Yep. And the cell phone provider markets are more attactive in many other place of the world, too...
How about internet providers? Cable/satellite TV, anyone?
Somehow this free market thing giving the best products to the consumer doesn't always work out. Too bad.

I suppose we are seeing the Streisand effect already... this is only getting worse!

I found your name in five seconds. Was not so difficult using the information you provided. There are already zillions of other stories about you out there. This stuff is so deeply buried, who would even care? No charges, no criminal record. Being so all scared about it won't give you many credits for courage...

I think he means that the new program (=application) that Samsung created was LGPL-3 licensed (and not Enlightenment itself). Shouldn't that be possible despite Enlightenment being BSD licensed?

Yeah, Apple is going to release a KDE-vs-Mac ad, ".... KDE 5 is not going to have any of the problems KDE 4 had."
That's it. Then we're toast. In one category with our friends in Redmond.

I saw the same keyboard lagging with kubuntu intrepid (8.10/KDE 4.1). It was horrible. And it happened with all effects turned off on a state-of-the-art laptop at that time (the Dell Latitude which was just released in August 2008). It was so bad that you couldn't even use the terminal (konsole). Sometimes it was not there directly after rebooting, but after a few minutes using it, it suddenly kicked in.
In my case, this was really, really, horrible. I was really used to kubuntu, and I wasn't a very experienced linux user, yet. However, there was NO way for me to continue using kubuntu on this machine. It needed a recent kernel to get the new hardware supported; so using kubuntu hardy (8.04), which still offered KDE3 was not an option. I had no choice but go shopping for another distro, which was a lot of pain and work at the time. I ended up using Mandriva, where I could use KDE3 and KDE4 simultaneously. So I made my switch to KDE4 gradually, until I had figured out how to get everything working. After some time, I switched back to kubuntu. I just liked the repos and some other things better.
Still, remembering this entire story causes me a lot of pain. Would it really have been sooo difficult for kubuntu to keep supporting KDE3?

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
So one would really HAVE to delete ~/.wine manually in order to recover.

Isn't the difference between "purge" and "remove" that "purge" also removes the user settings (in this case ~/.wine)?

From the bottom of P.3:

Well, there ARE differences between a manual install and a maintained package in the repos.
Parent is right: you can probably download OOo manually and install the binaries on 9.04. I did this several times with earlier versions. Of course, someone who is experienced in Linux can do this and will be able to fix the occasional dependency problem, etc. There are other issues, as well. OOo extensions can come as packages or can be installed manually in userland. In detail, it's not as totally trivial as you think.
However, this "fiddling around" (=time) brings down productivity a lot. Also it will hinder Grandma from doing it. If she starts, she may even mess up her installation. Therefore, I agree with GP that this is a weakness in many distros: you have to do a total upgrade of the OS if you want to have the latest version of your apps the convenient way. Oh, and with all the hardware-related issues that were changed in the kernel from 9.04 to 9.10, such an upgrade may not be a very smooth ride if you want to have everything working equally and the same way.
Usually, the ubuntu versions get better very significantly from version to version. However, the amount of time necessary for a 1:1 distro upgrade for a nicely tuned system is still considerable. Therefore, I see this as a weakness. Why can't we keep having the latest app upgrades on a tuned system without upgrading (especially if all hardware is already supported)?

Hmm, I just had a PDF yesterday that looked different (=wrong) in KDE's okular than it looked in PDF XChange (Windows version). When I printed it from PDF XChange, some of the text underlines were so thick on the printout that they covered the text. Finally, I printed from Adobe's Reader to get the expected result ...

I am just talking about the qualification level of U.S. versus overseas students in our pool of applicants for our PhD program (physics/materials science type). Many (most) of the U.S. applicants simply have much worse GPA/GRE grades. This is a top-50 U.S. university.

In our University, we notice that the overall strength of the graduate student applicants from overseas significantly decreased over the past few years. While we were under the impression to get the best and the brightest from countries like China a few years back, this does not seem to be the case any more. We think this is because many of them now find great opportunities in their countries and don't come here in the first place!
And no, this is not a good thing. Similarly to what was mentioned further above, we would LOVE to admit more U.S. students to our body, however there are simply not enough domestic student applicants who are strong enough to keep our cutting-edge research program going. So when we're no more getting the top foreign students, we are in trouble!
One more thing: there are significant differences in the qualities that U.S. students bring with them compared to foreign students. In China, the students seem to grow up in a very authoritative system, where discipline is very important. That is actually detrimental to out-of-the-box-thinking and creativity. So in this respect, the U.S. students are actually much better, and this is why we would like to have more of them. However, that's only one of the necessary qualities you need. Obviously, you also need a robust background in the sciences, and you need to be really motivated and hard working if you want to succeed in cutting-edge science and research.

It's funny how the entire article doesn't say much more than the summary. Adding the comments here, slashdot has more info on the story than the original article...
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