How can i answer? Although i am a Doctor and from what i see in the BBC video and the article, the drawings are agreeably hundred of years ahead of his time. In my humble opinion the work done by Leonardo Da Vinci seeded the understanding of Antomy.

You cannot compare FM Radio's free Music service over Paid Broadband. FM Radio is still a bliss for countries where electricity outages takes place regularly, although this does not seem to be a reason in UK, but i doubt it and those who listen to FM would fight this till the end. Those who are planning this seem not to have heard FM radio and therefore they do not know how much joy it gives. This also can be a step to compel people to pay for Music instead of listening it free, which i do alot.

You wrote: "Having at last" Means a lot of work before you got it working, only satisfactorily, for your own self. It would be same for each person you deploy for. Unfortunately the lesson is only learned after you have tried for yourself. In the end it gets clear that Linux is not ready for non-techies.

But where can I buy a machine with Free|Net|Open BSD preinstalled? I don't wanna pay the Linux tax....!

Oooh! Ow! Ouch! Yikes! Run away! Run away!

This can be seen as: 1. Addiction. 2. Research upon effects of products when used excessively. 3. Label on all things: Excessive usage will lead to health problems.

I also use 0.8.6 for the same reason. And also because .mkv format playback is slow on 0.9.*, and normal on 0.8.6 on the same hardware.

Agreed. That old practice of formatting and reinstalling after some time is not sane now. Programs like ccleaner and Windows 2000 and later have made huge improvements over uptimes and stable intsallations. As far as memory, it may not be the culprit. The mobo can be the problem, even drivers for the mobo under Windows.

I tried it back in 2004, and the thing that struck me most about it (besides the fact that it was free) was the speed. It took FOREVER to open and save. I was in a phase when I was trying to move over to as much open source software as possible to save money, but OpenOffice just ended up frustrating me. Also, I recall fighting against the program to do simple things in spreadsheets.

I use and love Gnumeric now for spreadsheets, but I resolved that I'd rather pay for MSOffice. It isn't perfect, but I was willing to pay.

I was always so confused about it too, because my initial exposure to open source taught me to expect this kind of software to, as a rule, always be leaner, smaller, cleaner and faster than "bloated" MS products, but I walked away from OO feeling IT was more bloated.