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Comment Please god no... (Score 1) 284

They can't even release them at 6 months without serious show stopping bugs listed in bugtraq with the words "WE CANNOT RELEASE IT LIKE THIS" and things broken that previously worked just fine. Switching to a monthly release will just exacerbate the situation.

Could be time to jump ship and switch to another distro.

Comment Re:Dissuade from driving cars? (Score 1) 500

Public transport is useless, its dirty, unreliable, often unsafe, overcrowded (yes i know the roads can be crowded too, but at least you have somewhere comfortable to sit in a car and can stop to take a break), doesn't run all night and is even more useless outside of large cities.

You've obviously never been to Holland, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan to name a few.

Comment Amsterdam. The only place I've seen with..... (Score 1) 500

...a multi storey bike park. The Dutch already do reduce car use. I went on holiday to Amsterdam and it is the only place I've ever seen with a multi-storey bicycle park full from top to bottom with bicycles. There are bicycles absolutely everywhere. Traffic in the city center is very light. Here's a picture http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3562/3321534598_c1ac9ce508_b.jpg

Comment Re:They're all apeing OSX (Score 2) 835

Ditto on OSX, no? Running programs are clearly indicated in the doc.

Possible it's changed in 10.7, I haven't upgraded.

It has changed in 10.7. The default now is not to have a white dot underneath to indicate it is running. OTOH, OS X now finally gets the ability to resize a window on all four sides instead of just the right hand corner - you know, like the way every other OS has been doing since the 1990's.

Comment Re:Alternative? (Score 1) 425

That's nice. If you shop somewhere and it is not accepted, email them and ask them to add the option, otherwise they aren't getting your business.

And if you asked me that, I'd tell you politely to pay either by the accepted methods or go fuck off and annoy someone else. I am not going to go through the hassle of setting up another payment method that most people haven't heard of and have to wait an age to get my money whilst it is being set up just to cater to some whiney little shit trying to be 733t. By all means go use someone who uses that but don't whinge when it costs you more.

Comment Re:Every played COD on Xbox and PS3? (Score 1) 276

Depends on what the spec of your PC is. I am running a 9600GT graphics card. To upgrade it to something that will run todays titles at decent quality and speed, I would have to spend more than the cost of a new Xbox 360 Slim as I need not only the graphics card but a new PSU and a couple of GB of RAM wouldn't go amiss either. And then when I've upgraded it all, I have driver and patch hell on the PC version of pretty much most games. Even my beloved BF2 is once again unplayable as I upgraded the video drivers to fix a bug in one game which meant BF2 reverted back to "Start game, crash to desktop" again - a battle that I've had on and off for the last few years with that game. FUCK THAT SHIT. I want to play it, not be forever fixing it.

Comment Re:Fuzebox (Score 1) 276

While they compete and try to destroy each other, open source consoles like Fuzebox will get a major market share.

BWAHAHAHA. 99% of gamers neither know Linux exists or if they do, don't care. They aren't interested in being able to code their own games on an 8bit console nobody uses or play old 1990s games on an emulator.

Comment Re:Stupidity = Enemy of the state. (Score 1) 282

Stupidity. That's the only thing to blame here. Utterly retarded extreme drooling idiocy.

Spoken like a true American. In the UK in the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's we suffered a bombing campaing in mainland Britain from the American funded IRA. They planted bombs outside restaurants, pubs, shopping centers and didn't give a shit who they killed. Recently there has been an upsurge in terrorism in Ireland from some of the factions who didn't sign up to the agreement. Not to report this as suspicious would be retarded extreme drooling idiocy.

Comment Re:Not a problem (Score 3, Insightful) 334

This is an organization that build napalm-like incendiary bombs and set them off in hotels, restaurants and pubs where civilians gathered in large numbers. I don't see why you think they would hesitate to attack a nuclear power station or other such facility.

I served in the British Army. When we started using warfare tactics such as full sized all out ambushes rather than just patrolling and playing at being targets, all of a sudden this supposed Irish army who had declared war against the UK decided that this wasn't fair when we went to war footing in some areas instead of policing and complained to the European Courts that we were being too heavy handed!! Err, who was it who said they were an army at war with the UK? The IRA attacked soft targets. Nuclear powerstations along with gas storage facilities are well guarded by armed guards.

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