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Exactly. I'm trying to use other browsers too and stuff like these, like the way how ctrl+tab works, or, especially!!!, tabs thumbnails (seriously, this is the best thing ever) are keeping me coming back to Opera

Use Ghostery (http://www.ghostery.com/) or Do Not Track (http://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php), or various others addons like these, and you will have the problem partially solved.

Americans don't walk around being sad, unless something bad happens to be sad about. In fact, sad Russians look stupid wearing sad-face all the time.

What company/companies are threating their workers better and how do you know that? I seriously want to know, not just asking to undermine your point.

According to this text: http://prawo.vagla.pl/node/9637 (in Polish, from a lawyer who is against ACTA), there was no real attack on any of the mentioned sites, it was just that there was so much interest in the case that some sites went down due to naturally increased traffic. Case in point: his own website went down, even though he is against ACTA.

They fought hard with the police and caused some real damage to some of the government buildings, but there was no kidnapping, or terror. Poland is not some wild, crazy country. Also, most of the society was against the protests and was literally pissed off on miners and on government (for the fact that they indeed agreed to most of the requests of the miners).

1) think the differences between those shells are much bigger than between Luna and classic in XP

2) that it's a different shell, not a fully different desktop environment isn't really that important, for a normal user it will already cause confusion (maybe even more as it requires additional explanation what's the difference between the two).

Don't get me wrong: the thing that you have a choice is one of the virtues of Linux, but at the same time what it causes is that:

a) Linux is doomed to fail on a mainstream desktop market

b) none of the available choices is and probably will never be as polished as commercial competitors (and fragmentation is one of the reasons of that)

So we have Gnome3, Gnome2, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, Unity, this + gazillions more I don't even remember about.

Anyone still believes Linux has any chance on a desktop market?

No, it's not faster now and it's no longer really used probably (don't know if smartphones, tablets, various consoles, etc. offer access to any equivalent of rsqrtps), but it was brilliant at its time (well, still is, it's just not very useful).

Remember, Quake was released in 1996, SSE came out in 1999.

Anyone actually managed to find a link to pre-order?

Exactly! For those who doesn't yet know, Richard Turley, creative director of Businessweek has a tumblr page where he puts magazine's covers from time to time. Worth to follow. Url: http://richardturley.tumblr.com/

Some of my favourites:

Khadafi: http://richardturley.tumblr.com/post/9373871854/now-about-th...

Bezos: http://richardturley.tumblr.com/post/10807034868/amazon-the-...

9/11: http://richardturley.tumblr.com/post/8470431158/been-a-bit-q...

Moynihan: http://richardturley.tumblr.com/post/9957165968/can-moynihan...

The origin of PD comes from Russia and AFAIK they have this tradition (inherited from the times of communism) there to celebrate professions with a special day dedicated to them, so yes, they do have firemen day, miner day or policemen day.

Recent major change was the photo page redesign done this year no? (or was it last year?), and that redesign is good.

About the 1st point: totally agree. I use flickr to look for a good pictures and from time to time to post some of mine that are reasonably OK - for me it's not, and never has been, a site to post photos from last night's bash or socialize with people, that's what Facebook is for (and maybe G+ will be someday in the future (but it won't come easy for them)). I also don't need the site to change every 6 months - if it works OK (and flickr works OK for me) then changing it is not really necessary (or at least, not that important).

11.50 here, the newest one I guess. Do they have a bug reporting page? Might report them those couple of issues.

Yeah, I know about the "Right click" way, but it's not the easy one (comparing to the simple middle click on the edge of the tab bar when it's on the top of the window). Don't know hot can they solve it though, quite a challenging issue.

Edit: just checked it again (placing tab bar on the left) and now thumbnails turing on/off doesn't work at all - like I wrote: "buggy" :)

It's quite buggy though, e.g. with many tabs opened the "open new tab" button disappears or that you can't switch easily between thumbnails/no-thumbnails view, etc. Hope the good guys and girls at Opera will take notice of the OP and will work on some improvements in this area.

PS. also worth noting that Opera allows for easily grouping of tabs in the manner similar to the one described in OP (no naming though, fortunately (in my opinion at least)).

I remember reading years ago that id was considering using vortex graphics for Quake2 and Carmack had even started to work on it, but they abandoned the idea seeing that industry is heading into "more polygons!" thing (the context: it was a time when 3dfx released Voodoo2, nVidia was starting to gain popularity (Riva TNT2) and first Unreal was on a horizon).

Yeah, I think it's a mix of those two things - my list is composed of: a) people I interacted a lot recently b) people I interacted a lot in the past (and then almost not at all for a long time) c) people I haven't really interacted at all

"c" must come from H2, "a" from H4 and that leaves "b" as either flaw in H4 or also a H2 - the latter would be a good news for me because people from that category are actually girls I gave up on a long time ago thinking they are not interested in me ;)

For me the huge news here is that they're making Diablo 3. I'm so out of the loop when it comes to games.

As far as I know Spain (from 2 years of living in that country) it's not really like that: "carne" means just "meat" and "red meat from cows" is "ternera". And "bistec" is what omaranto said.

I think they've learnt a lot from BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ (also in terms of how they coverage news).

Edit: http://www.bbc.co.uk might be even better example of a good news site design.

So far, so good: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14246787

Depends how much Chinese government care about keeping Apple happy and how strong are connections of store owners with a (local) gov.

Well, Symfony2 itself only until very recently was using some of the ZendFramework libraries internally (and Fabien often praised ZF), which I would say comes as a proof that it is a solid code, even if it's obviously lacking in some parts comparing to younger alternatives. In many cases it's still the best thing in the market though (Zend_Search_Lucene, Zend_Pdf, Zend_Amf, Zend_Gdata come to mind).

ZF is from a totally different league than CakePHP or Wordpress. Yes, a bit ancient today but in many parts it's a solid, well-written, flexible and extensible code well-suited for more "enterprise" needs. Probably more "production-ready" than Symfony2 is at the moment. Plus: ZF2, which will require PHP5.3, is in the works so it should make the project more "relevant" again.

Didn't dwell too much into Lithium's code but saw they have some interesting ideas also based on 5.3 features, e.g. they use a sort of aspect-oriented programming based on closures and lambdas. Sounds cool, even if only for experimenting with different programming approaches.

It's not only Symfony2, PHP has a lot of high-quality projects going on: Zend Framework, Doctrine, Solar/Aura, Twig, Lithium, Jackalope, FLOW3 and probably much, much more.

Depends how your travels looks like, you can travel living in luxury hotels, spend most of the time with people from your country either by the hotel swimming pool or guided tours or in the museums - or you can be less savy and go a bit "guerilla" with your travels: go a bit off from the typical tourists' paths, see the real local culture (not the one from museums) and real local people - this should be enough to "open up your mind" for different cultures (of course living abroad adds more of that but you can get some essence even if you stay somewhere for only a couple of days.

For me (and I'm surprised it's not on a list): filtering incoming content. In this regard G+ is really lacking (you can't hide a person, similar posts (or the same post shared by many of your contacts) are not grouped together, etc.). Circles are great for controlling who sees your posts (although, surprisingly, FB's lists are actually more powerful), something as brilliant as that but for controlling what you see and I'd be completely happy.

I have different kind of problem, but related to this one: Spotify is partly owned by major labels, so when I pay those 9.99€ I help those guys survive, whereas I'd prefer them to go bankrupt and have a totally different model of music industry, as I find the old/current one being seriously broken.

As for the artists, I don't know, Spotify (and Internet in general) helps all those little bands to get some listeners, as discovering new artists is much easier now thanks to technology (20 years ago it all depended on labels, MTV and music press). As for the "big" artists? I don't think they should have been earning as much as they were during the heydays of music industry, nor do I feel like helping Mick Jagger or Bono funding a new yach or private jet.

For one thing: user interface. The one of Rdio is pretty confusing, whereas the one of Spotify is, for me at least, the best UI of a music player ever. That's the great thing about Spotify (and I think it's often overlooked): it's not only that their idea is great, but also that the execution of that idea is stellar (for the same reason I prefer Spotify over Grooveshark).