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  1. Re:Unfriendly? on NVIDIA To Publicly Release Some Tegra GPU Documentation · · Score: 1

    Nvidia's graphic cards are not free...

  2. Re:Who likes Unity ? on Ubuntu NVIDIA Graphics Driver: Windows Competitive, But Only With KDE · · Score: 1

    I actually find Unity quite usable. I find its better suited to my desktop where I have two monitors but regardless of the number of screens I usually just maximize my main applications across multiple workspaces. This was also the general way I arranged windows prior to Unity, so all Unity did was give me a dock and more screen space, which as a minimalist I am thankful for. Granted some of the default settings are not in the best interest of usability, for each new install it takes me a while to tweak compiz to my liking.

  3. Apologies on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As someone from Kentucky, though I did not vote for them, I would like to apologize for allowing such imbeciles represent us. I wish them out of office as much as anyone else, perhaps moreso.

  4. Readiness on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1

    It's not really a case of Wayland itself not being ready, more like the graphical driver ecosystem is way too fragmented and spotty for Wayland to be implemented on all(maybe most) systems. And I believe Qt and GTK are not fully ported to Wayland, let alone all the other applications and libraries that interface directly with X.

    Unfortunately the GNU ecosystem is too dependent on X, thus Wayland seems impossible to implement at this time, but a fresh clean window manager is a big step in the right direction.

    And no Wayland is not a GUI.

  5. Re:Less Linux, more OS X please! on 35,000 Linux Benchmarks In a Week · · Score: 1

    Yeah I guess you could say that, lol.

  6. Re:Less Linux, more OS X please! on 35,000 Linux Benchmarks In a Week · · Score: 0

    Would also like to add: Benchmarking most(?) installations of OSX being on hardware(Macbooks) not designed for large processing would not be entirely useful. True that OSX could probably be improved but the need to or excitement of benchmarking the os isn't really there. Kind of a mindset that OSX gets you in to, its there and does everything the way you should want it to be done and you shouldn't try to change or disagree with its ways.

  7. Re:Name on Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think here user unfriendly means different, the reason so many other names are "friendlier" is because they've been used so many times before.

  8. Re:Net neutrality on EU To Monitor All Internet Searches · · Score: 1

    As long as the government takes it no farther, net neutrality is great for ensuring that the recording industries and any other interested parties do not obtain control over your connection.

  9. Re:Who cares? on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    How can a supernova create a beam of directed radiation?

  10. Re:I'm all for this on Breakthroughs In HTML Audio Via Manipulation With JavaScript · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure of the speech packs but I remember seeing in the older MPQ's for WoW that the shorter sound effects were in WAV and longer songs in MP3.

  11. Re:Not quite on Large Irish ISP To Enact "Three Strikes" Rule For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yeah I almost feel safe making a bet that "formerly one of the biggest ISP's" will become a reality.

  12. How has antimatter responded to this bias? on Matter-Antimatter Bias Seen In Fermilab Collisions · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wasn't this the previously supposed hypothesis? That the big bang held a slight matter bias. Its great that we can recreate it now. Also, how has antimatter responded to this bias?

  13. How prevalent? on Win7 Can Delete All System Restore Points On Reboot · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So wait, how prevalent is this?

  14. Old News on UK Scientists Create a Three-Parent Embryo · · Score: 1

    Wasn't this done about 30 years ago in the US(Maryland maybe?) involving a similar mitochondrial condition?

  15. Re:Good for them on Firefox Search In Ubuntu 10.04 Changed To Google · · Score: 1

    Finances, they were upping Google's offer and I would say Google has now offered more than yahoo.