Mee too. Descent 1 was amazing.

"Also," means "besides":
I'm not talking about how to enable dual screens, which is trivial with nvidia-settings (nvidia-drivers, as stated by parent) or with gnome-display-properties (plain xorg drivers).

gnome-display-properties

Also, you can add a gnome-panel and drag it to second screen (press ALT and drag and drop it), and then place a window list applet to it: from that moment, each panel shows only the windows residing at that monitor.
Compiz also is pretty well aware of the screens, so you can do scale ("exposé") to only one of the monitors if you wish.

That is limited to music and films, under the right of private copy, in the same sense that you can share your CDs with your friends -as far as you don't make profit from it-.
You cannot download privative software legally from P2P or whatever (note that you cannot share that software with your friends either).

Not a layer, but a Spanish guy as well.

except when you reach to the first curve.

Dr. House?

Seems that God doesn't play dices, plays billiard!

Does LaTeX have a 'hide codes' option?

Yes, for sure, give LyX a try.

Why not just normal buttons with triangular or circular sensitivity zones?
I'm getting sick just by seeing those triangles.

Further, LyX has keep improving from release to release. Nowadays, LyX 1.6.x is a Killer App:
Handles subdocuments so smartly: you can enable the outline and navigate through the outline no matter where the section actually is.
Automatically transforms any kind of figures to whatever (pdf)LaTex needs. You can use alpha-chanel png directly and you get blended figures at Beamer presentations.
New "MDI" is just what you want: be able to split the window and see different documents at the same time and popup newer windows if you wish.
The only caveat is that spellchecking must be done for each subdocument independently... I'm sure they are working on this...

LyX's approach is IMHO great -WYSIWYM.

Also, the fact of being able to include LaTeX commands directly is a good thing.

Also,
2.3 Text antialiasing and other GUI operations are software rendered by GUI libraries (GTK->Cairo/QT->Xft).
Which use hardware acceleration through X-render extension as far as drivers implement it.
2.5 No double buffering.
This one is funny. Often, people claim GTK is slow (see 2.2). GTK seems slow because is fully double-buffered. GTK never ever flickers, it may lag though. If your machine is fast enough, you will feel GTK fast and again, will never flicker. QT 3.x does some double-buffering/single-buffering so it feels typically faster but sometimes flickers. QT 4.x perhaps is doing full double-buffering, I'm not sure.

The article is a mess. There are many reasons why Linux does not become mainstream, certanly. But a similar list could be made out of Windows or OS-X, by mixing old-time already solved problems, incorrect assertions and some painful truths.

Seems like the particular extreme (cold) is ideal for [...]

raising the thermodynamical efficiency of a thermal machine, which at the end a nuclear plant is.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics (Lisa, we obey that one) tells us that in the best of cases, the efficiency is limited to:
1-Theat/Tcold
where Theat is the average temperature achieved at the thermal machine, and
Tcold is the ambient temperature.
There exist three ways to raise thermal efficiency:
1) Increase the machine functional temperature (this is why thermal engines are so hot). This is limited to materials technology, cooling systems, ...
2) Lower the ambient temp. This is why nuclear plants are placed close to a river, but also one of the reasons why airplanes fly so high. You are typically limited here, but in this case seems that it is what they are trying to use.
3) Increase your efficiency as a deviation from the ideal one (1-Theat/Tcold): improve your thermodynamic cycle, improve your thermodynamic components efficiency (turbines), improve your cooling processes (so you can higher Theat without deviate too much from the ideal efficiency).

From fortune:

Tim Schmielau wrote:
> the appended patch enables 32 bit linux boxes to display more than
> 497.1 days of uptime. No user land application changes are needed.

Thank you for doing this labor of love -

I will let you know how it goes sometime
after March 23, 2003 -

- J Sloan on linux-kernel

Even Microsoft is embracing it now.

These guys at MS, may be fired soon: not only they have used Linux for the device: they have used LaTeX to write the paper!:
producer: MiKTeX GPL Ghostscript 8.60
creator: dvips(k) 5.96dev Copyright 2007 Radical Eye Software
At least (for them) MiKTeX is a windows LaTeX install

MiKTeX (pronounced mick-tech) is an up-to-date implementation of TeX and related programs for Windows (all current variants).