"Users have, it claims, also complained of missing functionality, a lack of usability and poor interoperability."

'Claims'? I find all of those complaints to be possible and valid. I also find them valid on a Windows desktop, and also on my Mac desktop.

I don't think we need to load the article, how about the word 'states' instead? Some of these complaints could well be valid, and instead of dismissing them the Linux desktop distros should be reading and seeing how many are valid, how many just need education, how many could be imediately addressed etc..

It's a chance to learn, not to draw into a shell and defend.

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Ian

RTFA:

"Other manufacturers have previously offered what are known as micro, femto or pico cell devices, which typically are used to take cellular traffic off congested 3G networks and delivered over broadband connections. Alcatel-Lucent claims their offering differs in that existing devices are mainly used to supplement existing cell towers in areas of high demand, such as railway stations and sports events, rather than replace them."

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Ian

So the Right Thing is to force everyone to buy an OS from Microsoft or Apple? Do you know there are some crazy people developing free operating systems? And even using them! How dare they ask for a royalty free baseline codec for encoding video for the web?

You're missing what the GP said - no-one's suggesting forcing anyone to buy an OS, the suggestion is to hand off video playback to the OS. In this case, the right thing to do would be to release it to a video decoding layer for Linux and then call it from Firefox/Chrome.

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Ian

I'd love a ROM for these that essentially just makes the PS3 and all its features available to a Linux distribution.

I'd love to get the Blu-Ray drive acessible and act as a ripper. I buy my media - I buy DVDs, I buy music online. I'd like to buy blu-Ray too but won't due to DRM - at the moment any blu-rays we've watched have been via rental. I'd like to rip them for use on a media server, but the only blu-ray drive I've got is the PS3. Be handy if we could get access to that and install a ripper.

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Ian

I liked the fact it wasn't quite realistic, and I do think the film makers knew it too. It made him look a little more deranged, a little more mad. The effect worked for me.

I liked the film. Very different in tone to the first - my kids love the first (eldest is 9) but I doubt they'd get on well with the second. That's fine though - the film is aimed at mid-to-late thirties like me, people who saw the original and wanted it taken one step further. Lots of doom-laden portentous imagery, but that's fine.

I would have liked more of Tron himself, and felt slightly cheated of a big Tron/Clu showdown. Still, it's a minor point - I really enjoyed the whole thing. I think one thing that helped me do this was staying away from all pre-film publicity and speculation other than the initial trailer. I had no preconception coming into the film, and I'm sure I enjoyed myself more as a result.

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Ian

Was running SunOS 4 (Solaris was SunOS 5), which is roughly contemporary to the original Tron, but slightly later (exactly as would be needed to have set up the new Grid). He was also running iostat, and the blk_writes went up as the laser switched on.

Somebody, somewhere, cared about that scene.

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Ian

No, it shouldn't. At that point it loses trust - I can no longer consider the information to be free of commercial conflicts of interest.

There's already enough problems with the editor model - let's not add more.

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Ian

Are you disappointed by Citizen Kane because the clever camera work doesn't jump out at you?

Deathly irony there. Citizen Kane is in part so famous exactly because the clever camera work jumped out at you. It's an effects-based film, with a first-time director showing off various then-new techniques.

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Ian

Hack a car gps onto some random address generator, start a timer, and race across town!

Welcome to London.

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Ian

If even one of them works, doesn't that mean I have to push them just to be sure?

Exactly. If you press a control that doesn't work you lose nothing. If you fail to press a control that does work you lose functionality. Whilst I agree with the effect they're suggesting, presenting it using examples of deliberately wiring-in dummies is ridiculous. If they then go back and ask people if they believed the button in question actually worked, well then there's the begins of the data we actually need for this.

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Ian

'The BBC's technology correspondent, on the other hand, reckons: "it's safe to assume that Times Newspapers has yet to achieve the same revenues from its paywall experiment that were available when its website was free."'

No it isn't. It's possible to believe it (and so do I) but it's not safe to assume anything. Data please.

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Ian

Hi - hope you get this, saw your reply a bit late.

Thanks for that. My dad died last year, in his sleep and surrounded by all his family (including me). Couldn't have scripted a better ending. Like your uncle, he did a lot of work afterwards for his community - starting and running a youth club for instance, to help out with kids who had little to do.

He didn't talk that much about what really went on. I have some stories, but it was only when we went through his things that we realised he'd kept things like the Eisenhower letter from before the landings. He did describe Belsen, which they simply couldn't believe when they saw it. People like your Uncle and my dad - they had a tough time of it, and we owe them a lot.

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Ian