Wouldn't it be more correct to say that some parts of Linux would be in the public domain? If a person contributes today, doesn't that contribution enjoy copyright protection on its own, regardless of the original release by the original author?

Should everyone have calorimeters, spectrometers, drop-test rigs, electron microscopes, and other testing gear in their basement to ensure quality? I don't think he's the idiot.

Technically speaking, icons are not conventions.

There are in fact two separate things going on here, the floppy disk is an icon representing exactly that: a floppy disk. But it is also a symbol for "save". It does not matter what the image is as long as we agree on it, because the symbol is going to be distinct from what it refers to anyway. Just like words in a language are symbols, distinct from what they mean: the word "tree" doesn't look or sound anything like an actual tree, but we have no more problem with that than with a floppy disk.

Never mind the level layout in the 4 KB applet: You can't strafe, you can't turn and move at the same time, you can't slide along walls, only one weapon with infinite ammo, slow AI, no running, etc.. It's basically a completely different game.

Yes, there was some sort of hovertank game that came before. Reference: John Carmack plays Wolfenstein 3D, with commentary. The first part is an interview, the second part he actually plays the original (DOS version, it looks like) and dies a couple of times. Worth watching!

Because GPS gives you the largely useless and confusing ground speed, not the very useful airspeed.

I haven't read the book, but what about subitizing, i.e. the ability to "perceive" a small number of items? If a three-week old baby can subitize up to three objects, I'd say that's an inborn ability.

There seems to more to it than transitivity. Alice and Bob make their measurements first, and only then does Victor perform entanglement and measurement (104 meters later, specifically). In other words, the photons that Alice and Bob are measuring are unrelated at the time of measurement, yet correlate depending on Victor's actions.

Wouldn't a newer monitor with smarter backlight usage show a greater difference in power draw? It seems they've tested the worst case and still got a 10% difference.

As TFA shows, it's apparently not a myth at all, even for backlit screens.

The street view is actually using the CGA colour palette, rather than being NES-derived. Colours in PC games were pretty psychedelic in those days, though it was OK for the time.

I can't immediately find any reference to their usability experts dissing Gnome 3, but maybe they did. In any case, I didn't start using it until 3.2 (because I wanted to avoid any initial crappiness), I read up on the problems, and I immediately put in a whole bunch of extensions to bend the shell -or most of it- to my will (that's why they're there).

So maybe I have an atypical experience of Gnome 3, but it works very well for me. I won't say better than Gnome 2, but there are parts that work much better, and just for those I'm more than willing to put up with the remaining bugs and speed bumps. God knows I hit far too fucking many of those in Gnome 2, with seemingly no hope of ever getting fixed or redesigned.

That sounds like something that would hinder productivity. Except I'm not sure what sort of multitasking you would call "incoherent", but maybe that's also something I haven't run into.

As for accusations of not being a "power user", that troll goes into the circular file. I'm not entering an e-peen contest for desktop environments, good grief!

FTFY. Unless you were talking about yourself, in which case you'd say it is inferior. But you're clearly talking about other users, who obviously find it superior for their uses. I won't say it isn't inferior to you, but you seem to be claiming that your particular preferences are superior regardless of the use case?

The control comes through a signed contract, not any incentive.

Not a bad thing to get for your children, either.