There is another good reason to buy AMD: competition. Just think of what would happen to the computer industry if hardware were dominated by a single vendor (much as software is today). If you think that Microsoft is Teh Evil with it's stranglehold on software, a stranglehold on hardware would be much worse.

Always buy from the underdog.

Furhtermore, and TFS should have stated this, there already was an XKCD incident when a latitude and longitude plus a date and time were posted in a comic. A party "spontaniously" broke out at that day and location, with Randall there. So, this is obviously an invitation to another party.

It would be safe to assume that the moons help to stabilize Mars' rotation around it's own axis. Phobos has an associated tidal bulge on Mars itself, I don't know about Deimos. Without these moons, Mars' geographic pole axis would wander around the celestial sphere. That means that the geographic poles would be in the same place on Mars, but the "north star" would change every so often. Be aware that this happens on Earth, too, in a 24000 year cycle.

Try the Go-OO 3.2 builds. Go-oo is an improved OpenOffice.org, and 3.2 is about twice as fast as OOo 3.0 (5.2 seconds to startup, vs 11.3 for v3.0).

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

No, Phil Plait!
The summary is a rip off of the Bad Astronomy blog: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/07/the-galilean-revolution-400-years-later/

Seriously, the newscaster sounded like he was out of breath. Is that so that regular news sounds as exciting as sports? Every sentence had to have _emphasis_ on *everything*?

There is no political entity called the Republic of Ireland. The phrase "the Republic of Ireland" is the official description of the political entity called "Ireland" which makes up 80% of the island called "Ireland"

http://dotancohen.com/eng/britain_england_united_kingdom.html

Where did you get the Skype v4l script from? Please share!

I have been fighting with Phillips, MSI, and Logitech webcams and can get none to work, even in the latest Kubuntu (9.04). And of course I have to explain to family members who want to see my daughters online that they still cannot, and when they ask why not I have to mumble some excuse so _Linux_ does not look bad.

Webcams are interoperability devices and so long as they are not "supported" in Linux, other users will only ever hear the word "Linux" when we are telling them why something does not work.

So have you written to the hardware manufacturers and expressed interenst in Linux support? Something along the lines of "Does XYZ product work with my preffered OS? If not, which of your products do?". Write to one company a week (I do) and help let the hardware manufacturers know that there even exists a viable Linux market. Don't expect them to magically support a percieved tiny market. Help make that market to be percieved as worth sustaining a product for.

I should mention that there is a similar, much shorter yet less skewed, course that you could take to get Ubuntu for $0.

Even though the History panel was removed from Konqueror in KDE 4.3? Seriously, how do these decisions get made?
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193966#c1

Even though Krunner turns UTF-8 into gibberish?
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192166

Shall I go on?

Windows also cannot open Word, Excel, or Powerpoint files out of the box. You need Office for that. Ubuntu, on the other hand, opens them just fine (for certain values of fine mind you).

Where do you think the "theme" part came from? Before, it was just "parks"!

Spoiled brat. In my day, for birthdays we would find five friends, each of us would plant a flag, and call that a themepark! Where do you think your "six flags" came from? Trees?

Rotten kids...