With every virtually every federal election lies the possibility for massive changes. The fact that such important research was based solely on the availability of government funds shows exquisitely poor planning.

I work outside. I'm pretty well acclimated. I just adjust my fluid consumption accordingly. 85 on up all feels the same to me - although one friend suggested that was probably neuropathy.

My 10-year old single-core P4 plays best with lightweight stuff. Mint 13 with Mate is a pretty perfect fit for my antiquated hardware. I'm getting married in October, honeymoon in November, then shelling out for Christmas. Sometime the first of the year I hope to build a Hackintosh so I can run whatever I find works best.

Mint developers have also created Cinnamon, which has wide adoption rates from those on Ubuntu, Debian and even Fedora-based distros.

Made me think of a new justification: if you're buying your internet access from your cable provider, any video you download is just using an alternative method of delivery for the content you've already paid to view.

You could always get it like you want it and stick a copy of your profile directory in Dropbox. Skip the cache directory, however.

The first thing I do after installing Firefox on a new machine is turn off Tabs on top, move the Home and Reload buttons to where they belong then hit about:config's browser.tabs filter and change insertRelatedAfterContent to false and closeButtons to 3.

"Listen, all of y'all, this is sabotage."

That's a good reason as is the fact that many systems can't boot or boot and hang after loading X without acpi=off while using the Nouveau drivers.

"Hardware" in this case meant specs - hardware capable of displaying KDE 4 with all its eye candy.

The only people who would pay for Linux are already using it...who would also know how to get it for free.

Is KDE 4 good? Probably, if you have the hardware for it. One of the main selling points Linux touts is that it works on older hardware but KDE 4 and Gnome 3 seem to be just as demanding as something from Redmond.

Despite the fact that there are people who would happily take a high-tech manufacturing job, working weird hours and living in dorms when pulling multiple shifts, Apple would find itself stumbling across Union regulations if it tried to find service like that in the US. Union rules and other labor laws are keeping the US from competing globally. It's the reason for the recession and why there are so many out of work. The US has legislated itself out of providing the services modern employers require.

Obviously Linux is no proper OS as evidenced by the dozens of desktops, laptops and other little projects like Android phones and TiVo.

I was doing the same thing with an 05 Corolla for a significantly lower purchase price. In a modern small car, which isn't driven as if stolen, 40+ mpg should be easily achievable. For the premium one pays for a hybrid, you should expect to be bumping against 60 mpg on a regular basis.