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Comment on RYAN AIR: WARNING by simo

simo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:26:32 +0000

Man, make sure you also checked their travel policy, especially luggage policy and their max weight, or you are in for nasty surprises.

Comment on We Love The NHS by Pete

Pete — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:06:06 +0000

Vic, when Britain created the NHS it was in a whole world of debt due a little thing called World War 2, and it was vigorously opposed by the Conservative party. It dramatically increased the health of the nation and, contrary to what you seem to believe about it being supported only by people who benefit from the redistributive aspects of it, it has been supported strongly by the more affluent, tax paying, middle class members of society. I am certainly a net contributor to the NHS, having had surgery all of once at the age of 10, but I would certainly not change our healthcare system for yours.

Comment on We Love The NHS by Vic

Vic — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:35:00 +0000

It’s amusing to hear how great socialism is from the people on the receiving end of the wealth redistribution.

Of course, it’s great to, “care about your fellow man”, when someone else is being forced to pay the bill.

Just remember that the government has no money that it hasn’t taken from someone, or borrowed against the credit of our children and grandchildren.

Comment on We Love The NHS by Jon Pritchard

Jon Pritchard — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:37:07 +0000

Couldn’t agree more with you.

The only problems with the NHS come naturally of a universal healthcare system, such as having a utilitarian view to which drugs are approved and bought by the NHS.

Alarm bells should ring in every American’s ears when they hear politically loaded phrases such as “socialist medicine” – come on we’re in the 21st century now… where we care about our fellow man, and don’t necessarily want to prioritise our own healthcare absolutely above the needs of others.

No wonder we’re having international difficulties.

Comment on We Love The NHS by Lepht

Lepht — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:34:45 +0000

Fedora user who’d be dead if it weren’t for the prompt attention of NHS surgeons here, thanking you for the post. amen, sibling.

Comment on Time Out by Paul Mellors

Paul Mellors — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:15:13 +0000

Good luck, see you soon

Comment on Evolution by alsadi

alsadi — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:11:21 +0000

I guess you should read

http://seemyparadigm.webs.com/evolution.htm

portion of evolution is merely a belief

Comment on Gnome 3.0/Interfaces in general by rob enderle

rob enderle — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:55:00 +0000

Cant say Im jumping for joy when I read that version 3.0 wont be a ‘real’ break from the 2.x version but that 3.0 makes it seems new.
There needs to be a major sitdown and figure out how to face the future of desktop and while a GUI change would be nice (my niece calls the Ubuntu on her Dell Mini 9 ‘depressing), I am not referring to superficial changes like Vista 7 has done.

I want a real x.0 release, not Gnome2.5.

I cant say I am either impressed by the Mono obsession which has creeped in and have now moved to XCFE full time and KDE for some family who need to be switched.
And you know what?
Life goes on…

Comment on Gnome 3.0/Interfaces in general by Michael

Michael — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:26:57 +0000

Search? Hmmm. I think they should get the basics right first before worrying about `search’. And that means a stable interactive-peformant desktop that doesn’t get in the way of your work.

Actually, every ‘desktop search’ feature i’ve tried has just gotten in the way of having a nice interactive desktop that doesn’t interfere with your work. In general it is simply better turning it off and resorting to find and grep for the few times you need it. Rather than having it drag down your system all the time and specifically at times you’d rather it didn’t.

A journal idea sounds more useful, although it could also become cluttered very quickly. At least you’d have less data to search through. It has privacy and security issues though.

To be honest, a local machine is very different from the internet, the same search model doesn’t really work. The collected meta-data and group-intelligence you get from link relationships doesn’t exist on the local machine, unless you set it up yourself – which defeats the purpose. And personally I like to ‘forget’ old stuff, or at least, remove it from my immediate conscience – since it is usually of little use.

Any solution has to sit at a lower level than ‘gnome’ too – many many applications will never be burdened with gnome libraries.

Comment on Gnome 3.0/Interfaces in general part 2 by Michael

Michael — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:13:25 +0000

Absolutely should be having these main-frame era features in software by now.

But … what does that have to do with the gnome desktop? Really nothing I’d say.