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Comment Re:I'm still confused. (Score 1) 859

You should care because you're moving some of the inefficiency from inside your home (billable) to the transmission lines (not billable). Sorry, that's why the utility companies care. You probably shouldn't -- at least until the utility companies decide to start charging residential customers for poor power factors...

Comment Re:Imprisonment? (Score 1) 57

Quite frankly, being poor sucks so much that rich people ought to simply put them out of their misery? Right? I mean, they're poor: they have nothing to lose, right?

No, the poor people need to work to keep the rich people rich.

Comment Re:Does it really (Score 1) 296

i've done event-driven vehicle simulators; i've clean-room network-reverse-engineered MSRPC and NT domains protocols; i've ported freedce to win32; i've added glib bindings to webkit and on top of that, ported a port of GWT to python even _more_ into python by adding DOM manipulation to pywebkitgtk.

in amongst all that mindless drivel of alphabet soup you should be getting a pretty clear picture that i'm not a stranger to complexity.

i've learned that if someone says "surely it doesn't have to be as complicated as all that", it's time to run like stink as fast as possible, out of the conversation and the room, and never look back.

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." -- Albert Einstein

Debian

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released 386

Alexander "Tolimar" Reichle-Schmehl writes "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) after 22 months of constant development. With 12 supported computer architectures, more than 23,000 packages built from over 12,000 source packages and 63 languages for the new graphical installer, this release sets new records, once again. Software available in 5.0 includes Linux 2.6.26, KDE 3.5.10, Gnome 2.22.2, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP 2.4.7, Iceweasel 3.0.6, Apache 2.2.9, Xen 3.2.1 and GCC 4.3.2. Other notable features are X autoconfiguring itself, full read-write support for NTFS, Java programs in the main repository and a single Blu-Ray disc installation media. You can get the ISOs via bittorrent. The Debian Project also wishes to announce that this release is dedicated to Thiemo Seufer, a Debian Developer who died on December 26th, 2008 in a tragic car accident. As a valuable member of the Debian Project, he will be sorely missed."
GUI

Submission + - Say Hello to Compiz++

Frank Caviggia writes: Looks like we have an early present today — Compiz++ has hit the git servers and includes some spiffy new features such as:
  • Rewrite from C to C++
  • Running compiz without any opengl/composite, just like a normal WM
  • Completely reworked multi-display/screen code
  • Intelligent plugin wrap/unwrapping. Now compiz can use less CPU when idling!
SuSE

OpenSUSE 11.1 License Changes Examined 90

nerdyH writes "Novell's recent openSUSE 11.1 release includes a new end-user license agreement modeled after Fedora's EULA, says Community Manager Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier in this detailed interview. Zonker says distributions should apply the 'open source principle' and standardize trademark agreements and EULA, similar to how the OSI sought to reduce open source license proliferation a few years back. But with Fedora and openSUSE being so different, can one size really fit all? And, will open source licenses ever finally get translated into languages besides English? (Zonker says that translation into 7 languages was done for openSUSE 11.1.)"
Google

YouTube Passes Yahoo As #2 Search Engine 125

Dekortage writes "According to the latest ComScore rankings, YouTube's search traffic for August surpassed Yahoo's. The latter dropped roughly 5% in traffic from July. Among other things, this means that Google now owns both of the top two search engines. AdAge further speculates on Google's experimental 'promoted videos' cost-per-click advertising on YouTube, suggesting the obvious: more money."

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