While an electric sports car is indeed innovative, if companies actually want to make a successful business from hybrid or electric cars they need to sell to the masses first, then target disposable incomes second. The Nissan Leaf, Ford Fiesta and even the Wheego are all more realistic options. Granted they're above the average consumer level too being in the $30-40k range which places them in the luxury price tag category of the lower end and great gas mileage cars from Mercedes and BMW, but still no where near the small pool of people who would actually pay $110k for an electric roadster. I think most who can afford that price for a car would still rather have an Aston Martin or Bentley due to their status symbolism.

As someone who lives in the bay area, I think I saw maybe 1 Tesla around Palo Alto near Stanford's campus once. I see a dozen Prius's ($23k) every time I get in my car.

Using Google Chrome as an example, the Chromebooks serve a small niche of users who only do specific tasks. Real OS's like OS X, Windows and Linux provide the ability of satisfying all user types to do any task.

Besides, explain to me how a Firefoxbook/pad would be able to compete with a Chromebook when it'd take several hours to boot after grandma accidentally let FF install 100 different useless add-ons.

Groups like Anonymous and LulSec could probably do a lot more good for a lot of people if instead of pontificating about leaking government information actually did something useful like erase consumer debts instead of just posting passwords to porn sites online...

I know it's hip to be an Apple user now these days and all the cool kids are rocking their iDevices, but a good majority of graphic designers/artists use the platform and I while it's cool to watch netflix in bed on an iPad, it's irrelevant when you have to start using InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, though I imagine Illustrator and Photoshop wouldn't be as big an issue to use on a tablet as InDesign would be.

I'm assuming that by market share it's some globalish number of IE users and that because of this many users in foreign countries are using IE or something...My main issue for confusion comes from my experience having worked on two city websites, four websites for a major university and several small mom and pop company sites. From the analytics on each of these IE is always the least used browser, often times less than 25% of the users. Granted, I'm working with a small amount of fish in the ocean, but other webmasters I've worked with and talked to about this experience the same thing - so I guess my question is...where are all these IE users coming from and what sites are they going too?

I tend to agree with that thought. Looking at human history as an example, we have adapted to live in some very extreme conditions, albeit we often create artificial devices to do so, however, it still stands that we have found a way to live in both arctic climates as well as deserts and tropical forests for centuries. While animals don't have the mechanical capacity we do, life still adapts to new challenges and environmental changes.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh man, that made my day!

"Also covered is the idea of using Inkscape as a tool for mock-up designs. I see Scribus as kind of the the big brother to Inkscape (review) in that Inkscape works with a single page document, whereas Scribus can manage content across a multiple page document. You can assemble some very intricate documents using Scribus that would take a lot of time and effort to do using Inkscape and word processors such as Libre office and Microsoft office."

Inkscape is a vector graphics tool, similar to Adobe Illustrator if we're comparing open source to commercial apps. That said, to label Inkscape as a little brother of Scribus is silly and creating multiple page documents isn't what Inkscape is designed for. I don't know if the latest Inkscape supports multiple artboards within a document, which is something in Illustrator that can act like a multiple page document, but that's not the purpose of multiple artboards.

For some reason this comment in the review just irked me. /shrug

So the Thiel Fellowship is like a private school/club then? So like...someone 18 hangs with other 18-19 year old peeps and gets $100k?

Sounds like yet another reason why I was born too soon.

Neuromancer is the name of one of the AI's in the book...Wintermute is the other one...they merge at the end of the book into "sum of the whole" or something like that they it refers to itself as.

As someone who didn't read books like Neuromancer or Snow Crash until the early 2000's I don't know about this. The books were originally done in a time when the internet and virtual reality were something people thought they were more than they really are, ideas that lead to such nonsense as the latest Tron movie where a virtual world somehow creates it's own life form and can then come to...our life...Besides a lot of updating would need to take place, remember Johnny Mnemonic could only hold 160GB in his head and that was AFTER a "doubler" was applied...

I would chuckle if they had Keanu do some type of a cameo as Johnny in the movie though his character isn't in that book, I think Molly is the only one who is in all the stories IIRC...

Actually, for real I do. Let me explain...

So with that if Gnome wanted to make their own GnomeOS and then Fedora/CentOS/Ubuntu/whoever would have to do their own ports of the Gnome GUI who does it bother? No one. Sure at some point I'd have to reinstall my machine with GnomeXYZ instead of Fedora, but I have no invested interest in Fedora over CentOS or whoever. I use Fedora simply because I used to use RH and I prefer typing yum instead of apt-get, that's it. I don't really care about the various differences between flavors as all I use on my system is VI and BlueFish to edit various file types, Firefox, Chrome and Opera for Browser testing. My day job is managing Drupal/Wordpress sites so I'm rarely ever needing anything more than Firefox, Filezilla and my console to work in. If you broke into my home and swapped my Fedora OS with a CentOS one I probably wouldn't notice or care.

I've been very impressed with Gnome3 on my Fedora box as it's somewhat similar to my Apple machine with it's expose features, which is my favored environment. KDE has always just looked like a linux version of WIndows to me and sure you can configure it a gazilion different ways, but I don't enjoy fiddling with my computer. (Apple guy remember, I plug shit in and it works.) But more so Gnome3 has had my wife (a non techie person) feeling very comfortable using the machine as she bounces between my Apple and the Fedora laptop I bring with us on trips. That to me is a win - having my wife embrace an "alternative desktop".

So all that to say, if Gnome made their own distro, those who like Gnome would probably continue to use it, those who don't like Gnome probably won't. The end result is life moves on and causing all this internet ruckus just makes all you nerds look silly :P

But it does make things a lot easier for testing the display of your work in a maximized view without having to switch between windows.

People watch people play Starcraft? Oh this is just a Korean thing...they have weird fascinations with games that other cultures don't.

They can pay the balance of the trade in of my PS3 for my Xbox :P