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Comment If it is peaceful... (Score 3, Insightful) 1032

Then you don't go building a uranium processing plant into a mountain.

There are only two reasons you want to build a uranium processing plant in a mountain:

A. It's bomb proof, in which case why are you worried about it getting bombed if it's purely for peaceful processes?
B. You're Dr. Evil.

I think we can safely say it's likely A, although I wouldn't rule out B with Ahmadinejad.

Comment Re:Socially progressive... (Score 1, Insightful) 625

Umm, the reason it exists is because as you may have heard Germany had a little bit of bother with nationalism around the 1930's and 1940's. It has nothing to do with social progressives and all to do with that early to mid 20th century problem.

Regardless of whether the German government is left, right or liberal that law would still exist.

Comment Re:Heh, some things never change... (Score 1) 331

Actually the user interface to Lotus Symphony is pretty decent. (better than OO's anyway)

Its problems are that it takes an ice age to start and its OO.org code is from OpenOffice 2 so it's always playing catch up for the file formats.

What's needed is someone to do similar what Apple did with khtml. Get something like koffice, improve the code even more, stick a good user interface on there and make sure it launches relatively quickly.

At the moment i'm in the process of gradually moving over the company I work for from Office 2000 to Open Office. The single consistent biggest complaint (apart from a certain office suite file compatibility) is the speed (and lack thereof) of its launch time.

Comment Re:What crap... (Score 4, Informative) 160

That isn't what Mozilla was complaining about. What Mozilla was complaining about was that IE8 was being delivered as an automatic update, then when it prompts the user whether to use express or custom settings the user of course would deem it just an update and would of course select express not realising it sets IE as the default.

The reason why it's acceptable that Firefox, Opera etc does this is because the user chose to download the browser. However, since MS pushed IE8 as a critical update through their automatic update service the user doesn't really have much choice. I accept the set as default using express if the user downloads IE8 as a separate download. But through an automatic update? No.

Comment Re:Hey google, want to save some money? (Score 4, Insightful) 386

I've a few questions, if the data centre is built in the desert don't you have a number of issues?

* Latency, if you have all your data centre's located in essentially a single part of the USA (lets ignore the rest of the world for this.. regardless that there are no deserts in Europe for example) won't that increase latency quite a bit to the more further away places that want the search results?
* Bandwidth/redundancy, if you have all your eggs in one basket as it were aren't you going to have to pay extra to have lots of extra fibre laid down to be able to handle all that extra traffic? What about natural disasters, if you have all your data centres in a single location then surely you run the risk of things going pear shaped if it burns down, suffers earthquakes, aliens destroy the building etc.
* Cooling, because it's in the desert isn't a lot of the electricity that is generated going to be cooling not only the building because of the outside heat, but also the heat generated by the servers? Surely it makes more logical sense to build in a colder climate say further north and use hydroelectricity? (if you're talking of using exclusively non active polluting (and non radioactive) natural electricity solutions)
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Journal Journal: Desktop Linux

Had an interesting experience this week, I had some spare time at work and a spare hard drive. So I decided to give ubuntu and kubuntu a go outside of a virtual machine.

Desktop Linux has definitely come along but there are still some pretty big issues. Plus I came across some pretty glaring bugs. Like, for example.. don't install Ubuntu or Kubuntu with more than one monitor connected to your machine because it fucks things up.

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