Posts by duelingpianoman

Ubuntu daddy bets on desktop polish, ARM clouds

The switch to Unity is...

...certainly a "Jumped the Shark" moment. Time to try Mint. Thumbs up in honor of Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, who was the FIRST to Jump the Shark! Aaaaaaaay!

Ubuntu seeks Android-packin' Windows deserters

both Unity and Gnome 3 are a big...

...FAIL. I want a multi touch ipad-like device running Linux as much as the next geek but not at the expense of ruining my desktop computing experience. If you dumb down the desktop only dummies will use it.

The 500 year archive

500 years is a drop in the bucket...

Here is a book (that all of our progeny should read) that poses some great questions.

Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia, by Gregory Benford.

http://www.physics.uci.edu/~silverma/benford.html

For example (and I am very-very-very loosely paraphrasing here, as my own copy of the book was eaten by my dog.)

How should former US President George W. Bush warn his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-(etc.) grand children about not going spelunking around in Yucca Mountain?