The guys that worked on that had a working model built using non-nuclear explosives. Can you get the extra thrust to get out of the atmosphere with chemical explosives and *then* use the nukes?
Mind you, the way I understand it, uranium is so hard to come by that it's impractical in the short-term for space travel, and unless we can find another supply 'up there' it'll rapidly become impractical in the long run.
Anybody know if it's possible to make thrust with pure electricity? Or does there have to be a chemical/nuclear reaction of some sort?
How ironic! Wern't Windows 2000 and Windows XP supposed to be the most secure Microsoft OS's ever?
Right. They were.
And I remember a certain Microsoft CEO of a previous era saying something like, "Windows NT is going to be so easy to use, all point 'n click, that you will be able to hire sysadmins off the street."!
I call bullshit. Your two suggestions were actually insulting, whilst my suggestion (admittedly paraphrased from the actual text of the dialog) is already implemented and nobody using it seems to be expressing problems with it. You're just full of shit laying on double-standards and crap. No point continuing this discussion with you, in fact.
I keep remembering (well, almost, I was only about 2 years old at the time) John Glenn being wished Godspeed (specifically on his first specaflight). And how does Godspeed compare to lightspeed?
Godspeed is an old fairwell to someone going to do something important, either for themselves, for someone else, or for everybody. It's better than lightspeed because if someone travels at Godspeed, it means they will accomplish their important task and return safely.
I really REALLY want our boys from Texas to win the X-Prize, and I'm still rooting for them. But that doesn't change the excitement I'm feeling now that *someone* is taking the first sizable crack. Sure it's not the qualifying run, but if successful, expect them to announce the date of the qualifying run.
Also this week my 10-month-old son has started taking his first baby steps. He started with one step and falling, and by the end of the week he's gotten to four steps and then squatting down intentionally. I expect him to be fully walking by the end of next week.
And just like SpaceShipOne, he is my third kid, so don't get too happy about how 'ooo, his son's walking'. The walking is important for the kid because of what it means to him individually, just like SpaceShipOne is important for each and every one of us because of what it means to private space flight. The USA at large, government and all, got to be excited about Alan Shepard, but this one's for all of us citizens and sci-fi buffs and crap and the government can keep its nose out of it.
I'm cheering for the flight, but I *still* want our boys from Texas to win the prize.;)
Alright, I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but I'm doing this anyway.
1) On home machines, *all* network accessible services should default off. In most cases, this will mean that remote exploits aren't going to happen - kernel level remote exploits are fairly rare. This means that if I port scan a machine out of the box, I should find 65535 closed TCP ports, and 65535 closed UDP ports.
2) On buisness workstations, all network accessible services should also default off, but the administrator should be able to provide a configuration to enable services needed for remote management.
Ok, fair enough.
3) Unneeded use of privledged accounts should be actively discouraged. M$ - consider defaulting to popping up "don't do anything stupid" reminders to users running with administrator rights under "end-user" versions of windows. Make it easier to obtain administrator rights when needed without having to log off and log back on. Educate users about the "Run As User" facility.
First, I left Windows precisely because of all the "Don't do anything stupid" reminders popping up. Second, you provided the solution to those reminders already, the RunAs facility. As far as education, we'll get into that.
4) Operating systems designed for end users should have a facility to lock down the system temporarily while doing emergency maintainance, a "No services" mode if you will, which allows the user to obtain updates without being exposed while doing so.
How about "Safe Mode"?
5) While it can be argued that automatic updates are themselves a security risk, in practice, lack of updates are a far bigger risk. Anything thats remotely exploitable should be updated frequently and automatically by default.
The WIndows Update client installs itself already if your machine doesn't have it, and new machines ship with it. Haven't you noticed those annoying bubbles that say "Check for updates"? THey appear right over your system tray, and have been doing it at least since WinME, by default, and the *first* question asked when you click on the thing is "Do you want to configure your computer for automatic updates?"
6) Reboots are absolutely unacceptable to many users. Microsoft needs to work harder to eliminate unneeded reboots, *including* making changes to the way file locking works so that a reboot isn't needed to replace a file that's in use, or so that the affected subsystems can be stopped and restarted without restarting the entire system.
Win2k was better about this than NT 4, and XP is *even better* about it than Win2k. So they are already doing this.
7) While blaster didn't use ActiveX, quite a bit of spyware and other ratware does. Fully executable web pages without any kind of sandboxing is a bad idea. Please, Microsoft, *disable* ActiveX out of the box, or require controls to be manually authorized by the administator by adding them to an "Allowed controls" list in the Tools -> Internet Options dialog - NOT as a pop up "Do you want to install and run" box.
Then why don't you take a look there, so you can see the option that says "Disable ActiveX scripting" and has several choices.
8) Expand user education campaigns. Encourage users to obtain basic computer training, and a basic understanding of computer security.
How many Microsoft certifications are currently available? HOw many schools are already teaching basic computer training? High School, Middle School, Community College, and University? Throw more money at the problem and expect it to be solved? The information is already there and being pumped into people.
9) Provide readily accessable documentation that adresses security concerns. Warning labels get old, but perhaps a big red "STOP: Please review this security information" is appropriate.
Where do they not do this already?
10) Discourage software developers from enabling network-accessible services automatic
How about something simpler, like "If you want to do that, you have to have root access to the computer. Please enter the root password here. If you don't have the root password, then you shouldn't be doing what you're doing."
Jesus fucking Christ. KDE's done this for years, why can't Windows get it right?
My pet peeve, for example, is the Finder: it's 2004, why can't they make Finder windows update immediately when a new file is created, and why can't icons stay in the same place when files are modified?! I mean, if Windows has been able to do it for 10 years, it shouldn't be that hard!
I don't know about the Finder, but KDE doesn't have trouble updating the window for new files and getting the appropriate icon for them.
As to your second complaint, which KDE shares, I think it's about usability. At least it is for me. One thing that irritates me about Windows is that if you move an icon even one fucking pixel (accidentally, considering all the stupid double-clicking you're already doing) then Windows immediately stops organizing the icons in the window. In Konqueror, the icons are always sorted according to my preference, and I can always scan the icons quickly and easily, and they *always* fit in the window nicely, with a horizontal scrollbar never required, so I can reliably expect to use my wheel to scroll every single time. I *never* take longer than two seconds to find a file or directory, and I usually find it in less than one second, and we're talking directories ranging from one single file to hundreds of files.
The fact that Windows has done it for 10 years indicates that Windows is inferior in the ease-of-use department. Everything I've ever done in Windows as a normal user (not administrator) I can do in KDE in something like 10% of the time it took in windows, as a made-up aggregate.
So your complaint about the Finder in OS X strikes me as an improvement in OS X over previous versions of MacOS, precisely because it's not the ass-stupid Windows Way.
So they went to take a course in economics, an area of study that is math-intensive, and then bitched that they were required to learn new things about economics? (Who doesn't know that economics is math-intensive? How dumb can you be to know that something based on money being passed around wouldn't be math-intensive?) Oh yeah, "I didn't know it would be this hard!" "Then you can drop the course. Of course, there are penalties... Who ever said getting a degree would be easy?"
Well, they've got to go somewhere. Or would you rather we just shot them?
Why don't we just round them up into camps, use them for slave labor, perform exotic medical experiments on them, and then gas them? *Then* we'll finally be able to count the fuckers.
(Yes, I'm very sick of all the anti-homeless legislation going around. What is it, pass a law that forces everyone to work? Isn't this a 'free' country? Blah)
Um, Stryper was metal in the same sense that cotton is metal. Stryper was metal for people who had only ever heard of AC/DC. Stryper was...
Fuck it. There's absolutely no way to describe how bad Stryper was. They were so bad that their shows had an event horizon, after which no intelligence escaped. Where it went, we don't know, we only know that nothing but shit ever came out of it.
Unfortunately, as Lauren stated in the article, the show was being taped and not going out live. While it was certainly possible to spend an evening having some fun, the likely outcome would be that the section was simply dropped. Alternatively, if the asshats running the show were suitably vindictive about it (and it is *MTV* remember), then they could have done some highly creative editing and aired the segment anyway.
Or they would have aired it like it was because it would have been funny and self-deprecating. A lot of comedy shows do that, you know... "This time the joke was on US" or something like that.
The only problem is that you've then helped them to build their audience and so forth by providing 'good' entertainment. If you really want to try to stop the show, you're better off doing legal trickery against them or just backing out entirely and not getting your hands dirty.
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Yes, it's true, moderators have *no* sense of humor.:( Anybody else think it's funny that I posted a link that was cloaked so that slashdot would print "googlesyndicate" as the domain and led to a wiki entry about goatse? I thought it would be pretty funny, and somewhat on topic (since the topic *is* google).
Maybe I should finally accept mod points. Nah, I don't want to give up my sense of humor, even if nobody else likes it.;)
You gotta learn to walk before you learn run. You gotta learn to take the first step when learning to walk.
Not that I"m trying too hard to disagree with you, but I call bullshit.;) My first son went from crawling to running and skipped walking. Ever since then he's been a blur with an occasional silhouette. Seriously, when he was a baby he stood up, took a step, and then took off across the room. He didn't start walking for a few weeks, but he was running all over the place in the meantime.
Again, I'm not trying hard to disagree with you, I just get sick of the same old adages being thrown around to justify something.;) I realize the X-Prize is the greatest thing since Blue Bell ice cream shipped frozen from Texas to Washington, so I think that in the spirit of the X-Prize we need to come up with new adages to replace the out-dated ones.
So, that said, how about "You gotta learn to sit before you can wipe your ass." (Show me *one* kid who could wipe their ass before they could sit)
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Here's an invite for your perusal. First five clicks on it get GMail accounts.;)
It's not that tricky. It's the old "one of us always tells the truth and one of us always lies" riddle.
Two particles, for serial communication. And a flipper ( you know, 1-$var) to tell you which one to read. You only read one at a time, which causes it's state to change to/dev/random. That causes its corresponding earth particle to also change to/dev/random. Then Earth writes to it (we'll call this one A), causing it to change to a known value. So on your spaceship, you read it, and it's a known value (as far as the two particles are concerned).
Earth is also flipping, so now it writes to B. Good, because now you're reading B. And Earth flips again to write to A, and now you're reading A.
Another setup like this gives you full duplex.
Now sprinkle a hundred of them or so into each group, so now you have A and B as groups rather than single particles. All of them are independent, but correspondingly linked to particles on the spaceship. So when you read, if you get some percentage of them being ==, then you know that that is data rather than noise. If you read and they're all different (assuming they will always be different, some threshold can be set) then you know it's noise and to adjust your flipper.
Now, of course, you need to implement TCP/IP over this thing, and you're set.
What technology has the porn industry contributed to the general pool of technology in the US, the World, and Everything? Further, what technology has the porn industry contributed to just enhancing and/or fine-tuning? (Viagra doesn't count)
I always get a kick when a guy has to identify himself as being some sort of big-time developer on the project he's pimping (or the project the article's about).
That said, Kpilot works great! KDE's PIM software is really coming along nicely, and KPilot works well with all of them. Furthermore, I've been reading all about the API for writing new conduits for KPilot, and it's awesome. Just override two methods and that's it, it'll just work. (Three if you *really* want an about dialog) According to the posting, at least, I think KPilot + KDE will satisfy the Ask Slashdot question with only one minor caveat. Doesn't run on Windows. But that's *not* my problem at all.;)
I have an unrelated question for you. If you look at my website, you'll see in the left-hand a big tree navigation menu. That tree is generated from php and a mysql database, of course. Does the milonic menu on your jsyncmanager website work well with tree data from MySQL? (Mine's a very basic tree, even using recursion to walk the tree it's so damn basic)
I don't know why this keeps being debated. Spatial interfaces work for when you have few files and shallow directories, just like in the real world on your desk.
What I want to know is why GNOME and it's proponents have to keep justifying their decisions. How good can their decisions be if they have to keep saying "Well, this is what you really like". I'm getting so sick of GNOME zealots telling me how great GNOME is when GNOME is just guilty of the same Microsoft "This is what you want, I don't care what you say" syndrome. If their UI decisions were so good they wouldn't have to keep trying to justify them. If they're not so good, well, lots of people will criticize them.
When's the last time KDE got knocked for making a controversial UI decision? I don't recall it happening recently, anyway. Of course, KDE has this nasty habit of bringing in UI changes in a fashion that we don't even notice them, or they make it an option we can enable (or easily disable, if that's what we want to do). None of this "Oh, you have to take it because that's how we're giving it".
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The guys that worked on that had a working model built using non-nuclear explosives. Can you get the extra thrust to get out of the atmosphere with chemical explosives and *then* use the nukes?
Mind you, the way I understand it, uranium is so hard to come by that it's impractical in the short-term for space travel, and unless we can find another supply 'up there' it'll rapidly become impractical in the long run.
Anybody know if it's possible to make thrust with pure electricity? Or does there have to be a chemical/nuclear reaction of some sort?
How ironic! Wern't Windows 2000 and Windows XP supposed to be the most secure Microsoft OS's ever?
Right. They were.
And I remember a certain Microsoft CEO of a previous era saying something like, "Windows NT is going to be so easy to use, all point 'n click, that you will be able to hire sysadmins off the street."!
Right, and it happened.
I guess I'm not quite understanding your point.
I call bullshit. Your two suggestions were actually insulting, whilst my suggestion (admittedly paraphrased from the actual text of the dialog) is already implemented and nobody using it seems to be expressing problems with it. You're just full of shit laying on double-standards and crap. No point continuing this discussion with you, in fact.
I keep remembering (well, almost, I was only about 2 years old at the time) John Glenn being wished Godspeed (specifically on his first specaflight). And how does Godspeed compare to lightspeed?
Godspeed is an old fairwell to someone going to do something important, either for themselves, for someone else, or for everybody. It's better than lightspeed because if someone travels at Godspeed, it means they will accomplish their important task and return safely.
Well, the horse isn't going anywhere, and we can't eat it, and we can't get rid of it, so what else are we supposed to do with it?
No SHIT!
I really REALLY want our boys from Texas to win the X-Prize, and I'm still rooting for them. But that doesn't change the excitement I'm feeling now that *someone* is taking the first sizable crack. Sure it's not the qualifying run, but if successful, expect them to announce the date of the qualifying run.
Also this week my 10-month-old son has started taking his first baby steps. He started with one step and falling, and by the end of the week he's gotten to four steps and then squatting down intentionally. I expect him to be fully walking by the end of next week.
And just like SpaceShipOne, he is my third kid, so don't get too happy about how 'ooo, his son's walking'. The walking is important for the kid because of what it means to him individually, just like SpaceShipOne is important for each and every one of us because of what it means to private space flight. The USA at large, government and all, got to be excited about Alan Shepard, but this one's for all of us citizens and sci-fi buffs and crap and the government can keep its nose out of it.
I'm cheering for the flight, but I *still* want our boys from Texas to win the prize. ;)
Thank you. I'm laughing my ass off.
Alright, I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but I'm doing this anyway.
1) On home machines, *all* network accessible services should default off. In most cases, this will mean that remote exploits aren't going to happen - kernel level remote exploits are fairly rare. This means that if I port scan a machine out of the box, I should find 65535 closed TCP ports, and 65535 closed UDP ports. 2) On buisness workstations, all network accessible services should also default off, but the administrator should be able to provide a configuration to enable services needed for remote management.
Ok, fair enough.
3) Unneeded use of privledged accounts should be actively discouraged. M$ - consider defaulting to popping up "don't do anything stupid" reminders to users running with administrator rights under "end-user" versions of windows. Make it easier to obtain administrator rights when needed without having to log off and log back on. Educate users about the "Run As User" facility.
First, I left Windows precisely because of all the "Don't do anything stupid" reminders popping up. Second, you provided the solution to those reminders already, the RunAs facility. As far as education, we'll get into that.
4) Operating systems designed for end users should have a facility to lock down the system temporarily while doing emergency maintainance, a "No services" mode if you will, which allows the user to obtain updates without being exposed while doing so.
How about "Safe Mode"?
5) While it can be argued that automatic updates are themselves a security risk, in practice, lack of updates are a far bigger risk. Anything thats remotely exploitable should be updated frequently and automatically by default.
The WIndows Update client installs itself already if your machine doesn't have it, and new machines ship with it. Haven't you noticed those annoying bubbles that say "Check for updates"? THey appear right over your system tray, and have been doing it at least since WinME, by default, and the *first* question asked when you click on the thing is "Do you want to configure your computer for automatic updates?"
6) Reboots are absolutely unacceptable to many users. Microsoft needs to work harder to eliminate unneeded reboots, *including* making changes to the way file locking works so that a reboot isn't needed to replace a file that's in use, or so that the affected subsystems can be stopped and restarted without restarting the entire system.
Win2k was better about this than NT 4, and XP is *even better* about it than Win2k. So they are already doing this.
7) While blaster didn't use ActiveX, quite a bit of spyware and other ratware does. Fully executable web pages without any kind of sandboxing is a bad idea. Please, Microsoft, *disable* ActiveX out of the box, or require controls to be manually authorized by the administator by adding them to an "Allowed controls" list in the Tools -> Internet Options dialog - NOT as a pop up "Do you want to install and run" box.
Then why don't you take a look there, so you can see the option that says "Disable ActiveX scripting" and has several choices.
8) Expand user education campaigns. Encourage users to obtain basic computer training, and a basic understanding of computer security.
How many Microsoft certifications are currently available? HOw many schools are already teaching basic computer training? High School, Middle School, Community College, and University? Throw more money at the problem and expect it to be solved? The information is already there and being pumped into people.
9) Provide readily accessable documentation that adresses security concerns. Warning labels get old, but perhaps a big red "STOP: Please review this security information" is appropriate.
Where do they not do this already?
10) Discourage software developers from enabling network-accessible services automatic
How about something simpler, like "If you want to do that, you have to have root access to the computer. Please enter the root password here. If you don't have the root password, then you shouldn't be doing what you're doing."
Jesus fucking Christ. KDE's done this for years, why can't Windows get it right?
My pet peeve, for example, is the Finder: it's 2004, why can't they make Finder windows update immediately when a new file is created, and why can't icons stay in the same place when files are modified?! I mean, if Windows has been able to do it for 10 years, it shouldn't be that hard!
I don't know about the Finder, but KDE doesn't have trouble updating the window for new files and getting the appropriate icon for them.
As to your second complaint, which KDE shares, I think it's about usability. At least it is for me. One thing that irritates me about Windows is that if you move an icon even one fucking pixel (accidentally, considering all the stupid double-clicking you're already doing) then Windows immediately stops organizing the icons in the window. In Konqueror, the icons are always sorted according to my preference, and I can always scan the icons quickly and easily, and they *always* fit in the window nicely, with a horizontal scrollbar never required, so I can reliably expect to use my wheel to scroll every single time. I *never* take longer than two seconds to find a file or directory, and I usually find it in less than one second, and we're talking directories ranging from one single file to hundreds of files.
The fact that Windows has done it for 10 years indicates that Windows is inferior in the ease-of-use department. Everything I've ever done in Windows as a normal user (not administrator) I can do in KDE in something like 10% of the time it took in windows, as a made-up aggregate.
So your complaint about the Finder in OS X strikes me as an improvement in OS X over previous versions of MacOS, precisely because it's not the ass-stupid Windows Way.
So they went to take a course in economics, an area of study that is math-intensive, and then bitched that they were required to learn new things about economics? (Who doesn't know that economics is math-intensive? How dumb can you be to know that something based on money being passed around wouldn't be math-intensive?) Oh yeah, "I didn't know it would be this hard!" "Then you can drop the course. Of course, there are penalties... Who ever said getting a degree would be easy?"
Well, they've got to go somewhere. Or would you rather we just shot them?
Why don't we just round them up into camps, use them for slave labor, perform exotic medical experiments on them, and then gas them? *Then* we'll finally be able to count the fuckers.
(Yes, I'm very sick of all the anti-homeless legislation going around. What is it, pass a law that forces everyone to work? Isn't this a 'free' country? Blah)
Um, Stryper was metal in the same sense that cotton is metal. Stryper was metal for people who had only ever heard of AC/DC. Stryper was...
Fuck it. There's absolutely no way to describe how bad Stryper was. They were so bad that their shows had an event horizon, after which no intelligence escaped. Where it went, we don't know, we only know that nothing but shit ever came out of it.
Unfortunately, as Lauren stated in the article, the show was being taped and not going out live. While it was certainly possible to spend an evening having some fun, the likely outcome would be that the section was simply dropped. Alternatively, if the asshats running the show were suitably vindictive about it (and it is *MTV* remember), then they could have done some highly creative editing and aired the segment anyway.
Or they would have aired it like it was because it would have been funny and self-deprecating. A lot of comedy shows do that, you know... "This time the joke was on US" or something like that.
The only problem is that you've then helped them to build their audience and so forth by providing 'good' entertainment. If you really want to try to stop the show, you're better off doing legal trickery against them or just backing out entirely and not getting your hands dirty.
Yes, it's true, moderators have *no* sense of humor. :( Anybody else think it's funny that I posted a link that was cloaked so that slashdot would print "googlesyndicate" as the domain and led to a wiki entry about goatse? I thought it would be pretty funny, and somewhat on topic (since the topic *is* google).
Maybe I should finally accept mod points. Nah, I don't want to give up my sense of humor, even if nobody else likes it. ;)
You gotta learn to walk before you learn run. You gotta learn to take the first step when learning to walk.
Not that I"m trying too hard to disagree with you, but I call bullshit. ;) My first son went from crawling to running and skipped walking. Ever since then he's been a blur with an occasional silhouette. Seriously, when he was a baby he stood up, took a step, and then took off across the room. He didn't start walking for a few weeks, but he was running all over the place in the meantime.
Again, I'm not trying hard to disagree with you, I just get sick of the same old adages being thrown around to justify something. ;) I realize the X-Prize is the greatest thing since Blue Bell ice cream shipped frozen from Texas to Washington, so I think that in the spirit of the X-Prize we need to come up with new adages to replace the out-dated ones.
So, that said, how about "You gotta learn to sit before you can wipe your ass." (Show me *one* kid who could wipe their ass before they could sit)
Oops, sorry. I broke the link. Here's the real link: Give me a break, I occasionally screw up links too. :(
Here's an invite for your perusal. First five clicks on it get GMail accounts. ;)
It's not that tricky. It's the old "one of us always tells the truth and one of us always lies" riddle.
Two particles, for serial communication. And a flipper ( you know, 1-$var) to tell you which one to read. You only read one at a time, which causes it's state to change to /dev/random. That causes its corresponding earth particle to also change to /dev/random. Then Earth writes to it (we'll call this one A), causing it to change to a known value. So on your spaceship, you read it, and it's a known value (as far as the two particles are concerned).
Earth is also flipping, so now it writes to B. Good, because now you're reading B. And Earth flips again to write to A, and now you're reading A.
Another setup like this gives you full duplex.
Now sprinkle a hundred of them or so into each group, so now you have A and B as groups rather than single particles. All of them are independent, but correspondingly linked to particles on the spaceship. So when you read, if you get some percentage of them being ==, then you know that that is data rather than noise. If you read and they're all different (assuming they will always be different, some threshold can be set) then you know it's noise and to adjust your flipper.
Now, of course, you need to implement TCP/IP over this thing, and you're set.
All right, I call.
What technology has the porn industry contributed to the general pool of technology in the US, the World, and Everything? Further, what technology has the porn industry contributed to just enhancing and/or fine-tuning? (Viagra doesn't count)
I always get a kick when a guy has to identify himself as being some sort of big-time developer on the project he's pimping (or the project the article's about).
That said, Kpilot works great! KDE's PIM software is really coming along nicely, and KPilot works well with all of them. Furthermore, I've been reading all about the API for writing new conduits for KPilot, and it's awesome. Just override two methods and that's it, it'll just work. (Three if you *really* want an about dialog) According to the posting, at least, I think KPilot + KDE will satisfy the Ask Slashdot question with only one minor caveat. Doesn't run on Windows. But that's *not* my problem at all. ;)
I have an unrelated question for you. If you look at my website, you'll see in the left-hand a big tree navigation menu. That tree is generated from php and a mysql database, of course. Does the milonic menu on your jsyncmanager website work well with tree data from MySQL? (Mine's a very basic tree, even using recursion to walk the tree it's so damn basic)
I don't know why this keeps being debated. Spatial interfaces work for when you have few files and shallow directories, just like in the real world on your desk.
What I want to know is why GNOME and it's proponents have to keep justifying their decisions. How good can their decisions be if they have to keep saying "Well, this is what you really like". I'm getting so sick of GNOME zealots telling me how great GNOME is when GNOME is just guilty of the same Microsoft "This is what you want, I don't care what you say" syndrome. If their UI decisions were so good they wouldn't have to keep trying to justify them. If they're not so good, well, lots of people will criticize them.
When's the last time KDE got knocked for making a controversial UI decision? I don't recall it happening recently, anyway. Of course, KDE has this nasty habit of bringing in UI changes in a fashion that we don't even notice them, or they make it an option we can enable (or easily disable, if that's what we want to do). None of this "Oh, you have to take it because that's how we're giving it".
In the interest of providing optimal posts, I will now edit your message.
Poor SCO, McDonalds was their customer.
Thank you for your patience.
Maybe it's just me
Yep, you're a crackhead.
It's hard to pump Sempron.
I pump my sempron every day! Now I get to put my sempron in my computer. My wife's gonna get jealous at last. :(
No, it means they should've called their processor line Viagron. ;)