Goes on to show their hypocrisy. If they are going to mention Castro, how about mentioning American backed terrorists? Castro did not blew a Jet Liner, Posada Carriles living happily in Florida did (and confessed it). He is also responsible of planting bombs in Cuba and central America, killing an Italian tourist in the process. He is protected by the US gov. over a CIA pact for doing anti-communism dirty jobs.

Yes, the USA is infringing their own counter-terrorism UN resolutions by protecting the likes of him (and Orlando Bosch among others, sentenced in US soil but quickly pardoned by Bush father), also living happily directing the nice Cuban lobbyists...

The cheaper CFLs have electronics that can't handle the heat, when ppl use them the usual way with the screw (and electronics) up and the glass part pointing down, it fries them (heat goes up).

Want to have them last longer?, make sure they are the other way, with the screw down and the glass pointing up. When they are horizontal, the longevity is average. Incandescents don't care and can point down just fine.

Incidentally i have a couple of 10w Phillips LEDs, flood lamp style. They use 4pcs of 2.5w led each. Some people has had them burn out quickly when used in a typical enclosed flood lamp fashion, perhaps pointing down from above. I noticed they also have electronics that heat like crazy; thankfully mines are pointing up (their light is too strong for my room, opting for bouncing instead) and they are uncovered, with plenty of ventilation.

Even with bouncing, their combined strength is similar to a 100w incandescent.

I believe these leds are spending a lot in ac/dc transform. Perhaps if houses had some sort of dc standard, it would make implementation and longevity easier (a single ventilated transformer elsewhere instead of lots of small inefficient ones attached).

Btw with leds if the transformer doesn't fry, they also become dimmer with time. They just last much more than fluorescents, and no mercury or fragile glass is needed.

I hate it how gsm handsets interfere with computer speakers, you can always tell when someone carries a gsm instead of, say, cdma or its later incarnations. Its also silly to learn by the speakers noise you are going to get a call before the actual phone rings... And, have found gsm despite in theory being more rebust, struggles more in bad situation such as inside buildings.

A single operator in my country happens to service both cdma and gsm phones, with the latter being more heavily pushed. Perhaps it can simply accomodate more lines per cell?

I mentioned computer speakers but the noise made by gsm handsets actually affects most recording equipment, such as studio or even live tv broadcasts (ie, a guest in a show forgets to turn off the phone...), and you get to hear the familiar beep beep beep, beep beep beep; twaaaaaaaa twaaaaaa twaaaaa thing.

2) Just like the DEA then.

I find this scenario much better than the alternative: Windows Starter.

In all countries, it should be mandatory to offer an OS-less or free-OS choice; it should be illegal to provide windows only pre-installs, because that is benefiting a particular corporation which is anti-competitive at best.

It is the user's problem if they buy a windows license or install ubuntu, but at least they are not forced to pay the Microsoft tax.

In my work, many brand machines with windows pre-installed have been wiped in favor of Debian. So is not like the opposite doesn't happen, all it takes is a company policy change and thats it.

Ubuntu pre-installed will introduce it to people who would have never tried it before, even if they wipe it, they will now learn there is "something else" out there... And perhaps one day they will give it another chance, perhaps after utter frustration and countless windows reinstalls, or the Windows 8 Metro Experience ;)

It doesn't matter if the impact is minor, choice is always good.

Interlace video has twice the speed, even if its only half of the lines, they are updating content; which is why they are not really 25fps but 50fps on half the lines all the time. This shows in panning, and when people move, sports, etc.

He probably doesn't want desktop compositing in the way, leaving that issue for later.

I'm sorry but there was something more: The Floppy drive, namely, Woz floppy drive... Did you ever use floppies with the other machines? Then you know what i mean, several minutes vs few seconds to boot the very same program, and hell nothing would crash if you accidentaly pushed a button when the drive was reading, unlike certain other brand...

Marketing pushed Macs later.

All of that can be done with XFCE, but without the bugs and sluggishness the gnome developers never cared to fix.

If it says "gyrocopter" it implies VTOL (with engine assisted initial rotation). Autogyros have always been able to vertical land.