Releasing the code isn't a bad way to get other people to start working, and as we've seen that actually worked out well, significantly multiplying the number of contributors to the project.

Exactly. "Release early, release often." Isn't that the open-source way?

That was my point. There's not, contrary to the original comment.

Wouldn't it stand to reason that the most popular Linux distro would have the highest amount of complaints and the highest amount of compliments?

In my completely unscientific survey, I just ran a Googlefight between "Ubuntu is awesome" and "Fedora is awesome" where Ubuntu had twice as many hits. I don't really think your comparison is valid.

From what I understand the buttons were moved to the left so that notifications will no longer cover the buttons. At least that's the most reasonable explanation I've heard.

I feel the exact opposite way. Every time Google enters a market, I get excited because they're the only company I know of that I don't feel are trying to screw me. Plus they force everyone else to step up.

Remember the days before gmail when webmail meant 10mb of storage and they'd delete all your mail if you didn't log on in the past 30 days? Everybody else now offers more storage space than you can do with it. And IMAP access. If you don't go the Google route, the competition they bring makes everyone's service better.

What does DRM or the resolution of the content have to do with the life of the disc? Secondly, DVD has more than its fair share of quality problems. You can find numerous reports of badly replicated discs and numerous issues of discs coming apart due to poor pressing and adhesives.

I don't know about you but I wouldn't find "Accountancy: The Game" much fun.

Not a fan of Eve or SimCity then?

The Sync wasn't too bad.

Cutting print circulation to that extent results in each printed copy of the paper costing $12,134.1

Compare the cost of a full page ad in the NYT with the cost of a banner ad on a web page. That might be a hint as to why they'd rather not cannibalize their printed subscription base.

* The result of extensive economic calculations, or made up?

cynicism, hopelessness, futility, frustration, despair, indignation, indentured servitude, the gut wrenching emptiness that hits when a project you've poured your heart and soul into gets canned right when it's almost ready to release just because the ceo read some article about how everything should be done in some new sexy framework...

what i am saying is that you are naive for assuming that your silly suggestion of hardcoding a proxy will solve the problem. you completely ignore the fact that there is a gaping hole in your security recommendation by trivializing the design option of a malware author.

by the way, you can import the "bulky" IE COM ojbect and use it without a gui and without security-warning pop ups because, you know, the malware author didn't decide to put the gui and security warnings in his code. oh and the IE COM object (a) makes it harder to detect since it could just be a legitimate user using IE, (b) IE is tried and tested, a malware's http stack could be buggy, leave identifying footprints, (c) saves the malware author time from reinventing the wheel.

in security it is *ALSO* about the lowest common denominator. great woohoo, you can stop malware that doesn't follow the rules of your network. you cannot ignore malicious software that does follow the rules of the network. you're fooling only yourself if you believe malware can't evolve (did we not realize this the first time when a virtualized rootkit was as powerful as the first offerings of vm software?)

-aEN

Yea, some mods really need to mod this as Funny or something... People are really not getting it.

Except PSP UMD games aren't installed. Put disk in. play.

Steve: The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local OEM's in line. Fear of this operating system.
Linus: Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed; the ability to destroy a small OEM is insignificant next to the power of the open source.
Bill: Don't try to frighten us with your sorceress's ways Lord Linus. Your sad devotion to the ANCIENT RELIGION does not help you conjure up the stolen datatapes..or given you the clairvoyance to find the rebels hidden fortress...*choked*

As an Ohio State student running Linux I remain skeptical about future cross-platform compatibility. From what I've seen Linux users are supported even less here than by most hardware companies (which is saying something). I can understand not wanting to deal with supporting X number of distros, but for basic services like networking I think support could be a lot better. To get the school's wireless working in Ubuntu I had to supplement the university's documentation with a tutorial on another students blog, and even then it still seems a little unstable at times.

Don't even get me started on the Residential Network. Earlier in the year I tried to do a netinstall of Debian and couldn't download anything because of the gateway page that only works in a web browser. Long story short, I learned a quick lesson on using a text-based browser from the terminal. It made me feel like a badass, but that doesn't make it any less of a pain.