I wouldn't be so sure, even though the US spends a lot of $$$ on chinese gear, 300 million people isn't that many when u consider the size of other nations like India for instance at 1.1 billion or europe (i know not a single country but still 740 million and then there is africa at close to a billion asia including china is over 4 billion people. So i'm in kind of agreement that US needs China more than vice-versa, I mean if US companies did pull out of china, would mean that those companies would need to relocate somewhere else, they would need to spend more for manufacturing, salaries etc. Anyway that's what I personally think, I could be wrong :-)

I thought that Linux was already installed on it :P but I know what you mean :), as far as I remember MS has a major share in Virgin Media, but what amazed me was that Amstrad Sky HD+ boxes use linux ;) you can get the source from sky for it :D

That I switched from Virgin Media to Sky, although the broadband was better on cable, the rest is junk, and Virgins customer service sucks (well it did for me), as for tivo, I've never used one, I've always had mythtv, and sky+ so i'm not short of recording from TV options, just my 2 pence worth :D

mysql --user root --password s3cr3t

How did u know my MySQL password?

The first thing I thought about was my N900, I think MeeGo will be still happening though, MeeGo is at 1.1 i'm pretty sure there will be more to it, and remember folks that Maemo apps are still being updated, and there is also Debian that can be installed if you wish, and with the overclockers kernel in maemo my N900 is faster than shit off a shovel. I will be looking after mine very carefully. It is still better specced than most driod phones (mines clocked at 1150Mhz, 1GIG ram and 48GB of storage) and loads of apps in the repo (yep u can apt-get apps for it). Just a shame Nokia didn't advertise like they could have, to me it pissed all over the Iphone and any droid i've used, and yes some did have better screens, but i know of no other phone that can turn over my TV or remote control my amp thru its IR transmitter, or play sounds in my friends car using the FM transmitter, or able to triboot Maemo, MeeGo, Android but i guess it is an end of an era.

Perhaps the guy holding the cube is the replacement for the tower.

. I will NOT be the one holding that in a thunder storm

Am I really the only one not having issues with /.'s new skin? sorry for the off comment post, just so ya know running chromium 9.0.570.1 (64589) under pclinuxos. just asking coz all i see in the comment threads (apart from the normal comments) are ppl bashing, yet i've personally havn't had any issues :D

A full Windows-plus-Linux scale-out hardware and software lineup, with an exceptionally strong position both in SaaS/public cloud and data centers, and a huge presence on the business desktop

Windows and linux? and MS is involved. In other news Satan has said these last few months have been fucking freezing.

what is this "sex" of which you speak?

Yahoo! and a lot of web facing sites want a word with you :D

BSD people are notoriously dishonest. Do not EVER accept an open drink from someone who claims to use BSD.

don't suppose you can cite a reference to this huh?

your username is var?

hey it's a start, he did say that some hardware is yet to be done, and what can I say, from little acorns, this is news, means we get our PS3's back for what we (OK, OK I) originally wanted one for. Today BSD, soon, Linux then who knows, this is excellent news for us robbed by Sony.

SWEET

yup all about the $$$ and back handers eh, oh well, I'm in the UK, I just know my private data in Government is safe (uh huh) and we all worry about FB and google, they have nothing compared to our relative Govs :P (our == UK, USA)