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Could just be skepticism about whether this is going to hurt its customers

If you're not asleep, you might be a better person. The problem would be when you ran out.

They do not want immigrants, they have problems enough with the ones they got recently

People trying to assert their own control isn't going to fix the government, it is just going to change who is in control

How exactly do you run the NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti GPU by itself? Are its capabilities the same? Aren't you forced to use OpenCL or something?

> Seriously... The NSA makes military spending look frugal!

That isn't something you can decide by waving your hands at games. WoW is cheap compared to even simple things purchased by the military on a regular basis.

Being unhappy with something and working on it are not necessarily related. You could work on something without thinking about it, or without expectations on the result. You could appreciate something as good but want to make it better. You can also be unhappy with something without working effectively on it.

To be fair, he did found the armed wing of the ANC, was offered a release from prison conditional on renouncing violence which he refused to do, and afterward his group went on to carry out a number of IRA-style bombings.

The apartheid regime might have justified extreme measures that killed civilians, but his hands are not as clean as you would imagine from the hagiography.

We don't glorify Gerry Adams in this way and give him Nobel prizes, although he did contribute a lot to the peace process in Ireland.

"Freedom of speech" never implied a right to have a specific third party publish your comments for you. It was always about limiting law and government.

Is it hard to buy reusable shopping bags (or backpacks, since you're talking about bikes) in Mountain View?

Is it ever not true that when you forget a step, you have to look into what's wrong? In any language, or any project?

What has the author built to replace pip?

What the press will say if someone gets a boxcutter onto a plane and tries to do something with it.

Not to mention that iOS compatibility would make a HUGE legal target for Apple

So what, the existence of something worse doesn't make this better

People already volunteer who they're having sex with on Facebook

You are doing it wrong, and you are making generalizations about these languages on the basis of your doing it wrong?

No context. Seems petty?

The issue was about the logo

First shut down Lavabit (for whatever reasons). Then ask for donations to do something else.

Lots of people don't like systemd and have complained about it...

I don't think you are fair to Ubuntu in this comment. Change in Fedora or Debian Testing usually means breakage. I hear Arch breaks things now and then too. Even Windows breaks things... in all cases, this is avoided by choosing a stable or LTS variant and upgrading less frequently.

There aren't that many top tier distributions to choose from, the main choice is how much time you want packages tested before using them. If you want more testing and older packages, use Debian Stable, Ubuntu LTS, Redhat/CentOS... but don't stack the deck against Ubuntu by comparing its fresh distro to other people's LTS distros, compare apples to apples.

Lubuntu is more lightweight, which will be important for older and lower powered machines (or if speed is a huge deal for you), but certain things might be a bit less polished. You would have to try it to see if it works for you. Xubuntu is a bit more full-featured and can feel somewhat like Gnome 2 did back in the day. But there's no reason you can't install both and try them on any Ubuntu machine, these are really just packages and defaults rather than completely different distros.

I think the point was that it frequently has a simpler install experience, which is true. It doesn't have better driver support for ATI video cards or Broadcom wifi cards.

So what? These aren't criticisms of today's release at all.

Mir isn't even used in 13.10.

I don't think there are any distributions which ship with i3 so you would have to install i3 in any case, that isn't a fault of Ubuntu's and since you are not using it anyway, who cares if it looks like OS X to you?

Ubuntu's work is open source, the code is there under a liberal license, what do you even want?

If you don't like software center, use apt-get or synaptic. Their "App Store" isn't for you but I am glad they have one to encourage a market for Linux software. If you don't like it, don't use it, it's not harming you.

I don't know what developer SDKs have to do with anything. This isn't Android, it's normal Linux. Write a Linux app and it runs on Ubuntu.

Why would I look at OpenSUSE if I do not specifically want an RPM-based distribution oriented toward KDE? If those are your preferences then why are you even complaining about Ubuntu?

The beta of this has been smooth for me. I had no problems doing the upgrade (but I have used Ubuntu for a while). I am enjoying the newer versions of the kernel and some packages that are key for me. If you use Unity, the dash feels faster. I'm more pleased with this release than several past ones.

This list is pretty thin. And here lies much of the problem of who is "unsung" or not. If you began to list even just currently active academics in CS which happen to be women (but are very recognizable names) you would end up with a much longer list.

Of course, listing all the unsung men in the field would be an enormous list. Being male does not automatically mean you are sung, and being female does not automatically mean you are unsung. There is still a demographic imbalance which is reflected in who is sung.

"Leftist" in the sense of Chavismo does not have any analogue in the US. There's just no comparison.

For example, ACA is an originally Republican plan full of handouts to private companies, not Chavismo or "Socialism".

Please don't worry that we will over-correct with another 10 times more Chavez-like, it will never happen.

If no one will pay for those jobs to be done, then how do we know they need to be done?

It really is that much worse. Hardware companies work far harder on their Windows drivers. On Linux we are mostly dependent on third party volunteers to write or fix drivers which support our hardware, because the vendors don't care.

Then Linux takes the blame for worse driver support, impairing adoption. It's a vicious circle.

I don't agree. The graphics performance is far worse than the Windows drivers. I see that a game which runs at full normal speed in Windows tends to run at an unplayable crawl in Linux.

The open source drivers are a terrible power drain on laptops.

Perhaps some of this varies depending on the part? But none of this inspires confidence.