And put in correct support for all the KDE-bugs associated with xrandr --panning !!

I'm not running "old hardware" and all these KDE bugs, due to developers making incorrect X assumptions instead of actually knowing what they're doing, are the last thing keeping me from running KDE4.

FWIW.

...and is hard to build on non-*buntu systems.

I agree -- and I like the unified environment. That's why I use seamonkey.

Measure the amount of travelers time that TSA costs in waking lifetimes, and then tell me which is more deadly: the terrorists or the TSA. Run the numbers and you'll see that the TSA is the most deadly terrorist organization on the planet.

At least some nVidia drivers do not play well with legacy Motif/X apps (using lesstif or OpenMotif); RedHat does not play well with OpenMotif, for that matter.

And at the time, they promised us that 16:10 aspect ratio was the long-term compromise between the 4:3 that computer people wanted and the 16:9 the media people wanted. It shows that the media people are liars! (but we knew that already...)

Did you ever compare the output between 300DPI vs 600DPI vs 1200DPI laser printers (or 4800DPI Linotype)? It's definitely there -- and printer resolution is *way* beyond the resolutions we are discussing for monitors.

FWIW.

It's my experience that the only repeatability you have with printing from MS Office is on the same computer with the same fonts (no new font-installs). If you're lucky. Change computers, and repeatability just will not happen.

Otherwise, print-repeatability is out the window.

You were saying...?

That Assistant Attorney General -- and his co-conspirators -- who made that threat should have been arrested for extortion under color of office, for that is exactly what he did -- and not that as such his extortion is an offense properly under state jurisdiction. Since he traveled to Texas to make that threat, he was in fact available for such an arrest. And writs of extradition should have been filed for the rest of them.

Pour encourager les autres.

The world's oldest running car is an 1830's vintage French steamer, currently on exhibit at the Automobile Museum in St. Petersburg FL.

FWIW.

In Bivens versus six unnamed agents (1971), the US Supreme Court said that sovereign immunity does not apply for violations of Constitutional rights; moreover, liability goes all the way to the top, to the official which sets the policy. And the 7th Circuit recently said that Donald Rumsfeld gets to enjoy that lack of immunity, for what happened at Gitmo.

She should follow the lead of Aaron Tobey http://m.reason.com/26819/show/3fe6fddb77a895bbc137549ae0bff688&t=179ecfc42749c8364dcc4ef8ef6095a6: not to be raped is certainly a Fourth-Amendment Constitutional right, and in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents (1971), the Supreme Court ruling in Bivens says you can seek monetary damages for the violation of your constitutional rights -- all the way to the top of the responsible agency; sovereign immunity does not apply for violation of Constitutional rights . Following this precedent, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said that Rumsfeld is not immune for violations at Gitmo.

Tobey is suing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole; she should, too.\

I've used Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, CentOS, etc, and all of them have relatively poor repos compared to Mandriva and I had to hunt around...they are still pumping out an excellent distro.

I have to work with a variety of distros (RHEL, SuSE, Fedora, CentOS, ubunto) on the servers at my office, as well as running Mandriva on desktops and at home, and agree it is far the easiest to deal with in terms of available repos, etc. (Just try building the latest GRASS on SuSE!)

French people + documentation apparently = disastrous mess

Agreed. When I was studying computability theory, one of the texts was by a native French-speaker, the other native-Greek. I had to understand the proofs in order to be able to figure out what the words in the theorem-statements meant!

However, liberals are often anti-copyright, so they may surprise me.

Interestingly enough, the two Justices who got the Eldred decision right were Breyer on the left and Thomas on the right...

NO

As a mathematician I claim to be professionally expert in the meaning of the word "limited". Working with limits is my profession.

In my nonhumble amd expert opinion, the Eldred decision took as fanciful a definition of "limited" as Bill Clinton did with his "It all depends upon what the meaning of 'is' is.".

Frankly, in Eldred the Supreme Court broke the Law of the Land.