Mindblowing statement: Your hands don't need to be close to each other for you to type.
So try this:
Take two keyboards you like (If there is a compact model, get one of those for your left hand), and place both on the desk, side-by-side. Your left hand goes on the left keyboard, and your right hand goes on the right keyboard. Angle the keyboards so that you're comfortable typing. ~~TaDa~~
Added bonus: Tell your boss that you've doubled your productivity.

saying "no one can see above 60FPS" is bunk... you can't say that everyone is the same intelligence...

I've always been able to tell a difference between 60FPS and around 75FPS is where I can't see a greater difference...

Not sure if that is because i've played video games since I was 10, or what... but i've always been able to tell the difference - except above around 75FPS. I started noticing this over 10 years ago with GLQuake.

It's a false dichotomy because of the substitution you performed on the first part of your argument...

You argued that Adobe's market share in pdf-writers is not dropping. Then you argue that if this is not the case, then they must be "throwing away their money without any profit expectation".

Adobe losing market share to free alternatives is not mutually exclusive with Adobe spending money on product development. This is what makes your dichotomy incorrect.

What proof would satisfy you?

If only /. had a simple link to get to the old, "light" html mode, like http://slashdot.org/palm for the palm version, that would make it so much more usable.

(Or, you know, displayed sensibly on mobiles by default, but that's probably going too far)

Can I just point out that the "Full diplomatic immunity" you're so upset about (if it's true, which I'm not sure it really is), would be the same full diplomatic immunity given to Soviet officials at the height of the cold war, and to Iranian and Syrian officials today. If you can give it to your enemy, then you can give it to your friend.

That's fine for generic fine but not for media files. If you dabble a bit in photography, you absolutely want preview view, not a list. 300 files named _IGP* aren't very helpful when you're quickly looking for something and you don't want to be bothered with a dedicated app.

Sure, you could put it like that. You're pretending like electricity is limitless, though. Which is only one of the flaws of your post.

The efficiency of the electrolysis process is high, but it's not 100%. (This PDF puts efficiency of most economically viable methods around 80%.) Taking into account the efficiency of the electricity production, that number plummets. Also keep in mind: about 50% of the United States' electricity is made in coal-fired plants. This Wikipedia article states:

The ways we're currently generating electricity are not at all limitless. Fossil fuels are still our primary source of electricity, and producing hydrogen uses a LOT of electricity. From this Wikipedia article:

A more relevant quote, though, also comes from the PDF I linked earlier:

Which means people probably won't be using electricity, let alone solar/wind/hydro, to produce hydrogen. They'll use natural gas. Which, again, is not limitless.

And I haven't even mentioned CO2.

I don't really know the details, but the possibility of using the underlying NT calls to implement fork has been discussed a lot on the Cygwin mailing list, and the conclusion was that it won't work for Win32-level processes. Dropping down into a separate subsystem like SFU would require a major redesign and would break binary compatibility for everything as well as source compatibility for Cygwin programs that use Win32 themselves, e.g. rxvt or mintty.

Good points about avoiding fork where possible. spawn() is another way to do that.

Hum, I work in a very large corporation and we use OSS for many tasks and business operations.

Accounting can be done with GnuCash www.gnucash.org

Business forms through OpenOffice. OpenOffice.org

OOo templates from http://templates.services.openoffice.org/

Depending on the type of business model, you may want to look at mind mapping software and planning software.

I use Linux at home and work.

Some Linux based software has been cross compiled for Windows if you are so inclined.

<shrug> I had roughly the same specs with my Powerbook before I got the EEE... Going to conventions was one of its main "mobile" uses for me, playing games and videos and such, or internet usage if I needed info... That was a pretty regular thing for me for a while, and it was more of a "charge when I get back to the hotel room" kind of situation. I also didn't especially like carrying around 5 lbs of laptop all day, it did get to be a drag. I think the EEE is noticeably lighter and even though the battery life is less than double I feel much less dependent upon the AC adapter than I was with the powerbook.

Personally I put a very high value on mobility when it comes to mobile devices. It's no good having the thing be "mobile" if I leave it home, or run out of power too soon.

Why do yuo think were in a recessoin and headed towwards a global crash??

Umm... because unfettered market was allowed to play hazard games with our economy? Because people were in charge whose primary interest was to fill their own pockets no matter what happens to the whole economy and we let it happen due to no laws regulating what they can or cannot do?

I didn't vote for greedy bankers tossing our economy in favor of their own wallets but guess what: You don't get to elect them!

1. U-Haul *did* use Diesels at one point. I had to teach my wife about glow plugs a few years back, she couldn't start it!

2. You can put a gasoline nozzle in a diesel tank, but not vice-versa

according to any philosphical understanding of what freedom means conceptually, freedom has never meant behavior which imposes on other people. your problem is you don't understand in which direction the imposition is happening in the healthcare debate. the issue is not that the government is imposing on you to pay for health insurance, the issue is you are imposing on society thinking you can walk around without health insurance

"You can't have freedom without responsibility."

this is exactly right. it is your responsibility to take care of your health. if you don't do that, you are not exercising a freedom of yours, you are acting irresponsibly. you are willfully or ignorantly avoiding the fact that if you are passed out on the ground, we can't simply walk by you, we have to take you to the hospital, or we aren't being ethical. therefore you MUST get health insurance because this is your RESPONSIBILITY. not having insurance is not a right or a freedom you are exercising, it is an act of IRRESPONSIBILITY you are committing

do you understand now?

The unfortunate reality is that as the cost of goods transportation has become cheaper it has become harder and harder for workers in the developed world to compete with the developing world where people will work for 10c per hour. There are also the issues of health and safety laws but those are a pretty minor expense compared to the actual difference in cost of living and hence wages.

In this modern world the only hope for the developed world is in jobs that require a high level of education. Any job that can be learned via an apprenticeship has moved abroad as the company paying for production decided they could take a hit on the poorer quality that was produced initially based on the cost savings of not paying a western developed wage.

Unfortunately that as much as us in the developed world would like to exclude certain countries from our markets there are people in charge of large corporations and on wall street who benefit the most from the current system that will fight this as it is not them being put out of work.