If the ceo feels that "anyone" can do a particular job, it is time to leave that job (talking from experience here).

On a similar vien, this is why you see more hardworking asian students (or first generation students who are forced to work hard by their parents)!? Once you are privy to poverty (even if you are not poor yourself) and have seen a better life out there.. you'll give your life to hang on to it.

Given that Republicans don't have clear front runner, chances that Obama will continue as a president is highly probable.. By inviting Sarah Palin we can at least get some LOLs.. (and may be some material for SNL skits)

no.. you misunderstand me. My point was that you can invoke whatever program you want from the terminal itself or have keyboard shortcuts for them in any of the desktop environment. Applications and DE are two different things. Whatever work you are doing, you tend to have a fixed workflow and after a while the DE is completely transparent. But because all the OSes are going to be extended to the mobile, all the vendors are making changes to the DE at the expense of some discomfort of the users.

I've been using wmii for few years and gnome as the fallback DE.. All I do on any DE is assign a keyboard shortcut for terminal, browser and IM client. For most users that is good enough. And aren't power users on linux supposed to be good on the terminal anyway. I fail to see why desktop environments are an issue.. I think Mr Shutteworth was referring to self proclaimed geeks who really aren't .. And as to why he is thrusting Unity down our throats is convergence, it is because no one in the tech industry doubts that we are moving away from desktops, so Microsoft, Apple and Canonical are taking steps to ensure that they make enough changes to their DEs so that the shift to a primarily mobile crowd isn't that disruptive.. but some disruption _will_ happen. I'm not a big fan of Unity, but whether it is good or bad is not relevant here. These ToysRUs desktops are here to stay (Windows 8, Unity, Gnome 3, iOS, ChromeOS etc)..

Most of the reputation providers update the data often(order of minutes), paid ones even more so than free ones. surbl, spamhaus, spamcop are some well known free reputation checks. Mailshell, Symantec etc have paid ones..

Anyone else thinks that this gets us one step closer to a real Moya?! (any farscape fan here.. ?)

With tons of books and documentation for both the editors, why on earth are you cribbing. And do take a look at the use cases before ranting about a software, vi was designed to reduce the amount of traffic when editing over the network, nobody envisioned it to stay till 2009.. but it stuck a chord with the devs and it stayed. Vi/emacs design manifesto was never to create a user-friendly system. You are always free to use notepad/gedit or whatever you kids are using these days.

I completely agree.. put your self in the shoes of that developer... who has just finished porting a spaghetti C code on different *nixes with different libc versions and some machines which are more than 15 years old... any stupid retort will surely drive him over the edge. He is in his own zone.. so any stupid question or something overly simple comes as a shock to him.