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Comment Re:Watch Out for PETA (Score 4, Interesting) 466

All those cows, pigs, sheep, chickens etc are no longer going to be wanted by mankind. What this means is many thousands of years worth of natural and artificial selection will be wasted, most animals domesticated for meat will die out

I suspect there will always be a market for real meat, in the situation you describe I image real meat will move to being a delicacy and a luxury, hopefully supplied by animals farmed in a more "humane" manner.

Comment Re:Beta Sucks (Score 1) 81

Agreed, shitty Marketing. I moved from my Sona Xperia Sola to a Lumia 525 - roughly the same price (contract free), heaps better phone - snappier, nicer to use.

This may be changing, seeing a lot more public awareness & pushing of the Lumia's in Australia.

Side Note:Development for Android and Windows Phone is pretty straightforward. I did some Symbian S60 dev in the past and that was just vile.

Comment Re:Does this mean no more Gnome desktop? (Score 1) 693

I've had the misfortune to be digging through a gnome program recently. The documentation is crap. Full of bad links, ambiguous statements and empty pages. Versioning is appalling, there is no list of documentation by gnome version.

When googling on the Qt4 api, I'll get a host of links to accurate offical documents, examples and informative blog entries. To a lessor extent it is the same for KDE (could do better).

With GTK/Gnome, 90% of the time I'll get a gnome.org page with broken links that is out of date.

Comment Re:Great to hear! (Score 1) 99

I feel your pain :) 19 hour download for me as well - Thanks Turnball! I was scheduled for fibre last year.

The user generated maps seem to work well under linux. Overall the experience has been flawless, despite being a beta. It downloaded, it worked, simple as that. Well done Valve!

This should keep me entertained for a while.

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