My first Linux system was 30 floppies, as I remember, copied from a friend, in 1993. No, I don't remember the distribution.

but the message comes across anyway, and it's not encouraging.
I agree with the grammar-impaired poster.

Music can be a distraction from work?
A silly notion, but pretend to be a PHB and it sort of makes sense.
What scares me is that PHBs and congress-people think alike.
Just wait: car radios will someday be banned because music can be a distraction from driving.

Personally, my favorite music for programming is Within Temptation.
For debugging, I like Flyleaf.
For writing documents, Shostakovich.
While driving, I usually listen to Cradle of Filth.

Oh, wait, wrong topic. I guess I forgot to upgrade.
What were, then. I guess.

I actually go to great pains to keep my old tech going. I used an HP Jornada until 2006. Before that, I used CP/M until 1994. My WinMo 6.5 phone came out in late 2005. I have an EeePC but only because my old laptop died last year.

What were is, is all.
Go Team Vampire!

That is one hypothesis.
My point is that the science behind global warming theory is immature: mostly at the level of untested hypothesis. As a scientist, I don't want to ignore the danger or claim it isn't there, but I want to explore other hypotheses as well, especially when the temperatures for the past decade don't fit any of the global warming models.
Specific to your point, the melting of the polar ice indeed is occurring, and it is absorbing some heat in the process. But not enough to account for the drop in temperatures we have been seeing. Also, it just doesn't make sense that ice is melting because of increased greenhouse gasses and the result is cooling. Back to my original point, that the ecosystem is far too complex for a single factor to have a huge impact.

It is interesting that they measured an increase in CO2 levels and conclude that temperatures will rise by 6C in a century. The correlation between CO2 levels and temperature, however, might want to be investigated yet again. The period 2000 - 2008, when the increase in CO2 levels took place, experienced a steady drop in global temperatures. That in itself suggests a negative correlation. Don't get me wrong; I don't believe that temperatures will tend to fall as CO2 rises, but instead they should definitely rise. I'm just suggesting that world climate is an incredibly complex system, and we can't accurately estimate future temperatures without understanding how all of the variables contribute to the system.

We have a problem, but not an emergency.
Let's work to cut emissions and (more importantly IMHO) conserve our limited fossil fuel resources.
But let's not panic about global warming.
After all, the science is still fairly immature.

Wow that sounds like a great idea. Let me tweak it a bit.
How about if Canonical releases every six months, but every other release is one they focus on making really solid? They can offer longer support for that version than the other, and people who are cautious would get adequate warning to only upgrade once a year.

But, wait ... that's exactly what they are doing. ;-)

The immediate parent post was modded flamebait, but the point is nevertheless valid.
The grandparent post makes it sound like we shouldn't complain about bugs and issues because we're getting a handout. But a Linux distribution should be professional, it should be of the highest quality, regardless of the price tag. When it comes to Linux specifically and Open Source in general, Free as in beer does not mean cheap as in crappy.

Oh, I've done a fresh install on EeePC, with one hiccup. The netbook remix that I installed first didn't let me switch to the standard user interface, so I reinstalled with standard Ubuntu.

I did an upgrade of a desktop HP from 9.04 to KK, with no problems whatsoever.
Is the kernel old and I didn't notice? Maybe. I didn't notice. As long as it does everything I ask of it, I couldn't care less what the kernel version is.

Hmm, too bad I don't have moderator points.

Sorry, but that's a bad idea. In fact, if I can say so without being modded down too badly, it's stupid. We wouldn't be able to see anything at night.

I see on the maps that some areas are thinning, near the coasts, and other areas are thickening.
I wonder if that is the usual pattern, or if they are seeing something unusual.
The article didn't mention that, as far as I could tell.

Whenever I hear that date, I think it must be off by 100 years... 12/21/2112 would make more sense wouldn't it?

Health care won't be a concern of mine 100 years from now.

I'm always forgetting where I am.

Nothing? It should display the received SMS message, after all. Even my lowly HTC Wizard does that much.