"This behavior is by design" would certainly be taken as code for *something* going on around the time of win2kâ¦

You are aware, of course, of what an off-by-one error is, right?

There is the old adage that there are three major problems in software development, being:

1. Time
2. Names
3. Off-by-one errors

As for the first one, which seems relevant to the question, number formatting, as well as time formatting is locale-based and, unfortunately, sometimes decoupled from whatever one might choose as language.

As for myself, time and number formatting seems most intuitive for me in the Danish form, which is also followed elsewhere, whereas I prefer my UI language to be English (whatever that might mean).

Hence, my advice is to decouple language and number formatting completely, offering whatever choice of language the user might want, and whatever number-or-date locale the user might want, independently.

See also https://jira.atlassian.com/bro....

I don't have the time, but given how few of them are from fields that are directly relevant to the climate issue, it would be interesting to actually look at how much the remaining few have published on the issue...

Are you telling me - in all seriousness - that Unity doesn't work with a multi-head setup? How the hell can they put it as default, then?

Good thing I only run 11.10 on my laptop for now (where I switched to XFCE), so I guess I'll switch to XFCE even before upgrading my desktop, or look into E17, so thank you for the heads-up.

At Aarhus University, Denmark, most student-accessible machines run Linux anyway, and our tech staff prefer that we do as well, as most of us actually do :-)

Typical for /., I could just have checked - it's still here, but still without excercises.
It does remind me, though, of someone I have bought some hardware from, from time to time. He is a long time Mac user (i.e. before OSX), as his eyesight is bordering on complete blindness, and where the older Mac OS' (as OSX, I imagine) and for some time now also Linux has built-in tools for extreme screen magnification, the Windows versions of the day would only let you select higher contrast colour schemes, unless you shelled out DKK 5,000.- (approx. $1,000,-) for a commercial solution.
I imagine that the Wins are somewhat up to speed nowadays, but the habit of buying things that should be built in appears to die hard...

...a built in, ready to activate, feature of GNOME?

Wouldn't that penalize those of us to take great efforts to keep calm and explain the details of the emergency instead of screaming "HELP! HELP!!! HELP!!!!!" into the microphone?

Very much the same argument as The Archon V2.0 just gave above, but posted anyway, to signify that I concur and feel sorry for people that I might try to call an ambulance for in the future...

...where I, at the age of 6, realized that I wouldn't ever be able to keep one, if it would only be for the sake of that...

I have kept the one I made then, though, which was to never keep another apart from that :-P

Which part of this isn't blindingly obvious to anyone having taken even cursory introductions to History of the Sciences? *sigh*

Ouch :-S

Yeah, I should have mentioned that I did get your points, and the one you are making here, again, about not being able to be an expert or even "literate" in every field is an important one.

I just picked on your choice for the two reasons that I wanted to promote myself, and because of my assumption that most people would be culinarily literate enough to at least hard-boil an egg by following a recipe for it, and equating that with a very simple, even if cli-based, task, going on to speculate on the fear of it being the main obstacle.

Only now do I realize, that my expectations might actually be set to high in both regards :-P

Simultaniously, over two machines. Am in talks with my movers' insurance company...

I, personally, have had a few recent new users almost give up, when the power died and NTFS screwed up the Wubi system image file during the necessary recovery. Guess where the blame was laid...