This has very little to do with KDE or the quality of KDE. I think Canonical simply sees too many people migrate from Unity to KDE so they distance themselves since it's not where they want to go.
I'll follow KDE to another distribution but I already have Ubuntu ppa's installed to automatically upgrade KDE to the latest stable versions so I don't know what the big deal is. When Canonical starts to actively block inclusion of packages like kde-desktop then I'll start to worry. In the worst case scenario I have a few hundred MB of worthless Unity/Gnome crap on my disk. I'll live.

Ah, "one" thousand trillion degrees. Is that degrees Kelvin, Celsius or Fahrenheit?

The Honeycomb code was open to tablet manufacturers and ASUS actually released.

You must be new here!

It's actually great to see your viewpoint. I think that in general Europeans still remember the "100m off" incident and put that in the anti-US context that countries had back then. That sentiment itself was fueled by a silly "freedom fries" attitude across the Atlantic.

As is usually the case a lot of the reasons are not technical but political or irrational. That being said, I'm not at all opposed to extra spending in space technology in Europe even if it is for dubious reasons ;-)

Fact remains that GPS is controlled by the US (military) and that restrictions are in place for civilian usage as far as accuracy, speed and altitude are concerned. I also still remember quite clearly that during the Iraq war all GPS receivers in Europe were off by about 100m at some point. I do not think that was an accident.

As far as shooting down GPS satellites is concerned: according to Wikipedia that completely irresponsible comment was a threat made by US officials:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)#Tension_with_the_United_States

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Yes of course. However that would arguably place the explosive payload in the wrong location... namely over your head.

Balloons are a very unreliable vehicle for delivering bombs on account of the wind being rather unpredictable and blowing in different directions on different altitudes.

Unsolicited cars and trucks on the other hand are a concern!

Like another poster mentioned above it could be that this behavior is different between Android 2.x and 3.0. But you're right: I think the reviewer in TFA would have don't better to wait until 3.0 is actually officially released before making these judgment calls.

You could be right. As long as Google says 3.0 is not ready I'm in no hurry to upgrade.
IMO Xoom was launched too soon. Manufacturers should have learned from the iPhone/Android battle that a huge head-start doesn't mean all that much in a new market. They should take their time and run with their own strengths, not Apple's.

The POV Tegra2 tablet proves that you can indeed make high performance tablets with plenty of features (camera, HDMI, USB, sd card) for a low price ($300). Sure, you make compromises like an inferior screen. However, I'm not going to give my 6 yo old son an $800 state of the art piece of technology to bang on in frustration while playing Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja. That's just not right. With the POV I simply don't care all that much. (but it survives just the same)

The default way that Flash presented itself on my Android 2.2 tablet (Point Of View Tegra 2) was by showing an empty block with an arrow in it where you would normally see the Flash content. If you then tap on it, it is activated.

I disabled that tap-enabled mode for the following reasons:
1) the Tegra2 dual core is plenty fast
2) I only visit fairly straightforward sites with Flash, like news-sites and such.

Personally I couldn't be happier. Flash on Android, even on 2.2 works as advertised as far as I'm concerned. Later I indeed would like to use it with Firefox 4 and add-block & flashblock plugins but for now it works fine for the things I expect from it.

> root privileges on the Git server that maintained the Linux kernel source code

This is a fake story. Linus surely would never give up that easily!

I have that same laptop from Dell. However, I solved the problem by booting off a Kubuntu 10.10 USB pen-drive and half an hour later the pre-installed Win7 OS was "upgraded" to something more useful.

HTH,
Matt

Well, let's be honest, if doing something in a particular way hurts you: stop doing it!

There is nothing in Java that says that you need to constantly throw out object and create new ones. These days these are object factories and what not out there that you can use to optimize these things.