I would. NeXT were going no where, even with Steve Jobs still at the helm. It needed someone like Apple to take it on.

No disrespect but I think it is pretty foolish to cast an entire continent as scientifically illiterate. Let's not forget for a moment that the source of this story is the movement of a part of an European scientific research company to another continent. As with so many issues today, this issue is a lot more complex than you suggest. The initial objection to GM foods was initially off the back of sensationalist journalism. The term 'Frankenstein foods' has been used quite a lot as a description of them and has certainly put fear into many ordinary members of society. Neither the media or politicians have been able to come up with convincing arguments to create trust of companies like Monsanto. Indeed, the opposite is largely true. It is these people that are most likely to be anti-scientific and have agendas of some kind, not ordinary members of the public. There are good reasons to be wary of GM foods. Like it or not, a comparison with traditional breeding or hybridisation is not valid. Food is one of the most essential aspects of life and it therefore requires more caution than many other things. From what I have read, it is a fact that there are examples of dangers when associated with GM foods. Whether it is a consequence of the direct modification of genes or as a consequence of an attribute of those genes (such as herbicide resistance). We are right to be cautious. The problem therefore is not an unreasonable amount of caution, it is that there is not ongoing debate. I would like to believe that as our understand increases and techniques improve, we will get to the point where we can produce safe foods and can demonstrate it. However, politicians (who are notoriously black or white on issues) will see this as a debated issue and is now settled.

The way you described your personal preference made me recall the introduction of the Sony Profeel in the '80s. The idea was to sell TVs in the same way as Hi-Fi - you buy just the components you need/want to connect to a high quality monitor. It might have been a good idea but given the limited options it never really took off. In most cases, Profeel monitors were generally used at trade shows as simply a high quality monitor that could accept a video feed. Had the different service options we have now been available back then it might have taken off. However, I don't think so. Although people might want a PVR and access to several internet or satellite feeds the majority do not want the plethora of boxes and cables that might be associated with such services. In practice, as demonstrated by Sky in the UK, people want a one stop shop. In this respect, integrating the available options into the TV is probably the most satisfactory option. It may not suit us nerds (I have an HDDVD player, Laserdisk player, PS3, VHS video recorder, Mythtv box and a Wii huddled under my TV) but I expect it is the way forward for many. In fact, I expect that the TV of the future will simply be a tablet PC where the screen happens to be 40 or 50 inches in size and sits on the wall instead of your lap. No one seems to mind having the myriad of services available in an Ipad.

This is my biggest issue with the whole project. As something to invest in for the country, I believe it's a good idea. But 14 years! I fail to understand how it can take so long to lay a simple railway line. Someone must be taking the p*ss.

Probably not. Certainly ASMLIB isn't going to be certified for RHEL 6 yet and isn't likely to be. As the posted article seems to imply, Oracle would rather you use their product and in this case they would rather you licensed Oracle Linux and not RHEL.

I'm not sure I'd use a word processor as an example of a GUI application. The first word processors I used were character based (although not true command line). They were incapable of showing text in a format appropriate for the attribute applied. That didn't stop them from producing documents that contained multiple fonts, italics, bold etc. They simply tagged anything that was non-standard so that you could see that they had an attribute applied. Now WYSIWYG was clearly a step forward but even a modern word process isn't really that much different to the character based processors I first used. Perhaps the only innovation present today that couldn't have been achieved would be to embed graphics and images. As with other similarly minded people I've seen responses to, I don't see this as an issue regarding your choice of interface. I like GUIs. One of the biggest benefits I first got from such an interface was the ability to have far more terminal windows than I'd been able to use with a real terminal. Even today, I don't think I work so differently from the day I first got Windows 3.11 on my desk. I like what a GUI gives. I'm also prepared to consider that new innovations could improve the way I do my work. Certainly I use more genuinely GUI tools than I did with 3.11. The main problem I see, as has been pointed out, that these new GUIs are somewhat revolutionary. Gnome 3 looks little like Gnome 2. You could not say the same thing when transitioning from Gnome 1 to Gnome 2. I happen to like Gnome which is one of the reasons I adopted Ubuntu. Given what I've read today, it seems I might finally be convinced to go toward KDE as it provides an interface I'm more likely to be comfortable with. I've only just started using Gnome 3 but it does seem to be geared toward closing off functionality. Why for example would you want more than one terminal window open? Sure, it can do it with a middle click but why should the default behavior be to only allow one window. I'm prepared to be convinced. Smartphone interfaces are something I'm impressed with and happy to use. I just don't do the same things on my phone as I do on my workstation.

Not only is this subject quite well covered at the park, they have a memorial to the Polish coders. I believe they also have an annual Polish Day.

How can the greats of mini computing be missing! Although I wouldn't want to be without *NIX today, I had more than a few troubles moving from a well organised O/S to the somewhat chaotic world of UNIX. No surprise from that my UNIX teeth were cut on MV/UX and DG/UX. To be honest, they should be on the list to as I still think that DG/UX was better than Solaris.

Not sure that it's valid to equate states with countries or countries with states. I know where the USA is and although I realise that there is government at the state level don't see any particular reason to recognise much distinction between any of them. It's not as if there are communist of facist states in the US. I'll be prepared to find out more than I currently do when I know that the people of the USA know a bit more than the location of one or two European nations such as maybe a reasonable knowledge at county level.

The problem with alternatives to the ipod isn't that they may or may not be better, it's down to hardware support. How many Zune docks are out there? How many cars support Zune as a device that can be controlled by the car's stereo system?

It is worth remembering that although the company may be BSkyB (as a result of the merger between Sky and British Satellite Broadcasting) they in fact use the name Sky as their brand name. Don't get me wrong, I think this is rediculous but the comparison should be between Sky and Skype.

I'm not sure I entirely agree with this. To some extent it also shows that sighting an analogy doesn't always work. In reality, the ISP's know that certain times of the day they will have more demand than they can fill. Rather than ensure they can fill the peak demand, they simply don't buy the necessary bandwidth for the peak. I think that internet service is much better compared to other utilities such as electricity or gas. These companies have to be able to ensure that they are able to cope with the peak demands. At least, they have to be able to deal with the regular peaks and this is what the ISP's are failing to do.

Quiet true. And it also doesn't have a parking lot either, it has a car park.