Really?
That won't ever work unless your friend was using some brain damaged modem.

... and now what are you going to monitor?
And even when GMail/Yahoomay/Whatevermail will provide you with access to my mailbox, what do you think you are going to get?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MEANINGFUL.

as well as all other rating companies and all those who lend them a ear.

I hope that support to X will stay for much longer.

It'd be nice not to repeat the notorious story with KDE v.4.

And, yes, all this bashing with "the old v4.0" is here because our scares done by KDE board still bleed.

They said it was a development release. Ubuntu trashed v3.5 for v4.0 and killed all KDE users. The same happened for a number of other distros.
KDe should have called it "release candidate" or "technology preview". And distro manager should have been using that before committing to it.

Try doing something more than just launching apps.
Try doing real work on it.
Have you ever changed the "auto eth0" wired connection in KDE?

A kernel dev like him is a first class user that also knows how things should be and should be done.
Most of current UI designers are showing they are not even developers.

There are too many DE projects, so the already scarce human resources are scattered among them. The final result is the slowness in bug fixing, where not in the development itself.
Then there's a lot of focus on "user experience" which I translate with "eye candies" and "cosmetic features" and not enough focus on "real user experience" which I translate with "real life use" and "meat".
Try reading the latest release notes for KDE and GNOME (both core and apps).
A few examples.
NetworkManager GNOME's front end is quite usable. KDE's is not working properly, especially with system wide connections.
CD/DVD burning KDE's (K3B) can do almost anything you need, while GNOME's (brasero) is too basic.

Then you have a number of GTK+ (GNOME) pieces of software with no real competition in QT (KDE) and vice versa, And a few which don't use either and are real leaders like Mozilla Firefox 5.
And, finally, the bloatware is spreading everywhere. It's almost impossible to run KDE without running MySQL at the same time (bacause of the Akonadi PIM)!

In the end, XFCE still needs bits from GNOME for full functionality. LXDE and friends are either too embryonal or are actually toys.
The same seems to happen with Linux distributuions.
The only thing to fear is that the whole Linux world will be exiled to servers and not spread on desktops and portables, where the DE is among the main components.
DE developers, unite!

It won't work.

Mobile broadband, the third millennium (fake) dream.

it's just an icy something.

If you use a laptop just like a desktop replacement, then it'd make some sense.
But if you use a laptop as a ... ehm ... portable computer sitting atop your laps, then it doesn't.
Two screens means twice screen consumption, heavier laptop etc.etc.

I need to complain about this:

It's the right of every man (and woman) to complain about lack of options.
And also about the prohibition of complains. And the prohibition of prohibition of complains.
Ans also from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.