I agree that C# would be ideal. It should be the open EMCA C# standard. (This is not anti-Microsoft, it is just a good open standard to use.)

I meant whining not winning

I cannot help but think that if WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) fully supported Microsoft Office that many people could switch to their Linux flavor of choice and be done with it. Many games run under WINE already so I think support for Office is what we are really waiting for. How much funding would it take to get full support for two Office version to WORK?

I know LibreOffice and AbiWord are comparable alternatives, but a Pinto and a Lambogini Diablo are comparable. Both are cars with four wheels, but they do not quite measure up. How much funding would it take to make LibreOffice measure up?

+1

Being able to run cygwin in Linux should be a release test for Wine. It would sure make scripting some of the unit tests easy. Great idea.

Since the article in question is about a link to articles that have been removed or censored does that mean that article will have to be removed along with Slashdot's reference too?

Being that it takes two barrels of gasoline to make one barrel of ethanol, growing the corn and turning it into ethanol, than please let it DIE. I beg you all, please separate bio-diesel and ethanol into two separate discussions.

I think this movie will have the record number of people who bought tickets, but did not actually go to see the movie.

Many people (numbers vary) stop paying because the car does not run and it is too expensive or not worth repairing. The problem is that many poor are taken advantage by paying $6,000 for a car that is not worth $2,000. The poor that need a car to get to their job do not often have the cash or knowledge to take the car to an independent mechanic to have it checked out before purchase. I have seen "low cost" dealerships try to sell cars with cracked blocks and bad transmissions. This device is a waste of money. What dealers need is device to find the car when it needs to be repossessed which has its own safety issues.

The trick with whistle blowing is to make sure you have left the job BEFORE you blow the whistle. Snowden made sure he was out of the country. Others found employment elsewhere before blowing the whistle. With digital finger prints left in logs a whistle blower cannot assume that attempts to be anonymous will be successful.

"Let's light a shuck out of here."

Lighting a corn shuck (husk) meant you had less than ten minutes of light before it burned out so you has to ride like hell or you were left in the dark.

Hold by beer. Y'all watch this.

Ruby is a great Perl replacement. It generates really nice looking content and is very readable. Do more with it than Perl with spending hours trying to understand some else's "snoopy swearing" code in Perl. Please be sure to look into Rails and Rake as well.

Check out the UI on Bodhi Linux to see how an Enlightenment desktop should be used.

Being order by an Iranian judge to appear is akin to being nominated for a humanitarian award. I cannot image now proud I would be if asked to appear. Has anyone worked out some kind of award system for being asked to appear in foreign country or tried in absence for human rights work?