I tried to suggest this on IRC last year:

Conversation with #compiz-fusion at Tue 03 Mar 2009 12:12:07 PM SAST on davidfraser@irc.freenode.net (irc)
(12:12:43 PM) davidfraser: I'm trying to get compiz to switch my Viewports independently for two screens - the mmmode setting seems to have no effect
(12:13:00 PM) davidfraser: I'm using Xrandr - do I need to rather configure multiple monitors in my xorg.conf to make this work?
(12:21:34 PM) maniac103: davidfraser: you need separate X screens (separate screen sections in xorg.conf), otherwise it's not possible
(12:21:50 PM) davidfraser: thanks maniac103
(12:22:12 PM) ***davidfraser thinks this is suboptimal, particularly for laptops where screens are attached and removed mid-session
(12:34:55 PM) crdlb: davidfraser: regardless, xrandr-output-specific viewport movement would be total crack
(12:56:40 PM) davidfraser: crdlb: Why do you say xrandr-output-specific viewport movement would be total crack? Methinks it would totally rock
(12:57:23 PM) adamk_: It would be one massive hack to implement.
(12:57:41 PM) davidfraser: That's true...
(12:58:15 PM) adamk_: Well what developer wants to constantly maintain a nasty hack moving forward?
(01:02:40 PM) davidfraser: OK the question is is it a desirable feature - if so perhaps more APIs etc need to be added to X to make it feasible in a non-hacky way
(01:09:52 PM) adamk_: I don't like it in e17, so I doubt I'd like it in compiz. I'm quite sure others would feel differently.
(01:09:56 PM) adamk_: So get coding then :-)
(01:13:52 PM) davidfraser: :-)

Correction, Komodo Edit is open source - free as in speech - the full IDE contains proprietary extensions to it

Actually he did not run away from them - see the wikipedia article on him - the original reports that he vaulted the barrier and that the police challenged him seem to be false too. > At some point Menezes entered the Tube station at about 10: 00 a.m., stopping to pick up a free Metro newspaper. He used his Oyster card to pay the fare, walked through the barriers, and descended the escalator slowly. He then ran across the platform to board the newly arrived train. Menezes boarded the train and found one of the first available seats.

How is it more decentralized? Google wave is designed so that you can run your own servers and they all communicate over a federated XMPP network. The protocols are open extensions to XMPP, and their server code will be released as open source...

The question I ask is, why on earth do we allow branding of drugs? If they were sold just explicitly listing the proper medical names of their components it would clear things up a lot.

When you say "we", I'm presuming you're referring to all those of us who have fission reactors giving off Cherenkov Radiation glow in our back sheds...

What was odd about the woman? :-)

Ah cool thanks

It's worth clarifying that although his blog post did help to point out a particular performance problem, he wasn't the one who coded the fix ...

And what's the cost of producing those solar cells, etc?

Not really - that "OpenDocument Foundation" wasn't an official group representing the OpenDocument format or committee, but just a few people trying to push it the way they wanted it to go...

Woops, selected Overrated instead of Funny by mistake when moderating, so commenting to overturn it...

This is rubbish. If you can't get explicit agreement from a contributor you need to trace them down or replace their contribution, unless you have explicitly obtained the contribution under a licensing agreement.

In this case, Wikimedia's licensing agreement under which contributions were made explicitly allows changing the license to a later version of GFDL, and the latest version of that allows relicensing under CC-BY-SA 3.0 - see many other posts here for the full explanation.

So the voting is about whether Wikimedia's community agree with the policy, not about whether you agree with your submissions being relicensed - you already gave them that right (without assigning copyright to them)

So what do the people running the cloud do at Christmas if most of the people they're supporting need 10 times the load? Clearly there could be an advantage in other situations, but it doesn't solve everything...

You have to remember motorbikes and auto-rickshaws which are another common form of transport. Cheap low-emissions cars could well replace those, reducing the net pollution per person transported...