Java Runtimes are installed side-by-side, even minor versions. And even if you have a grip with a particular installer feature, you can very well get your own folder bundled with the app and it will not touch anything else. Try that with a .NET runtime. I've seen 1.1 .NET apps fail to work properly after a 2.0 .NET runtime got installed in the system, no way to do otherwise that I know, the only solution was remove everything and stall from scratch and stop the damn f* windows update from messing with the SO.

The only FS who can call death upon something/someone is ReiserFS

*ducks*

Last time I used that, I was using compiz, avant-window-manager and gDeslets. I used nautilus as filemanager, but keep in mind this was in the gnome2 days where all you needed was to lauch gnome-settings-daemon and you was set. At this day and age, I use a customized kubuntu, and plasma makes very easy to move stuff around the way I like to do, kwin is working great in 4.7.6 as window manage. The only complaints I got is kopete protocol stability (only recently msn got back to working for me) and lack of a descent SIP phone, so I got to use ekiga for that. I always used thunderbird as mail client and that's unlikely to change since it is mostly desktop-safe, same for chrome (konqueror or rekonq are still too slow;/buggy for general usage)

Thats my 0.02 brazilian cents

We need a "like" button on slashdot

* flamebait mode on *
Because Linux STILL F* SUCKS! Even tried to use linux for anything desktop remotelly serious? Office suites on it are still a joke (I am lookin' at you Open/LibreOffice), it is still hard to do anything gui-wise, some stuff still lacks any useful gui, while some other don't even had any. Try to configure sound for example. Or try to use any intel graphic card (majority of OEM PC's come with them). I use linux daily, have used from many distros, used gnome, kde, E15, E16, E17, XFCE, black box, you name it, but to say it is as usable as windows or OS X, that's a dream, and most tech users agree with it (even if they don't speak so, but OS usage figures speak wonders for that)

I wonder if light is being affected by space-time some way and neutrinos aren't. Then they measure the true maximum allowed speed better than light does. Taking that into account, how the theories will look like using c @ neutrino's speed ?

Anything can be abused, give enough time and effort. It's just a matter of figuring if it is still worth giving how much useful it is still is. By the looks of the example it reminds me a lot of a ESB where You have services that do stuff registered in a common place, Google way seems like the REST counterpart of it.

Working with people on organizations over here, everyone uses a simple html template with their sig (simple html plus embedded company logo)

It is not. I've seen many times in many games. I've done it myself for a variety of reasons. Seeing someone pretty skilled at RTCW:ET was very entertaining to watch in a Saturday afternoon (sometimes with a big cup of coffee on cold days where your fingers could barely move).

And while at it, look around for other opensource projects on their hand that they can't handle it themselves and work out the issue BEFORE another fork happens wasting everyone else's time