Really as a European I always look at the American gun discussion with a lot of humor (because the arguments are sometimes so unbelievable funny) and I think this is the case for most Non Americans. Even for the assault rifle having (with no bullets) swiss that always seem to be abused in these discussion.

But I was under the impression that owning a gun was for the second revolution/protection. To put guns in the hands of the good guys. If the arguments is that it makes it easier for criminals to steal weapons , doesn't that just contradicts the believe that guns are needed for your own protection ?

This is why I always find these discussion funny and even as an non American I sometimes follow the discussions. It sometimes beat the best standup comedians if you hear gun nuts/NRA people make arguments.

Oh please like slashdot has the tendency to report about MAKE events... I like MAKE but in the stream of weakly non RPI news , I have a very hard time not classifying this as another RPI advertisment.

Fortunately, it's mostly only the slash dot crowd that is

Liz, is that you ? You know what my problem is with the rpi?

- an pseudo open platform (look at the drivers).
- the hostile attitude against other platforms while they wanted to spark a revolution (think about the children bla) and welcomed cheap alternative platforms. When you mention them on their boards it is totally not done and you have mods even want to delete those messages because it is unfair against the rpi. And I'm not talking about "rpi sucks" threads but "hey guys did you see this product ? Is it any good because the rpi doesn't suffice for my project."
- what really aggrevates me is that in the same sentences they insinuate that others surf on the rpi and the sale of other devices is bad for other projects. With regarding of ARM stuff it is existed whay before the RPI and while i could aknowledge that the popularity of the RPI helped to spark interest in these things, it doesn't mean that the popularity of other arm projects would stop that.

- the constant hostile attitude agains anybody that has some critical thoughts. I'm even 80% sure that seeing the classic liz remark about the slashdot community, that it is somebody from the rpi foundation that posted that remark.

The difference is that in the slashdot crowd you have people that are more critical but that modelled on facts and knowledge. And thats a problem that the RPI community, like I've read on their forums a couple of fays ago. There is such a thing as free speech within the rpi community. Its disgusting to talk about free (like in speech also) products like linux and mention in the same time the rpi.

They are selling that well in the benelux countries that Nokia is dumping Lumia phones on aldi, a discount supermarket chain. A model that sold for 499 euro six month ago for 199 euro. I still wouldn't want it for that price to be honest.

It is ironic because it is people like RMS and people like you who praise him for his views, that are a part of Apple's succes.

The problem is that those jails serves a function. When you enforce very strict rules how somethings behave or look that it is decreases the learnability factor and that users will perceive it as easier to use. Even the "elegance" (look at the aesthetic usability effects) has a role.

You can argue that those "jails" aren't needed but unfortunately a lot of developers (and FOSS developers are even worse) couldn't design a good usable interface when somebody doesn't hold hands. Give them too much freedom and you will get things like The Gimp. It's a catch 22. It is the same reason why I see a big difference in quality between what is available on my android smartphone (where you can do much more what you want) and on the iPad. I'm not convinced that it is because iOS developers are so much more talented.

I don't think Jobs has been praised because of the jails, but because he has the balls to go the other way in a feature driven world. My mother doesn't care about multicore, SD cards, roots or any of that other stuff that would be the demise of Apple as so much predicted here on slashdot. The only thing she wants is a device that is easy to pick up.

I think there will be always a conflict in that regards between the FOSS world and the normal consumer.

Extremist versions of Islam (or any religion) for that matter isn't welcomed. You should look up what happend with Sharia For Belgium as an example.

And for somebody starts with the Catholic Church you should lookup "Operatie Kelk" which handles about pedophilia in the church... .

In Belgium you are free to have your religion (as it should be) as long if you don't do criminal things... .

Scientology in Belgium is interesting to say the least

* A lot of extreme right wing politicians has something to do with Scientology.
- Johan Demol - ex-member of a extreme right wing organisation "Front de la Jeunesse" , also ex-cop and ex-politician.
- When there is something in the news about Scientology in most cases you will see Hugo coveliers being interviewed as their laywer (who also have made some appearances in Scientology videos) spouting the same "religion prosecution" bullshit.

* Scientology tries to infiltrate into our government and organisations
- The secret service suddenly stopped working with the communication firm Nextel because of the fact that is has close ties with Scientology. What incident happened is a mystery.
- In the Flemish parlement there was a partner company (Ideas) of Hewlett Packerd that provided certain services that was a Scientology company. There was a lot of uproar because it came out that Scientology companies provided services to the Ministry of Defense, Local affairs and Social Services. Those departments that have very sensitive data... . Also because there are documented cases where in the nineties they also tried to infiltrate the French and German government departments.

* They over-flooded Belgian libraries with free (propaganda) material and books written by hubert.

Scientology is an extremely dangerous organisation. If it was me I would already put out International Arrest Warrant for the leaders of this dangerous cult.

The A10 machines runs ubuntu/linux for a while you know... The accelerated x11 drivers suck, but rpi as a desktop isn't partically a party also.

The problem is that the movie industry sees it as the new cash cow.

* When you look at good movies like Avatar and Hugo you will notice that there is such a thing as doing 3D right. The problem is that this is not the case for most movies.

* Most movies available are (bad) conversions of movies that where never produced with 3D in mind.

* It is ridiculous expensive not only the movie tickets but you need to see the prices they are asking for one stupid 3D movie here in this country. 28 a 35 euro's... And then they complain those things aren't selling even if a lot of people have 3D tv's at home (as you weren't able for a period of time to buy tv's without 3D)

I hated 3D because the active glasses made me sick and gave me headaches, with the passive versions I don't have a problem.

Insurance has been raising for a couple of years as there is an increase of natural disasters that are purely related to the weather.

Regardles of the who and what, but the climate is changing noticable. Normally at these part in this time of year it is freezing but now we are getting temperatures in the range of 15-18 degrees. We also have more floods then in the previous years. It may be warmer, but we also have a lot more rain.

...and there is no reason they couldn't include higher resolution screens...or better keyboards. You could use them exactly like you would a tablet or a keyboard

Then you still have the clumsiness of the form. A tablet is a thousand time easier to pick up and to handle in different situations.

I'm gonna let you into a secret people create content *all* the time from tweets to email to photos MORE than they ever have.What has lost importance is Office.

And for that kind of content (pictures, tweets) what is the added value of a computer ? Nothing. When I speak about "creating content" I'm talking about situations like office, photoshopping, etc. I surely wouldn't put office in the same range of sending a 140 character message, the average e-mail or taking a picture.

For me that is one THE biggest reasons that Microsoft will fail in mobile space. Office isn't that a big deal for the general (let me stress the general non techie group which is the biggest market) public so Office on tablet isn't that big USP like they make it to be. But then again the average nerd, developer, ... really doesn't understand the general public that much. They always tend to see their perspective and then they are baffled about the popularity of certain things or even brands like Apple.

I find it funny that people - then again the inmates are still running the asylum in tech land - still make fad claims or make the comparisons with netbooks.

I found netbooks clumsy devices because of the small (lower res) screens and the small ficky keyboards. Even today I still don't see any good use for them.

Tablets on the other hand are mostly content consuming* devices and regarding their usefulness in that regards, they are miles away from more PC. Hell they are not even on the same planet. For surfing/reading/... from my coach, on the train,.. I would pick a tablet over a laptop on any day. Hell if I'm in the same room as my PC and I have the tablet at hand, I mostly will pick up the second one.

* I'm gonna let you into a little secret most of the population don't use computers to create content... .

I was always under the impression his reasoning had to do with his irrational hatred agains iDevice users. When you explain your actions with "I don't care for iDevice users" there isn't much room for discussion.

Now when looking at his resume which is plasterd with Nokia adventures, I have the feeling it has a lot more to do with butthurt and frustration regarding the downfall of Nokia.

The whole freedom, fsf, whatever claim seems also weird for somebody that mentions different software patents on his resume. I find it kind of hypocritical for somebod with high freedom morals.

Seeing his works relations with Nokia I want to bet on it, nithing will happen. That ks typical for such kind of people.

The abuse of FRAND patents is more dangerous then design patents. The latter is something you can work around, which is not the case of patents that are essential for standards.

It is a shame that it as popular to hate Apple as owning iDevices, as it is something that even is applaud just because it is used against Apple. But if you forget the names it is a very disturbing trend.

It baffles me that I know a lot of people against SW patents, but then are cheerleading when a Nokia, Motorola or Samsung is playing the FRAND card. And don't start that the enemy of my enemy, BS. You can't be a little against software patents.