No they're not. You just can't see the wood for the trees.. It's not the tree that is the carbon sink, it's the forest.

....... and are replaced by new trees. It's not the tree that's the carbon sink, it's the forest.

For the first time in my life, i own a laptop that doesn't have an easily removable battery - a Samsung series 5 ultrabook. Normally i won't buy any device that doesn't have an easily removable battery, but a matt screen is more important and there's not many options when it comes to laptops. It's also the worst laptop i've had (in 20 years of owning them) for battery longevity.

Yeah, mine's lost half its battery life from that. I'm making the effort to run it on the battery as much as i can now. But the problem with doing that is that when you really need to run off battery, the battery's unlikely to be fully charged. That's a serious flaw in laptop battery systems - and one that there's probably no currently forseeable fix for.

Too right! There's a lot of whining on slashdot about this sort of thing. As soon as you see it, you know the writer's just incompetent and blaming their tools.

That's how i feel too. However, i'm a computer nerd and have been for 35 years, and i suspect that makes me a bit different from average users. While Gnome 3 irritates me a lot (as do all other desktops, incidentally), i can see the point of it - and it's not aimed at you or me.

Not any more it's not. And it never was with anyone who had a clue. Flash based web sites always were and always will be shit.

It's wrong if you're lazy or not very smart - because you want a language that saves you having to actually do anything. You've only got to look at the shit that passes for web development on some sites to see that there's no shortage of those sorts of people working in the industry.

If you people put as much effort into learning how to use the tools you have as you do into making excuses about why you can't use them, you might actually get some useful work done.

That would be useful if you had a time machine and wanted to work 10 years ago.

Flash? Seriously? are you suggesting the ability to produce the worst web sites ever is a selling point?

Brain? Fuck off! This is news for nerds, not news for retards.

A better idea is to get a red led bulb off ebay. Save electricty and sleep better.

It's the colour of the light, more than its brightness. Blue light inhibits melatonin production, increasing wakefulness. Red light's ok at night, blue light's not.

Small hint: writing like a troll just makes you look stupid.

All the bugs i've mentioned have already been reported. And, guess what... They only seem to affect people who don't use kde.

I agree. I also think we need less delusion.

However, i understand some people can't cope with the fact that life's completely pointless and that we totally cease to exist at the end of it, and if religion helps those people, then that's ok. I don't want to attack people's harmless delusions - unless they think it's ok to shove those delusions down other people's throats, or force their imaginary god's mythical will on other people that is. If they do, then i'll say what i think too.