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Ubuntu Closes Longstanding Bug #1
dargaud writes "Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu fame has closed the primal bug on Launchpad, standing since 2004 and titled 'Microsoft has a majority market share,' due to the 'changing realities' of tablets, smartphones, and wearable computing."
to say I have no idea what this is about, nor do I care
I was about to post this, but figured I'd better see if anyone else had.
"Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it." -- Alex Schure % Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them. % Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be. % People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't. % Philogyny recapitulates erogeny; erogeny recapitulates philogyny. % "Picture the sun as the origin of two intersecting 6-dimensional hyperplanes from which we can deduce a certain transformational sequence which gives us the terminal velocity of a rubber duck ..." % Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square. % Polymer physicists are into chains. % Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth. % Power corrupts. And atomic power corrupts atomically. % Progress means replacing a theory that is wrong with one more subtly wrong. % Prototype designs always work. -- Don Vonada % "Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together." % Quantum Mechanics is a lovely introduction to Hilbert Spaces! -- Overheard at last year's Archimedeans' Garden Party % Quantum Mechanics is God's version of "Trust me." % Quark! Quark! Beware the quantum duck! % Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives. % Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled. -- R.P. Feynman % Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice. % Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and think what nobody else has thought. % Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Braun % Round Numbers are always false. -- Samuel Johnson % Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin % Science and religion are in full accord but science and faith are in complete discord. % Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -- Jules Henri Poincar'e % Science is what happens when preconception meets verification. % Science may someday discover what faith has always known. % Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. -- William Buckley % Sentient plasmoids are a gas. % Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. % Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall % Space is to place as eternity is to time. -- Joseph Joubert % Space tells matter how to move and matter tells space how to curve. -- Wheeler % Statistics are no substitute for judgement. -- Henry Clay % Statistics means never having to say you're certain. % Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter. % Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have! % Take an astronaut to launch. % Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -- Aldous Huxley % Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand. % The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. Seek simplicity and distrust it. -- Whitehead. % The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely 1 bananosecond. % The amount of weight an evangelist carries with the almighty is measured in billigrahams. % The best defense against logic is ignorance. % The bigger the theory the better. % The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst % The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives. -- Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project % The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. % The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. -- John Muir % The devil finds work for idle circuits to do. % The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it. -- Allan Sherman % The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
The quote of the day picker is out to lunch it seems:
"Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it." -- Alex Schure % Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them. % Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be. % People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't. % Philogyny recapitulates erogeny; erogeny recapitulates philogyny. % "Picture the sun as the origin of two intersecting 6-dimensional hyperplanes from which we can deduce a certain transformational sequence which gives us the terminal velocity of a rubber duck ..." % Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square. % Polymer physicists are into chains. % Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth. % Power corrupts. And atomic power corrupts atomically. % Progress means replacing a theory that is wrong with one more subtly wrong. % Prototype designs always work. -- Don Vonada % "Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together." % Quantum Mechanics is a lovely introduction to Hilbert Spaces! -- Overheard at last year's Archimedeans' Garden Party % Quantum Mechanics is God's version of "Trust me." % Quark! Quark! Beware the quantum duck! % Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives. % Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled. -- R.P. Feynman % Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice. % Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and think what nobody else has thought. % Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Braun % Round Numbers are always false. -- Samuel Johnson % Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin % Science and religion are in full accord but science and faith are in complete discord. % Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -- Jules Henri Poincare % Science is what happens when preconception meets verification. % Science may someday discover what faith has always known. % Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. -- William Buckley % Sentient plasmoids are a gas. % Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. % Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall % Space is to place as eternity is to time. -- Joseph Joubert % Space tells matter how to move and matter tells space how to curve. -- Wheeler % Statistics are no substitute for judgement. -- Henry Clay % Statistics means never having to say you're certain. % Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter. % Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have! % Take an astronaut to launch. % Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -- Aldous Huxley % Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand. % The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. Seek simplicity and distrust it. -- Whitehead. % The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely 1 bananosecond. % The amount of weight an evangelist carries with the almighty is measured in billigrahams. % The best defense against logic is ignorance. % The bigger the theory the better. % The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst % The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives. -- Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project % The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. % The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. -- John Muir % The devil finds work for idle circuits to do. % The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it. -- Allan Sherman % The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science require