I thought I was changing my screensaver today!!!

It's called Ruby, and it's not a problem, it's a feature, a trendy one.

Even for simple tasks I find the CLI faster. A few days ago I was playing with this idea, so I ran a little timer ($time read x) to find out how much time did it take to do simple tasks like the ones you mention. In every tasks, I was faster in the CLI, except for renaming one file.

I might not be the only one, but I grew up playing games in English and I believe most of my learning experience in this language was based on the challenges those games brought on me. I mean, I was 10 or so when I finished Crystalis and Zelda on the NES and I remember finding myself thinking/playing in English when my school friends were learning "my name is...". I think there are fields (like idioms) which can greatly benefit from games, like history, geography. But in the case of mathematics, which requires a great deal of practice not so much.

This is truly the point, the nodes communication is the most important aspect, since you can build up clients from it with whatever technology suits you. This is the only way they are going to beat FB. AFAIR they where using the same protocol used by StatusNet (OStatus) but I might be wrong.

So that's what the 5GB partition I always remove is for. What a waste of time I say. If you're buying a computer with Windows pre-installed, you can be sure that since the very moment you pay for it, you're being Butt-F*#$*%. At least this partition is always good for SWAP.

Anyway, it's a shame that no discs are shipped with computers anymore, since Windows discs are so nice and they make incredible mirrors to shave during shower... And yes, I'm currently shaving with a Windows XP CD that came with my laptop and have another Office 2007 in case this one gets lost. OTOH I collect Ubuntu CD's.

In the USA that is. Remember, not every country in the world has those stupid laws on software patents. Actually, there's a version of FF somewhere around which comes with H264. Anyway, I would like to see WebM take off. About the article, ten years ago no one thought about using XMLHttpRequest to make better looking pages with AJAX and this technology evolved into what it's today. I'm pretty sure that most of the people who support this H264 non-sense today, would be backing IXMLHTTPRequest because it was better in the days (how many ActiveX pages have I puked on, ugh!). But look, some community effort and the current standard was set by Mozilla. I'm sure the video tag will also evolve, even faster than Flash and H264, because it's open and free, to support more features than Flash could imagine and run faster and better than H264 would.

I'm not sure about this. Compared to what? With movies? Yes. With music? Probably. With throwing rocks at birds? I Don't think so! With sex? Depends.

Maybe they should start with a proper website that works on non-MSIE browsers.

Right... I don't like SourceForge at all. Much prefer Launchpad or Google Code.

Bad analogy. You need a licence, insurance and if you crash, you could die or loss money. If you break the computer, you call the IT guys and get over it. I really believe that companies should be more through on computer expertise than on other things like a second language. The thing is that a computer, like it or not, is a tool to do your job. Bad GUI, bugs, etc. Are not an excuse for not doing your job. If a carpenter breaks a hammer, he fixes it. If he doesn't know how to use a saw, he spends days learning how to do it.

Yes, this is the best example for why it's very stupid to write a business critical application using microsoft languages for microsoft operating systems, or Mac languages for Mac OSX. I know not everyone loves Java, but what no one can deny (and if you do, sorry, you're stupid) is that the JVM is the best tool you can have when designing an architecture. Use whatever language on top of the JVM and it will probably work for the next ten years and next 3 Microsoft OS's.

No, but it's doable: http://icculus.org/fatelf/

Not necessarily. Read about what Roman Emperor Sila did.

For Debian/Ubuntu: http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/ There, now stop whining about what is probably one of the best features of modern distributions. And the brand Linux doesn't have anything to do with this.