(Hands up if you would actually consider using a graphical interface without a task bar.)

Posts using ratpoison. (Before everyone starts screaming, yes, I'm an efficiency nerd, I do a lot of things reflexively, and I cannot imagine trying to teach a high percentage normal lusers to use this.)

? </taking a joke far past absurdity>

"The erroneous assumption is to the effort that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence .... Nothing could be further from the truth." Not sure where that quote is from, but it's good and I had it lying around.

I do hope he pulls through, he is an amazing man.

I'm currently looking at getting a netbookas a college student. Not because of cost concerns, but simply because I want something to type notes on with a battery life that will work for my 7 consecutive hours of lecture. There are uses for these things, not every computer has to be able to run folding@home, Crysis, and my web server at the same time.

Hm, sry to reply to myself but according to Wikipedia it seems that the drivers have to be rewritten to support GEM. Still not sure about user-land software tho...

Haven't read read the article yet but it does it require doing things differently in drivers or user-land software?

"And the morale of the story is:"

Apparently it is not very confident anymore...