, but maybe a x86 version with SSE SSE2, and 686?

Dunno if it's more related to CPU flags used in kernel or with the proper tuning or misc parameters and patches !

* Config apps are known as gvim/xemacs.
On debian servers, slackware or gentoo yes. (my choice would be vim / gedit)
On Ubuntu, well you generally choose this distro for ease of use and graphical access to those config tools ...

* The sisters should be re-spinning soon. Also why is there a whole new distro for just using XFCE or KDE instead of GNOME? shouldn't it just be a check box?
maybe for the said tools which need to be integrated to kde control center ? not sure here.

Thanks for the answers, but a linux distro is not a linux kernel release, (and a review is generally better done when you actually use the distro - but thanks anyway).

Actually, not currently as the home page issues a warning about a "in development" version for lucid ...

btw, the review seems to provide little more than the press release : what about bugs ? speed ? HW compatibility and performance besides boot times - it's an OS ! - , system configuration apps, boot splash with nvidia proprietary drivers ..., what about other sister as mint, Kubuntu, or Lubuntu)

for your particular example : that's why this use case has been captured and in python, in the standard library, you call random.shuffle(container) and you're done with it. Time spent : 3 s , already implmented, tested, debugged and profiled.

(other languages / frameworks have their own I assume)

besides, using container.sort(key=random) is about 2s to type, 15s to test and discover it's bad, 1 minute top to search the python std library + 3s to implement preceding solution. 2 minutes for a corner-case tested solution. Try that with a coded fro scratch solution.

I have a P4 / 256MB fully functional under my TV as a HTPC.

I tossed (put to recycle) my Amstrad PC2086, 8086 + 20 Gb HDrive (with at least 5% bad sectors ..) a month ago. (SVGA + 14' CRT, no less)

(that and an overclocked abacus)