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Ask Mark Shuttleworth Anything
In addition to founding Canonical Ltd., the Ubuntu Foundation, and funding the Freedom Toaster, Mark Shuttleworth is a space enthusiast. In April 2002 Mark became the second self-funded space tourist and the first African in space. He spent eight days participating in experiments on the International Space Station as part of his $20 million trip. Now he's ready to answer your questions. Ask him anything you like, but please limit yourself to one question per post.
"Can entropy be reversed?"
Indeed. I know a white South African who is now a US citizen. He annoys HR guys.
HR: "So, it says here you're African-American."
Him: "Yup."
HR: "...but you're white."
Him: "You never asked my skin color. My parents are South African. I was born in South Africa. I grew up in South Africa. I spent much of my adult life in South Africa. I've since immigrated to the US and am a US citizen. How could I be anything other than African-American?"
HR: "..."
Mr. Shuttleworth, do you know someone that can hunt down parent poster and shred his geek card into tiny pieces?
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[Unity] has raised the bar for usability on the Linux desktop.
My girlfriend would disagree. We run Unity on the netbook and she's continually asking where some random window has disappeared to and why she can't find the menu bar.
Unity made some useful changes for small screen devices like the netbook, but overall it's a disaster for Linux usability. Now I'm running XFCE on my laptop I'll probably switch the netbook over to it as well.
Most people that have been using computers dislike Unity. Your girlfriend is with most of the rest of the computing world.
Err, wait that came out wrong. Unity was supposed to be targeted at a more general computing audience but is missing the mark. What I mean is that Mark Shuttleworth wants to get with your girlfriend.
Dammit, that wasn't what I meant either.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
Why don't you go fuck yourself?
Stop associating yourself with the Linux community. Ubuntu is NOT Linux. Is it to Linux, what Windows 8 is to Linux. Software based on the philosophy of targeting the biggest retard out there, with the purpose of creating an even bigger retard, until the glorious goal of "MS Bob'tard" is reached, where all you have to do, is drool in the general direction of a tablet (= NOT computer) screen, where it is red and says "WAAAHHHH", and the thing instantly does what it tells you you want to do. (In the same way that Google search tells you you want to search for 'uncle donald' even though you specifically entered '+"uncle dolan"' [just an example, kids].)
While hiding away all the advantages and points that make Linux so awesome in the first place, like it's something to be ashamed of, because those lazy fucktards you call your target group are so lazy that they are literally dumber than a chimp (= level of a 4 year old human.), and you act like that is acceptable. When there's children in an Ethiopian mountain village who can't read or write, and manage, within a few days, to surf the Internet, install "apps" and even mod the OS of the Android tablets that were put there in boxes for them to discover, then unless somebody is mentally disabled, NOBODY got ANY excuse WHATSOEVER for not using shell scripting & co like normal people.
Ask him anything you like, but please limit yourself to one question per post.
What part of one question per post did you not understand?
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust