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  1. Re:Probably not -- compiz on OpenSUSE 11.0 Released · · Score: 1

    So maybe you shouldn't use beta software in a critical role if you care about stability? Nobody's making you use compiz.

    No idea how wine could cause you to reboot, since it just runs non-critical applications, but I don't use it.

  2. Re:Probably not on OpenSUSE 11.0 Released · · Score: 1

    You only lose the GUI if X crashes. If it's just the window manager crashing then your desktop environment is still there, all your windows are still open, and you can start the window manager again without skipping a beat.

  3. Re:Probably not on OpenSUSE 11.0 Released · · Score: 1

    If the window manager crashes, I type 'kwin' and it restarts and I don't lose any of the stuff I'm in the middle of typing, just a couple seconds of time.

    That said, kwin normally goes years without crashing -- except when you have a driver problem, as I did last year causing it to die once a week for a bit. If you have a bad driver, no OS is stable.

  4. Re:Instructions Please!!! on A Few Firefox 3 Followups · · Score: 1

    The download they already supply works on all distros, and last I checked it was installed in the same way on all of them, by simply extracting to the desired directory and running a particular file.

    That linux users really shouldn't be visiting the mozilla website to install it in the first place is beside the point.

  5. Re:Free speech. on Indefinite Imprisonment For Web Site Content · · Score: 1

    The murderer may not believe there was anything wrong about the murder either, and says the judge is completely ignoring the obvious facts that made it justifiable homicide. There's a reason why the defendant doesn't get to impose their own interpretation of the law, and why we have trained professionals called judges who do that.

  6. Re:Will Apple have to raise salaries? on The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple · · Score: 2

    If $90K makes you poor, then shouldn't I be starving to death on $20K? I hate to break it to you, but I'm middle class -- getting along fine, not poor. You're rich. That you've decided you require gold plated everything simply means you're living the lifestyle of the rich and/or don't know how to manage your money.

    I may be a 2.5 hour drive from Silicon Valley, but there are equally affordable places at least an hour closer (say Davis), and $90K is a lot of gas money or makes a good down payment on a plane.

  7. Re:Will Apple have to raise salaries? on The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple · · Score: 1

    Sacramento, El Dorado and surrounding counties aren't midwest-cheap, but you can certainly get a quality 1bd apartment for $700. Same goes for Chico and most places away from the coast/LA/SF.

    (Sacramento isn't worth living in, I concede, but the foothills are nice.)

  8. Re:FINALLY! on Wine 1.0 — Uncorked After 15 Years · · Score: 1

    Funny how Google Earth manages to releaes one single linux binary, then. People will prefer to have packages, but they'll be fine with installing a worthwhile program without them.

  9. Re:What will interest me is on Wine 1.0 — Uncorked After 15 Years · · Score: 1

    All the time? How many major programs aren't available for the seven year old Windows XP? The Windows world is slowing down.

  10. Re:Nothing Earthlike about these planets on Trio of Super-Earths Discovered · · Score: 2, Informative

    If it's a red dwarf then the temperature can be right, but the radiation would prevent any life.

  11. Re:No net neutrality these past 5 years has meant. on Net Neutrality vs. Technical Reality · · Score: 1

    ISPs haven't tried much yet. You could as easily say "India and Pakistan's nuclear missiles have meant... what exactly? What is the horrible problem anyone has had to endure because they have nukes?"

  12. Re:In Texas on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 1

    If by "as often" you mean that the same person doesn't take the risk twice then that's true, since they're dead after the first time. Doesn't stop people from being oblivious, just stops them from living through it to repeat.

  13. Re:"A full school day" on Early Look At ASUS Eee PC 901 With Intel Atom CPU · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, most people don't have good enough eyesight for one of these minilaptops to be practical. That's why they're mostly for kids. Show me a $400 laptop with a 19+" LCD and I'll switch to a laptop next time I'm in the market.

  14. Re:In other news... on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 1

    Probably just inherited.

  15. Re:Opera 9.5 released today on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Well actually Opera *does* have google shoveling them money for every search made from the browser, which was their stated reason for going free-without-ads a few years ago.

  16. Re:What you mean we, white man? on 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe if you'd fought like something a little more threatening than a badger...

  17. Re:Block for all? on Three ISPs Agree To Block Child Porn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And then arresting everyone who chooses not to use the filter, on charges of seeking child pornography?

  18. Re:Apollo Project Financial Comparison on Phoenix Digs First Mars Soil Sample To Analyze · · Score: 1

    Analysis: if sell Iowa, we can go back to the moon.

  19. Re:I wonder what kind of flyer miles I'll get? on Phoenix Digs First Mars Soil Sample To Analyze · · Score: 1

    Then once he gets there he changes his mind and wants to live, and pleads for a recue mission on international TV... that creates horrible publicity for NASA and kills the space program.

  20. Re:I wonder what kind of flyer miles I'll get? on Phoenix Digs First Mars Soil Sample To Analyze · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, half the spacecraft we sent to mars become craters -- not an acceptable risk level for a human mission. Also we've never sent anything to mars which returned to earth. Taking off again from a gravity well makes it twice as difficult as a one way trip. Plus there's the fact that a year of living supplies makes for a very large spacecraft, which then needs much more propellant too.

  21. Re:Am I missing something or on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's perfectly reasonable to believe that his wife liked to cut herself in the car, that the car seat just really needed to be junked, and that any car is more fun to sleep in after you hose it down with water. (Or maybe the water is for those fishes you're talking about...)

  22. Re:Look at ol' MS on Move Over AJAX, Make Room for ARAX · · Score: 1

    It's malicious because it prevents people from using platforms which silverlight isn't well-supported on -- anything but Windows and OS X right now, and if things worked out they'd eventually make things less functional on OS X.

  23. Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby on Move Over AJAX, Make Room for ARAX · · Score: 1

    Presumably that was a typo, since the rest of the post was about linux. Stop pretending you don't understand what people mean just because it helps your argument not to.

  24. Intel is a monopoly? on FTC Opens Formal Antitrust Investigation of Intel · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hadn't realized that AMD, VIA et all don't exist.

  25. Re:Parity on McCain Supports Warrantless Domestic Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Regulating guns is against the second ammendment? Read it. It does say "well-regulated" you know.