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  1. Re:We are staying on XP on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    I am not saying that you should use it. It just suprises me how smooth Linux support is now. I experienced 10.04 as a quantum leap.

  2. Re:We are staying on XP on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    For me it had a "different feeling". It was the same with Firefox. I used old Mozilla, and switchet to firebird, then renamed firefox and upgraded throught the whole cycle to 1.0. But even 1.0 felt unfinished.

    I don't know when but at a certain time FF also was the better browser and this seems the same with Ubuntu. It now felt better for me. My indicator of maturity is that I am not annoyed by a bug or crash within one hour of use. Three years ago you could quickly find a bug with the latest version and things didn't work as they should.

  3. Re:We are staying on XP on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is a glitch with the window manager for my Ubuntu, the windows full-scale moder do not fill the whole screen but leave some empty space on the right. I am sure this can be fixed but I have currently no time for this.

  4. Re:We are staying on XP on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    ActiveX may be an argument, security, stability, convenience of use, external hardware drivers.

    I am not sure whether driver support for Vista is better than for XP.

  5. Re:Feh on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    I can't see the Us troops in Iraq as a failure. It is just a simple matter of commercial decision making regarding costs vs. benefits.

    The losses do not compare to a real war. Some suicide attacks, some civil unrest.

    They probably need more a kind of Gestapo than military. I mean, just leave the propaganda aside and think about this in imperial terms.

  6. Re:Gartner is shilling on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    But KBasic is kompatible to VB6, no?

  7. Re:1990's? on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but then it was simply fine. Like Ubuntu 10.04. Just works.

    I don't care much about operating systems.

  8. Re:We are staying on XP on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What suprised me is that Ubuntu 10.04 feels as good or better as XP. Operating systems do not matter much anymore.

  9. Re:*applause* on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    Why did they stop and refrained to approach moscow?

  10. Re:Feh on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    A. be sentenced
    B. be pardonned
    C. be offered a new job

  11. Re:Feh on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    The war is over, what is currently going on in Iraq is an occupation with the aim to prevent the outbreak of civil war and defend the current puppet regime installed by the occupation force. That is all.

  12. Re:War is not pretty on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    Formally there does not seem to be a current war in Iraq. Rather a foreign occupation and violence, also against foreign occupation.

  13. Re:War is not pretty on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    Maybe you forget that the insurgence is perfectly unobjectionable because the United States occupy the nation. Insurgents and passive civilians are citizens of the nations while the United States troops are not. It seems natural to oppose foreign occupation.

  14. Re:One more thing... on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple devices largely target homosexuals. That is fine but a powerful niche market.

  15. Re:not applicable to hotels? on Porn Sites Pop Up In China · · Score: 1

    I see. When you can't find a chinese mistress, watch p0rn,

  16. Re:So its still GPL incompatible because its BSD . on WebM Licensing Problems Resolved · · Score: 1

    And the patent license?

  17. Re:Broken? More like fixed. on J. P. Barlow — Internet Has Broken the Political System · · Score: 1

    What percentage of the United States population inherits from the few people that set up the United States to evade British taxation?

    A country this big just can't be homogeneous enough for that to work.

    Immigrants stripped of their identity, made into the new man, the American. Because of their diversity they cannot become a "people" and it is very difficult to establish social protection which depends on solidarity of a people. You need enemies and scare mongering, the War, the Soviets, the Terrorists etc. as public myths to keep the population together, otherwise American society would disintegrate.

  18. Re:Shoes for Industry! on SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Rocket · · Score: 1

    Shoes? Remind me of the Gates video.

  19. Re:Still no patent-related indemnification on WebM Licensing Problems Resolved · · Score: 1

    Why don't you celebrate victory, it seems like you won before the battle started! Google fully cooperates to save the net. Now WebM needs to become the dominant video format. They still have to convince the movie pirates to use the format.

  20. Re:So how can the computer do it then? on Germany Finds Kismet, Custom Code In Google Car · · Score: 1

    For the naive among us, allow me to assure you this is nothing more than a smokescreen for the government to get the data and use it against its citizens. Furthermore, judging from my last trip to the old continent, the last thing Europeans need to be worried about is Google checking in on them, as their governments have that very much on lock.

    The Germans prefer brute force solutions to such problems. A German minister for instance recently threatened Facebook to delete her profile!

  21. Re:Cool on SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Rocket · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ah! You mean the racist and Hitler admirer Obama who sent his troops to Afghanistan to prepare for an invasion of Russia. JA, WIR KONNEN!

  22. Re:If I did what google did... on Germany Finds Kismet, Custom Code In Google Car · · Score: 1

    Well, someone who was recorded illegally just has to file a criminal complaint. And against a German criminal investigation helps no revenue and a whole division of lawyers.

    1. File Complaint
    2. ???
    3. Google done

    That is the good old German state attorney divisions.

  23. Re:WTF on Germany Finds Kismet, Custom Code In Google Car · · Score: 1

    I think they are very nice and friendly and then they hunt Google spies down.

  24. Re:Broken? More like fixed. on J. P. Barlow — Internet Has Broken the Political System · · Score: 1

    Maybe it would have better to crown Prince Henry. He was the smartes of them all.

  25. Re:Broken? More like fixed. on J. P. Barlow — Internet Has Broken the Political System · · Score: 1

    I don't want to troll you, just be a realist from an outside perspective.

    When the US were founded they had an insignificant population. The founding fathers installed their free maison ideology but things went different, for instance they had slaves. By land robbery and genocide the US was expanded, they denied their member states a right of secession and even fought an independence war to stifle their self-determination. Today politics remains anti-Washington, you rather leave public affairs to corporate anarchy than to empower the government, and where the US-government takes action, the military or bureacracy it appears corrupted. Immigrants were stripped off their cultural identity. That is why the Americans are no real people, they lack any sense of social community as you can see with their paranoia towards universal health care. Because they lack solidarity between one another as a result of their actual racial and cultural inhomegenity.