Gnome is a tablet environment. Without the touch.

Alas, it is too late for gnome to do anything in the tablet or hand held space. The market is huge, but the OS and stacks are well defined. If you doubt this, look no further than how windows phone 7, meego, RIM or webOS have done in the market. Gnome is never going to crack this nut. Anyone who believes it can is delusional.

Considering Red Hat and Novell are the employers of the developers and designers, I wonder how they convinced the Server OS vendors that a tablet interface was good FOR A SERVER. It just doesn't make any sense. Whoever manages these teams for either of those companies should be fired. They are clearly incompetent at explaining why the designer is confused about what pays his/her salary. What sort of workflow FOR A SERVER favors a single app per workspace?

As far a forking, there are plenty of DE that already have developers. Gnome isn't worth saving it from itself.

He also says touch is the most important outstanding feature. How they can say gnome 3 isn't a tablet UI with a straight face is beyond me. I just love that they decided to fork and drop the desktop portion of their desktop environment and expect people not to call them out on it.

Good thing for him that, in this country, you don't have to prove your innocence.

I disagree. Canonical has always been and always will be a leech. They work poorly with upstream. They happily gobble up the communities efforts and wall off their additions. They are a bottom feeder, even if they are popular. They were right to be criticized by Debian, Greg Kroah Hartman and now Gnome. The fight with Gnome is illustrative of their mindset. Refuse to be part of the community, then lament the community is closed off to them. It boggles the mind how much wind power their hand waving has generated. The best thing for the community is for shuttleworth to pack up his toys and go home like the spoiled man-child he is.

[blockquote]The 'big bang [wikipedia.org]' was the event that created all mass, space, and time in the entire universe in a single instant approximately 13.7 billion years ago.[/blockquote]

The big bang doesn't talk about the creation event. It discusses the expansion following soon after that event, and only somewhat reliably at the planck epoch. The big bang did not create matter, energy or time either. These were all firmly in place by during the period this theory takes place. While their may be theories floating around about the actual creation event, none are more than idle speculation.

While android *might* be fragmented, Apples own IOS updates proceeds to make my 2nd gen iPod touch into a flakier piece of shit with every release. If anything has convinced me to find alternatives to apples products, it is my own experience with their user hostile decisions.

Why are we modding him funny? system specs for running windows 7 32bit are exactly the same as running the game.

All allergies are autoimmune diseases. The problem isn't so much the allergen as it is the bodies reaction to it.

no, originally copyright was put in place to censor content the king did not want spreading. The author is now and has always been an afterthought.

Seriously? Just stop it. Mono is never going to make the mountain of C code obsolete. Linux will never be dependent on Mono. If Microsoft somehow stopped distribution of Mono on the internet (HAHAHHAHAHAHA) and everyone simply had to do without, you just port the application to Java, C++ or Go!. GNote proves this isn't that big of a deal. Your concerns have no merit.

Does Netcraft confirm that?

If they didn't care about selling in Europe they could just ignore them and cease operations there. I don't see it being worth it to either oracle or sun for that to happen.

I bet if you looked statistically at the operations of a computer, you would find that almost none of it is random. This is why they sell entropy devices.

to quote wikipedia:

Laboratory experiments have produced effects that are visually similar to reports of ball lightning, but it is presently unknown whether these are actually related to any naturally occurring phenomenon.

Now, other than what is most likely something I saw on "In Search of" I have nothing that tells me that it exists. Your barking up the wrong tree. I don't imagine that a plasma could retain it's shape for any meaningful duration in our atmosphere.
I am simply pointing out that irrational beliefs are persistent because those who believe them are as well.