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  1. Re:Gnome 3 on Fedora & Ubuntu: on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    Try cinnamon - it's not perfect, but it is workable and they are working on it.

  2. Re:Do you really? on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    Yes! What he said - great post Sir. Of course I'm also one of those old farts. Why did we need more than 680k?

  3. Re:Fucking up a perfectly good hammer on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    I have a laptop 1680x1050 with an external monitor 1900x1200. I use multple desktops with virtual machines and multiple applications and instances of application. Gnome3 initially borked this so badly I had to find a different DE to use. At this point I use Cinnamon (on Fedora 16) and it is workable although not quite what I want. I don't care if Gnome3 now has extensions to do what I want - I sincerely doubt it given the attitudes, history, and documented direction. I've gone through the hassle of investigating several different systems and now have one that works - why would I change back when I believe the Cinnamon developers are working towards something I can live with.

      I couldn't stick with Gnome 2 as Gnome3 poisoned the namespace. If you think Gnome3 (actually I think the big culprit here is really GnomeShell) is the bees knees fine, but try to understand that I and many others WASTED days of our lives trying to recover a working system from the bomb that the initial Gnome3 upgrade delivered. And then tried to justify with the 'we're making your life better, trust us, you ignorant luddite amish old farts'.

  4. Re:Shit Happens on Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft · · Score: 1

    No. It was the unregulated gambling called CDS and derivatives that enabled a few bad loans to melt the global economy. It didn't help that the consumers were up to their eyeballs in debt due to the huge proportion of gains going to a miniscule few rather than being spread around a little. That there this was legal is a direct function of the intense lobbying efforts of the banksters.

  5. Re:Name and party affiliation on US Research Open Access In Peril · · Score: 1

    The truth hurts.

  6. Re:Offensive patents? I'll show you offensive... on Apple's New Patent Weapon — Location Services · · Score: 1

    Can't stand the hate, get out of the kitchen.

  7. Re:So much wasted time... on Interview With GNOME 3 Designer Jon McCann · · Score: 1

    ROTFL. Thanks, I really needed that.

  8. I have to eat. Clothing appropriate to the climate is always nice, as is protection from inclement weather. You say you 'own' this land, these means of production? How? Since when? Since we've decided to 'close' the frontiers, there is no choice - we are all a part of the system and must either play by the rules or make new ones - making new ones is generally reserved for those in power. Read John Brunner's 'Total Eclipse'.

  9. Re:Cheap theater on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    Amen

  10. Re:Don't forget... on Entertainment Industry's Dystopia of the Future · · Score: 1

    Imagine how many fewer the red/blues would get if "None of the above" were a choice.

  11. Re:Very Important on India Quietly Introduces Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Well since software development is one of the avenues available for relieving that poverty and since software patents are guaranteed to limit the access of those in poverty to that avenue, it is an important development. This fight between the classes is fought on many different fronts - better to win the non-violent ones - oh hell, just bring on the revolution and let's see what crawls out...

  12. Re:People look out for their own self interests.. on Linus, Monty, Rasmus: No Software Patents · · Score: 1

    I prefer to use the literary metaphor when describing both mine and the majority of code out there. Mathematics has interesting constraints that most programs for better or worse tend to ignore.