An event driven and event sourced system would have prevented this.

Tell that to the Kenyans...

Nice one. I actually appreciated that joke. :)

Wind turbines don't operate at those types of speed. They automatically shut down and lock the blades when wind speed increases past a certain threshold.

When you say that a relatively large scattered field (as compared to the relative momentum of the light beam used) attracts objects - how does a 'scattered field' cause this attraction? I guess I'm trying to determine how a scattered field of light would cause momentum towards the emitter...

Would an electrostatic force be possible in the vacuum of space?

Well, the solution to this would be to have multiple wave generators, would it not? Or, your singular generator could be housed in a reflector that creates the required interactions?

Baby-brain.... how is light always linear? I thought that the slit experiment was evidence of non-linear light? Also, doesn't a photon colliding with an electron potentially release another photon whose trajectory is influenced by the angular momentum of the parent electron?

You just echoed the sentiment of 99% of the population - "Sorry, mate, I can't be bothered...". It saddens me. =/

You may find yourself getting a nice job if you do this, me thinks.

Oh my.....I never realised this....Linux is hipster paradise - it will never get popular with the masses.

Does synchronisation use rsync or is it a from-scratch implementation?

Agreed. I'll be switching to GPG in the next 10 minutes.

I have a lot of respect for lean programs. I've been building my own hand-coded assembly kernel for the last few years as I have a fascination with lean, mean programming. However, KDE does offer a lot of very useful functionality that is an honest time-saver. I'm an akonadi+nepomuk convert. I also love KIO and Kate.

IMHO, if I was going for lean, I wouldn't be using a GUI anyway. Definitely not for Linux sysadmin tasks!

It has really come along from the 4.0 days. Very stable for me - use it all day, every day at work. Only problem I have is that if you have a auto-hidden panel and a full-screen Citrix app then there is a 10px portion of the screen that is unusable right over the auto-hide hover area.

Other than that - it's awesome. I can't live without Kontact, Dolphin, Okular and Gwenview.

The answer to illogically high costs is always the same: government.