I for one am very happy about this. CFLs are presented as a benefit for the environment, but does anyone think most bulbs are disposed of properly? How many are brought back to Home Depot, for instance? Bottom line for me is the mercury. I don't like it near my children. A broken bulb is a nightmare...who wants to deal with this?: http://www2.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-cfl-0.

Moreover, I think the difference in efficiency presented always overlooks something important: In colder climates especially, much of the time the "inefficient" incandescent bulb's "wasted energy" is not wasted at all -- it is radiated as heat that helps to warm your home.

Don't think so: "If a ship is using 0.5g constant acceleration or greater, it will appear to get near the speed of light in about a year, and have traveled about half a light year in distance. For the middle of the journey the ship's speed will be roughly the speed of light, and it will slow down again to zero over a year at the end of the journey."

Thus:

After          Total Distance       Speed
-----          --------------       -----
1 year         0.5 light years      accelerated to C
13 years       13.5 light years     C
14 years       14 light years       decelerated to 0

That's 14 years of travel at 0.5g constant-acceleration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_acceleration#Interstellar_traveling_speeds
Just don't hit anything....

true dat

Full story:

c. 1994 to 1995
Slackware

c. 1999 to 2010
Mandrake --> Mandriva

c. 2005 to current
SUSE --> OpenSuse

c. 2006 to current
CentOS & RedHat

c. 2007 to current
Ubuntu

As my mother always said: "Never love anything that can't love you back." A company is a perfect example of this. And you're absolutely correct that fear of the unknown is a factor. That isn't necessarilly a bad thing -- because the new job might have unknown deficiencies (as well as benefits). Its a cost-benefit analysis without full information, rather than a no brainer:

current job:
negative aspects (less pay; long commute)
positive aspects (friends, including among management)

new job:
negative aspects (no friends, others??)
positive aspects (more pay, short commute, others??)

The question is, do the known positives make up for the risk of the unknown negatives?

Configuration management of a Drupal system is an absolute mess. I've yet to see a solid set of procedures for moving code and configuration forward (dev ---> test ---> staging ---> production) when the production database (with its convoluted schema) is continually altered due to content contributions. The features module (http://drupal.org/project/features) may be the best avenue in the future, but it is nowhere near a full solution.

On an unrelated note, apparently the developers of the new FCC site don't understand how to rid their site of persistent cookies. They may want to look at adding "ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 0);" to their settings.php file.

> But now Ubuntu is the Bad Linux

Really? Says who? Link please!!

There are many people (myself included) who favor other distributions (for various reasons -- including simply not wanting to go with the leading distro). But I've never heard anyone refer to Ubuntu in any such negative fashion. This post seems agenda driven.

> No way he is a dummy

President Obama hides his academic record, so we can only guess, but the evidence does not suggest he's any kind of genius. Consider:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=74877

Yes -- an anti-Obama editorial -- but I would ask you the same thing you asked: "Please provide evidence" that what it says isn't valid.

> there will be a significant drooling moron effect

Much like the effect that got your post modded up instead of tagged as troll/flamebait? Consider:
"whatever brain trust send these whackos their talking points"
"right-wing swamp"
"what happens in the barn stays in the barn"
"the Alaskan Christine O'Donnell"
"teabaggers"
"sit quietly on the back of the bus"

Insults and condescension through the entire message. You're like that ass in my namesake movie Forrest Gump who beats his girlfriend while complaining about Vietnam and Nixon.

My favorite distro. YaST is the big difference, IMHO -- other distros have nothing like it. I've got OpenSuse 11.2 installed on my daughter's laptop (and Ubuntu on my wife's, but I much prefer the former); if my daughter can have all she needs to on it and not complain too much, they're definitely doing something right.

So they release 11.3, and your main gripe is a missing feature that .... isn't missing as of 11.2 ?

Something similar having happened to me, my personal story can perhaps provide one data point. This goes back about 20 years, but I believe I was driving a Pontiac station wagon (ironically, I also had a Toyota Corolla at the time....). I was driving along a somewhat curvy road at about 45mph, when the car started accelerating greatly. Although I repeatedly lifted my foot and tried to hit the brakes, the brakes did not seem willing to depress and the car kept accelerating.. It seemed within moments I was over 60mph, and my heart was about to burst through my chest. Then, for no apparent reason, the auto-acceleration seemed to disappear and the car was back in my control....

It has always been my hypothesis that the floor mat had became entangled with the accelerator AND possibly the brake as well. This could explain why the hitting the brake did not seem to function as expected. As it is, I could never tell that this was the case, because the car's jump in speed happened so quickly that I had no time/capability of looking down during the incident. Afterward, the mat was in a forward position, but I can't say for sure that it was the cause.

My one regret (shame?) is that I didn't think fast enough to try putting the car into neutral or pulling the key. We should really train new drivers to think about what they would do in these and related situations (e.g., if the brakes fail -- try emergency brake, low gear, etc.)