When you follow a link and then come back why aren't you at the same place on the page? This has been broken for a while.

>I have no faith that they will still be around in ten years

Well they were twats 20 years ago when they made licensing Postscript so expensive that HP developed PCL ... so they will probably still be twatting around in 10 years time.

Ignore everything posted by Yvonne - how hard is that? The "Slashdot Staff" will soon get the message when there are NO replies to their adverticles [sic].

The fact is that all you posters WANT to be outraged. It's like a sexual thrill (at least that's what Andrew Denton said on the (Oz) ABC show "Shock Horror Aunty").

- Software Architect: arsehole who gets in the programmers' and developers' way

BTW as a sidenote I actually really like Ubuntu Unity. At first disliked it, but have gotten quite accustomed to it

And how did you cope with Unity stealing the ALT key? Just 3 minutes of battling with that bullshit was enough for me.

The moment he is back in the authorities' hands Obama will declare him a terrorist and then it's game over - he will be outside the purview of the courts thanks to the "special arrangements" in place since 911.

have a ~30% greater need for computing resources for the period between mid-november and early january

This is the myth I want to see busted. You see, every company in retail wants that extra 30% at Xmas. Now are you saying that the service provider is going to have all that extra infrastructure just sitting around all year waiting for your and all your competitors' peak requirements? Or is the guy who pays most going to be adequately serviced while the rest of you pound sand? (hint: no, yes)

... to move a page per click I'll get excited. Windows still rules in that regard (I threw up in my mouth a bit saying that) - RSI sucks.

Only psychopaths need apply.

It's not impossible that Casio are well aware that the patents are bogus but still pay for licenses because that's cheaper and quicker than a legal battle.

Nothing's crashing. nothing's blue screening

oh really? I've had uTorrent hang so hard a couple of times that it can't be killed from taskmgr or taskkill. In fact win7 itself hung while shutting down necessitating a hard reset.

Mao - is that you?

You can guess what happened next

You walked back across the road, waved the wad of cash and said "Look! Credit history! Now approve my loan, bitches!"?

the American method of developing weapons is better than any authoritarian system

Yep, in China the inevitable corruption enriches only the generals and the politicians, whereas in America the corruption enriches the generals, the politicians AND the CEO - a clearly superior method.