By the time Altavista got popular, the interface was a cluttered mess where you could hardly find the search line. Google came with an almost empty screen with a logo and a search line. You'd have switched just to save your eyes. More like the good old Webcrawler interface.

I'm kinda curious why everybody is assuming that it won't work in firefox. Because it works just fine for me. I don't see it in the resolution choices though. Maybe it's the Youtube HD extension that manages to select it.

It's not quite that simple. While the undoubtedly outdated, it doesn't give anybody the right te break it. Also, the anarchy that UberPop proposes would backfire as well, so there's probably some good compromise in there. Of course, this isn't what UberPop wants either because if UberPop drivers lose their advantage, they can't keep up their big price difference and their market would evaporate.

It's about an answer not having more significant digits than the input. It does require mentioning that the value are actually part of the set of real numbers. In which case you could also write it as:

8*10^0 + 5*10^0 = 1*10^1

Funny is that it was a big thing in high school, but that nobody cared in university.

I probably know a little bit more about this thing than most and most of it is not good. Usually when trying something new, you'd expect people to try and prove the concept before doing anything really expensive. Here it was the other way around. Most of the effort was put into making a flashy prototype with all the bells and whistles in place. Really, worrying about where to mount the LCD displays? The result is a machine that incredibly expensive with no chance of commercialisation because litterally every part it contains is different. The things that were important, like aerodynamics and structural reliability have enough left over issues for anybody involved in the design to not want to be in it when it drives full speed. It it ever will. I suppose this is what you get when you hand over pretty much unlimited funding to people that have little interest in the actual science.

It's not like the others were much better. I fact, I clearly remember ditching WP at some point because it kept messing up the layout of my documents. Eventually after a lot of crap I started doing my scientific stuff in latex. After that it was quickly clear why it's still the number one document processing enviroment for technical reports.

Wat really sucks is that the open alternatives mostly tried to copy word. They're still trying to play catch-up and haven't improved on the way you write reports one bit. LyX made some nice steps in the right direction. If only it wasn't so much work to create your own layouts.

Unlike what the summary suggests, it's not a Gnome 3 fork but just a Gnome Shell fork. With the whole back end untouched, they should be able to keep compatibility issues to a minimum.