These idiots are in the emergency room because they can get care there, whereas the doctor expects insurance. For many people the emergency rooms seems the only place they can go.

Think of LinkedIn as a glorified address book and it is still useful. Just ensure that all your friends are really people you know.

I don't know about that.

My experience is this: I have Office 2003, I get docx files regularly, I open them, Word says something about potential formatting errors, and I ignore Word's warning. I do think that the first time I encountered one of these files there was a rather lengthy download.

I recently switched to Gnome because KDE 4.1 whatever shipped with Fedora 10 was a cluster (wouldn't remember the position of stuff in the panel). Configuring Gnome was painful and significantly less intuitive that the previous versions of KDE.

The specific setting I wanted was focus follows mouse, don't raise. Setting this involved the configuration tool (don't know the name) and using gconf and using google to figure out what and where the configuration setting I'm looking for is. Even KDE 4.* made setting focus follows mouse easy, I'm not sure why Gnome choose to bury half the options.

Gnome is configurable, but the tool used to configure it (gconf) makes it significantly more complicated than it needs to be.

Are you serious?

Find in files is a joke. It never finds anything, and is really slow in the process. Lets say for example that you have a large collection of .php files. You know that in one of the files in MoneyTalks, find files won't find the file, you could open the file in Emacs and be looking at the class MoneyTalks and Windows cannot find it.

With source code, Find in Files is useless, it is slow, and only finds some of what it should find (likely caused by file extension, but, that is beside the point). My experience is with source code, I haven't searched mass Word documents, but even with those it still won't be fast.