A ball of string could go around it approximately ten times if that gives you a better idea of its actual size.

Spot on. I liked the old divide between the two desktops, with Gnome as the "business desktop" and KDE as the "power user" desktop. Absolutely weird for people like me seeing new standard Gnome apps with LESS features. For most tasks, I like having a feature rich environment, even if it means that I have to dig a little; it's what I'm into, like a lot of Linux users. Thankfully apps like Digikam and Kate are sticking to the old KDE ethos.

"AMD Really Is On Fire This Generation!" Put that on the cover of the mag.

Erm, you must be living in the dark ages or something. Amiga OS 1.3 is the one true OS!

Good point. (redundant post to work around mis-moderation error)

Personally, I've no problem with it, particularly if insect derived food were processed. For example, it could be presented in the form of burger. Having said that, I'd probably get used to seeing insect shaped food. Particularly if it were cheap and nutritious and tasty. I'm certainly willing to give it a go. Maybe one day we'll all be telling our grandchildren, to their horror, that we used to eat things that looked recognisably like the leg of an animal.

The Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in the South Pacific.

I don't think it goes far enough. If they really want to beat Google, they need to switch to powers of 3 for the version numbering.

I don't really like the way that Rowling is held up as an example of a rags to riches success against the odds. According to Wikipedia she completed her university education and gained a degree in French and Classics. She then travelled the world a bit, got married, had a kid and then got divorced. When she returned to the UK, she moved into a flat and had all of her bills paid by the state. She then lived the (expensive) coffee shop lifestyle while she was writing her book. At one point, she received a massive grant from an arts council.

It was cushy. I wish I'd had it as hard her when I was struggling to get my first bit of paid writing work.

In Britain, feminists are campaigning for this practice to be made part of the law, and the government are supporting it. I wrote about it in this article.

Usual feminist nonsense. The countries that adhere least to feminist philosophy have the most female tech entrepreneurs.

Remember how feminism works:

Some tech jobs are male dominated = men and women are equals.

Jobs such as working with young children are female dominated = female brains are different!

Any argument that could be made in favour of affirmative action for women in tech could also be made for affirmative action for men in nursing or working with kids. This could be extended to non occupational roles such as being a homemaker.

I remember reading a quote along the lines of "Apartheid cannot be reformed, it must be abolished.". Feminism can't be tweaked to make it male inclusive, it has to be either replaced with a new, gender-neutral philosophy or attacked by a male orientated one.

I wonder what the gender composition of most the penal system in that country is? Oh hang on, that's because female brains are different, right?

By the time you get to 60, raising it to firing position is still pretty good.

Job such as teaching is female dominated = women's brains have evolved to be better at certain things.

Negative role such as being in prison is male dominated = men's brains are different.

Positive role such as winning sole custody of one's children is female dominated = women will always be better are certain things.

Job is male dominated = men and women are equals.

It's femilogical, and you're being sexist if you don't agree.

God Shcmod - I want my monkey man!

No doubt, this new development will lead to some finger pointing.