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  1. Re:Is Android really a Linux Distro? Not GNU/Linux on Linux Distribution Popularity Trends Plotted · · Score: 1

    Can a kernel developed in a branched tree, with past contributions to the mainline neglected and deleted, doing things which wouldn't be accepted upstream, essentially forked as it stands now, be "most definitely" counted as Linux?

  2. Re:Is Android really a Linux Distro? on Linux Distribution Popularity Trends Plotted · · Score: 1

    Thing is - "certainly" might be going slightly too far. The kernel of Android is developed in a branched tree, the code which was contributed to the mainline - neglected and eventually deleted. Effectivelly, as it stands now, Android has forked the kernel.

  3. Re:Good idea on 'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, so after all you don't get that averages, both resource consumption & the results, is what matters here... And no, you don't make use of those extra resources you waste it while chasing...the same results (admittedly my place is beyond what is sustainable, too; but at least not nearly so wildly)

  4. Re:Not very accurate measurement IMHO on Linux Distribution Popularity Trends Plotted · · Score: 1

    That's not how Google search insights tool works...

  5. Re:I have to question this graph on Linux Distribution Popularity Trends Plotted · · Score: 1

    Oh I don't know know, maybe somebody on the continent from which Suse originates; might help that this place is not bad when it comes to overall Linux uptake...

  6. Re:Good idea on 'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda · · Score: 1

    When it's faster... (which is more typical the greater the density of elevators in any given place)

    Statistically I certainly do use 2-3 times less resources than you, for very comparable quality of life.

  7. Re:Is it just me... on Gmail Video Chat Now Available On Linux · · Score: 1

    At the least - look at all those governmental, educational & generally public institution and business adoptions. And it picks up steam over time, should diffuse. At some point, the realization that x86 is not really required, that many ARM chips are good enough, should get through.

    Should help with how OLPC XO-1 will have an ARM version soon (XO-1.75, IIRC); it was also the trigger of netbooks after all. Yes, MS desparately tried and succeeded in regaining that segment (derailing it a bit in the process) - this might not work so well with machines where it would be harder to justify price increases.

    And remember, there are only a bit over 1 billion PCs in the world. Mobile phone uptake, at close to 5 billion now, probably hints at what is still possible...

  8. Re:Good idea on 'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda · · Score: 1

    Of course, Hohokam didn't irrigate lawns of urban sprawl so much...

  9. Re:...but can it run Quake 3? on Open-Source 2D, 3D Drivers For ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series · · Score: 1

    Plus "after a few years" & Quake3 somewhat suggest it's a generation supported for a long time by open drivers anyway.

  10. Re:FINALLY! on 'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda · · Score: 1

    There's very little difference - you can't do all that much with CO2 (except perhaps some small turbine at the end of shaft, which I'm pondering in other comment), which is by far the main culprit in those lakes & for which you were most hoping for a solution...well, it's here for some time. It's all released into the atmoshpere anyway; just in a controlled, more gradual fasion & finding some use in the process.

  11. Re:No, it's not just you on Gmail Video Chat Now Available On Linux · · Score: 1

    So, all those governments, educational & generally public institutions and businesses don't matter all that much? They are all uber-geeks, tiny and marginalized?

    People don't see how, slowly but surely, the adoption spreads. And should diffuse into other "market segments."

  12. Re:FINALLY! on 'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda · · Score: 1
  13. Re:FBI warning on Medieval Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    You can actually stand the dubbing? ;p

  14. Re:excuse me... on 'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It would be released at some point anyway (methane and also dissolved CO2), but in a much less controllable, much less pleasant way (lake Kivu is mentioned). By siphoning it out gradually, you can not only deal with the danger, but also get some useful energy as a bonus.

    Also, methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, so burning it prior to release actually lessens overall impact.

  15. Could use the CO2 to generate electricity, too on 'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When the water is brought up in a pipe to syphon out the dissolved CO2, you only need a small initial "push" - afterwards the bubbling of gas forces the flow / gives you a fountain. Why waste it? Seems like an ideal opportunity for small, simple turbine solutions...

  16. Re:FBI warning on Medieval Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Heck, those throughout the world, downloading the stuff, apparently also often have the opportunity of sitting through that warning...

  17. Re:Did they buy Sun for this? on Legal Analysis of Oracle v. Google · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Stay tuned as we reveal the level of involvement on the part of Apple? ;)

  18. Re:I miss the pressure AMD used to put on Intel on How Much Smaller Can Chips Go? · · Score: 1

    This one was determined by external factors anyway; memory mostly. Too soon for DDR2, but when DDR1 was nearing it end. Not a hard thing to predict / times of viability of given memory tech seem to be slightly longer recently.

  19. Re:Timeless saying applies here... on 1978 Cryptosystem Resists Quantum Attack · · Score: 2, Funny

    W8, why both of them wouldn't work?

  20. Re:Sigh again on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    Unless of course it gets interpreted as a "fight" of the stubborn kid, or whatever seems like a good reason to crank up the medications / try other.

  21. Re:LOL on How the Internet Is Changing Language · · Score: 1

    It's 3 in my place. 'W" is pronounced, also when separate, like a voiced "F" (though only my "F" (I think...), the closest would be probably EN voiced "V" but ending not in "-e" - more like "-y" (I think...); "V" is indeed hardly used - current version of local alphabet doesn't have it, even if it was present historically & it shows up due to influx of foreign vocabulary (where such letters are typically transformed over time to the ones in alphabet; there's no need for them / they can be perfectly represented)) or, more typically and when pronouncing "wtf" - like the first sound in voodoo, but short. And generally very close to how Latin is pronounced, supposedly.

  22. Re:LOL on How the Internet Is Changing Language · · Score: 1

    "WTF" ends up particularly charming IRL, IMHO...though YMMV.

  23. Re:No. on How the Internet Is Changing Language · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The point is how it ceases to be a slang... And on a quite global scale, enabling unprecended level of direct interboundary (interocean even) communication - the very act of which is what has always shaped languages. But rarely among so diverse people (and, face it, with not terribly impressive / solid familiarity with the languges they use; vide this post...)

  24. Re:Political entity required to comply? on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    Aren't they doing it pretty much already? (Russia, IIRC?)

  25. Re:The legal situation. on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    *BTW, how did "The film so funny that it was banned in Norway" end like that for your neighbours, anyway?