The America's cup is watched by millions. Team costs per syndicate are in the hundreds of millions making Indie racing or formula 1 a joke in comparison. What's more it is the least regulated form of racing (current situation not incumbering) of all the professional racing sports. 30 years ago they were racing mono-hull sailboats pounding through small waves. Now they are racing multihulls that litterally lift off the water on wings going faster than the traffic on the golden gate bridge and almost leaving the speed boats that trail them in the dust.
From my personal experience sailing a boat over 25knts the splashes start to feel like pebbles and then rocks hitting you.. the intensity of having a vehicle of that size moving at that speed is akin to taking Caterpillar 797 through a downhill from Pikes peak. It's amazing and a great sport at any level.

http://www.kde.org/workspaces/

I still remember when kde2 came out. There was all this talk about everything as a file, like plan9, but in a user oriented fashion. KDE4 did away with all that, but kept the idea of user functionality. If for you functionality is having a button in a specific place, or having settings preordained and hidden, then KDE is not for you. KDE allows for some amazing things, like workspaces. (I gaurantee that this concept will be picked up eventually by the major players as something they came up with)
KDE has in most cases at least two ways do do everything, if you can't find it in one place it's in another. This is a pain to some people, but to someone trying to figure out the system, it means that they have at leas two chances to figue it out before they go to the forums.
KDE is by far the most configuable DE bar none. Where other systems have hacks to change things KDE gives it to you on a platter. There is almost nothing that you cannot change to suit your needs.

While I understand the desire to have a simple desktop setup, any power user who has had more that a couple months with KDE will tell you, there is hardly any DE that can stand up to it for useability.

Actually atheists don't (by their very nature) worry about the afterlife. That's like saying dog's are worried about books, because they don't read them.
Many atheists these days are more vocal because of the growing attacks on science. If people want to believe that we can be healed from the sin of an ancient relative (who was talked into eating an apple by a talking snake), by a human sacrifice, where god had his own son (who is himself) killed. That's fine. Just stop trying to force it on everyone else.

Mine must be a fluke then. I'm writing this response from one and haven't plugged it in in three days. Admittedly I haven't been playing movies the whole time just surfing playing YouTube videos and the like but it lasts at least twice what my galaxy s2 does for the same usage. I've had other tablets and this one needs the least charging of any I've owned. 72 he's and still a third of a battery left.

McCarthur was pissing over the Yalu river from the start. He backed bombing runs into China to stop supplies coming in to NK. If you remember Truman was pretty pissed about it. McCarthur assured him that the the Chinese were a bunch of pussy's and not to worry about it. He was dead wrong on both counts. Truman was right to want to keep China out of the war. How long would you allow your people to be bombed in your own country before responding?

For those people unfamiliar with the patent wars. Think of it as two large spanish galions loaded with treasure recently pillaged from the new world. If they both make it home they have to share in the bounty, but if one takes the other ship. Then only one ship goes home with the plunder.

So now we have two ships circling each other firing canon at close range hoping the other will surrender or sink..

In this case MS sued Motorola, and it's actually Motorola's shitty h.264 patents you are talking about not googles... and I seriously doubt they are anywhere near as bad as the list of patents that Barnes & Nobles releases when MS went to sue them for not using Windows. Google to my knowledge has not initiated a patent war with any major company. It has however been fighting as hard as it can.

Interesting, that when I read your post I couldn't help but think that very same though about politics, and social engineering. People seem to think that any solution that looks good on the surface should work, and yet hardly ever bother to measure the result of any given solution. On the whole we understand that things are f'd up but understanding why is simply beyond us. Makes me wonder what solutions machine learning algorithms would come up with given more and more criteria, and if those solutions would seem reasonable to humans or not. Just don't allow it access to Petman..

Hrm.. funny I had read that on the web. Couldn't find the off. I tried it before and after posting here.. then I shot video of the settings to show I wasn't making it up, and while viewing the video before uploading, I saw it. Right at the top, blue button. I'd been looking at it the whole time, and just couldn't see it. God knows this is the biggest problem I have when writing code too.. just some dumb spelling error that takes me an hour to debug because I can't see it right in front of me...

I actually like some of the things google does.. but I had to unistall google+ from my phone because I couldn't find a way to stop it from uploading all of my photos, and videos. I don't like the fact that they took out the setting that allows you to only upload what you want to. I don't care that they don't automatically share. I don't feel like going through and deleting 50 million images and movies every time I log in to G+

Kind sir, but really we are talking about graphene here. That miracle of all miracles, that elixer for the gods. If anything could pull 1000 times better out of a 20% increase it would be graphene. Actually I had some in my breakfast this morning and it was quite tasty as well.

sorry, but the answer is no. I'm running 13.04, with steam on a laptop running the same intel chipset they used for the test. Luckily it has an Nvidia card, so I can play the games using bumblebee.. (a hack that needs to be fixed IMHO) but portal will not run using just the intel graphics. It crashes and goes bye bye..

Moving to open source, has been done. Even by profesionals http://www.davidrevoy.com/article170/the-choice-of-open-source

Gimp will have full 16 bit per channel support in the upcomming 3.0. If you can't wait for that and must have it Krita already supports 16 bits per channel.

Personally, I don't understand this. It does make sense for print ads, or high end photography, but for web, it does not even make a slight bit of difference."

I'm using CyanogenMod 10.1.. what mod do you recomend?