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They should put a blur on the nose. Having it in focus just seems wrong and perhaps distracting from their goal of giving the brain what it expects. Heck, I just tried right now an…

Missed your reply. Actually it is pretty irrelevant how many non-programmers are capable of compiling or meaningfully editing the C program. The point is that a programmer cannot (…

Yes, because non-copyleft Free licenses precisely grant this right. By contributing to that project (and licensing those changes under that license) you are saying that this is all…

The other reply says as much, but it bears repeating as what you said is so extremely incorrect. The GPL is and always has been a license that limits the rights of programmers in o…

Yeah, happens for me too but I never noticed until now. I guess I just always thought that this was the way it was designed to look. The UI is more than a little bit jumbled/ugly.

Hey, that is an interesting idea that I have often thought about before, but have not been able to wrap my head around how this could be done. Are there any links/literature you ca…

To me Unity just made sense and if not for it crashing entirely too often and incurring a performance hit due to all the eye candy, I wouldn't look further. To me the nice thing ab…

Typically via holding alt and pressing short cut keys. That is the old way to do it. Unity introduced a new way to do it where you use the alt key and a text box comes up which all…

I guess my question is, does using Firefox mean that you support Mozilla, much less the opinions of Mozilla's CEO? If I switch to IceWeasel, do I still support it? Is using Gecko t…

I think this is a reminder that different interfaces work for different people. I think that the Unity interface, with its hidden menu bars, application menus, scroll bars, etc. is…

I just watched a video overview of the changes. It seems like you must still mouse over to reveal the menus, even with the new option to put menus in the title bar of the window in…

This makes me hopeful for my future. I have 4GB and am in the constant cycle of "close firefox so I can start my VM, close the VM so I can start Inkscape (with a big file), close i…

I decided to go the LTS route as well. I actually don't know when they will actually release the new version, but I assume it will be before the end of April (do they always hit th…

I know that many "Linux gamers" scoff at the prospect of official support for running games under Wine... I don't. I think GOG in particular should jump at the chance to partner wi…

I have never thought of that as the meaning. In fact, how does this wording apply at all to bug discovery when it seems to me discussing bug resolution, which feels like a very dif…

Oh, I'm still on 12.04. Guess I have that to look forward to.

That is really weird. For me evince has no gear icon and has its menus in the global menu like every other GTK application.

Ubuntu is a Free Software project and there is a small group of volunteer testers before every release. In fact you can be one of them, right now, for the upcoming 14.04 release: h…

Well, I assume this is true of video games the same way it is true of other art, but because people keep extending copyright terms faster than they expire, it's not clear if anythi…

Every one in "the public" has skin in the game, cuz, you know, it's their "domain" we are talking about. The very fact that people think that pushing stuff into the public domain i…

I guess this is kind of nice because I won't have to worry about people connecting to my 's open or poorly secured WiFi and start playing porn as a joke. But you can still stream a…

Yes, when Chris Hayes hosted "Up" it was a must watch each weekend for me. I watched about two episodes of his nightly show and couldn't stand it. Maybe we should try watching the …

> But it strikes me as ironic that RMS talks about "freedom" when really he's advocating restricting your freedom to use the software. It is ironic in a way, but it is only a valid…

To RMS and the FSF, what users need/deserve is Free Software.