I answered 100-200 feet, but of course that is just an estimate. And it certainly doesn't include the many books that are packed away in boxes because of the lack of shelf space... Truthfully, if everything were to be unpacked (assuming I could afford to buy quality shelving for it all), it would probably exceed 500 feet.

That's funny. I went from Windows 3.0->3.1->3.11->95->98->XP on the same HD image and had the most stable 98 and XP of anyone I knew.

Not really. gksudo asks you if you know what you are doing and are allowed it. If UAC sees three doubts, it asks three questions, because its primary task seems to be to distrust the machine's own programs. gksudo just knows it has asked you a second ago and assumes you still are the same user with the same skills and rights.

In other words: gksudo focusses on the user, UAC on the program actions

Apple has one of the best due dilligence and patent defence legal teams in the world.

Dude, come on. How do you even begin to attempt to prove a statement like that?

The OS is much more important/integral to the user experience than the (different) windshield is to driving.

Try driving down i-75 in Florida WITHOUT a windshield and your mouth open. I bet you will recant this statement :)

Search "pirate bay" on TPB with the "Other" box checkmarked, and you'll find some things.

What does Market Cap have to do with anything? Market cap is nothing more than the perceived value of the company by the public based on the value of its stock. Apple is on a hot streak right now. Also, those other companies are going to be Sony Ericcson, Motorola, HTC, Palm, Qualcomm, etc...

True, best comparator would be net revenue I think; Nokia makes a lot more than Apple. Honestly, neither company could buy the other (outside a heavily leveraged buyout).

Actually he could counter sue both the original caller for voyeurism, and the police themselves for responding in favor of it. This is ridiculous, but shouldn't be a problem for this guy if he's got a reasonably competent lawyer.

In other words - the government brought about the collapse *on purpose*. It was not a free market.

Shakespeare was the conduit through which Marlowe published his works after he (Marlowe) had to "disappear" through a faked death. Marlowe was a wanted man because of his outspokenness and involvement in the plots and intrigues of the Elizabethan age. The facts about Shakespeare's life that can be determined with absolute certainty make it unlikely that he could be the writer of the great plays, sonnets, and poems that are ascribed to him.

People (normal people) are still compiling software for linux? I forgot to add Universe once, I didn't notice for weeks.

Considering "granny" is probably only concerned with e-mail and web browsing (like the 80% majority) who cares if you have to set a flag for your custom kernel. Canonical will update her pc when/if it is necessary.

First of all, if Intel + AMD's integrated graphics on the CPU suck, then NVIDIA's niche will not be only high end, it will be mid range too. But AMD is definitely going to support its discrete business, its making them money, its a great product at the moment. Intel, well its safe to say all their products absolutely suck. But, Intel has massive "persuasion" when it comes to spending millions "convincing" companies to support Intel products.

Secondly, while integrating CPUs and GPUs will be possible, you will not get two high performance parts combined into one, ever. NVIDIA has a current answer to that, GPU in the chipset (the venerable ION/MCP7A chipset driving many Atom-based systems, and _every single shipping Apple machine_ (paired with dGPUs in higher end parts), and while in the future they will have issues on the Intel front with legal issues, they will definitely find ways around it (pushing Tegra probably).

Why is NVIDIA's outlook not too bright? In all honesty, how often does not having an open source driver impact your average Joe? Virtually never. How useful will an entirely open driver actually be for the majority of Linux users? Have you ever looked into a graphics driver? Think its easy to tweak and fix? Their driver support on Linux right now is pretty damn solid with their blob. In most cases, it just "works". And yes, there are cases where it does not, but you give me any piece of software for Linux, and I'll give you a case where it doesn't work. Opening the source will not magically solve this issue.

The real message to gather from TFA is all those wonderful references to the fact that WORKSTATION LINUX IMPLEMENTATIONS MAKE NVIDIA MONEY. Lots of money. A lot more money than your friend buying a 9400GT to throw in a *nix-based HTPC. They are going to go after that market, first and foremost. Guess what? It's working. The Quadro lines are the only viable workstation choice for Linux CAD/DCC, and CUDA on Linux is sweet too.

AMD/ATI tried to push this entire open source movement, but its really hurting them. If they put half of that effort to making their driver rock solid in linux as a BLOB, they could really push into the market with their amazing 5xxx line of cards.

we in Canada have the advantage that binding referendums are unconstitutional You also have the advantage of less than 15 million people voting, whereas in the last election in the US about 136.6 million voted. Hand counting ballots is a just a bit harder if there are 10 times as many of them to count. (Yes, you would think this process would parallelize very well, and you could just throw 10 times as many counters at it.)

The guiding principle in ANY election is that there should ALWAYS be a paper audit trail, regardless of what technology is used to do the initial tally. The surest way to show that the SQL code is tampering with the election is to show a discrepancy between the computer generated results and the results of random hand counts.

You can USE a kindle on a plane, you know. You just shouldn't be downloading new books for it. However, if you downloaded your newspaper and a novel or two while waiting on the tarmac, you'll be good for the whole flight. Your books are stored on the device when you're reading them.

Also, $250 isn't exactly a whole lot when you consider that a lot of people of limited means spend more money than that on luxuries. One of my co-workers at a previous job earned about $12/hr, and spent her money on a $600 purse. Me? I'll buy a $10 purse and put $590 of awesome electronic toys inside it.

Over the past year, I have seen 3 Kindles total on the DC Metro. However, I saw all three of those on the same metro ride home on the one day that I let the battery die, so I find it safe to assume that they've always been there, but I've been too busy reading my own Kindle to notice the other ones.