Posts by REMF

"Claims that Israel is mounting a zoological assault outside its borders are not without precedent."

backwards & superstitious peasants springs to mind.

she dislikes kneejerk 'populism'.............

and she is also a prize idiot.

there is a significant tie between the two statements, and both revolve around her lack of understanding about what representative government is supposed to achieve.

this might explain it

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2973/6gbps-sata-performance-amd-890gx-vs-intel-x58-p55

even we too

I realise you are trying to reach out to another demographic here, and more power to you for doing so, just thought i'd confirm that it is possible for even tech-geeks to be interested in Defence & the EU.

ah lewis, living in dream land again

it's not that you bare totally bonkers, the bizarre thing is that occasionally you make sense........... right before you jump off the high-board once again on some irrelevant and facile tangent.

2009 may in years to come...............

...........be seen as the high point of the of the catastrophic, anthropogenic CO2 induced, climate change, as sermonised by the IPCC high church.

it might take several more years for the majority of the 'faithful' to begin questioning the consensus.

excellent article thank you.

the only way this country will stay 'rich' in the 21st century is to keep on innovating, which in theory we should have some competitive advantage in given we have been doing non stop since the industrial revolution.

commited freetards

"and probable fury from the committed freetards opposed to any form of content management."

yup, that's me.

i'll buy ebook when they will sell me them in unrestricted epub format.

some questions...........

1. Will you attempt to maintain Britain as a Great Power (ref: RUSI - A Force For Honour)?

2. How will you maintain Britain as a Great Power (ref: RUSI - A Force For Honour)?

3. Are you willing to cough up the requisite beads to fund that strategic ambition?

Britain should follow the Strategic Raiding doctrine as outlined by RUSI.

prize idiot

"Eastwood told the BBC that the incident left him feeling humiliated and "like a second-class citizen".

He should feel like a first class pillock for being stupid enough to sign-up for an ID card.

I am glad he feels humiliated, he should. When the cattle rolls up for him he will no doubt climb onto it himself sporting a gay little smile on his face, with nary a concern for where destiny may take him!

teh awesome

i love my n900.

get one.

Hist own worst enemy........... but

this is an inappropriate application of a badly drafted law, who'd a thought it possible that something like this could happen, eh?

looks awesome

i want one

bring on Ubuntu 10.10 - it should be good. :)

Kongrats to Gnome, it's about time they sorted this out and it looks like they finally have.

KDE4 has been painful, but by the time KDE 4.3 arrives in summer 09 I think its fair to say that the KDE4 dream will finally have arrived too, 18 months after the initial release.

Given the inherently evolutionary nature of Gnome I am going to be generous in my prediction and say that it may take only 6 months to fully realise the dream of Gnome3, in which case the Q4 releases of Ubuntu and Fedora in 2010 using Gnome 3.2 will be very interesting products.

KDE has a huge headstart (and will retain a greater benefit from the greater leap IMO), but Gnome will close the gap (between concept and delivery) quicker with the result that the transition is less painful from the publicity and marketing POV.

Good luck, I am a confirmed KDE fanboi but i'm all for good competition, and Gnome will need v3 to provide that.

opensuse

is the way forward

good review - great netbook

i have owned one of these for about four months now.

i bought it because it was the smallest physical shall that contained a 10" screen, as this is what matters to me in a netbook above all else; diminutive size.

i can recommend it to all except netbook gamers who might find the vertical screen resolution of 576 pixels an impediment.

operation flashpoint from GoG works great tho.

defence budgets

The spends 2.1% of GDP, this is far too little for what is the first duty of the sovereign nation state; the provision of external security to its population.

FSM

brings new meaning to the phrase; "touched by his noodly appendage".

nevermind the anti-Novell zealots

I have used suse since 9.1 and always loved it. use it at work and at home.

Looking forward to installing 11.1 on my new lenovo S10e netbook.

awesome machine

I got one from dabs the other day, and i am VERY happy with it.

truly tiny compared to the other 10" netbooks, in fact it is smaller than some 8.9" ones too!

nice review

i would like to see a reg review of opensuse 11.1 on its release on the 18th of December. :)

@ Mike - 13:10 on the 19th Nov

"The BNP is not a political party, they are a bunch of racist, sexist, anti gay, holocaust deniers, they would be illegal in some countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Switzerland)."

but this isn't Austria, and it isn't illegal to do/be any of those things, and the BNP is a legal political party.

thate fact that you don't like their 'politics' does not give them less legal rights than you enjoy to express your more mainstream views.

an excellent article

my thanks.

Win XP

would be a massive turn-off for me, I am very glad they picked SUSE linux.

excellent article

many thanks.

@ Mr Chris

"Defence Secretary Des Browne said: "This CSR means an additional £7.7bn for Defence by 2011 - the longest period of sustained real growth in planned defence spending since the 1980s"

A one and a half percent increase when defence inflation is running at closer to eight percent, at a time when the armed forces are on a war footing with consequent high equipment wear, whilst UOR equipment purchase is in part being clawed back from the defence budget rather than the supplementary operations budget.

All of this after we sunk below the 2.5% of GDP post cold-war Defence spending threshold (now at ~2.1%), and as a consequence failed to fund the Strategic Defence Review of 1998 which was the definition of our Defence priorities and requirements, the result of which has been nearly 15 years of underfunding.

There. Has. Been. No. Substantial. Budget. Increase.

The fact that you use Des Browne as the source to refute Gov't under investment in the Armed Forces is laughable.

Regards

Wrong Mr Page

A few years back we asked ourselves what we wanted the Armed Forces to do, it was called the Strategic Defence Review and all told it was a pretty thorough and well thought out document.

The next logical step was to direct the Treasury to provide the money necessary to achieve the vision................... and this is where things fell down.

Yes, Defence inflation is much higher than the standard variety, yes there has traditionally been a lot of waste and mismanagement from the MOD, and yes there is an element of pork barrel politics in an attempt to preserve UK defence industrial capacity.

However, the simple fact is that all of this was known and yet we still neglected to provide the funds to reach the desired goal, i.e. the Strategic Defence Review.

We spend a miserable 2.2% of GDP of Defence, far lower than the high-point of the Cold War (around 4.0%) so we can easily match Defence inflation.

The MOD is getting better at Defence procurement; yes slowly, and no it will never be as good as the private sector, but it is getting better and has gone through 10 years of Treasury enforced asset stripping.

There are areas of strategic Defence Industrial capacity which the UK has decided to maintain for strategic reasons, this will cost more. I agree that where this is not the case we should buy cheap American kit.

But you are fundamentally wrong on several of your assertions, notably:

> Eurofighter - we cannot just cut the order, the contractual penalties are allegedly nearly as onerous as buying the kit in the first place. It is a shame that we are committed to buying so many Eurofighters, best we learn for next time rather than make silly assertions about solving current problems.

> Royal Navy - we have a competance in blue-water power projection that will always be useful, which will disappear for a generation if we slash it now.

We need those two Aircraft Carriers and the thirty-two escort Warships, as well as a minimum fleet of 12 nuclear submarines, slash-n-burn is not the answer.

Yes, we need more soldiers, and yes they must be paid more, but the answer is to follow the advice of the UKNDA and increase the Defence budget to 3.0% of GDP.

Regards

Fantastic

opensuse is a great distro, and very usable even by non linux techies.

Congrats to Shuttle.

(comment typed from a suse 10.3 laptop)

While i don't like the law

I hope the law completely bury's that woman and all her loathsome conspiritors.

If she never leaves jail i won't weep.