Oh god my eyes, what is th.. AHHH
Note to self: NEVER use bright yellow as a background colour

I'd imagine you could maybe combine them into a video and play it over a few minutes?
Regardless it would be good if you need a high quality indavidual frame of something, I'd imagine

Yes, it is. Of course, all sorts of other things might contribute. Upgrades to the kernel, GNOME, major applications, the compiler, or even changes to compiler flags used could have helped.

Well then this isn't specific to Ubuntu at all then? Any distro that recently upgraded to 2.6.29 and the 1.6 Xorg will be experiencing the same benefits?

Are you aware of any good objective measure of interface "snappiness"?

No I guess not,
But if the article writer had at least put some hypothesis into why the "snappiness" had increased it would have been a much better read, for me anyway, I guess I can agree that the user experienced speed improvements can be of some benefit.

So basically this isn't actually any kind of real test?
"oh this feels faster, shiny!"
What upgrades has ubuntu had to X that may have made it faster? Is it using Xorg 1.6 or something?
I'd prefer evidence to a random user's sense of responsiveness :S

As somebody who learned HTML and Javascript with GeoCities

I must say I remember Geocities being one of the easiest ways to get on the web,
This was back when I was about 8 years old, learning HTML, buying shared hosting, writing a website, etc were far beyond me back then.
So in that way at least Geocities was a good thing :)

I beleive just opening an email can confirm a working email address.
If you send a unique image to every address, and said account doesn't block images by default then the image can have some code behind it that knows it's been looked at!
Thankfully most popular services seem to block images from at least supposed spam (gmail and yahoo do anyway).

Hmm or just linux!
I too am confused by what's going to count as an application..
Microsoft's being far too vague, I guess it lets them cover all the cases?

When last I used it seemed that I2P has a whole network of ".i2p" domain things that you could only access if you were a part of the I2P network.
Tor is just a proxying service is it not?
I think it's something like if Tor was a private network that only Tor users could access.

Meh, they're just Enterprising!

I'd hardly say that everyone using Facebook is an idiot!
Almost everybody I know from my uni uses Facebook, it's pretty handy as an event reminder and for keeping in contact with everyone, much easier than keeping a list of emails, and I wouldn't call most of these people idiots!
Perhaps the Myspace comment stands though ;) It's always seemed to me that the uni folk use Facebook and those that dropped out in year x use bebo / myspace. YMMV :)

4. Upgrade the infrastructure to support the increasing bandwidth usage of your average user and charge everyone slightly more for this new faster service?

I seem to remember initially getting 8mbit was a lot more than sticking with the old 56k, but now it's costing less for 16mbit "unlimited".
Is there any real reason they can't just upgrade the tubes again and charge more for it, surely if they allowed everyone a max of 100mbit and charged a lot for it, it would eventually cover the upgrade cost?

I don't see why they can't vim ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml and add their own titles!

Well they may be the unfortunate ones kicked for being good!
At least it deals with anyone that is quite blatently cheating I guess.

Most FPS games have a voteban/kick method, or regular admin appearances.
I'd imagine it'd be the same with this game, if you notice someone is cheating then ban them.

Linux? What a girl, you want BSD on there.